55 research outputs found
Online Distribution of Copyright Works: Judge Chin Rejects Google Books Settlement
No full textMultinational co-operation will not be easily achieved, but this process must begin without delay. Isabel Davies & Holly Strube (Boyes Turner)
Onderzoekingen in verband met de locaal-anaesthetische werking van alkoxy-nitroanilinen
No full textApplied Science
Complementarity of Innovation Policies in the Brazilian Industry: An Econometric Study
No full textThe paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance sources, lack of skilled personnel, lack of cooperation opportunities and lack of information on technology or markets). The application avoids micro-aggregation of the data and explicitly considers sampling weights in the econometric estimation. The analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The evidence, unlike previous evidence, is not totally clear cut in terms of contrasts of the two phases. Nevertheless one can detect some substitutability and complementarity for specific pairs of obstacles in analysing the propensity to innovate, and strong evidence of complementarities in obstacles when considering the intensity of innovation. In the latter case, therefore, the evidence is suggestive and favours the adoption of more targeted incentive policies.supermodularity, complementarities, innovation
Milton's elements
No full textSeeing his girlfriend flirt with another man, Milton hits her. Not a good idea because no sooner does she move out than Milton's family moves in. First it is his brother with aids, then his sister with her bratty sons, then another sister who is on drugs and finally his mother whom everyone dislikes. By the author of Alex & Zee
De L’esprit Des Lois et Le Débat Autour du Despotisme en Russie
No full textThe fate of The Spirit of Laws by Ch.-L. Montesquieu in Russia in the second half of the 18 th century is an example of ambiguous reception that the French enlightener and his ideas received at that time prompting both imitation and polemics. The origin of these controversies is in the unfavorable image of Russia that Montesquieu represented as a country of despotism and slavery. The ideas developed in the treatise incited various Russian authors to nourish their own thinking about the country, especially concerning such problems as liberty and equality. The article attempts to trace the emergence of this debate in political literature, including the works by F.-H. Strube de Piermont, Catherine II, and Prince M.M. Shcherbatov. Since the examined texts are interdependent, it allows me to speak of the literary polemics of a kind. It is argued that each author develops her own writing strategy in accordance with her specific position in society and intention. A comparative analysis shows the following tendencies. (1) The book by Strube de Piermont is a typical literary refutation intended to rehabilitate Russia’s reputation compromised by the author of The Spirit of Laws. (2) Prince Shcherbatov uses Montesquieu’s statements about Russia as a reference point for his own deep and original study of the phenomena and processes that existed in Russia. (3) The ambiguous position of Catherine II as both a private person and a monarch is the most vulnerable of the three and forces her to adapt her ideas to this peculiar role
Cross-Cultural Meta-Analyses
No full textIn the enormous collection of cross-cultural data that have been published during the last few decades it is difficult to perceive patterns. There is a clear need for systematizing the vast amount of cross-cultural studies and for developing models that explain cross-cultural differences in psychology. Two methods of cross-cultural meta-analysis can be distinguished. First, the instrument-based method of comparing data for one instrument across countries is suitable for instruments which have been administered in many countries. Second, a domain-based meta-analysis used a thematic domain from which culture-comparative studies are sampled instead of one specific instrument or method
Extração de relações hiponímicas em corpora de língua portuguesa
No full textO Processamento da Linguagem Natural (PLN) é uma área da Ciência da Computação destacada por sua relevância para o desenvolvimento de aplicações em processamento de grandes quantidades de documentos textuais ou orais. Neste trabalho focamos nos textos em língua portuguesa, deles extraindo relações hiponímicas entre entidades, usando uma abordagem baseada em regras adaptadas dos trabalhos de Hearst para o inglês, Freitas e Quental e Taba e Caseli para o português, aqui complementadas. Para validar a proposta foi desenvolvido um protótipo que extrai relações hiponímicas de corpora em língua portuguesa. O protótipo foi executado sobre corpus de textos e os resultados obtidos foram analisados tanto por fonte de referência como por grupos de regras. O processo avaliativo seguiu o proposto por Freitas e Quental com avaliação humana, e as medidas obtidas são comparadas com as relatadas nas principais fontes de referência. A dissertação ainda estuda em detalhe os erros mais frequentes identificados.Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a Computer Science area featured by its relevance to the development of applications that process large amounts of text or speech. In this paper we focus on texts in Portuguese, extracting from them hyponymic relations between entities, using a rules-based approach adapted from Hearst to English, and Freitas and Quental and Taba and Caseli to Portuguese. The prototype was executed over a corpus of Portuguese texts and the output was analyzed according to the reference author and rule sets. The evaluation process followed the one proposed by Freitas and Quental with human judgment, and the results are compared to those reported in the main references. The dissertation also studies in detail the most common errors identified
APPLICATIONS OF RAMAN DIFFERENCE SPECTROSCOPY
No full textAuthor Institution:The use of divided and rotating liquid (or powder) cells or the use of a rotating lens system permits the near-simultaneous measurement of several channels (typically four) of Raman spectra. These devices ensure that frequency measurement errors between the different channels are eliminated. Our Raman system permits the simultaneous recording of the parallel and perpendicular polarized spectra of two different samples and the photon-counting electronics permit linear combinations of the spectra to be made. Thus, for example, the isotropic and anisotropic components of the Raman bands for the two samples may also be recorded simultaneously. Other linear combinations permit Raman difference spectra to be recorded so that very accurate frequency shifts measurements may be made. Various applications, such as the determination of frequency shifts resulting from isotopic dilution, will be described
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