1.° Statuta villae Montispessulani, edita anno 1205. — 2.° Sommaire des choses historiales qui concernent les faits de la ville de Montpellier, depuis l'an 1204. jusques à l'an 1502

Colbertinus

« Compte[s] premier [et II à V] de Me Jaques Bourdin, notaire et secretaire du Roy,... commis à faire le paiement de la somme de 50.000 liv. t. par an, que ledit seigneur a ordonnée estre payée au roy d'Angleterre... » (1502-1506).

Contient : « Compte[s] premier [II et III] de Jehan Duprat, commis par le Roy... à faire le paiement de la somme de 50.000 liv. t. par an... au roy d'Angleterre... » (1510-1512)

Vocabulari català-alemany de l'any 1502,

Mode of access: Internet.

Der Bundschuh im Bistum Speyer vom Jahre 1502.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Greifswald.

A Capitania-mor do Mar da Índia : 1502-1564

A presente dissertação pretende compreender as origens e a actividade associada à capitania-mor do mar da Índia, considerado o segundo cargo mais relevante da estrutura político-militar do Estado Português da Índia, desde 1502 a 1564. Este cargo, transferido do reino para a Índia, ainda nos primórdios da presença portuguesa, em 1502, visou assegurar os interesses da Coroa na Ásia. Após a nomeação do primeiro vice-rei para a Índia, D. Francisco de Almeida, em 1505, este ofício foi desde logo disputado e requerido pelos governadores subsequentes. Na maioria das vezes era-lhes concedida a possibilidade de indicarem ao soberano quem pretendiam ao seu lado, para os auxiliar na realização do plano de expansão gizado pela Coroa. No entanto, ao monarca assistia a palavra final. Procuramos saber quem foram os oficiais que ocuparam a capitania e compreender que espaço era esse “Mar da Índia”. Considerado o controlo do mar como a base da afirmação e alargamento da presença portuguesa na Ásia, de acordo com os planos de expansão de D. Manuel I e D. João III, é relevante percebermos qual foi a área de autoridade desta capitania. Se o espaço é relevante, também as embarcações o são, por isso, tentamos perceber que tipos de embarcações faziam parte das armadas associadas a este ofício. Após o entendimento sobre o espaço e as embarcações, foi relevante percebermos os critérios da nomeação e as funções inerentes, as quais eram, sobretudo, do foro político-militar. Todavia, os poderes outorgados à capitania, de natureza marítima, foram por vezes alargados às praças portuguesas do Estado da Índia. Percepcionar de que forma e para que fins essa autoridade se ampliou também foi motivo de discussão. Compreender o estatuto social e o impacto do cargo nas trajectórias individuais, foram aspectos que foram tidos em linha de conta ao longo do nosso estudo. Tentamos igualmente avançar com hipóteses explicativas sobre o fim deste cargo. Com este estudo pretendemos compreender como a capitania-mor do mar da Índia fez parte do funcionamento da cúpula político-militar do Estado Português da Índia, ao longo de mais de meio século, como elemento estabilizador. Constatamos que o capitão-mor do mar também foi usado pelo rei, com o intuito de controlar o governador em funções.

Factors affecting marketing decision making with an ethical content : collusive tendering in the construction contract market

Reports of immoral marketing practices i n the construction industry attract political, media and public but not much academic interest. This paper adopts a behavioural perspective and proposes a model for applying marketing ethics concepts and methods in the study of collusion in the construction contract market. An extensive multidisciplinary review of existing literature identified a lack of adequate conceptualisation of the mechanisms and decision making factors of collusive tendering. The process of developing the model is detailed in this paper. The objectives and methodology of the research project that tested the model are also outlined. The paper concludes with a brief note on the contributions and application of the proposed model.

Would you like data with that? Library provision of financial datasets

Within the QUT Business School (QUTBS)– researchers across economics, finance and accounting depend on data driven research. They analyze historic and global financial data across a range of instruments to understand the relationships and effects between them as they respond to news and events in their region. Scholars and Higher Degree Research Students in turn seek out universities which offer these particular datasets to further their research. This involves downloading and manipulating large datasets, often with a focus on depth of detail, frequency and long tail historical data. This is stock exchange data and has potential commercial value therefore the license for access tends to be very expensive. This poster reports the following findings: •The library has a part to play in freeing up researchers from the burden of negotiating subscriptions, fundraising and managing the legal requirements around license and access. •The role of the library is to communicate the nature and potential of these complex resources across the university to disciplines as diverse as Mathematics, Health, Information Systems and Creative Industries. •Has demonstrated clear concrete support for research by QUT Library and built relationships into faculty. It has made data available to all researchers and attracted new HDRs. The aim is to reach the output threshold of research outputs to submit into FOR Code 1502 (Banking, Finance and Investment) for ERA 2015. •It is difficult to identify what subset of dataset will be obtained given somewhat vague price tiers. •The integrity of data is variable as it is limited by the way it is collected, this occasionally raises issues for researchers(Cook, Campbell, & Kelly, 2012) •Improved library understanding of the content of our products and the nature of financial based research is a necessary part of the service.

Second-order quantile methods for experts and combinatorial games

We aim to design strategies for sequential decision making that adjust to the difficulty of the learning problem. We study this question both in the setting of prediction with expert advice, and for more general combinatorial decision tasks. We are not satisfied with just guaranteeing minimax regret rates, but we want our algorithms to perform significantly better on easy data. Two popular ways to formalize such adaptivity are second-order regret bounds and quantile bounds. The underlying notions of 'easy data', which may be paraphrased as "the learning problem has small variance" and "multiple decisions are useful", are synergetic. But even though there are sophisticated algorithms that exploit one of the two, no existing algorithm is able to adapt to both. In this paper we outline a new method for obtaining such adaptive algorithms, based on a potential function that aggregates a range of learning rates (which are essential tuning parameters). By choosing the right prior we construct efficient algorithms and show that they reap both benefits by proving the first bounds that are both second-order and incorporate quantiles.