859 research outputs found
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
The impact of TV series on tourism performance: the case of Game of Thrones
No full textTV series and cinema productions are considered one of the most recent and promising instruments to promote tourist destinations and to increase tourist flows. However, a few papers analyze empirically their impact on tourist choices. We contribute to the scarce literature by investigating the impact of one of the most successful TV series of all times: Game of Thrones (GoT). The series was internationally broadcasted and filmed around the world. We focus on fourteen filming locations in three different countries: Spain, Croatia and Malta. To estimate how much of their recent tourism performance is due to the visibility obtained through GoT, we use county-level panel data in the years 2007–2019 and apply an event study design as methodology. We deal with the issue of treatment effect heterogeneity over time and across counties by adopting an interaction-weighted estimator which focuses on season-specific treatment effect. The results show a positive and persistent impact of GoT on tourism performance, on both new tourist arrivals and overnight stays, and are not driven by spillover effects. Overall, findings confirm the ability of TV productions to boost the tourist flows in the filming locations
Leraning difficulties are related to subtle cognitive impairment and auditory hallucinations in adult patients diagnosed with psychosis
No full textFrom mine industries to a place of culture, tourism, research and higher education: case study of the great mine Serbariu
No full textPurpose – This study aims to explore how closed factories could be transformed and provide a path for sustainable development for a territory. The authors focus on the case of the Great Mine Serbariu, located in Carbonia (Sardinia), which used to be the largest coal mine in Italy between 1939 and 1964.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors adopt a qualitative research design based on an exploratory single-case study, drawing on interviews with the main stakeholders, on a survey conducted among 5,158 visitors, and on administrative documentation of the City Council.
Findings – The analysis of the Great Mine Serbariu case showed that the regeneration of an exhausted mine serves a model of sustainable development, especially for the redevelopment of other urban and industrial degraded areas. The Great mine Serbariu was restored and turned into a place of culture, tourism, research and higher education, with the Italian Cultural Centre of Coal Mining (ICCCM) establishing its headquarters in the heart of the former mine. It attracted almost 220,000 visitors, generating both domestic and international tourist flows and making an industrial heritage a real resource for the area.
Originality/value – This article advances the authors’ understanding of how closed industries could become an instrument for sustainable development on the social, economic, touristic and cultural levels. This study
would help local governments with examples to enhance the historical resources to create a new identity that led to a sustainable development of an urban landscape, and to create networks with other comparable museums all over Europe to better exploit the touristic and cultural potential
First person – Viorica Raluca Contu
No full textABSTRACT
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Viorica Raluca Contu is co-first author on ‘Lysosomal targeting of SIDT2 via multiple YxxΦ motifs is required for SIDT2 function in the process of RNautophagy’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Viorica is a PhD student at the National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, Japan, investigating intracellular RNA degradation by the lysosomes and its possible involvements in disease pathogenesis and treatment.</jats:p
La pianificazione territoriale e il sommerso turistico. Il caso “Provincia di Oristano”
No full textLo sviluppo del turismo può essere raggiunto e mantenuto nel tempo solo attraverso un’attenta pianificazione del territorio e dei fattori turistici. Il fine deve essere quello di creare «un’offerta spazialmente integrata, basata su risorse, attività e attori, che operano in maniera sistemica» (Bencardino, Prezioso, 2007, p. 257). Fulcro di tale attività deve essere la destinazione turistica, in cui ogni elemento deve essere «integrato e coordinato al fine di generare valore per il turista e per la comunità residente» (Tamma, 2002, pp. 20-1). La pianificazione deve essere realizzata in considerazione di tre fasi: una prima fase di analisi della situazione esistente, una seconda fase in cui si individuano le possibilità di sviluppo di una destinazione e, infine, una terza fase in cui si determinano le modalità con cui raggiungere gli obiettivi prefissati (Ejarque, 2003). Se si considera in particolare la prima fase, va evidenziato che una corretta pianificazione turistica deve prendere avvio da un’attenta analisi sia del territorio e delle sue peculiarità, sia del fenomeno turistico e delle sue variabili. È necessario considerare la questione sia dal punto di vista qualitativo che quantitativo (Ejarque, 2003; Bernardi, 2007): i dati territoriali, i dati demografici, l’andamento economico, i dati relativi alla domanda e all’offerta turistica. Nel prosieguo del lavoro si porrà speciale attenzione all’analisi dei dati del turismo e, in particolare, alle anomalie esistenti nel sistema di rilevazione
The first days of life: incidence of the commensal-turned pathogen Fusobacterium nucleatum and VSCs in oral cavity of mothers and newborns.
No full textAims:
The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of different anaerobic periodontal bacteria in the tongue surface of the mothers and the new-borns from 0 to 48 months of birth. In addition, in these subjects, we have also monitored the volatile sulphur compounds: H2S, CH3S, (CH3)2S to investigate the tongue protease activity, especially in the first days of life.
Methods:
Fifty new-borns and forty mothers (from 22 to 48 years, mean 37) were recruited in this study. For each subject we have analysed: (i) the VSCs profile in the breath by OralChromaTM instrument, (ii) the amount of five periodontal pathogens in the tongue swab’s DNA: Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia, Treponema denticola, Prevotella intermedia and Fusobacterium nucleatum, by using real time PCR procedure.
Results
75% of the mothers showed, in the breath, physiological levels of VSCs, while 15% presented a stable high amount of H2S (> 112 ppb). Instead, in all observed new-borns the results suggest a progressive production of oral H2S correlated with the months of life; this was also statistically associated with a significant progressive enrichment in the tongue of the anaerobic bacterium F. nucleatum, in addition we have observed that 92,5 % of mothers resulted positive for this microorganism.
Conclusions
The increase of H2S production and F. nucleatum, age dependent in all children, suggests a physiological role of this bacterium in oral cavity already in the first days of life. Following the experimental hypothesis of Starkenmann and collaborators, this microorganism could be useful in the tongue biofilm for modulating the smell/taste. In this context, the mothers could have a crucial position in this process, transmitting this anaerobic bacterium by saliva to oral cavity of the newborn.
Starkenmann et al., J Agric Food Chem. 2008:9575-80
Fetal Growth and Osteogenesis Dynamics during Early Development in the Ovine Species
No full textIncreased knowledge of the developmental processes during gestation could provide valuable information on potential alterations in embryonic/fetal development. We examined the development of ovine conceptus between the 20th and 70th day of gestation with three convergent analyses: (1) uterus ultrasound examination and measurement (eco) of crown–rump length (CRL) and biparietal diameter (BPD) of the conceptus; (2) direct measurement (vivo) of CRL and BPD of the conceptus outside the uterus (3) osteo–cartilage dynamics during development by differential staining. No significant differences were observed between eco and vivo measurements for CRL and BPD in all examined concepti. CRL and BPD, instead, showed a significant positive linear correlation with gestational age. The study of osteogenesis dynamics has demonstrated a completely cartilaginous ovine fetus at up to 35 days of gestation. The ossification begins in the skull (40th day) and is almost complete between the 65th and the 70th of pregnancy. Our study highlighted that CRL and BPD are accurate parameters for gestational age estimation in the first part of sheep pregnancy and provides an overview of osteochondral temporal dynamics. Furthermore, tibia ossification is a valid parameter to estimate fetal age by ultrasound
Decaf resistance : on misbehavior, cynicism, and desire in liberal workplaces
No full textThe author reconnects resistance in production to its radical roots. Current literature suggests that resistance in the liberal workplaces of late capitalism has gone underground, becoming mostly evident in unofficial, offstage practices such as cynicism, parody, and humor. The author argues this resistance is too often a decaf resistance. This is a resistance without the cost of radically changing the economy of enjoyment, which ties us to our master. The author argues that resistance, as a real act, which suspends and changes the constellation of power relations, has a cost that cannot be accounted for in advance. To understand this cost, we need an ethics, which the author calls, following Lacan, the Ethics of the Real
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