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In the fight against unauthorised sharing of copyright protected material, Dutch Internet Service Providers have been summoned by courts to block their subscribers0 access to The Pirate Bay and related sites. This paper studies the effectiveness of this approach towards online copyright enforcement, using both a consumer survey and a newly developed noninfringing technology for BitTorrent monit...

Although the use of antibiotics in the developed countries is done under certain principles, there is an opposite situation at the use of antibiotics in the underdeveloped countries which is irregular. The prevalence of antibiotic use in the fight against infectious diseases additionally raises the problem of increasing resistance of the micro-organisms against antibiotics. There is also an inc...

This paper examines theory and behavior in a two-player game of siege, sequential attack and defense. The attacker’s objective is to successfully win at least one battle while the defender’s objective is to win every battle. Theoretically, the defender either folds immediately or, if his valuation is sufficiently high and the number of battles is sufficiently small, then he has a constant incen...

This paper investigates the role played by the cultural norms of particularism and universalism for collusive bribery. In our theoretical framework, the act of proposing or demanding a bribe violates a commonly held social norm, thus producing a psychological cost. By lowering this psychological cost, particularism increases the probability of offering or asking for a bribe. We test the predict...

Cafes as a result of contents allowed through their networks is a welcome development in the fight against copyright violations and piracy of digital contents. Beyond this however, experts must also realize that consumers of content have unguided opportunities to exploit digital content for undue gains once placed at their disposals. This is particularly possible as a result of the intrinsic pr...

In this paper we describe some first steps for bringing the framework of branching space-times to bear on quantum information theory. Our main application is quantum error correction. It is shown that branching spacetimes offers a new perspective on quantum error correction: as a supplement to the orthodox slogan, “fight entanglement with entanglement”, we offer the new slogan, “fight indetermi...

Reviews of environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice, particularly by industrial proponents, have highlighted common shortfalls. EIA would benefit from more ‘common sense’, which is not very common. For example, issue scoping usually includes too many inconsequential factors, and issues not directly affecting project decisions. Consideration of significance is often vague, misleading or in...

Evidence of the importance of the biological aspect of crime and violence continues to mount. And with the escalation of crime, disseminating information involving all disciplines to those who could help has become critically important. Research about the link between aberrant behaviour and neuro-chemical imbalances, toxic environment, diet, food and chemical sensitivities, learning problems an...