58 research outputs found
Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Issues (Intellectual Property in the 21st Century Series)
No full textDeepthi Kolady (with W. Lesser) is a contributing author, Plant Intellectual Property Rights and Impacts on Agricultural Research and Development, and Crop Productivity. (p. 63 - 84) and Economic Effects of Geographical Indications on Developing Countries. (p.163-180)
Technology licensing is an important element of conduct in many industries and has attracted a fair amount of attention in recent years. Considering fixed-fee licensing, the authors show that upstream and downstream markets play important roles for a profitable licensing.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/econ_book/1006/thumbnail.jp
Aspiration 'dissimilation' in Tangkhul Naga prefixation
No full textIn Tangkhul Naga, obstruent-initial prefixes are strictly unaspirated if followed by any stem-initial obstruent, and aspirated before stem-initial sonorants (Arokianathan 1987, Mortensen 2003, Shosted 2007). I argue that this pattern is best modeled as the interaction of apparently contradictory penalties on both agreement and disagreement, and that this may be problematic for theoretical approaches in which assimilation and dissimilation do not arise independently, but instead are driven by the same mechanism. </jats:p
Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data
No full textEstablished models of the spatial diffusion of linguistic innovations vary in their relationship to population density. Differences in prediction between the gravity models (Trudgill 1974), in which probability of diffusion is sensitive to settlement size, and the traditional wave models can be challenging to test due to the difficulty of large-scale and finely-grained geographical sampling. This paper tests the suitability of data derived from Twitter in establishing diffusion patterns. Using two case studies from British English – variation in the realisation of ditransitives, and preposition drop with go – we propose that the correlation between (local) population density and linguistic similarity to geographical neighbours can be used as a measure of hierarchical patterning for an individual innovation
Financial Inclusion, Innovation, and Investments: Biotechnology and Capital Markets Working for the Poor
No full textDeepthi Kolady (with W. Lesser) is a contributing author, Developing County Options Under TRIPS: Choices to Maximize Biotech Transfer.
From the inside flap:
This book is a state-of-the-art discussion of what has succeeded (and failed) in the design and implementation of projects and institutions to assist the poor in developing country economies. In Africa especially, far too many people are still living under conditions of extreme poverty. The goal of the book is twofold: (1) to identify and assess the key processes through which markets affect the livelihoods of the rural poor; and (2) to propose micro- and macro-level policies and innovations to address the problems of inclusion that arise. Featuring contributions from leading scholars and professionals in the field, this volume is timely to all those involved in designing innovative institutions that transfer capital and technologies to low-income countries facing the challenges of poverty alleviation and economic development.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/econ_book/1005/thumbnail.jp
Reconnecting Markets: Innovative Global Practices in Connecting Small-Scale Producers With Dynamic Food Markets
No full textDeepthi Kolady (with S. Krishnamoorthy, and S. Narayanan) is a contributing author, Marketing Cooperatives in a new Retail Context.
The rapid changes taking place in the structure and governance of national and regional agri-food markets in developing countries seriously affect the ability of agriculture, especially small-scale agriculture, to contribute to economic growth and sustainable development. Reconnecting Markets is the second volume of case examples from the Regoverning Markets programme (2005-2008). It focuses on the keys to inclusion of small-scale farmers and rural SMEs into dynamic national and regional markets. The cases document specific arrangements that appear to have played a positive role in supporting greater inclusion, such as public policies and business initiatives, collective action by farmers and support from development agencies.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/econ_book/1004/thumbnail.jp
Nasal-lateral assimilations: typology and structure
No full textIn this work, I show that assimilatory nasalization and lateralization in sequences of nasals and laterals (NL and LN) are driven neither by sonority nor by feature sharing, but by a markedness constraint penalizing non-identical but phonologically similar adjacent segments – which I formalize here in an asymmetric implementation of Agreement by Correspondence (ABC; Walker 2000, 2001; Hansson 2001; Rose & Walker 2004). Typological evidence from a survey of 46 languages provides consistent implicational generalizations regarding the distribution of targets of assimilation; penalties on similarity correctly predect the relative lack of assimilation in heterorganic (ML, LM) sequences and in stop-lateral (TL) sequences. I further show that implementions of ABC in which correspondence is symmetric do not predict the observed preference for NL assimilation over LN assimilation; implementing the correspondence relation asymmetrically solves this problem. Analyses predicated on other considerations do not correctly predict the typology
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