Minority Report

of ‘best practices’ for measuring grammatical acceptability. In this chapter, we aim to introduce some of the methods that are commonly used in research on morphosyntactic variation. As a second step, we will put these instruments to the test and report on some findings from a recent study which set out to investigate the extent to which these methods produce reliable, consistent and therefore comparable results. By doing so, we hope to demonstrate that tapping into native-speaker…

The purpose of this work is to observe the impact of electoral competition in ideas PT - Workers' Party in Brazil and PS - Socialist Party in Chile and continuous act analyze the impacts of these ideas in the social policies of those governments. Reports the changes in the two parties regarding the internal policies of these parties and government programs in the elections of 1989 and 2006. Brings to light the social policies of Lula3 and Lagos 4 through social spending and the health,…

control over security threats is as old as accounting itself (Henry, 1997); however, it has only attracted attention since the beginning of the twentieth century. In early ages, the purpose of accounting was to record the monetary transactions and then report them in useful and accurate forms (Lee, 1971). However, that reporting was simple and prepared only for internal use because most companies were individual or family companies. Later, these primary forms of financial reporting…

um crime? Podemos afirmar com 100% de certeza, que ele vai cometer um crime algum dia? A resposta é não, apesar de alta probabilidade, afinal, a policia não conta com paranormais capazes de visualizar o crime antes de acontecer, como no filme Minority Report. E ainda que ela contasse com eles, não teria provas que a permitisse prender o suspeito. 3.1 Pré-crime Mas a prevenção não se limita totalmente à ficção científica. Na Inglaterra existe um projeto piloto em andamento: o Programa…

Luke Harris & Uma Narayan, “Affirmative Action and nadá, Andrews v. Law Society of British the Myth of Preferential Treatment: A Transformative Columbia, 2.2.1989, RCS, p. 143, Dominion Law Critique of the Terms of the Affirmative Action De- Reports, 56, 4d, p. 1). bate”, 11 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 1 (1994); Deborah Hellman, “Two Types of Discrimination: 12 V. Freeman, Legitimizing Racial Discrimi- The Familiar and lhe Forgotten”, 86 California Law nation Through…

Referências 1. Wild S, Roglic G, Green A, Sicree R, King H. Global prevalence of diabetes. Estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030. Diabetes Care. 2004; 27(5):1047-53. 2. World Health Organization. The World Health Organization Report 2002: reducing risks, promoting healthy life. Geneve, WHO, 2002. 3. Malerbi D, Franco LJ; the Brazilian Cooperative Group on the Study of Diabetes Prevalence. Multicenter study of the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired…

literacia Matemática Teste PISA literacia Ciências Fonte: 1 Valores para todos os países obtidos em World Indicators, ITU, http://www.itu.int/itunews/issue/2002/04/table4.html. 2 Valores para todos os países obtidos no relatório UNDP Human Development Report 2004. 3 Valores obtidos por Netcraft em Dezembro de 2001: http://www.atkearney.com/shared_res/pdf/Secure_servers_ 2002_S.pdf. Quadro 2.2 Comparações internacionais no domínio da tecnologia de informação Eslováquia Infra-estrutura…

mirror, because the legitimacy and credibility of journalists is based on the social belief that the news reflects the fact that journalists are impartial due to compliance with professional standards and ensure the work to gather information and report the facts, being simple intermediaries that ‘reproduce’ the event in the news. (TRAQUINA, 2001, p.68; our translation) But it is known by the professionals that this theory provides insufficient explanations to rely only on it.…

ponto anterior concluiu-se que os processos de insolvência em Portugal demoravam (e ainda demoram), em média, bastante tempo a ser resolvidos. Esta situação tem consequências económico-financeiras muito importantes para os investidores. Segundo o “Report of the expert group a second chance for entrepreneurs” (Direção Geral das Empresas e da Indústria, 2011) uma vez iniciado o processo de insolvência em tribunal, este deve ser rápido, rentável e ser capaz de manter um valor razoável…

Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, with respect to the extinction of the institute of legal separation, how to analyze the doctrinal advances and achievements that has as main objective the right to freedom and respect the dignity the human person. Report the changes brought about by the proposed constitutional amendment of Divorce, which provides for the extinction of separation as a requirement for divorce. Introduced Law No. 6.515/1977, advances after the effective date of the…