De ate a furor : la secularización de la intervención divina en el Hercvles fvrens de Séneca

La presente comunicación tiene como objeto indagar en la secularización del concepto de ate, entendido como la exaltación divina del héroe trágico, y su conversión en furor, en la tragedia Hercules furens, del filósofo latino Lucio Anneo Seneca. Para entender la especificidad de la intervención divina en el Hercules, se analiza la expresión de este fenómeno en el Áyax sofocleo y la vecindad que este último héroe demuestra en relación con los personajes homéricos, para, finalmente, concluir las diferencias funcionales que la emergencia de los dioses -y, en particular, el mandato divino- tiene en la estructuración dramática de la tragedia senecana. Con la remisión tanto a Homero como a Sófocles y Eurípides se pretende dar somera cuenta del tránsito que convierte un problema formal y divino, en uno eventual y humano.

The Risk of Using the Q Heterogeneity Estimator for Software Engineering Experiments

All meta-analyses should include a heterogeneity analysis. Even so, it is not easy to decide whether a set of studies are homogeneous or heterogeneous because of the low statistical power of the statistics used (usually the Q test). Objective: Determine a set of rules enabling SE researchers to find out, based on the characteristics of the experiments to be aggregated, whether or not it is feasible to accurately detect heterogeneity. Method: Evaluate the statistical power of heterogeneity detection methods using a Monte Carlo simulation process. Results: The Q test is not powerful when the meta-analysis contains up to a total of about 200 experimental subjects and the effect size difference is less than 1. Conclusions: The Q test cannot be used as a decision-making criterion for meta-analysis in small sample settings like SE. Random effects models should be used instead of fixed effects models. Caution should be exercised when applying Q test-mediated decomposition into subgroups.

Revisiting the synthetic control estimator

The synthetic control (SC) method has been recently proposed as an alternative to estimate treatment effects in comparative case studies. The SC relies on the assumption that there is a weighted average of the control units that reconstruct the potential outcome of the treated unit in the absence of treatment. If these weights were known, then one could estimate the counterfactual for the treated unit using this weighted average. With these weights, the SC would provide an unbiased estimator for the treatment effect even if selection into treatment is correlated with the unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we revisit the SC method in a linear factor model where the SC weights are considered nuisance parameters that are estimated to construct the SC estimator. We show that, when the number of control units is fixed, the estimated SC weights will generally not converge to the weights that reconstruct the factor loadings of the treated unit, even when the number of pre-intervention periods goes to infinity. As a consequence, the SC estimator will be asymptotically biased if treatment assignment is correlated with the unobserved heterogeneity. The asymptotic bias only vanishes when the variance of the idiosyncratic error goes to zero. We suggest a slight modification in the SC method that guarantees that the SC estimator is asymptotically unbiased and has a lower asymptotic variance than the difference-in-differences (DID) estimator when the DID identification assumption is satisfied. If the DID assumption is not satisfied, then both estimators would be asymptotically biased, and it would not be possible to rank them in terms of their asymptotic bias.

Compêndio histórico-político dos princípios da lavoura do Maranhão, suas producc̜oens, e progressos, que tem tido até ao prezente, entraves que a vão deteriorando; e meios que tem lembrado para desvanece-los, em augmento da mesma lavoura, e sem prejuizo do real patrimonio,

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Data base analyzer and parameter estimator (DBAPE) interactive computer program user's manual /

Mode of access: Internet.

The architect's estimator and cost reference guide.

Mode of access: Internet.

Diccionario da lingua portugueza : recopilado dos vocabularios impressos ate' agora.

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Portuguezes nos concilios geraes : isto he, Relação dos embaixadores, prelados e doutores portuguezes que tem assistido nos concilios geraes do Occidente, desdos primeros lateranenses ate' o novissimo tridentino /

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Sermões do doutor Francisco Fernandes Galvam ... Primeira Parte ... : Que começa de quarta feira de Cinza ate a primeira oitaua de Pascoa ... /

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Memorias chronologicas e criticas para a historia da cirurgia moderna ou Noticia dos principaes progressos, revoluçoens, descobrimentos, seytas, privilegios, Academias, obras impressas, e varoens famosos da cirurgia, desde a conquista de Constantinopla pelos turcos, ate o tempo prezente /

Mode of access: Internet.

The new Building estimator : a practical guide to estimating the cost of labor and material in building construction, from excavation to finish; with various practical examples of work presented in detail, and with labor figured chiefly in hours and quantities. A handbook for architects, builders, contractors, appraisers, engineers, superintendents and draftsmen /

Mode of access: Internet.

The lumber estimator : Board and surface measure contents of fractional sizes of lumber, specially arranged for rapid estimating of contents of stock used in manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, door and window frames, interior and exterior finish, furniture, boxes, veneers, etc., etc. /

p. 113, advertising matter.