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The future of printcrime: Intellectual property, innovation law, and 3D printing
No full textIn a 2006 short story, ‘Printcrime’, Cory Doctorow imagined a dystopian future of contraband 3D printers. In the work, police try to shut down a bootleg operation, which engaged in the 3D printing of intellectual property. In his 2009 novel Makers, Cory Doctorow explored the rise of the maker community, and its do-it-yourself ethic. In an interview about the novel, the author reflected:\ud
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<i>"There has never been a better time to be a maker because finding the people who know how to fix the thing that's broken has never been easier. Finding someone else who has done 80% of what you want to do, and sharing the things you have done with other people, has never been easier. A maker is someone who is of and in the 21st century." </i>\ud
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Rather prophetically, he discussed the prospect of intellectual property conflicts around 3D printing (particularly around copyright infringement and trademark infringement), and future controversies over 3D printing guns. In his 2015 short story, ‘The Man Who Sold the Moon’, Cory Doctorow imagined 3D printing in space. This body of creative work has been an important inspiration for the Maker Movement – but it has also shown a critical engagement with the law, ethics, and public policy associated with 3D printing and additive manufacturing.\ud
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Inspired by such science fiction, there have since been a number of optimistic, utopian manifestos published on the topic of 3D printing and the rise of the Maker Movement. There has been high hopes that the emerging, disruptive technology will be part of a new industrial revolution. The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, situates 3D printing within the framework of a fourth industrial revolution. He predicted: ‘As current size, cost and speed constraints are progressively overcome, 3D printing will become more pervasive to include integrated electronic components such as circuit boards and even human cells and organs.’ Schwab anticipated that there would be a ‘new generation of self-altering products capable of responding to environmental changes such as heat and humidity.’ Moreover, he expected that ‘this technology could be used in clothing or footwear, as well as in health-related products such as implants designed to adapt to the human body.’ Schwab placed 3D printing alongside autonomous vehicles, advanced robotics, and new material as physical manifestations of larger technological megatrends.\ud
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In this context, this collection provides a sober, critical evaluation of the legal, ethical, and public policy issues in respect of intellectual property, innovation law, and 3D printing. Building upon Mark Lemley’s chapter, ‘IP in a World Without Scarcity,’ it considers the legal opportunities and challenges of the Maker Revolution. It provides both theoretical and empirical insights in respect of 3D printing, intellectual property, innovation, and regulation
Supplementary Information_Illegal trade of red sand boa in India: 2016-2021
No full text Nikita, V.M., Shukla, S., Mendis, A., Sotie, S., Kuriakose, S., Karve., A, Kulkarni, N., Mendiratta, U. (2022). Illegal trade of red sand boa in India: 2016-2021. Wildlife Conservation Society-India Report. </p
BILETA Response to the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications Enquiry 'The Internet: to Regulate or Not to Regulate'
No full textThis is a collaborative submission from a group of academics based in the UK with expertise in Information technology law and related areas. The preparation of the response has been funded by the British and Irish Law Education Law and Technology Association. This response has been prepared by Dr Kim Barker, Dr Edina Harbinja, Professor Dinusha Mendis and Dr Felipe Romero-Moreno. Dr Kim Barker is a lecturer at the University of Stirling. Dr Edina Harbinja is a senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. Professor Dinusha Mendis is a professor at the University of Bournemouth. Dr Felipe Romero-Moreno is a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. Please note that the copyright of this Response remains with the author(s)
Learning approach among health sciences students in a medical college in Nepal: a cross-sectional study
No full textAji Gopakumar,1 Susirith Mendis,2 Jayakumary Muttappallymyalil,3 Jayadevan Sreedharan3 1Department of General Education, 2Continuing Medical Education, Continuing Professional Development and Center for Continuing Education and Community Outreach, 3Department of Community Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates Shah et al aimed to explore the learning approaches among medical, dental, and nursing students which were considered useful to transform the students to become better learners. While the generic objective of the study is appreciated, we have some concerns regarding the methodology and statistical analysis of the study. View the original paper by Author and colleagues. 
Monitoring of a tall building to develop axial shortening models incorporating high strength concrete
No full textThis paper addresses axial shortening prediction o
f the vertical concrete elements of tall buildings
with a particular focus on developing a reliable mo
del for high strength concrete (HSC). An establishe
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reinforced concrete column shortening model used fo
r normal strength concrete (NSC) is modified to pre
dict
axial shortening in vertical elements made of HSC.
To compare with the theoretical model, the axial sh
ortening
measurements taken from the 83 storey World Tower B
uilding, Sydney (WTS), obtained during the
construction period, are used. The theoretical mode
l having the best match with the actual measurement
s are
recommended for predicting axial shortening of vert
ical elements using HSC
Título: Omnia quae extant opera
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Damage detection in cable structures using vibration characteristics
No full textCable structures find many applications such as in power transmission, in anchors and especially in bridges. They serve as major load bearing elements in suspension bridges, which are capable of spanning long distances. All bridges, including suspension bridges, are designed to have long service lives. However, during this long life, they become vulnerable to damage due to changes in loadings, deterioration with age and random action such as impacts. The main cables are more vulnerable to corrosion and fatigue, compared to the other bridge components, and consequently reduces the serviceability and ultimate capacity of the bridge. Detecting and locating such damage at the earliest stage is challenging in the current structural health monitoring (SHM) systems of long span suspension bridges. Damage or deterioration of a structure alters its stiffness, mass and damping properties which in turn modify its vibration characteristics. This phenomenon can therefore be used to detect damage in a structure. The modal flexibility, which depends on the vibration characteristics of a structure, has been identified as a successful damage indicator in beam and plate elements, trusses and simple structures in reinforced concrete and steel. Successful application of the modal flexibility phenomenon to detect and locate the damage in suspension bridge main cables has received limited attention in recent research work. This paper, therefore examines the potential of the modal flexibility based Damage Index (DI) for detecting and locating damage in the main cable of a suspension bridge under four different damage scenarios. Towards this end, a numerical model of a suspension bridge cable was developed to extract the modal parameters at both damaged and undamaged states. Damage scenarios considered in this study with varied location and severity were simulated by changing stiffness at particular locations of the cable model. Results confirm that the DI has the potential to successfully detect and locate damage in suspension bridge main cables. This simple method can therefore enable bridge engineers and managers to detect and locate damage in suspension bridges at an early stage, minimize expensive retrofitting and prevent bridge collapse
On Securing Wireless LAN Access to Government Information Systems
No full textThe success of the IEEE 802.11 series of standards has led to a proliferation of\ud
affordable and interoperable wireless networking devices. Wireless functionality is an\ud
integrated feature of many laptops, personal digital assistants, and even mobile\ud
phones. With the ratification of the security enhancement to IEEE 802.11, referred to\ud
as IEEE 802.11i, in 2004 and the subsequent availability of implementations of the\ud
standard in current hardware, many of the security concerns surrounding the original\ud
wireless standards would seem to have been addressed. Are the security enhanced\ud
features of IEEE 802.11i, however, suitable for securing access to Australian\ud
Government information systems? In this paper, we review the capability of the\ud
security features of IEEE 802.11i to address the requirements for securing access to\ud
Government information systems as expressed in the Australian Government\ud
information technology security manual (ACSI33). Our review identifies the\ud
requirements of ACSI33 and reveals that a number of these can be met by specific\ud
security configurations of IEEE 802.11i. Meeting these requirements, however, is\ud
highly dependent not only on the correct configuration of the wireless networking\ud
components, but also the supporting authentication infrastructure. Additionally,\ud
remaining vulnerabilities in the IEEE 802.11i standard are identified as are\ud
vulnerabilities introduced by the use of mobile and wireless devices
Sustainable, smart, safe : a 3'S' approach towards a modern transportation system
No full textSustainability, smartness and safety are three sole components of a modern transportation system. The objective of this study is to introduce a modern transportation system in the light of a 3‘S’ approach: sustainable, smart and safe. In particular this paper studies the transportation system of Singapore to address how this system is progressing in this three-pronged approach towards a modern transportation system. While sustainability targets environmental justice and social equity without compromising economical efficiency, smartness incorporates qualities like automated sensing, processing and decision making, and action-taking into the transportation system. Since a system cannot be viable without being safe, the safety of the modern transportation system aims minimizing crash risks of all users including motorists, motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists. Various policy implications and technology applications inside the transportation system of Singapore are discussed to illustrate a modern transportation system within the framework of the 3‘S’ model
CAPITALISM IN HUMAN SCALE: ARE THERE "VIRTUOUS CIRCLES" IN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN ACHIEVING A NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY STATUS?
No full textThe purpose of this paper is two-fold: the first part is to understand the "virtuous circles" of economic growth and human development; the second part is to review the development literature related to this discussion. For this, the evolving development strategies of Sri Lanka and South Korea and the seemingly convergent two schools of thinking are briefly outlined in Section II. Section III surveys the pace of economic and human progress to give a broad background of the debate. Section IV analyzes the economic growth and human development in selected Industrialized Countries, Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs), Emerging NICs, and Aspiring South Asian neighbors of Sri Lanka...In the second part of the paper, a discussion of economic development literature and the experience of NICs are reviewed to learn from their policies and strategies in Section V.International Development,
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