Over the last 18 months, natural gas operators from all over the world have converged on Western Pennsylvania. Their goal has been to secure new leases from landowners holding valuable mineral rights in the deeper Marcellus Shale formation. This rush to access the Marcellus Shale is now creating...

Television formats have become a major export industry for Britain and the United States (who together account for nearly two thirds of all format hours broadcast annually worldwide). Yet, there is no such thing as a television format right under copyright law. Any producer is free to develop...

While health care costs rise, choices of health plans diminish, and employers are caught in the middle. But there are ways to fight back.

A decision evaluation and conflict resolution system is being developed for eventual use by planning and policy making organizations. The system is being implemented on a portable interactive graphic computer system. The system features the capability of integrating societal system models with...