This paper proposes to analyse the discursive construction of Portuguese national identity in the semi-public (media) discourse, namely how two apparently competing discourses on national identity (that of the elite and that of laypeople) represent and reframe the country’s national identity. I am interested in how these different types of participants coconstruct and negotiate (national) ident...

Whilst the growing number of identity management systems have the potential to reduce the threat of identity attacks, major deployment problems remain because of the lack of interoperability between such systems. In this paper we propose a novel, simple scheme to provide interoperability between two of the most widely discussed identity management systems, namely CardSpace and OpenID. In this s...

Whilst the growing number of identity management systems have the potential to reduce the threat of identity attacks, major deployment problems remain because of the lack of interoperability between such systems. In this paper we propose a scheme to provide interoperability between two widely discussed identity systems, namely Shibboleth and an Information Card system such as CardSpace or Higgi...

Identity management is critical to various organizational practices ranging from citizen services to crime investigation. The task of searching for a specific identity is difficult because multiple identity representations may exist due to issues related to unintentional errors and intentional deception. In this study we propose a probabilistic relational model (PRM) based approach to match ide...

After more than a century since its birth, Quantum Theory still eludes our under1 standing. If asked to describe it, we have to resort to abstract and ad hoc principles about 2 complex Hilbert spaces. How is it possible that a fundamental physical theory cannot be de3 scribed using the ordinary language of Physics? Here we offer a contribution to the problem, 4 providing a short non-technical p...

The view that academic writing is purely objective, impersonal and informational, which is often reflected in English for Academic Purposes materials, has been criticized by a number of researchers. By now, the view of academic writing as embodying interaction among writers, readers and the academic community as a whole has been established. Following this assumption, the present study focused ...

ABSTRACT Advances in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a cornerstone structure elucidation of polycyclic 'cage' scaffolds. Due to the compactness these compounds, much overlap, as well unique through-space and bond NMR interactions are frequently observed. This review serves guide for future derivatives by providing some typical relevant aspects characteristic trends, substituent...