Inequality, democracy and growth in Brazil : a country at the crossroads of economic development / Marcos Mendes. by Mendes, Marcos

Table of Contents: “…Stylized Fact 3: Tax Increases were not Sufficient to Finance Growing Expenditures and, as a Consequence, Public Sector Savings became Negative -- 1.5.4. …”
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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language 15th International Conference, PROPOR 2022, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 21–23, 2022, Proceedings / edited by Vládia Pinheiro, Pablo...

Table of Contents: “…Resources and Evaluation -- UlyssesNER-Br: a corpus of Brazilian legislative documents for named entity recognition -- A test-suite for the evaluation of Portuguese-English machine translations -- MINT - Mainstream and Independent News Text corpus -- Fakepedia Corpus: a flexible fake news corpus in Portuguese -- A targeted assessment of the syntactic abilities of Transformer models for Galician-Portuguese -- FakeRecogna: A new Brazilian corpus for fake news detection -- Implicit opinion aspect clues in Portuguese texts: analysis and categorization -- CRPC-DB A discourse bank for Portuguese -- Challenges in annotating a treebank of clinical narratives in Brazilian Portuguese -- PetroBERT: a domain adaptation language model for oil and gas applications in Portuguese -- SS-PT: A stance and sentiment data set from Portuguese quoted tweets -- Natural Language Processing Tasks -- ZeroBERTo - leveraging zero-shot text classification by topic modeling -- Banking regulation classification in Portuguese -- Automatic information extraction: a distant reading of the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary -- Automatic recognition of units of measurement in product descriptions from tax invoices using neural networks -- Entity extraction from Portuguese legal documents using distant supervision -- Sexist hate speech: identifying potential online verbal violence instances -- Book genre classification based on reviews of Portuguese-language Literature -- Combining word embeddings for Portuguese named entity recognition -- BERT for sentiment analysis: pre-trained and fine-tuned alternatives -- Fostering judiciary applications with new fine-tuned models for Legal Named Entity recognition in Portuguese -- Natural Language Processing Applications -- Using topic modeling in classification of Brazilian lawsuits -- PortNOIE: A neural framework for Open Information Extraction for the Portuguese language -- Tracking environmental policy changes in the Brazilian Federal Official Gazette -- A transfer learning analysis of political leaning classification in cross-domain content -- Integrating question answering and text-to-SQL in Portuguese -- Named Entity Extractors for new domains by Transfer Learning with automatically annotated data -- PTT5-Paraphraser: Diversity and meaning fidelity in automatic Portuguese paraphrasing -- Speech Processing and Applications -- A protocol for comparing gesture and prosodic boundaries in multimodal corpora -- Forced phonetic alignment in Brazilian Portuguese using time-delay neural networks -- Brazilian Portuguese speech recognition using Wav2Vec 2.0 -- A corpus of neutral voice speech in Brazilian Portuguese -- Comparing lexical and usage frequencies of palatal segments in Portuguese -- Lexical Semantics -- Extracting valences from a dependency treebank for populating the verb lexicon of a Portuguese HPSG grammar -- CQL grammars for lexical and semantic information extraction for Portuguese and Italian -- Drilling Lexico-Semantic Knowledge in Portuguese from BERT -- Short Papers -- The systematic construction of multiple types of corpora through the Lapelinc Framework -- Revisiting CCNET for quality measurements in Galician -- Identifying literary characters in Portuguese: Challenges of an international shared task -- Should I buy or should I pass: e-commerce datasets in Portuguese -- Best MsC/MA & PhD Dissertation -- Abstract meaning representation parsing for the Brazilian Portuguese language -- Enriching Portuguese word embeddings with visual information.-.…”
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Economic and Financial Analysis for Engineering and Project Management / Abol Ardalan. by Ardalan, Abol

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The art of giving : where the soul meets a business plan / Charles Bronfman, Jeffrey Solomon ; foreword by James Wolfensohn. by Bronfman, Charles, 1931-

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A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund Berntsen, Erik. by Berntsen, Erik, Thompson, John

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Rattiner's Secrets of Financial Planning Rattiner, Jeffrey. by Rattiner, Jeffrey

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AI in Business: Opportunities and Limitations Volume 2 / edited by Reem Khamis, Amina Buallay.

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Magento 2 Cookbook. by Bogman, Ray, Kerkhoff, Vladimir

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The World's First Rooftop Farm Mohamed Hage / Paper tiger television.

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Political concepts / edited by Richard Bellamy and Andrew Mason.

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Congress How It Works / Educational Video Group.

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Teaching Tools for Macroeconomics, Government, and International Trade ABC News Productions.

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The National Dance Center Architectures-Achievements in Modern Architecture / ARTE France.

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Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings / Patrick A. Gaughan. by Gaughan, Patrick A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Managing Value as an Antitakeover Defense -- Benchmarks of Value -- How the Market Determines Discount Rates -- Valuation of the Target's Equity -- Marketability of the Stock -- Takeovers and Control Premiums -- Valuation of Stock-for-Stock Exchanges -- Shareholder Wealth Effects and Methods of Payment -- Exchange Ratio -- Fixed Number of Shares versus Fixed Value -- Merger Negotiations and Stock Offers: Halliburton vs Baker Hughes -- International Takeovers and Stock-for-Stock Transactions -- Desirable Financial Characteristics of Targets -- Chapter 16 Tax Issues in M & A -- Financial Accounting for M & As -- Taxable versus Tax-Free Transactions -- Tax Consequences of a Stock-for-Stock Exchange -- Asset Basis Step-Up -- Changes in the Tax Laws -- Role of Taxes in the Merger Decision -- Role of Taxes in the Choice of Sell-Off Method -- Organizational Form and M & A Premiums -- Capital Structure and Propensity to Engage in Acquisitions -- Leverage and Deal Structure -- Taxes as a Source of Value in Management Buyouts -- Miscellaneous Tax Issues -- Glossary -- Index -- EULA.…”
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Regional Economic Analysis of Power, Elections, and Secession edited by Moriki Hosoe.

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Judging Bertha Wilson : Law as Large as Life. by Anderson, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History -- FOREWORD: Bertha Wilson -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: The Preparatory Years: Life before the Bench -- 1 Growing Up: Daughter, Sister, and Student -- Family Life -- Church and School -- University Studies: War and Romance -- 2 The Clergyman's Wife -- Macduff: An Education for Living -- Conscience and Compromise -- On the Boundary: Immigration to Canada -- Ottawa on Her Own -- 3 Diligence at Dalhousie -- Sopping It Up: The Law Student as Sponge -- Classroom and Curriculum -- Social Life and Study Group -- Graduation and Articles -- 4 The Osler Innovations -- Establishing a Research Practice -- From Family Firm to Corporate Culture -- Developing Philanthropy: A Conservative Socialist at Work -- Courtroom Strategy: Texas Gulf Sulphur -- The Conscience of the Firm -- Public Commitments, Private Life -- PART TWO: On the Bench: The Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada -- 5 The Ontario Court of Appeal -- Appointment to the Court of Appeal -- On-the-Job Training: Making a Place -- Criminal Law: A Provocative Dissent -- Commercial Law: Consistency and Contextuality -- All in the Family -- The Human Rights Cases -- The Supreme Sacrifice -- 6 A Canadian Philosophy of Judicial Analysis -- Origins and Sources: The Personal and the Public -- Principled Contextuality -- The Charter: Principled Contextuality, National Feeling -- 7 The Supreme Court of Canada -- Inside the Court -- 8 Diversity at the Margins -- Multiculturalism: Theories of Human Rights -- Adverse Effects and Undue Hardship -- Immigration: Liberty and Security of the Person -- Freedom of Religion -- Wrongful Dismissal -- Equality, Citizenship, and Analogous Grounds -- Mandatory Retirement -- Minority Language Rights -- Aboriginal Law Developments.…”
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Land use policy / Alexander C. Denman and Oliver M. Penrod, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Higher Reliance on Local FeesHigher Reliance on State Personal Income and Corporate Income Tax; Presence of Federal Estate (Death) Tax; 4. …”
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Trends in Mathematical, Information and Data Sciences A Tribute to Leandro Pardo / edited by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, María Ángeles Gil, Nirian Martín, Domingo Morales, María de...

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Dividends and dividend policy / [edited by] H. Kent Baker.

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The value of debt in retirement : why everything you have been told is wrong / Thomas J. Anderson. by Anderson, Thomas J. (Certified investment management analyst)

Table of Contents: “…Some Brief Preliminaries: Income versus Incoming MoneyThe Websters: A Tale That Taxes the Imagination; Your De Facto Tax Advisor; An Inconvenient Truth; How to Pay Almost No Taxes in Retirement: A Few More Examples; Everyday Example #5: "Auto" You Not Be Sure You Are Getting the Best Loan?…”
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