40 research outputs found
Thy Kingdom Come
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Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
Pluralismo jurídico: o espaço de práticas sociais participativas
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciencias JuridicasO objetivo da presente tese é examinar a crise de hegemonia do modelo jurídico tradicional, delineando, gradual e progressivamente, uma resposta através da sua transformação em um paradigma alternativo, assentado em novas proposições epistemológicas que partam das condições históricas e das práticas cotidianas, processadas e instituídas por novos sujeitos coletivos. A proposta da tese (através do método indutivo-crítico) visualiza um certo tipo de pluralismo jurídico apto a reconhecer e legitimar novas normatividades extra e intra-estatais (institucionalizadas ou não), engendradas por carências e necessidades próprias das contingências dos movimentos sociais recentes, e de apreender as especificidades das representações formadas juridicamente no Brasil - Estado do Capitalismo periférico -, marcado por estruturas de "homogeneidades precárias" e composto por espaços de conflitos intermitentes. O plano da pesquisa contempla, no primeiro capítulo, a formação, evolução e traços característicos do monismo jurídico hegemônico da modernidade burguesa-capitalista. Num segundo capítulo, analisa-se a crise da legalidade liberal-burguesa e as insuficiências do modelo jurídico monopolizado pelo Estado brasileiro nos limites territoriais onde se verifica a incrementação de conflitos multipolares. Tal comprovação é constatada em dois patamares: na legislação positiva (Códigos Civil e Processo Civil) e na resolução dos conflitos (Poder Judiciário), principalmente no que concerne ao direito à terra e à moradia, privilegiando-se algumas experiências empíricas envolvendo conflitos coletivos, reivindicações e necessidades fundamentais. No terceiro, demonstra-se que os movimentos sociais são novos sujeitos coletivos geradores de formas jurídicas capazes de fomentar não só uma legitimidade alternativa ao "instituído", como, sobretudo, de criar uma nova juricidade entendida como informal e extra/intra-estatal. No quarto capítulo contrapõe-se à cultura monista legal-estatal, um modelo concebido a partir de uma nova racionalidade e uma nova ética pelo refluxo político e jurídico de novos sujeitos - os coletivos; pelas novas necessidades - os direitos construídos pelo processo histórico; e pela reordenação da sociedade civil - a descentralização normativa do centro para a periferia, do Estado para a Sociedade, da lei para os acordos, arranjos e negociações. É a dinâmica interativa de um espaço público aberto e democrático. Examinam-se, por último (quinto capítulo), concretamente, algumas manifestações normativas informais de cunho legislativo e jurisdicional "dentro" e "fora" do sistema oficial do Estado. Decorrente disso, constata-se a obrigatoriedade de se redefinir a significação de temas, como legitimidade, sanção, estado, pedagogia, integração e interdisciplinaridade na montagem da cultura instituinte do novo paradigma jurídico. Em síntese, a tese objetiva no final propor um novo paradigma de validade para o Direito, representado por um certo tipo de pluralismo integrador e aberto, designado como pluralismo jurídico comunitário-participativo
Naval Engineering and Labor Specialization during the Industrial Revolution
No full textThis paper explores the roles of capital- and technology-skill complementarities in labor allocation decisions within the U.S. Navy. During the latter 19th century the ocer corps was highly specialized, and was split between groups of line and sta ocers. This was also a time of dramatic technological changes which aected nearly every facet of naval opera- tions. Specically, naval technological developments tended to be \engineering-biased," in that they raised the relative importance of engineer-oriented skills. This created a dilemma for the Navy, as it navigated the balance between the benets of a specialized workforce implementing increasingly complex technologies with rising communication and coordina- tion costs. We rst document the extent of capital- and technology-skill complementarities within the navy which fostered greater labor specialization. We then show how the Navy vitiated the specialized human capital of ocers by blending the corps. The study oers in- sights into how an industry undergoing wrenching technological changes managed its labor and human capital allocation to help the U.S. become a world class naval power.
legal origins matter? The case of bankruptcy laws in Europe 1808–1914.
No full textSince the early 1997 paper by La Porta et al., a growing body of research has argued that ‘legal origins’ have a country-specific, time-invariant effect on property rights and economic development. Following the methodology of La Porta et al., an original database of 51 bankruptcy laws has been built: it ranges over 15 European countries and more than a hundred years (1808–1914), and summarises how the rights and incentives of the parties were defined as the procedures unfolded. The first conclusion is that, over the entire period, all legal traditions strongly protected creditors' rights; only English law comes out prima facie as less protective. Second, evidence suggests that the evolution of these laws was influenced less by their past than by continent-wide trends, arguably linked to capitalist development. An early nineteenth century model thus saw heavy repression of failed debtors and highly regulated judicial procedures. After a transition period from the late 1860s to the late 1880s, prison for debt was abandoned, rehabilitation became easier, and the parties were given much more room to recontract on property rights.
Redes informatizadas de comunicação: a teia da rede internacional DPH
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção.A partir do estudo de caso da rede DPH (Rede Diálogos para o Progresso da Humanidade), estuda os impactos e influências das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação (TIC) na formação de redes organizacionais em nível local e global. Resgata, analisa e sistematiza a história cronológica da rede DPH . Analisa as ferramentas e recursos utilizados de Tecnologia da Informação e comunicação pela rede DPH e sua influência na organização da mesma. Reflete, sobre os conceitos de "redes" tecnológicas e sociais e identifica em forma de organograma, o modelo organizacional desta rede. Analisa e identifica as dinâmicas organizacionais e suas modificações, a partir de um nó local (micro) até um nível fractal internacional (macro). Como conclusão, faz uma proposta metodológica de construção de modelos para identificação e análise de organizações virtuais em rede
Conflitos socioambientais na zona costeira catarinense: estudo de caso da Barra do Camacho/SC
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 2009.A presente pesquisa insere-se na dinâmica de gestão e ordenamento da zona costeira, dando ênfase à aplicação do ecodesenvolvimento. A coexistência de múltiplos interesses e de diversas entidades com objetivos diferenciados neste espaço geográfico não deve impedir a coordenação e o diálogo entre as instituições, afim de garantir a implementação de uma política de Ordenamento e Gestão Integrada da Zona Costeira. A discussão sobre o modelo atual desta política centrada aqui no estudo de caso da Barra do Camacho- permite demonstrar que a co-gestão adaptativa representa uma alternativa ao modelo economicista dominante de gestão dos recursos naturais, reputado predador e excludente. Os resultados deste estudo se articulam da seguinte maneira: uma abordagem inicial e essencialmente conceitual apresenta a etiologia da crise ambiental. Em seguida, descreve-se o Sistema Nacional de Unidades de Conservação especificamente a APABF -, a gestão da zona costeira e apresenta-se o caso em análise: a mineração de conchas calcárias na Barra do Camacho/SC. Propõe-se, enfim, a fórmula da co-gestão adaptativa como alternativa ao modelo em vigor. Neste sentido, no que diz respeito ao manejo da zona costeira, demonstra-se que a aplicação do princípio da precaução e a adoção da prudência ecológica são essenciais à efetivação deste novo modelo participativo e sustentável. Por conseguinte, o tratamento jurídico dos problemas levantados deve obedecer ao princípio da precaução uma vez que este é o principal instrumento para garantir a efetividade do modelo proposto. A escolha da co-gestão adaptativa para a zona costeira não significa necessariamente que esta seja a melhor maneira para gerir o território costeiro; ela constitui, entretanto, um instrumento útil para a aplicação do ecodesenvolvimento, principalmente nas áreas especialmente protegidas.This research fits into the resource and regulatory management of the coastal zone and is based on the principle of eco-development. The coexistence of multiple interests are dispersed geographical in this area should not prevent the coordination and dialogue between the institutions concerned so that the effectiveness of the Regulatory Policy and the Integrated Management of the Coastal Zone is guaranteed. The discussion on the current model of this policy, focused here on the case study of Barra do Camacho, shows that the adaptive co-management represents an alternative to the dominant economic model of management of natural resources, which has the reputation to be predator and exclusive. The results of this study are based in the following way: firstly, from conceptual point of view, we present an etiology of the environmental crisis. Then, we describe, the way of working of the National System of Conservation Units (APABF), the management of the coastal zone and the singularity of the case analyzed: mineral of the shells in Barra do Camacho / SC. Finally, we propose the principle for adaptive co-management as an alternative to the current model. Thus, concerning the exploitation of the coastal zone, we demonstrate that the application of the precautionary principle and the adoption of ecological prudence are key to implement this new approach designed to be participatory and sustainable. The legal treatment of the issues raised must comply with the precautionary principle since it is the key to the success of the proposed model. The choice of adaptive comanagement for the coastal zone may not be the "magic formula" to manage the coastal territory, it remains a useful tool in the application of eco-development, especially in the highly protected territories
A Pattern-based Foundation for Language-Driven Software Engineering
No full textThis work brings together two fundamental ideas for modelling, programming and analysing software systems. The first idea is of a methodological nature: engineering software by systematically creating and relating languages. The second idea is of a technical nature: using patterns as a practical foundation for computing. The goal is to show that the systematic creation and layering of languages can be reduced to the elementary operations of pattern matching and instantiation and that this pattern-based approach provides a formal and practical foundation for language-driven modelling, programming and analysis.
The underpinning of the work is a novel formalism for recognising, deconstructing, creating, searching, transforming and generally manipulating data structures. The formalism is based on typed sequences, a generic structure for representing trees. It defines basic pattern expressions for matching and instantiating atomic values and variables. Horizontal, vertical, diagonal and hierarchical operators are different ways of combining patterns. Transformations combine matching and instantiating patterns and they are patterns themselves. A quasiquotation mechanism allows arbitrary levels of meta-pattern functionality and forms the basis of pattern abstraction. Path polymorphic operators are used to specify fine-grained search of structures. A range of core concepts such as layering, parsing and pattern-based computing can naturally be defined through pattern expressions.
Three language-driven tools that utilise the pattern formalism showcase the applicability of the pattern-approach. Concat is a self-sustaining (meta-)programming system in which all computations are expressed by matching and instantiation. This includes parsing, executing and optimising programs. By applying its language engineering tools to its own meta-language, Concat can extend itself from within. XMF (XML Modeling Framework) is a browser-based modelling- and meta-modelling framework that provides flexible means to create and relate modelling languages and to query and validate models. The pattern functionality that makes this possible is partly exposed as a schema language and partly as a JavaScript library. CFR (Channel Filter Rule Language) implements a language-driven approach for layered analysis of communication in complex networked systems. The communication on each layer is visible in the language of an “abstract protocol” that is defined by communication patterns
Lexical bundles in scientific English: A corpus-based study of native and non-native writing
No full text[eng] The present dissertation is a corpus-based investigation of the frequency, structure and functions of lexical bundles in published scientific writing in English, whose main objective is the creation of an inventory of the most frequent and pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose, one that can be utilized in a variety of teaching applications.
In this study, three- to six-word lexical bundles were extracted from a 1.3 million word sample from the Health Science Corpus, a collection of published articles in biology and biochemistry. This initial list was filtered and enhanced through the application of the Mutual Information (MI) statistic and of a set of exclusion criteria established to satisfy the pedagogical objectives of the study. Following the SciE-Lex investigation (Verdaguer et al., 2009) the remaining lexical bundles were grouped together using like keywords. The present study additionally used the concept of prototypical bundle, which is based on Sinclair’s (2004) notion of canonical units of meaning, to tackle the semantic and structural connections between similar bundles. The structural and functional characteristics of the lexical bundles were explored through careful concordance analysis, which made it possible to categorize the bundles using modified versions of Biber et al.’s (1999) structural framework and Hyland’s (2008a) functional taxonomy.
These quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal how native expert writers employ recurrent word strings in the construction of a coherent, well-structured and convincing scientific text that conforms with the conventions of the genre. They bring to light the different functions that lexical bundles perform in scientific discourse, and how these functions enable writers to address their research concerns, achieve their communication goals and elicit the desired reaction from their target audience. They also show the typical structural realizations of these bundle functions, as well as important aspects of usage that non-native writers need to be aware of to be able to incorporate these expressions in their own writing.
The study also compares the results obtained from the corpus of published scientific articles to the lexical bundles found in a smaller corpus of biomedical research articles written by native Spanish-speaking scientists, who are all non-native users of English. In accordance with the methodology proposed by Cortes (2004), the lexical bundles identified in the HSC were treated as target bundles and subsequently searched for and analyzed in the corpus of non-native writing. This comparison uncovered non-native writers’ overuse of certain bundles, a tendency that results in unnecessary repetitiveness and lack of variation, as well as their restricted use of participant- oriented bundles, which points to their limited awareness of the usage and importance of this particular function.
The dissertation also discusses the pedagogical implications of its final product, a practical list of lexical bundles in scientific English for use in teaching applications, and how it addresses the six major challenges that hinder the successful introduction of lexical bundles in EAP classrooms and teaching materials, as identified by Byrd and Coxhead (2010).[spa] La presente tesis es una investigación de la frecuencia, la estructura y las funciones de los “lexical bundle” en artículos científicos escritos en inglés, con la finalidad de crear un inventario de los “lexical bundle” más frecuentes y pedagógicamente rentables en la prosa científica, una lista que se puede utilizar en varias aplicaciones didácticas.
La investigación empezó con la identificación de combinaciones léxicas de tres a seis palabras en una muestra del “Health Science Corpus” que contiene 1,3 millones de palabras. Después, se filtró la lista inicial con la aplicación de la estadística de la información mutua y de un conjunto de criterios de exclusión. Se organizó la lista a través de la agrupación de los “lexical bundle” mediante las palabras clave que tenían en común y la utilización del concepto de “prototypical bundle” o combinación prototípica (Sinclair, 2004), que permitió tratar las conexiones semánticas y estructurales entre los “lexical bundle” similares. Finalmente, se investigaron las características estructurales y funcionales de las combinaciones léxicas a través del análisis de listas de concordancia, lo que hizo posible clasificar los “lexical bundle” según versiones modificadas del marco estructural de Biber et al. (1999) y la taxonomía funcional de Hyland (2008).
Los análisis cuantitativos y cualitativos revelan cómo los científicos nativos y con largas trayectorias de publicación científica, emplean combinaciones léxicas en la construcción de un texto científico coherente, bien estructurado y convincente que se ajusta a las convenciones del género. Ponen de relieve las distintas funciones que realizan las combinaciones léxicas en el discurso científico y muestran las típicas realizaciones estructurales de estas funciones.
El estudio también compara los resultados obtenidos del “Health Science Corpus” a un corpus más pequeño de artículos de investigación biomédica escritos por científicos de habla española, que son todos usuarios no nativos de inglés. Esta comparación resaltó las diferencias entre los autores nativos y los no nativos, y permitió averiguar las dificultades que los científicos no nativos pueden tener en el uso de combinaciones léxicas, y cómo estas dificultades pueden abordarse en el aula de idiomas, así como en los materiales didácticos
