PrepTest 116, Section 1, Question 26
Faculty researchers, particularly in scientific, engineering, and medical(465 more words not shown)
According to the passage, what(15 more words not shown)
- Avagueness on the(10 more words not shown)
- Binsistence on reaping(13 more words not shown)
- Cinversion of the(14 more words not shown)
- Dinsistence on ownership(16 more words not shown)
- Ereliance on the(16 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The resource-provider institution asks how much university time and facilities the project used. Significant use triggers its ownership claim. We're looking for that criterion, rather than a financial goal shared with other policies.
Working the answers
- A
The uncertain issue is how much use counts as significant—not whether the resources belong to the university. Everyone could agree that a researcher used the university's lab and still disagree about whether that use was significant.
- B
Other policies also seek financial benefit. And this rule doesn't give faculty unlimited flexibility: significant resource use allows the university to claim ownership.
- C
Reversing the usual practice to give faculty greater freedom describes the fourth, faculty-oriented policy.
- D
Working outside the institution isn't the resource-provider test. The extent of university resources used is what matters. The supramaximalist policy also reaches externally sponsored activities, so an outside-invention claim wouldn't distinguish this category.
- ECorrect
The definition turns on “significant use” of university time and facilities. Unlike the maximalist rule, it doesn't add employment as a separate basis for ownership; unlike the faculty-oriented rule, it doesn't add a public-health exception. Its stated test is the extent of resource use.
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