This paper discusses the sexual division of labor of artisanal fishers in five Brazilian states, involving three regions of the country: North (Pará), South (Santa Catarina), and Northeast (Pernambuco, Ceará and Paraíba). The project was supported by four universities: UFRPE,…

Este texto aborda aspectos da educação na região Norte, em particular, no Estado do Pará; oferece um enfoque sobre a diversidade cultural, especialmente a educação no campo, quilombola e indígena. Centrase na análise de documentos e projetos das organizações parceiras…

Most Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems traditionally use a sequential architecture that represents the classical linguistic levels (lexical-morphological, syntactical, semantic, etc.), but they claim for huge and monolithic modules, that make the backtracking among such modules difficult. By using a…

This paper focuses on the general problem of the lexical bottleneck and, in particular, on the issues of semantic clustering and disambiguation by means of word usage cues obtained from sublanguage-specific corpora. Our approaches combines the use of numerical techniques…

A software package based on recent knowledge on sound propagation models and on traffic noise emission has been developed for the optimal abatement solution for traffic noise. The software, called CEEPA, is integrated with a signal processing algorithm to provide…

This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management and organizational resilience. The sample for the study consisted of one hundred and twenty eight (128) employees from the thirty four manufacturing companies that are registered with the manufacturers Association of Nigeria,…

The tools for fault impact analysis are important for the deployment of critical mission systems. These tools can be also used as a development phase aid. We introduce several concepts related to "business alarms". Business alarms are an approximation to…

The contemporary study in the philosophy of language concentrates extensively on a cluster of questions defining the problem of linguistic knowledge (Evans 1981, Davies 1989, Dummett 1991). What explains a speaker's language mastery? Is it knowledge that underwrites our linguistic…

The Operational Security Network Code will provide the basis on European Union level for the power system to function with a satisfactory level of security and quality of supply, as well as efficient utilization of infrastructure and resources. It requires…