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In January 2022, just months after taking the role of Prime Minister in Romania, Nicolae Ciuc? faced a significant plagiarism scandal. According to reporter Emilia ?ercan (link in Romanian), some 42 pages of Ciuc?’s 38-page 2013 dissertation from the National Defense University in Bucharest were plagiarized from outside sources. Ciuc?, for his part, denied the plagiarism and said that his dissertation was legitimate.
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On June 9th, Anna Katharine Verney at the Guardian Australia published a lengthy analysis of the John Hughes book The Dogs. The book was on the longlist for the Miles Franklin prize, widely considered to be the highest literary prize in Australia. However, according to The Guardian, the book contained many similarities to a 2017 English translation of the book The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich.
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Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
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By 2030, AI could disrupt transportation and other key sectors in China, adding significant economic value—but only if strategic cooperation and capability building occur across multiple dimensions.
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On the surface, the plagiarism allegations against Kevin Kruse are pedestrian. . According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. . In an additional blog post , the author points to similar issues, albeit with weaker similarity, in Kruse’s 2015 book, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian A
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The following is an edited transcript of my video How Does the Supply Chain Impact the World of Trademarks? The news is full of stories lately the supply chain, trucking, store shelves, shipping, ports, customs, and all of these things that are currently providing challenges and backlogs throughout the supply chain. I challenged myself to think about how does the supply chain impact trademarks?
New McKinsey research shows that students and faculty are eager to continue using new classroom learning technologies adopted during the pandemic, but institutions could do more to support the shift.
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This is an important trademarks / free speech case. I got in on an edge of it! The post Amicus Brief filed in Vans v. MSCHF appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
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