//// Abstract: In 399 b. C., a man was accused and sentenced to die because people thought he had the power to seduce young people with words, not beautiful but morbid, naked words. His candour and open manner were offensive…

A distribuição generalizada de valores extremos (GEV) desempenha um PAPEL fundamental em estudos relacionados a medições físicas, em que é aplicada com a finalidade de descrever o comportamento de eventos raros Como esses valores são extraídos da cauda superior (ou…

The word ‘sovereignty’ provides a forceful example of the social power of language as an
organic instrument playing a leading role in the continuous and continuing process of creating
and transforming human reality. The paper examines a pivotal episode in…

Satellite and wireless networks operate over time varying channels that depend on attenuation conditions, power allocation decisions, and inter-channel interference. In order to reliably integrate these systems into a high speed data network and meet the increasing demand for high…

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For 20 years, and more intensively during the last decade, indigenous knowledge has challenged the regime of intellectual property. If this field of law has been, in the past, challenged by new technology, it is now, with the problematic of…

Intellectual capital, as opposed to traditional conceptions of intellectual property, is neither as simple to define nor as straightforward to protect and regulate. As companies in the financial services sector attempt the efficient management of increasingly voluminous and strategically important…

An indirect crisis, the terrorist attacks of September 1 1 , is used as a catalyst to review the tasks of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime. However, it is insufficient to initiate a comprehensive change to the regime to incorporate the…

The purpose was to examine the domain specificity of the self-regulatory skills of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) compared to their peers without DCD. Participants included 10 children with DCD and 10 without. A sport specific problem-solving task (shooting…

In chapter one, I describe the different conceptions of self that Murdoch and Nussbaum have, and I show how these affect their depictions of human good. And I relate how each one defends the internal logic of her claims against…