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Human gene patents are patents on human genes that have been removed from human bodies and scientifically isolated and manipulated in a laboratory. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) has issued thousands of patents on such genes, and patents have also been granted by the European Patent Office, (the EPO). Legal and moral justification, however, are not identical, and it...

Inspirées par les principes et les outils de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique, la Loi organique relative aux lois de finances et la Révision générale des politiques publiques semblent concourir à améliorer l'efficacité de l'action publique, en renouvelant la pratique de l'évaluation. Les expériences étrangères démontrent toutefois qu'il est souvent difficile de...

The thesis examines to what extend the European integration has driven the Airbus programme. Political and industrial stakeholders have often associated both in their discourses. A combined historical and social science approach determines the actual relationships in a Strategic Trade Policies perspective as defined by Paul Krugman. Despite their references to "Europe" the...

Investors do not physically hold their investment securities any more. Securities are held and transferred through a complex, sophisticated, and international network of financial intermediaries, including central securities depositories, investment banks, and brokers-dealers. Investors buy and sell their holdings by having book-entries made to their securities accounts; they provide...

There are currently no well-established techniques or tools to build adaptive 3D user interfaces. The aim of this research is to overcome identified shortcomings by providing a model and framework for the semantic enrichment of scene graphs for task based adaptation in 3D user interfaces. The semantic enrichment of scenes can play an extremely important role in enabling the viewers...