This article reflects our experience with the preservation of computer programs that once served a scientific purpose, but were not maintained since then. After producing results, published in scientific journals in the 70’s, 80’s and begin 90’s, they were stored provisionally on some kind of persistent medium and are at present restored to current state of the art hardware. We constructed an a...

Language users never choose words randomly, and language is essentially non-random. Statistical hypothesis testing uses a null hypothesis, which posits randomness. Hence, when we look at linguistic phenomena in corpora, the null hypothesis will never be true. Moreover, where there is enough data, we shall (almost) always be able to establish that it is not true. In corpus studies, we frequently...

Facing an increasing violence level and higher firepower in the hands of criminal organizations (especially those related to drug trafficking), the Military Police of Pernambuco has created, in 1989, the "1a Companhia Independente de Operações Especiais" (1st Independent Company of Special Operations), as a tactical last resort of the Police to be used on special, complex situations. The CIOE p...