Thesis advisor: Benjamin Howard / We study two moduli problems involving false elliptic curves with complex multiplication (CM), generalizing theorems about the arithmetic degree of certain moduli spaces of CM elliptic curves. The first moduli problem generalizes a space considered by Howard and Yang, and the formula for its arithmetic degree can be seen as a calculation of the intersection multiplicity of two CM divisors on a Shimura curve. This formula is an extension of the Gross-Zagier theorem on singular moduli to certain Shimura curves. The second moduli problem we consider deals with special endomorphisms of false elliptic curves. The formula for its arithmetic degree generalizes a theorem of Kudla, Rapoport, and Yang. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Mathematics.

Abstract This article is about the false, misleading advertising and harmful behavior to goodwill in China. Generally speaking, advertisement is the best marketing way and an unique characteristic in the West¡]always mean capitalist society¡^. And advertising is related to the anti-trust law that combines the science of law and economy. After 1979 PRC¡¦s reform, economical power¡]or the market¡^is the greatest concern in their policy-making. In 1987, PRC issued the formal statute of advertising in place of the interim procedures¡]1982¡^. But the first anti-trust law in the world is Sherman Act¡]1890¡^of USA. According to Sherman Act and the rule of ¡§true in advertising¡¨, FTC Act¡]1914¡^stops the false and misleading advertising in USA, because those are unfair competitions. All capitalist countries want a fair and faultless market. After comparing the law against false advertising in USA and Taiwan with China, we will observe how to enforce the anti-trust law. After understanding the differences of those laws in three countries, we could find out whether those work or not. Through the enforcements in these countries, we realize that the capitalist power often affects lawmaking a lot. Therefore, the governments should not neglect demand of market, especially in an immature capitalist society.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Title from PDF of title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 70 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ruprecht-Karl-Universität in Heidelberg.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Erlangen.

Thesis (B.A.)--Bryn Mawr College, Dept. of Psychology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1958. / Typescript. Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts, v. 19 (1959) no. 7, p. 1536-1537. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-315).

Thesis (M.S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2006. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Keith A. Hutchison. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-44).

This is a study of administrative confusion and uncertainty which has beset development of an important part of Vancouver's industrial waterfront. False Creek is a two-mile long, twenty-foot deep inlet. Half the residential area of Vancouver is separated from the commercial center by this waterway and its shore is extensively occupied by industry. Originally the inlet was more than twice its present size, but the eastern half and a central mud-flat "bay" were reclaimed by the federal government prior to the First World War. Until 1924 the federal government claimed title to the bed and foreshore but in that year acknowledged the province's claim. It retained, however, the reclaimed area known as Granville Island and owns a large tract of Indian reserve land near the False Creek mouth. At the turn of the century the city was given title to the eastern half of the bed and foreshore, and later made the reclaimed portion available to the Great Northern and Canadian National Railways. The Canadian Pacific Railway owns almost all the upland lots on both the north and south shore of the waterway as it exists today. These are occupied either as terminal yards or under lease. Headlines have been established along its shore and the Navigable Waters Protection Act applies. False Creek has been a problem area because it is both an obstacle and an industrial area of high utility and potential. The city administration has been able to cope with the former, limited only by the funds available. Any over-all development, however, has been virtually impossible because of: 1) a confusion (before 1924) as to the spheres of responsibility of the senior governments, 2) their tendency generally to act without consideration for the over-all development, and 3) the total lack of co-operation between themselves or with the city in furthering comprehensive economic development. This has meant that the only development, apart from the federal reclamation, has been the result of private enterprise. It has been the good fortune of the city that this has never, yet, been contrary to the over-all potentialities of the area. Recent action by the federal government indicates that the Indian reserve property may be disposed of for purposes inimical to the best economic use of the shore. There appears to be no possibility of the city developing the waterway comprehensively by its own efforts, nor any likelihood that either or both senior governments will do so. The answer may lie in a statutory corporation publicly and privately owned, perhaps on the order of the English "mixed undertaking". Such or similar action would be facilitated if the city were able to acquire the False Creek land presently held by the federal government, perhaps by accepting it in payment for the city-owned (1954) airport. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate