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Gesta Federici I imperatoris in Lombardia auct. cive mediolanensi (Annales mediolanenses maiores)

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TRANSFORMAÇÃO MÍSTICA NA RELIGIÃO DO APÓSTOLO PAULO A recepção do Moisés glorificado em 2º Coríntios na perspectiva da experiência religiosa

Esta tese é um estudo do conceito de transformação místico-apocalíptica na perspectiva da experiência religiosa e que tem como objeto o caso paulino. As pesquisas sobre Paulo Apóstolo geralmente acompanham a abordagem tradicional que o vê como pensador e teólogo. Mas, em sintonia com algumas obras do passado e especialmente as mais recentes sobre Paulo em relação à apocalíptica e misticismo judaicos, esta tese desenvolve uma análise na perspectiva da experiência religiosa. Considerando a tradição de ascensão visionária como quadro de plausibilidade, é apresentada uma análise dos relatos de ascensão da literatura judaica antiga, com destaque para Moisés, aqui comparado com a recepção paulina do Moisés transformado em 2º Coríntios. O resultado da pesquisa foi que a literatura judaica antiga testemunha um padrão de transformação proléptica em ascensão celestial que fazia parte das crenças e práticas religiosas. A linguagem usada por Paulo em 2º Coríntios, notoriamente no capítulo 3, demonstra que ele estava envolvido em tais crenças e práticas, ainda que com conotações próprias. O Moisés transformado de face gloriosa de Êxodo 34, que foi recebido pelas tradições judaicas como um viajante celestial, o que era corrente nos tempos paulinos, é o foco de Paulo em 2º Coríntios 3. Para Paulo, sua condição é superior à de Moisés porque ele tem acesso livre e permane nte à gloria de Deus, acesso esse estendido a seus correligionários e que resulta em processo de transformação proléptica. Também porque seu evangelho é uma revelação cristológica divina última superior ao que foi revelado a Moisés no Sinai. Este acesso livre e permanente que inclui esta transformação antecipada se dá em termos de cultos extáticos de natureza visionária.(AU)

Techniques for automated taxonomy building: towards ontologies for knowledge management

Ontologies have become widely accepted as the main method for representing knowledge in Knowledge Management (KM) applica-tions. Given the continuous and rapid change and dynamic nature of knowledge in all fields, automated methods for construct-ing ontologies are of great importance. All ontologies or taxonomies currently in use have been hand built and require consider-able manpower to keep up to date. Taxono-mies are less logically rigorous than ontolo-gies, and in this paper we consider the re-quirements for a system which automatically constructed taxonomies. There are a number of potentially useful methods for construct-ing hierarchically organised concepts from a collection of texts and there are a number of automatic methods which permit one to as-sociate one word with another. The impor-tant issue for the successful development of this research area is to identify techniques for labelling the relation between two candi-date terms, if one exists. We consider a number of possible approaches and argue that the majority are unsuitable for our re-quirements.

An incremental tri-partite approach to ontology learning

In this paper we present a new approach to ontology learning. Its basis lies in a dynamic and iterative view of knowledge acquisition for ontologies. The Abraxas approach is founded on three resources, a set of texts, a set of learning patterns and a set of ontological triples, each of which must remain in equilibrium. As events occur which disturb this equilibrium various actions are triggered to re-establish a balance between the resources. Such events include acquisition of a further text from external resources such as the Web or the addition of ontological triples to the ontology. We develop the concept of a knowledge gap between the coverage of an ontology and the corpus of texts as a measure triggering actions. We present an overview of the algorithm and its functionalities.

Data envelopment analysis and performance management

4th International Symposium of DEA, 5th-6th September 2004, Birmingham (UK)

Multinational firms, productivity and employment

Over the last three decades foreign direct investment (FDI) has become the most visible driver of globalisation. It has grown faster than world output and international trade and now reports world annual flows exceeding 1,000 billion US dollars. In this period, Germany has undergone significant changes in order to play an important role in the globalisation process. Apart from being a member state of the European Union (EU) whose key feature is the free flow of trade, investment and labour, the re-unification of East and West Germany in 1990 has been a significant development. This in effect has meant that East Germany as well as other Eastern European nations opened up to foreign investment for the first time. In this period, Germany has attracted in excess of 10 per cent of inward FDI into the EU and invested around 15 per cent of all FDI in the EU. This thesis explores empirically the potential impact of FDI on firms operating in and investing from Germany over a ten year period. Using panel data at the firm-level it concentrates on three areas relating to FDI. Firstly, it considers whether foreign-owned firms are more productive than German multinational firms and German non-multinational firms. Secondly, the thesis considers the impact of German investments abroad on domestic productivity. Finally, employment effects emanating from outward high-tech FDI are estimated for the leading OECD (Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, namely Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Japan. The findings of the first analysis indicate that while foreign-owned firms are generally more productive than German non-multinationals, there is no clear cut difference between foreign-owned firms and German multinationals. These differences would not have been uncovered, had the analysis compared foreign firms with all domestic firms. Equally, location within Germany is also important, as this productivity gap is more pronounced for firms which are located in the Eastern states. The findings of the second analysis suggest that engaging in outward FDI has an overall positive effect on the parent firm's productivity at home. Finally, results of the third analysis show that an expansion of high-tech offshoring activities by OECD multinationals (MNEs) is not associated with any reduction in employment at home.