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Saul Kripke (1980, 112–4) has claimed that there are necessary connections between material things and their material origins. His presentation of such necessity of origin theses included two paradigmatic examples: that it is impossible for a particular table to have been constructed from any hunk of matter other than that from which it was actually constructed, or for a particular human being ...

The Brazilian National System of Graduate Studies currently has 2,748 Courses/Programs distributed in nine major areas: Agricultural Sciences, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Earth and Exact Sciences, Humanities, Applied Social Sciences, Engineering, Linguistics, Arts and Letters, and Interdisciplinary Sciences. The major area of Health has the greatest number of Courses/Programs (n = 452...

1 Institute of Telecommunications 1 This report is to give an overview over the recent activities in teaching and research at the Institute of Telecommunications at Vienna University of Technology. The reporting period 2009—2013 was one of profound changes: after I became head of institute in 2010, we implemented the merger with the former Institute of Broadband Communications – because of the ...

We present Zeus, an environment designed to aid in the creation of a repository of digital theses. Zeus is an asynchronous cooperative toolset which allows the revision and annotation of digital theses over the Internet. With Zeus, students working on their theses (and their academic committees) are provided with a highly personalizable environment which simplifies the process of reviewing elec...