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Seed activism :patent politics and litigation in the global south
"Seed Activism is an ethnography of court challenges to corporate intellectual property (IP) rights and practices in Brazil and India. Based on a wealth of interviews with a diverse range of actors-from farmers and plant breeders to corporate lawyers-the book offers the first detailed ethnographic account of the legal disputes that have arisen in the past decade around patents and royalties on …
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Bots and beasts :what makes machines, animals, and people smart?
"An honest attempt to compare and analyze the intelligence of humans, animals, and computers by an eminent cognitive scientist and long-time Press author"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365898
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Playing smart :on games, intelligence and artificial intelligence
Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In 'Playing Smart', Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and game design. Video games already depend on AI. We use games to test AI algorithms, challenge our thinking, and better understand both natural and artificial intelligence.…
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Shadow libraries :access to educational materials in global higher education
This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other const…
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- 9780262345699
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- 1 online resource (313 pages) :illustrations
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Instrumental community :probe microscopy and the path to nanotechnology
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298186
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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Structures of scientific collaboration
How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…
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- 9780262283588
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- 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) :illustrations.
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Mind readings :introductory selections on cognitive science
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315906
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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Mind in everyday life and cognitive science
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267489
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- 1 online resource (viii, 529 pages) :illustrations
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A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, its role in the WTO and its institutional framework. It reviews the following areas: general provisions and basic principles; copyright and related rights; trademarks; geographical indications; patents; industrial designs, layout-designs, undisclosed information and anti-competitive practices; enforcement of IPR…
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- 9781108883511
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A Handbook on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
This handbook describes the historical and legal background to the TRIPS Agreement, its role in the WTO and its institutional framework and reviews the following areas: general provisions and basic principles; copyright and related rights; trademarks; geographical indications; patents; industrial designs, layout-designs, undisclosed information and anti-competitive practices; enforcement of IPR…
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