Defending friends : Robert Codrington, George Sarawia and Edward Wogale

Friendship between nineteenth century missionary anthropologists and their converted cultural mentors was central to the gathering of cultural and linguistic information. This chapter traces the friendship between Anglican missionary/anthropologist, Robert Codrington, and brothers George Sarawia - first Melanesian priest - and Edward Wogale - deacon. Codrington's theological perspective on Melanesians and his close friendships with the pupils of the Melanesian Mission School at Norfolk Island allowed him to resist the increasing racialism of Atlantic science in the late nineteenth century and to challenge the evolutionist anthropology of the 1870s and 1880s. The chapter is based, in part, on a cache of letters from Wogale and Sarawia to Codrington written in Mota, the lingua franca of the Anglican Mission.

Letters to a young scientist by Edward O. Wilson : interview

I am an early- to mid-career researcher, and Letters to a Young Scientist struck a chord with me from the very first page. The journey from amateur enthusiast to professional scientist is an exciting, challenging and often difficult one, and Edward Wilson - a Pulitzer prizewinner and one of the world's greatest entomologists - is well qualified to guide and advise the new generation. Written as a collection of letters filled with anecdotes and well-considered advice, this book is inspired by the author's experience of the journey from being a young boy enthused by ants to an eminent scholar. Like many in his field, Wilson's education began when he was a child fascinated by insects in the garden (my own summers spent excavating ant nests feel somewhat validated). He traces his progression through formal education to the establishment of his own scientific research programme.

O efeito de mecanismos de sistema de apoio a decisão pela web (sad-web) nas decisões de compra online

A crescente adoção da WEB para a realização de transações entre organizações e indivíduos aumenta consideravelmente a quantidade de informações disponíveis para tomada de decisão nas mais variadas circunstâncias. É de se esperar que o uso das tecnologias de auxílio à decisão possam contribuir para facilitar o processo de escolha, particularmente no que diz respeito às escolhas por produtos para consumo. Na busca para usufruir do maior número possível de elementos no processo decisório, indivíduos delegam parte da tarefa de organizar os dados dispersos na WEB a agregadores de informação que estabelecem com eles uma relação de confiança e possibilitam que seja considerada uma quantidade de variáveis muito superior à que eles seriam capazes de fazer isoladamente. Juntado a este fenômeno o conhecimento prévio dos indivíduos com relação a produtos e seus fornecedores, este trabalho propõe, por meio da combinação de dados de registros de navegação e percepção de consumidores, um modelo de explicação dos diversos elementos envolvidos no processo de confiança na decisão de compra com uso de interface interativa disponível pela WEB (SAD-WEB) representada por website de comparação de preços.

Modelagem de distorções entre sad 69 e sirgas 2000 pelo método de shepard e grades regulares

Brazil follows the tendency of some countries to update and/or review their fundamental geodetic network. The adoption of geocentric referentials like SIRGAS 2000, the new official reference system of the Geodetic Brazilian System has been an advance. Changes in referential implies in coordinates changes on the network stations as well as the network geometry. To make use of analogical and digital products which are already known in the old referentials are necessary approaches to the coordinate conversion, which minimize the distortions between the used reference frames. This paper presents a distortion modeling approach between reference frames, based on distortion grid generation by using the Shepard's method. To analyze the approach some experiments were performed with the generation of a 1 degrees x1 degrees distortion grid to model the distortions between SAD 69 (1996) and SIRGAS (2000) frames. The results in the test stations were promising, with an average reduction of 50% in the RMS coordinates after the distortions modeling.

O zoológico existencialista de Edward Albee

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

Genealogia de uma operação historiográfica: as apropriações dos pensamentos de Edward Palmer Thompson e de Michel Foucault pelos historiadores brasileiros na década de 1980

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)