Patrimônio natural

[Architectural and documental heritage: references on the institutionalization of health care in Bahia and in Brazil].

O livro História da Saúde na Bahia: instituições e patrimônio arquitetônico (1808-1958) é fruto do “Inventário do patrimônio cultural da saúde: bens edificados e acervos”, um projeto desenvolvido pela Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz e pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia e apresenta o estudo e a identificação do patrimônio arquitetônico e documental de ho...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Natural Language and Natural Selection

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that language may have evolved as the by-product of selection for other abilities or as a consequence of as-yet unknown laws of growth and form. Others have argued that a biological specialization for grammar is incompatible with every ten...

Towards Natural Natural Language Processing

An essay about mimicking some aspects of language processing in our heads, using information fusion and competing patterns.

Natural Pragmatics and Natural Codes

Grice (1957) drew a famous distinction between natural(N) and non-natural(NN) meaning, where what is meant(NN) is broadly equivalent to what is intentionally communicated. This paper argues that Grice’s dichotomy overlooks the fact that spontaneously occurring natural signs may be intentionally shown , and hence used in intentional communication. It also argues that some naturally occurring beh...