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Book review: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker
No full textBook review of: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; ISBN: 9780199341559
($35.00)Publisher PD
Letter from Lillian Baker to [supporters], June 8, 1981
No full textLetter from Lillian Baker to her supporters with enclosure of letter from Paul T. Bannai regarding the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearing notice. Baker urges people not to listen to "anti-American propaganda" relating to American treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.The Japanese American Relocation Collection is composed of ephemera related to the relocation program during World War II. Items include the official government report of Manzanar Relocation Center, a photo album, post-war activism materials related to preserving and remembering the camps, various clippings, and documents. The strength of this collection is found in its many perspectives on the controversial relocation program and how it has been presented since World War II
Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker
No full textAn analysis of the confessional performances of performance artist, Bobby Baker, in particular 'Box Story'
Volterra Centennial Meetings - Invited talks given by Christopher Baker at Arlington & Tempe
No full textJune 1996 saw two meetings to mark the centennial of the mathematical work of Vito Volterra, the first being held at the University of Texas at Arlington (organised by Professors Corduneanu and Kanner) and the second at the State University of Arizona at Tempe. In invited talks at each meeting, the first-named author presented joint work that follows, in chronological sequence, in this technical report. Christopher T H Baker & Arslang Tang 2 GENERALIZED HALANAY INEQUALITIES FOR VOLTERRA FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND DISCRETIZED VERSIONS CHRISTOPHER T.H. BAKER 1 & ARSALANG TANG 2 Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, The Victoria University of Manchester, England Abstract. Halanay's inequality provides a decreasing bound on a function satisfying a delay-differential inequality, subject to certain conditions, and it has been used by Halanay to analyze asymptotic stability of the zero solution of a certain delay-differential equations with fixed lag. The original ineq..
Letter from Thoburn T. Brumbaugh, Executive Secretary, The Detroit Council of Churches, to E.D. Kohnlstedt, Executive Secretary, Home Missions Section, Methodist Board of Missions, November 4, 1943
No full textTyped correspondence from Thoburn T. Brumbaugh, Executive Secretary of The Detroit Council of Churches, Five Hundred Churches Demonstrating Christian Unity to Dr. E. D. Kohnlstedt, Executive Secretary of the Home Missions Section, Methodist Board of Missions. The letter discusses Rev. Shigeo Tanabe and his work in Detroit for the Methodist Church.The Bishop James Chamberlain Baker Collection includes letters, documents, and articles about Japanese Americans during World War II. Subjects in the collection include Japanese Americans mass removal, Pearl Harbor and the aftermath, religion, and support from the non-Japanese American community. The collection was digitized and made accessible online by CSUDH Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Emerging infectious diseases in free-ranging wildlife-Australian zoo based wildlife hospitals contribute to national surveillance
No full textEmerging infectious diseases are increasingly originating from wildlife. Many of these diseases have significant impacts on human health, domestic animal health, and biodiversity. Surveillance is the key to early detection of emerging diseases. A zoo based wildlife disease surveillance program developed in Australia incorporates disease information from free-ranging wildlife into the existing national wildlife health information system. This program uses a collaborative approach and provides a strong model for a disease surveillance program for free-ranging wildlife that enhances the national capacity for early detection of emerging diseases.Keren Cox-Witton, Andrea Reiss, Rupert Woods, Victoria Grillo, Rupert T. Baker, David J. Blyde, Wayne Boardman, Stephen Cutter, Claude Lacasse, Helen McCracken, Michael Pyne, Ian Smith, Simone Vitali, Larry Vogelnest, Dion Wedd, Martin Phillips, Chris Bunn, Lyndel Pos
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The Story of Baker v. Selden
No full textThe Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction between Authorship and InventionTo be published in Jane C. Ginsburg and Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Intellectual Property Stories (forthcoming Foundation Press 2005)This Story grows out of a study of the Supreme Court Record and other historical materials about the well-known 1880 copyright case of Baker v. Selden. Among the surprises the Story reveals are that Selden was not, as some have surmised, the author of a treatise on bookkeeping, nor was he the inventor of the now universally used T-account system of bookkeeping. Selden’s books are better described as minor variants on one another, consisting of 20-some pages of bookkeeping forms with sample entries, a short preface, and an introduction. Most of the 650 words of text in the last book puff the merits of his system rather than explaining how to use it. Baker, not Selden, is mentioned in works on the history of bookkeeping, and Baker’s books on bookkeeping (but not Selden’s) are still available in various public and university libraries. Though burdened with thousands of dollars of debt, Selden’s widow hired a prominent intellectual property lawyer to represent her in the lawsuit against Baker which charged him with pirating the Selden system. She believed she was owed damages (in today’s dollars) of a quarter-million dollars a year from Baker and his customers. Baker probably lost at the trial court level because he hired an inexperienced young lawyer; Baker won before the Supreme Court in part because he was represented by a team of supple heavy-hitters.The most important lesson of this Story concerns the legal principle the Court was trying to promulgate. Although Baker v. Selden is widely cited as the genesis of the “idea/expression” distinction in copyright law, the Story shows that this distinction predated Baker. Nor is Baker the genesis of the “merger” doctrine (which holds that if an idea can only be expressed in one or a small number of ways, copyright law will not protect the expression because it has “merged” with the idea). The main objective of the Supreme Court’s decision was to sharpen the distinction between authorship and invention. The complaint spoke of Selden as the author and inventor of several books and of a bookkeeping system. His lawyer kept speaking about its novelty in the state of the art. Selden’s widow claimed exclusive rights not only to stop Baker from publishing competing books, but also to collect damages from all of Baker’s customers for their use of the infringing system. That Selden had sought, but apparently not obtained, a patent on his bookkeeping system seems to have affected the Court.To clarify the proper roles of patent and copyright in protecting the fruits of intellectual labor, the Baker opinion introduced a new framework for analyzing copyright claims. It directed courts to consider whether the defendant had copied the author’s description, explanation, illustration, or depiction of a useful art (such as a bookkeeping system) or ideas, or had only copied the useful art or ideas themselves. In the absence of a patent, the useful art depicted in a work, along with its ideas, could be used and copied by anyone, even in directly competing works. Any necessary incidents to implementing the art (e.g., blank forms illustrating use of the system) could likewise be used and copied by second comers without fear of copyright liability.The Baker opinion’s rich analysis of the roles of copyright and patent in protecting intellectual creations has, over the past 125 years, spawned at least eight significant copyright doctrines, including four codified in the Copyright Act of 1976, as well as a few enduring controversies
The worldwide status of phasmids (Insecta: Phasmida) as pests of agriculture and forestry, with a generalised theory of phasmid outbreaks
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Language reader [first to sixth year]
No full textThird year by Franklin T. Baker, George R. Carpenter and Mary E. Brooks; Fourth year by Franklin T. Baker George R. Carpenter and Ida E. Robbins; Fifth year by Franklin T. Baker, George R. Carpenter and Mary F. Kirchwey; sixth year by Franklin T. Baker, George R. Carpenter and Jennie F. Owens.Mode of access: Internet
The Ionosphere Over Northern Canada
No full textContains review of communication problems in northern Canada. Shortwave radio via sky-wave tranmission is the most economical method of communication, but suffers from occasional failures due to ionospheric disturbances. Ionospheric research conducted in Canada to improve short-wave radio is discussed. Eight ionospheric recording observatories were established. Four of these, at St. John\u27s in Newfoundland, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Prince Rupert, skirted the southern part of the auroral zone from east to west. Stations at Churchill and Fort Chimo were near the line of maximum auroral occurrence, and those at Baker Lake and Resolute Bay extended the line of observations from Winnipeg to a point north of the magnetic pole. In 1954 the stations at St. John\u27s, Fort Chimo, and Prince Rupert were discontinued. Research on spectra, luminosity, height, and electron density of the aurora is briefly discussed
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