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Ernest & Rebecca #1: My Best Friend is a Germ
No full textRebecca is a six and a half year-old girl who is out of luck ñ her parents are on the verge of divorce and she is always getting sick due to a weak immune system. One rainy day Rebeccaís luck changes when she meets a magical microbe named Ernest, who becomes her best friend! Ernest is no regular germóheís about the same height as Rebecca and he can talk. Can Rebecca keep her parents together with the help of her new friend? And can anyone really have a friend who belongs in a Petri dish
Poor Richard Revised: Benjamin Franklin and the Ritual Economy of Copyright in Colonial America
No full textBenjamin Franklin was the most prolific and profitable author in colonial America. Work on the history of intellectual property has increasingly identified Franklin as a central figure, particularly in the philosophical development of American copyright law. His understanding and use of what we now think of as intellectual property are potentially illustrative of its emerging theorization in the eighteenth century. Evidence of this can be found in his thoughts and actions regarding copyright and patent specifically, as well as related issues such as the attribution and development of ideas. Adapted from economic anthropology, the theory of ritual economy provides a framework through which to consider how Franklin’s worldview materialized in everyday economic practices, including interactions with proto-intellectual property issues
ASEAN Entrepreneurs Facing Two Major External Impacts: Envisaging Opportunities or Challenges? (Translated into Vietnamese
No full textThe aims of this paper are to examine two major emerging trends: 1) the adoption of a new regional free trade agreement and 2) the creation of a formulary apportionment strategy. Through the methods of content analysis, comprehensive literature review and examination of expert opinions, the authors found the impact of implementing one of the Big Three RFTAs (i.e. TPP - Trans-Pacific Partnership, RCEP - Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and FTAAP-21 – Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific) will be a significant increase in the revenues and opportunities for ASEAN entrepreneurs, particularly those who are more proactive in expanding to global markets. Similarly, results of a new formulary apportionment approach reveal that it is most beneficial as a regional strategy for ASEAN business leaders to show transparency and to stabilize taxes. In conclusion, changes in adoption of a new regional free trade agreement and a regional formulary apportionment strategy can help propel ASEAN entrepreneurs financially, economically, and globally by creating a more transparent, proactive and opportunity-oriented business environment for the region
On the Validations of the Asymptotic Matching conjectures
No full textIn this paper we review the asymptotic matching conjectures for -regular bipartite graphs, and their connections in estimating the monomer-dimer entropies in -dimensional integer lattice and Bethe lattices. We prove new rigorous upper and lower bounds for the monomer-dimer entropies, which support these conjectures. We describe a general construction of infinite families of -regular tori graphs and give algorithms for computing the monomer-dimer entropy of density , for any , for these graphs. Finally we use tori graphs to test the asymptotic matching conjectures for certain infinite -regular bipartite graphs
