When an image is created by multiple authors, it is reasonable that no single author monopolize the ownership. The ownership should be shared among these authors, and the ownership should be proved by a group of authors. In this paper, we propose a joint ownership protection scheme for co-authored images. Some of the authors or all of the authors can verify ownership. This scheme integrates dis...

John Tribe University of Surrey, UK John Tribe is Professor of Tourism at the University of Surrey (Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. Email ). He has authored books on philosophy, strategy, economics, education, research and environmental management and his research concentrates on epistemology, education, and sustainability. He is Editor-in-Chief of Annals and Co-Chair o...

This article is co-authored by a patient with colon cancer and his treating oncologist, who interact at two different levels: the instrumental and the emotional and affective one. The patient relates in detail his personal experiences struggling with cancer, including his fears, expectations, purposes, and attitudes through the most important events in the evolution of his illness. The professi...

Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems, University of Cologne, Germany. Dr. Sunyaev has (co)-authored several international journal articles (including articles in leading journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, IEEE Computer, International Journal of Medical Informatics and Communications of the ...

This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. To complement the theme of this month’s Bulletin, Thomas C. Quinn reviews the paper he co-authored in 1986 on AIDS in Africa. The original paper is reproduced by permission of the American Association...

Carl Gustav Hempel 's (19051997) classic account of explanation is widely known as the "cover ing-law model. " It includ es two species : the Deductive-Nomological Expla nation and the Probabilistic-Statist ical Explanation . Since its introduction in the semi nal pape r co-authored by Hempel and Paul Oppenheim (1948), the model has been intense ly debated and criticized in the philosophy of sc...

Serbian authored lexicography today slightly lags behind the achievements typical of foreign, primarily Russian linguistic scene. The existing dictionaries encompass poetical works Petar II Petrovic Njegos (Dictionary Language Njegos), poetry Milan Rakic Poetry Rakic) and opus stories Laza K. Lazarevic Stories Lazarevic). Dictionaries to do with language these men letters are descriptive kind, ...

Author’s Notes: This paper is a much revised version of “IAD and SES Dynamic Flows: Introducing the Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (PIASES) Framework,” a paper co-authored with Elinor Ostrom and originally presented at Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, and discussed at the meeting of the ...

Alison Sue, Clemens Drews, Paul Lee, Johnny Accot, Michael Hunter and Jingtao Wang have also significantly contributed to the work reported in this overview paper and most of them have co-authored separate research papers cited in the text. Per-Ola Kristensson (Linkoping University, Sweden), Paul Lee (Stanford), Michael Hunter (BYU), and Jingtao Wang (UC Berkeley) were members of this project d...

In this thesis, we present new results which are concerned with the following four coloring problems in Ramsey Theory. i. The finite form of Brown’s Lemma. ii. Some 2-color Rado numbers. iii. Ramsey results involving Fibonacci sequences. iv. Coloring the odd-distance plane graph. A few of the results in this thesis are cited from earlier works of other authors. Several results are cited from pa...