Why do very different states adopt remarkably similar intellectual property laws? From Australia to Zambia, France to Fiji, and the United States to Uzbekistan, countries around the world have to a large extent harmonized laws protecting intangible goods. Such harmonization is p…
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With the rapid growth of the internet and digital media techniques over the last decade, multimedia data such as images, video and audio can easily be copied, altered and distributed over the internet without any loss in quality. Therefore, protection of ownership of multimedia …
The current scholarship on copyright predominantly considers this area of law from the standpoint of economics. Likewise, since the adoption of the TRIPs Agreement, contemporary copyright law-making and practice has mainly been constructed around the assumption that its job is t…
This thesis is designed to discuss andcompare the legal measures in U.K., U.S., Japan and Koreafor protecting computer programs.Following an introductory chapter, the first sUbstantivechapter discusses patent protection of computer-programrelatedinventions in those four countrie…
The tremendous spreading of multimedia via Internet motivates the watermarking as a new promising technology for copyright protection. This work is concerned with the design and development of novel algorithms in the spatial and transform domains for robust and secure watermarki…
Sinema eserleri, sinema filmi, dizi, belgesel gibi pek çok farklı formatta karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Ancak bu yapımların ortaya çıkışı pek çok farklı kişinin organize bir şekilde çalışmasını gerektirmektedir. Bu ise, farklı taraflar arasında akdedilen sözleşmeler aracılığıyla sağla…
Emerging from Atlanta’s historical rail line infrastructure, the Atlanta Beltline, a twenty-two-mile ring of multi-use trails, parks, and light rail system is shaping a new way of life within the city’s urban core. The Beltline is challenging critical issues such as suburban spr…
Sea surface temperature (SST) is a crucial quantity for interpreting past climate variations, yet reconstructing historical SSTs from ship-based measurements is challenging because of varying biases that are on the order 0.1°C to 1°C. Whereas SST biases are complicated and can a…
My installations are collaborations with time, material, and chaos. I want to show the beauty and sadness which lies in the process of entropy. Entropy (the second law of thermodynamics) is a term used in physics to measure the cooling and gradual loss of energy in all things; f…
Background: Globally, injection drug use (IDU) is common among cisgender women who participate in sex work (CWSW), placing them at heightened risk of HCV acquisition and transmission. However, the epidemiology of HCV among CWSW in the United States is not well understood. In thi…
Public theology, tested ecumenical systems, global international organizations and individual rights are the ideas explored in the writing. Public theology, the act of bringing religious ideas and spirituality to the public square with the intention of changing the public. The e…
I make ceramic and mixed media objects that embody interaction with material. Translated from the simple utterance of the hand the material articulates the labor. As in any relationship there are miscommunications and disagreements; Desperation, struggle, and honest interaction …
When Danish composer Per Nørgård discovered the visually arresting sketches of the schizophrenic Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli in 1979, he felt as though his vision of an “ideal world” had been challenged and thus became completely engrossed in the life and works of Wölfli. Nørgård’…
This research project evaluates the way in which culture, localism, and globalism (also referred to in this thesis as (g)localism) performatively converge in surfing communities. Localism, in accordance with the sport of surfing, include various communicative forms of aggressive…
This thesis will focus on the relationship between different shapes of furniture and space and the furniture design and manufacturing process. In the minimalist interior design, the structure and geometry of the indoor space depend on the furniture. I am interested in how stylis…
In-between Spaces is a paper based in personal narrative that uses Critical Race Theory and art to analyze the history of photography and systems of discrimination facilitated by hegemonic culture. Body is at the center as a symbol of the physical and psychological impacts syste…
This body of work explores technology throughout modern history into today, and how it affects society and the people within. There are many sides to technological innovation, and as time goes on it also changes our own priorities; even how we choose to either reject reality or …
Most literature associated with ethnic-racial socialization and academic outcomes is set within the historic social-political contexts of mainland United States. The problem addressed in this study was the impact of ethnic-racial socialization on Black high school student's acad…
When learning history, students have difficulty remembering large amounts of history and don’t know explanations of some proper nouns, which makes them not have an in-depth understanding of history and easy to fail in the test. As an important subject, an auxiliary app is needed…