Given the importance of “property rights” in American law and cul- ture, academic judicial disagreement over content con- cept is a problem. Professor Eric Claeys makes considerable progress toward resolving this problem his forthcoming book, Natural Prop- erty Rights. Using John Locke’s labor theory property, treatise identifies intelligible limits to kinds objects that qualify as prop- provid...

in this paper, we introduce a new class of implicit functions and also common property (e.a) in modified intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces and utilize the same to prove some common fixed point theorems in modified intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces besides discussing related results and illustrative examples. we are not aware of any paper dealing with such implicit functions in modified intuit...

In the Captaincy of Pernambuco, in Portuguese America, sugar cane mill lords andsugar farmers managed throughout seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesto secure successive extensions a privilege guaranteeing that their prop-erty would not be confiscated as payment for debt. To understand how this privilegehelped preserve patrimony local nobility sugar-based economy Per-nambuco, origins debates su...

Deg ra da tion of natu ral re sources has be come a global prob lem that threat ens the live li hood of mil lions of poor peo ple. Many prom is ing tech nolo gies for natu ral re source man age ment are avail able to ad dress these prob lems, but farm ers and oth ers of ten fail to adopt them. Why is this? Al though many fac tors can be iden ti fied, lack of se cure prop erty rights and col lec...

The Brit ish Co lum bia Geo log i cal Sur vey (BCGS) is the pro vin cial agency re spon si ble for the min eral re sources of the prov ince of BC. As part of its over all man date, the BCGS has de vel oped the MapPlace website as its pri mary re search and in for ma tion source. MapPlace com prises nu mer ous in te grated da ta bases and ap pli ca tions re lated to the ge ol ogy and min eral re...

Stream cipher systems are used to protect intellectual prop erty in pay TV and a number of other applications In some of these it would be convenient if a single ciphertext could be broadcast and subscribers given slightly di erent deciphering keys that had the e ect of producing slightly di erent plaintexts In this way a subscriber who illegally resold material licensed to him could be traced ...

Fundus image analysis has emerged as a very useful tool to analyze the structure of retina for detection of different eye-related abnormalities. The detection of these abnormalities requires the segmentation of basic retinal struc‐ tures including blood vessels and optic disk. The optic disk segmentation becomes a challenging task when the optic disk boundary is degraded due to some devia‐ tion...

This paper presents the results of the application of an instance based learning algorithm k Nearest Neighbor Method on Fea ture Projections k NNFP to text categorization and compares it with k Nearest Neighbor Classi er k NN k NNFP is similar to k NN ex cept it nds the nearest neighbors according to each feature separately Then it combines these predictions using a majority voting This prop er...

This paper turns the concept of input distributions on its head to exploit inverse input distributions Al though such distributions are not always true math ematical inverses they do capture an intuitive prop erty inputs that have high frequencies in the original distribution will have low frequencies in the inverse distribution and vice versa We can use the inverse distribution in several di e...

The Iron Mask batholith is lo cated 10 km south west of Kamloops (Fig. 1). It is the source of Cu-Au-Ag pro duced from por phyry de pos its such as Afton, Cres cent, Pothook, Ajax West and Ajax East, as well as struc tur ally con trolled Cu-mag ne tite veins (Iron Mask, Makaoo, Grey Mask). Cur rently, it is the tar get of ex plo ra tion for Cu-Au-Ag-Pd min er al iza tion by DRC Re sources at th...