Tattoos are a billion-dollar industry that grows as tattoos become globally acceptable. With market growth comes an incentive for parlor owners and artists to determine what rights they own assert it against tattooed individuals. Artists upcharge celebrities because of the publicity their work, example how is adapting growing visibility tattoos. But there cost: most individuals not aware legal ...

In the business process management parlance, different engagement models, such as bodyshopping, outsourcing, offshoring, etc. have evolved between the service providers and their clients over the last decade. The common denominator in these models is the distribution of work and/or that of workers across the globe. There is a gap in defining a framework to define different manifestations of glo...

It is now common to hear discussions about governmental accountability, its theorectical basis, the rights of consumers and clients in enforcing it, the strategies for securing it, and the consequences of abiding by it. In part, these discussions have been provoked by and are a response to frontier opening judicial acknowledgments of rights to education and treatment. They also are a response t...

The rapid increase on the circulation of data over the web has highlighted the need for distributed storage of Internet-accessible information due to the rapid increase on the circulation of data over the web. Thus, access control mechanisms should also be distributed in order to protect them effectively. A recent idea in the access control theory is the delegation and revocation of rights, i.e...

In July 2014, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples concluded that Canadian Aboriginal peoples face human rights problems of crisis proportions. The consequences of this are evident every day in many of Canada’s emergency departments (EDs), yet the implications for ED patient care are not obvious. In a recent report, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeo...

From the angle of competition policy, Voice over IP looks like a panacea. It not only brings better service, but it also increases competitive pressure on former telecommunications monopolists. This paper points to the largely overlooked downside. In a pure world of Internet telephony, there would be no charge for individual calls, nor for telephony, as distinct from other services running over...

Taking advantage of the mobile platforms to interact with the HICOD2000 system has been the motivation for the work described in this paper. Regardless of the limited resources available in mobile platforms the authors demonstrate that using the features of the HICOD2000 system the mobile device might be of major assistance in the field where satellite imagery may have an important and useful r...

BACKGROUND Contrary to the widely reported aversion to cesarean section in the West African subregion, maternal demand for cesarean section (MDCS) seems to be on the increase, and there is little evidence to explain this trend. The purpose of this study was to determine the perception and attitudes of Nigerian antenatal clients towards MDCS, their willingness to request MDCS, and the relationsh...