Ao longo das duas últimas décadas o Reality TV obteve enorme sucesso comercial e de audiência, quetem motivado estudos em diferentes áreas acadêmicas. O propósito deste estudo é identificar dimensões variação lexical (BERBER SARDINHA, 2014b) dos shows Norte-americanos. corpus do – uma amostra extraída Corpus of American shows, composta por 260 textos 13 tipos diferentes, totalizando mais dois m...

Mastering the development of software having the required quality level is a complex task. Since 1968, the software engineering discipline has grown in order to offer theories, methods and tools to software engineers to tackle this complex task. The role of software engineering educators is to help the learners to acquire competencies in those theories, methods and tools to better master the pr...

How does inequality motivate people and at what cost? In a model of perpetual youth, people have heterogeneous upward-looking aspirations. They value their consumption relative to the conditional mean of those above them in the distribution; their survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working through the aspirations gap...

International comparisons have identified several unique features of the Japanese labor market and its impact on earnings, namely tenure and firm-size effects, and the similarity in the structure of earnings between blueand white-collar workers. One feature which has received relatively less attention is that the rate of return (ROR) to college education in Japan is lower in comparison to her W...

2010 I dedicate this thesis to my family, especially to my mother, who supports me and encourages me throughout my whole life. I would like to thank my supervisor, Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D., for his patience and for his valuable expert advices. Moreover, I really appreciate that my supervisor and one of my friends, Mgr. Pavol Rusnák, provided me with a technical support for development and ...

Total and partial fluorescence yield (PFY) L-edge x-ray absorption spectra differ from the transmission x-ray absorption spectra (XAS) through state-dependent fluorescence yield across the XAS. For 3d to 3d in octahedral symmetry we apply simulations of PFY and XAS and show how the atomic 2p3d Coulomb exchange parameter Gpd governs the differences in the L3/(L2+L3) branching ratio between PFY a...