In recent years, supporting intellectual property right has gained more significance. Intellectual property rights could be considered as legal rights resulting from intellectual activities in industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Today, many countries are seeking practical information about using intellectual property to improve economic growth. Intellectual property rights hav...

DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORIES 258 Intellectual Heritage: Developmental Process 259 Lessons from Embryology: Form from a Formless Egg 260 The Mountain Stream Metaphor 263 Epigenesis in Developmental Psychobiology 263 Contextual and Ecological Theorists 266 An Introduction to Dynamics Systems Thinking 271 Development from a Dynamic Systems Perspective 276 Bimanual Coordination 297 What Is Skill? 298 S...

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The objective of the AMDREL (Architectures and Methodologies for Dynamic Reconfigurable Logic) project is to develop methodologies, tools and intellectual property blocks to be integrated in a partly dynamically reconfigurable System-on-Chip (SoC) implementation platform for the efficient realization of wireless communications systems. The proposed tools, reusable intellectual property blocks a...

In this appendix we discuss some technical details of our implementation of latent semantic analysis on a set of 1,615 research abstracts published in MIS Quarterly, The reader who is interested in a theoretical introduction to LSA and an illustration example is referred to Appendix C. In accordance with well-accepted information retrieval and text mining procedures we started the analysis by c...

The objective of the article is to show the impact of various categories of risk factors related to intellectual resources, i.e. the components of intellectual capital, on their safety and going concern. Following an analysis of the literature on this subject and the authors' own observations, an attempt was made to define three types of risk models related to intellectual assets. A substantial...

Modern enterprises are irreversibly dependent on large-scale, adaptive, component-based information systems whose complexity frequently exceeds current engineering capabilities for intellectual control, resulting in persistent difficulties in system development, management, and evolution. We propose an innovative framework of engineering representation and reasoning methods for developing these...

unlike patent, there are not clear legal rules to protect know how in iranian law, then intellectual property law theories require to afford protection to know haw and its owner. the protection rules may be provided under contractual bases or under law. approaches of legal systems towards the terms and rules of the protection are different. in iranian legal system some protection rules are foun...