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Indigenous Peoples' Innovation : Intellectual Property Pathways to Development
Traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems. This book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of inte…
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- 9781921862779
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- 340 IND
EDucation & GEnder : Gender-specific education in different countries. Histor…
A study funded by the European Commission, relating to gender specific differences in learning achievements, shows among other things that whilst gender equality is a hot topic in many countries a general equality policy is not always advocated. More importantly, measures to reduce gender differences in achievement seem to focus primarily on the underachievement of boys.
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- 9783830928683
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- 370 HOL e
Border Crossing : Russian Literature into Film
Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the ‘border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, this book examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments. In these essays, international scholars examine how political and economic circumstances ââ…
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- 9781474411424
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- 272 halaman
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- 800 BUR b
The Effects of Trademark Rights on the East African Common Market : Concoctin…
Trademark rights play a significant role in the proper functioning of a common market of a given regional bloc. Experience teaches that, unless national trade mark regimes of individual countries cooperating in a given regional bloc such as the East African Community (EAC) are integrated into a common market, trademark proprietors may invoke their intellectual property rights to dissect the com…
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- 1
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- 9783845242156
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- 276 halaman
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- 340 JAC e
Precarious Claims : The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the U…
Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments, and discrimination are widespread in low-wage industries such as restaurants, retail, hospitali…
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- 9780520963603
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- 330 GLE
Protect, Serve, and Deport : The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement
Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville’s local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified …
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- 9780520296305
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- 330 ARM p
Body, Personhood and Privacy : Perspectives On The Cultural Other and Human E…
This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative tools for common key issues: dialogue with the cultural Other, the appropriation of space, and personality. Human embodiment and ethical aspects of representing and regulati…
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- 9789949774593
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- 344 halaman
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- Approaches to Culture Theory, 7
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- 306 TAS b
The Role of the Patent System in Stimulating Innovation and Technology Transf…
The world increasingly faces the adverse impact of climate change. What role can intellectual property play to stimulate the necessary innovation and technology transfer? Providing an inventory of patent law, policy and information, including certain private initiatives, this thesis discusses issues at the crossroads of intellectual property and climate change, such as: compulsory licensing for…
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- 9783845234472
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- 90 halaman
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- 340 KIM r
Economic Competence and Financial Literacy of Young Adults : Status and Chall…
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these young people are – mostly for the fi rst time in their lives – responsible for autonomously managin…
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- Eveline Wuttke, Jürgen Seifried, Stephan Schumann
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- 9783847402831
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- 235 halaman
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- Research in Vocational Education volume 3
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- 330 WUT e
Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences : Strengthening the Prohibition of …
At the start of the twenty-first century, warnings have been raised in some quarters about how – by intent or by mishap – advances in biotechnology and related fields could aid the spread of disease. Science academics, medical organisations, governments, security analysts, and others are among those that have sought to raise concern. Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences examines a vari…
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- 9781921666391
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- Practical Ethics and Public Policy
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- 370 RAP e
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