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1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Angiotensin Converting Enzyme, Automated commercial environment2) Компьютерная техника: Artificial Compound Entity, area control error, automatic crossconnection equipment3) Биология: adrenal cortical extract4) Авиация: Airborne Command Element (AWACS/ABCCC)5) Медицина: (i) angiotensin-converting enzyme (inhibitor) (ингибитор ангиотензинпревращающего фермента), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ангиотензинпревращающий фермент), External Carotid Artery6) Спорт: Adventure Camaraderie Entertainment, Annual Catch Entitlement, Athlete Career And Education7) Военный термин: ASAS( All- Source Analysis System) Collateral Enclave, Advance Communications Element, Aerobatic Competency Evaluator, Airborne Command Element, Airborne Communications Electronics, Analysis and Control Element, Armored Combat Earth-mover, Armored Combat Excavator, Army Certificate of Education, Army Combat Earth-mover, Army Corps of Engineers, Army combat engineers, Assistant Chief of Engineers, Assistant Corps of Engineers, Aviation Career Education, Aviation Combat Element, Aviation Council Emeritus, advanced compilation equipment, advanced controlled experiments, advanced cost effective, air combat engagement, aircraft capability estimator, aircraft condition evaluation, airspace control element, ambush communications equipment, armored combat earthmover, armored combat engineer, artillery control experiment, assessment of combat effectiveness, atmospheric control experimentation, automatic clutter elimination, automatic computing equipment, automatic control equipment, Airspace Coordination Element (сокр.) (подразделение по координации использования воздушного пространства)8) Техника: Advanced computer environment, Association of Computer Experts, accelerated, acceleration, advanced capability explorer, advanced computing element, altitude control electronics, analytic computer equipment, anesthetic mixture of alcohol, chloroform and ether, attitude control electronics, automatic circuit exchange9) Сельское хозяйство: anaesthetic mixture of alcohol, chloroform and ether10) Химия: Acetate11) Строительство: Approved Capital Expenditure12) Религия: Alliance For Catholic Education13) Юридический термин: Action Community Empowerment, Advanced Court Engineering14) Бухгалтерия: A Checking Experience, Accumulated Cash Equivalence, Adjusted Current Earnings15) Архитектура: (Association of Consulting Engineers) ассоциация инженеров-консультантов (Великобритании)16) Испанский язык: Аргентинская академия экономических наук (сокр. от Academia de Ciencias Económicas = Argentine Academy of Economics)17) Политика: Alliance for Credible Elections (обычно оставляют английскую аббревиатуру при перевода - даже на официальном сайте организации)18) Сокращение: Achinese, Actuator Control Electronics, Advanced Computing Environment (2003 IT upgrade including Microsoft Outlook email), Advanced Computing Environments, After Christian Era, Agile Control Experiment, Air Combat Element (USAF), Air Combat Element, Air Combat-manoeuvres Evaluation, All Composite Evaluator, Allied Command Europe (NATO), Allied Command, Europe, Altimeter Control Equipment, American Council on Education, Analogue Code Encryption unit, Analysis & Control Element, Armored Combat Earthmover (USA), Arrow Continuation Experiment (Israel), Assistant Chief Engineer, Automatic Calibration and Equalization, Automatic Compilation Equipment, Automatic Computing Engine, Avion de Combat Europeen, Adaptive Communication Environment, angiotension-converting enzyme, American Cinema Editors («Американские редакторы — монтажёры кинофильмов » (почётное общество)), Association of Cost Engineers (Ассоциация инженеров по экономической эффективности (Великобритания)), automatic computing engine (автоматическая счётная машина), automated cable expertise (автоматическое диагностирование кабельных линий), Advanced Compatibility Engineering (автомоб.), Adverse Channel Enhancements, Adaptive Color and Contrast Enhancement19) Университет: Academic And Career Excellence, Academic Center For Excellence, Academic Character Excellence, Academic Community For Enrichment, Academic Competition Of Excellence, Academic Core Enrichment, Accelerated College Enrollment, Achievement Centred Environment, Achieving A College Education, Association Of Collegiate Entrepreneurs20) Физиология: Antegrade Continence Enema21) Электроника: Advanced Combination Encoder, Automatic Control Environment, aging compensating effect ( сокр.) (компенсирующее действие старения 2. компенсация старения), advanced customized ECL (сокр.) (усовершенствованная специализированная логическая схема с эмиттерными связями)22) Вычислительная техника: Advanced Collaborative Filtering, Advanced Computing Environment, Associated Computer Experts, Asynchronous Communication Element, advanced computational element, asynchronous communications element, аппаратура управления доступом, записи контроля доступа (Access Control Entries), Access Control Entry (AD), ASCII Compatible Encoding (ASCII, Internet, DOMAIN), Advanced Computing Environments (Corporate name), Advanced Computing Environment (Hersteller), Advanced Composition Explorer (Space), Autonomous Computer Engine (WD), запись (точка входа в список) управления доступом, access control entry, шифрование управления доступом23) Иммунология: Arthritis Control Electrostimulator24) Связь: Auxiliary Control Element25) Космонавтика: Advanced Composition Explorer, автоматическое оборудование проверки26) Транспорт: Active Cornering Enhancement, Air Cleaning Engine, Airport Capacity Enhancement27) Воздухоплавание: Airspace Coordination Element, Automatic Clutter Eliminator28) Фирменный знак: Air Canada Enterprises, Alice Calhoun Enterprises, American Coal Enterprizes, American Computer Estimating, Austin Chess Enterprises, Austria Cards Emv29) Экология: Antarctic current experiment30) Энергетика: ошибка в пределах данной области регулирования31) СМИ: American Cinema Editors, American Classic Edition, Assistant Community Editor, Awards For Cablecasting Excellence32) Деловая лексика: Accepting The Challenge Of Excellence, Access Competition And Etiquette, Access To Career Enrichment, Achieving Customer Excellence33) Производство: Achieving Competitive Excellence, достижение конкурентного совершенства (система непрерывного совершенствования производства, принятая ам. компанией Pratt & Whitney)34) Менеджмент: actual control estimate35) Образование: Academically Committed Environment, Academics Citizenship And Effort, Accelerated Cooperative Education, Achievement Credentials And Evaluation, Achieving And Choosing Excellence, Adult And Community Education, Advanced Continuous Education, Affordable Community Education, Aids Counseling And Education, Aids Counseling Education, Appreciation Certification And Education, Assistance Counseling And Encouragement, Attend Class Everyday, Aviation Career Exploration, Aviation Careers Education36) Сетевые технологии: Access Collaboration Equity, Address Correction And Encoding, access control encryption, access control equipment37) Полимеры: acceptance checkout equipment, automatic checkout equipment38) Программирование: Ascii Compatible Encoding39) Контроль качества: acceptance check-out equipment40) Океанография: Aerosol Characterization Experiment, Atmospheric Collection Equipment41) Химическое оружие: acetylcholinesterase42) Авиационная медицина: accident cause elimination43) Безопасность: Advanced Combination Encoders44) Расширение файла: Access Control Encryption/Entry, Adverse Channel Enhancements (Microcom), Advanced Computing Environment (SCO)45) МИД: Allied Command Europe NATO46) Электротехника: automatic control engineering47) Космический летательный аппарат: advanced capability explorer( сокр.) (исследовательский КА с усовершенствованными характеристиками)48) Майкрософт: элемент управления доступом49) Должность: Adobe Certified Expert, Amx Certified Expert, Associate Career Enhancement, Available Consultants And Executives50) Чат: A Cool Experience51) НАСА: Apollo Checkout Equipment52) Программное обеспечение: The Adobe Color Engine -
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1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Angiotensin Converting Enzyme, Automated commercial environment2) Компьютерная техника: Artificial Compound Entity, area control error, automatic crossconnection equipment3) Биология: adrenal cortical extract4) Авиация: Airborne Command Element (AWACS/ABCCC)5) Медицина: (i) angiotensin-converting enzyme (inhibitor) (ингибитор ангиотензинпревращающего фермента), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ангиотензинпревращающий фермент), External Carotid Artery6) Спорт: Adventure Camaraderie Entertainment, Annual Catch Entitlement, Athlete Career And Education7) Военный термин: ASAS( All- Source Analysis System) Collateral Enclave, Advance Communications Element, Aerobatic Competency Evaluator, Airborne Command Element, Airborne Communications Electronics, Analysis and Control Element, Armored Combat Earth-mover, Armored Combat Excavator, Army Certificate of Education, Army Combat Earth-mover, Army Corps of Engineers, Army combat engineers, Assistant Chief of Engineers, Assistant Corps of Engineers, Aviation Career Education, Aviation Combat Element, Aviation Council Emeritus, advanced compilation equipment, advanced controlled experiments, advanced cost effective, air combat engagement, aircraft capability estimator, aircraft condition evaluation, airspace control element, ambush communications equipment, armored combat earthmover, armored combat engineer, artillery control experiment, assessment of combat effectiveness, atmospheric control experimentation, automatic clutter elimination, automatic computing equipment, automatic control equipment, Airspace Coordination Element (сокр.) (подразделение по координации использования воздушного пространства)8) Техника: Advanced computer environment, Association of Computer Experts, accelerated, acceleration, advanced capability explorer, advanced computing element, altitude control electronics, analytic computer equipment, anesthetic mixture of alcohol, chloroform and ether, attitude control electronics, automatic circuit exchange9) Сельское хозяйство: anaesthetic mixture of alcohol, chloroform and ether10) Химия: Acetate11) Строительство: Approved Capital Expenditure12) Религия: Alliance For Catholic Education13) Юридический термин: Action Community Empowerment, Advanced Court Engineering14) Бухгалтерия: A Checking Experience, Accumulated Cash Equivalence, Adjusted Current Earnings15) Архитектура: (Association of Consulting Engineers) ассоциация инженеров-консультантов (Великобритании)16) Испанский язык: Аргентинская академия экономических наук (сокр. от Academia de Ciencias Económicas = Argentine Academy of Economics)17) Политика: Alliance for Credible Elections (обычно оставляют английскую аббревиатуру при перевода - даже на официальном сайте организации)18) Сокращение: Achinese, Actuator Control Electronics, Advanced Computing Environment (2003 IT upgrade including Microsoft Outlook email), Advanced Computing Environments, After Christian Era, Agile Control Experiment, Air Combat Element (USAF), Air Combat Element, Air Combat-manoeuvres Evaluation, All Composite Evaluator, Allied Command Europe (NATO), Allied Command, Europe, Altimeter Control Equipment, American Council on Education, Analogue Code Encryption unit, Analysis & Control Element, Armored Combat Earthmover (USA), Arrow Continuation Experiment (Israel), Assistant Chief Engineer, Automatic Calibration and Equalization, Automatic Compilation Equipment, Automatic Computing Engine, Avion de Combat Europeen, Adaptive Communication Environment, angiotension-converting enzyme, American Cinema Editors («Американские редакторы — монтажёры кинофильмов » (почётное общество)), Association of Cost Engineers (Ассоциация инженеров по экономической эффективности (Великобритания)), automatic computing engine (автоматическая счётная машина), automated cable expertise (автоматическое диагностирование кабельных линий), Advanced Compatibility Engineering (автомоб.), Adverse Channel Enhancements, Adaptive Color and Contrast Enhancement19) Университет: Academic And Career Excellence, Academic Center For Excellence, Academic Character Excellence, Academic Community For Enrichment, Academic Competition Of Excellence, Academic Core Enrichment, Accelerated College Enrollment, Achievement Centred Environment, Achieving A College Education, Association Of Collegiate Entrepreneurs20) Физиология: Antegrade Continence Enema21) Электроника: Advanced Combination Encoder, Automatic Control Environment, aging compensating effect ( сокр.) (компенсирующее действие старения 2. компенсация старения), advanced customized ECL (сокр.) (усовершенствованная специализированная логическая схема с эмиттерными связями)22) Вычислительная техника: Advanced Collaborative Filtering, Advanced Computing Environment, Associated Computer Experts, Asynchronous Communication Element, advanced computational element, asynchronous communications element, аппаратура управления доступом, записи контроля доступа (Access Control Entries), Access Control Entry (AD), ASCII Compatible Encoding (ASCII, Internet, DOMAIN), Advanced Computing Environments (Corporate name), Advanced Computing Environment (Hersteller), Advanced Composition Explorer (Space), Autonomous Computer Engine (WD), запись (точка входа в список) управления доступом, access control entry, шифрование управления доступом23) Иммунология: Arthritis Control Electrostimulator24) Связь: Auxiliary Control Element25) Космонавтика: Advanced Composition Explorer, автоматическое оборудование проверки26) Транспорт: Active Cornering Enhancement, Air Cleaning Engine, Airport Capacity Enhancement27) Воздухоплавание: Airspace Coordination Element, Automatic Clutter Eliminator28) Фирменный знак: Air Canada Enterprises, Alice Calhoun Enterprises, American Coal Enterprizes, American Computer Estimating, Austin Chess Enterprises, Austria Cards Emv29) Экология: Antarctic current experiment30) Энергетика: ошибка в пределах данной области регулирования31) СМИ: American Cinema Editors, American Classic Edition, Assistant Community Editor, Awards For Cablecasting Excellence32) Деловая лексика: Accepting The Challenge Of Excellence, Access Competition And Etiquette, Access To Career Enrichment, Achieving Customer Excellence33) Производство: Achieving Competitive Excellence, достижение конкурентного совершенства (система непрерывного совершенствования производства, принятая ам. компанией Pratt & Whitney)34) Менеджмент: actual control estimate35) Образование: Academically Committed Environment, Academics Citizenship And Effort, Accelerated Cooperative Education, Achievement Credentials And Evaluation, Achieving And Choosing Excellence, Adult And Community Education, Advanced Continuous Education, Affordable Community Education, Aids Counseling And Education, Aids Counseling Education, Appreciation Certification And Education, Assistance Counseling And Encouragement, Attend Class Everyday, Aviation Career Exploration, Aviation Careers Education36) Сетевые технологии: Access Collaboration Equity, Address Correction And Encoding, access control encryption, access control equipment37) Полимеры: acceptance checkout equipment, automatic checkout equipment38) Программирование: Ascii Compatible Encoding39) Контроль качества: acceptance check-out equipment40) Океанография: Aerosol Characterization Experiment, Atmospheric Collection Equipment41) Химическое оружие: acetylcholinesterase42) Авиационная медицина: accident cause elimination43) Безопасность: Advanced Combination Encoders44) Расширение файла: Access Control Encryption/Entry, Adverse Channel Enhancements (Microcom), Advanced Computing Environment (SCO)45) МИД: Allied Command Europe NATO46) Электротехника: automatic control engineering47) Космический летательный аппарат: advanced capability explorer( сокр.) (исследовательский КА с усовершенствованными характеристиками)48) Майкрософт: элемент управления доступом49) Должность: Adobe Certified Expert, Amx Certified Expert, Associate Career Enhancement, Available Consultants And Executives50) Чат: A Cool Experience51) НАСА: Apollo Checkout Equipment52) Программное обеспечение: The Adobe Color Engine -
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1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Angiotensin Converting Enzyme, Automated commercial environment2) Компьютерная техника: Artificial Compound Entity, area control error, automatic crossconnection equipment3) Биология: adrenal cortical extract4) Авиация: Airborne Command Element (AWACS/ABCCC)5) Медицина: (i) angiotensin-converting enzyme (inhibitor) (ингибитор ангиотензинпревращающего фермента), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ангиотензинпревращающий фермент), External Carotid Artery6) Спорт: Adventure Camaraderie Entertainment, Annual Catch Entitlement, Athlete Career And Education7) Военный термин: ASAS( All- Source Analysis System) Collateral Enclave, Advance Communications Element, Aerobatic Competency Evaluator, Airborne Command Element, Airborne Communications Electronics, Analysis and Control Element, Armored Combat Earth-mover, Armored Combat Excavator, Army Certificate of Education, Army Combat Earth-mover, Army Corps of Engineers, Army combat engineers, Assistant Chief of Engineers, Assistant Corps of Engineers, Aviation Career Education, Aviation Combat Element, Aviation Council Emeritus, advanced compilation equipment, advanced controlled experiments, advanced cost effective, air combat engagement, aircraft capability estimator, aircraft condition evaluation, airspace control element, ambush communications equipment, armored combat earthmover, armored combat engineer, artillery control experiment, assessment of combat effectiveness, atmospheric control experimentation, automatic clutter elimination, automatic computing equipment, automatic control equipment, Airspace Coordination Element (сокр.) (подразделение по координации использования воздушного пространства)8) Техника: Advanced computer environment, Association of Computer Experts, accelerated, acceleration, advanced capability explorer, advanced computing element, altitude control electronics, analytic computer equipment, anesthetic mixture of alcohol, chloroform and ether, attitude control electronics, automatic circuit exchange9) Сельское хозяйство: anaesthetic mixture of alcohol, chloroform and ether10) Химия: Acetate11) Строительство: Approved Capital Expenditure12) Религия: Alliance For Catholic Education13) Юридический термин: Action Community Empowerment, Advanced Court Engineering14) Бухгалтерия: A Checking Experience, Accumulated Cash Equivalence, Adjusted Current Earnings15) Архитектура: (Association of Consulting Engineers) ассоциация инженеров-консультантов (Великобритании)16) Испанский язык: Аргентинская академия экономических наук (сокр. от Academia de Ciencias Económicas = Argentine Academy of Economics)17) Политика: Alliance for Credible Elections (обычно оставляют английскую аббревиатуру при перевода - даже на официальном сайте организации)18) Сокращение: Achinese, Actuator Control Electronics, Advanced Computing Environment (2003 IT upgrade including Microsoft Outlook email), Advanced Computing Environments, After Christian Era, Agile Control Experiment, Air Combat Element (USAF), Air Combat Element, Air Combat-manoeuvres Evaluation, All Composite Evaluator, Allied Command Europe (NATO), Allied Command, Europe, Altimeter Control Equipment, American Council on Education, Analogue Code Encryption unit, Analysis & Control Element, Armored Combat Earthmover (USA), Arrow Continuation Experiment (Israel), Assistant Chief Engineer, Automatic Calibration and Equalization, Automatic Compilation Equipment, Automatic Computing Engine, Avion de Combat Europeen, Adaptive Communication Environment, angiotension-converting enzyme, American Cinema Editors («Американские редакторы — монтажёры кинофильмов » (почётное общество)), Association of Cost Engineers (Ассоциация инженеров по экономической эффективности (Великобритания)), automatic computing engine (автоматическая счётная машина), automated cable expertise (автоматическое диагностирование кабельных линий), Advanced Compatibility Engineering (автомоб.), Adverse Channel Enhancements, Adaptive Color and Contrast Enhancement19) Университет: Academic And Career Excellence, Academic Center For Excellence, Academic Character Excellence, Academic Community For Enrichment, Academic Competition Of Excellence, Academic Core Enrichment, Accelerated College Enrollment, Achievement Centred Environment, Achieving A College Education, Association Of Collegiate Entrepreneurs20) Физиология: Antegrade Continence Enema21) Электроника: Advanced Combination Encoder, Automatic Control Environment, aging compensating effect ( сокр.) (компенсирующее действие старения 2. компенсация старения), advanced customized ECL (сокр.) (усовершенствованная специализированная логическая схема с эмиттерными связями)22) Вычислительная техника: Advanced Collaborative Filtering, Advanced Computing Environment, Associated Computer Experts, Asynchronous Communication Element, advanced computational element, asynchronous communications element, аппаратура управления доступом, записи контроля доступа (Access Control Entries), Access Control Entry (AD), ASCII Compatible Encoding (ASCII, Internet, DOMAIN), Advanced Computing Environments (Corporate name), Advanced Computing Environment (Hersteller), Advanced Composition Explorer (Space), Autonomous Computer Engine (WD), запись (точка входа в список) управления доступом, access control entry, шифрование управления доступом23) Иммунология: Arthritis Control Electrostimulator24) Связь: Auxiliary Control Element25) Космонавтика: Advanced Composition Explorer, автоматическое оборудование проверки26) Транспорт: Active Cornering Enhancement, Air Cleaning Engine, Airport Capacity Enhancement27) Воздухоплавание: Airspace Coordination Element, Automatic Clutter Eliminator28) Фирменный знак: Air Canada Enterprises, Alice Calhoun Enterprises, American Coal Enterprizes, American Computer Estimating, Austin Chess Enterprises, Austria Cards Emv29) Экология: Antarctic current experiment30) Энергетика: ошибка в пределах данной области регулирования31) СМИ: American Cinema Editors, American Classic Edition, Assistant Community Editor, Awards For Cablecasting Excellence32) Деловая лексика: Accepting The Challenge Of Excellence, Access Competition And Etiquette, Access To Career Enrichment, Achieving Customer Excellence33) Производство: Achieving Competitive Excellence, достижение конкурентного совершенства (система непрерывного совершенствования производства, принятая ам. компанией Pratt & Whitney)34) Менеджмент: actual control estimate35) Образование: Academically Committed Environment, Academics Citizenship And Effort, Accelerated Cooperative Education, Achievement Credentials And Evaluation, Achieving And Choosing Excellence, Adult And Community Education, Advanced Continuous Education, Affordable Community Education, Aids Counseling And Education, Aids Counseling Education, Appreciation Certification And Education, Assistance Counseling And Encouragement, Attend Class Everyday, Aviation Career Exploration, Aviation Careers Education36) Сетевые технологии: Access Collaboration Equity, Address Correction And Encoding, access control encryption, access control equipment37) Полимеры: acceptance checkout equipment, automatic checkout equipment38) Программирование: Ascii Compatible Encoding39) Контроль качества: acceptance check-out equipment40) Океанография: Aerosol Characterization Experiment, Atmospheric Collection Equipment41) Химическое оружие: acetylcholinesterase42) Авиационная медицина: accident cause elimination43) Безопасность: Advanced Combination Encoders44) Расширение файла: Access Control Encryption/Entry, Adverse Channel Enhancements (Microcom), Advanced Computing Environment (SCO)45) МИД: Allied Command Europe NATO46) Электротехника: automatic control engineering47) Космический летательный аппарат: advanced capability explorer( сокр.) (исследовательский КА с усовершенствованными характеристиками)48) Майкрософт: элемент управления доступом49) Должность: Adobe Certified Expert, Amx Certified Expert, Associate Career Enhancement, Available Consultants And Executives50) Чат: A Cool Experience51) НАСА: Apollo Checkout Equipment52) Программное обеспечение: The Adobe Color Engine -
5 INTRODUCTION
For a small country perched on the edge of western Europe but with an early history that began more than 2,000 years ago, there is a vast bibliography extant in many languages. Since general reference works with bibliography on Portugal are few, both principal and minor works are included. In the first edition, works in English, and a variety of Portuguese language works that are counted as significant if not always classic, were included. In the second and third editions, more works in Portuguese are added.It is appropriate that most of the works cited in some sections of the bibliograpy are in English, but this pattern should be put in historical perspective. Since the late 1950s, the larger proportion of foreign-language works on Portugal and the Portuguese have been in English. But this was not the case before World War II. As a whole, there were more studies in French, with a smaller number in German, Italian, and Spanish, than in English. Most of the materials published today on all aspects of this topic continue to be in Portuguese, but English-language works have come to outnumber the other non-Portuguese language studies. In addition to books useful to a variety of students, a selection of classic works of use to the visitor, tourist, and foreign resident of Portugal, as well as to those interested in Portuguese communities overseas, have been included.Readers will note that publishers' names are omitted from some Portuguese citations as well as from a number of French works. There are several reasons for this. First, in many of the older sources, publishers no longer exist and are difficult to trace. Second, the names of the publishers have been changed in some cases and are also difficult to trace. Third, in many older books and periodicals, printers' names but not publishers were cited, and identifying the publishers is virtually impossible.Some recommended classic titles for beginners are in historical studies: José Hermano Saraiva, Portugal: A Companion History (1997); A. H. de Oliveira Marques, History of Portugal (1976 ed.), general country studies in two different historical eras: Sarah Bradford, Portugal (1973) and Marion Kaplan, The Portuguese: The Land and Its People (2002 and later editions); political histories, Antônio de Figueiredo, Portugal: Fifty Years of Dictatorship (1975) and Douglas L. Wheeler, Republican Portugal: A Political History ( 1910-1926) (1978; 1998). On Portugal's Revolution of 25 April 1974 and contemporary history and politics: Kenneth Maxwell, The Making of Portuguese Democracy (1995); Phil Mailer, The Impossible Revolution (1977); Richard A. H. Robinson, Contemporary Portugal: A History (1979); Lawrence S. Graham and Douglas L. Wheeler (eds.), In Search of Modern Portugal: The Revolution and Its Consequences (1983); Lawrence S. Graham and Harry M. Makler (eds.), Contemporary Portugal: The Revolution and its Antecedents (1979). On contemporary Portuguese society, see Antonio Costa Pinto (ed.), Contemporary Portugal: Politics, Society, Culture (2003).Enduring works on the history of Portugal's overseas empire include: C. R. Boxer, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825 (1969 and later editions); and Bailey W. Diffie and George Winius, The Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 (1977); on Portugal and the Age of Discoveries: Charles Ley (ed.), Portuguese Voyages 1498-1663 (2003). For a new portrait of the country's most celebrated figure of the Age of Discoveries, see Peter Russell, Prince Henry 'The Navigator': A Life (2000). A still useful geographical study about a popular tourist region is Dan Stanislawski's Portugal's Other Kingdom: The Algarve (1963). A fine introduction to a region of rural southern Portugal is José Cutileiro's A Portuguese Rural Society (1971).Early travel account classics are Almeida Garrett, Travels in My Homeland (1987) and William Beckford, Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha (1969 and later editions). On travel and living in Portugal, see Susan Lowndes Marques and Ann Bridge, The Selective Traveller in Portugal (1968 and later editions); David Wright and Patrick Swift, Lisbon: A Portrait and Guide (1968 and later editions); Sam Ballard and Jane Ballard, Pousadas of Portugal (1986); Richard Hewitt, A Cottage in Portugal (1996);Ian Robertson, Portugal: The Blue Guide (1988 and later editions); and Anne de Stoop, Living in Portugal (1995). Fine reads on some colorful, foreign travellers in Portugal are found in Rose Macauley, They Went to Portugal (1946 and later editions) and They Went to Portugal Too (1990). An attractive blend of historical musing and current Portugal is found in Paul Hyland's, Backing Out of the Big World: Voyage to Portugal (1996); Datus Proper's The Last Old Place: A Search through Portugal (1992); and Portugal's 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, José Sarmago, writes in Journey through Portugal (2001).For aspects of Portuguese literature in translation, see Aubrey F. G. Bell, The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse (1952 edition by B. Vidigal); José Maria Eça de Queirós, The Maias (2007 and earlier editions); and José Sara-mago's Baltasar and Blimunda (1985 and later editions), as well as many other novels by this, Portugal's most celebrated living novelist. See also Landeg White's recent translation of the national 16th century epic of Luis de Camóes, The Lusiads (1997). A classic portrait of the arts in Portugal during the country's imperial age is Robert C. Smith's The Art of Portugal, 1500-1800 (1968).For those who plan to conduct research in Portugal, the premier collection of printed books, periodicals, and manuscripts is housed in the country's national library, the Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, in Lisbon. Other important collections are found in the libraries of the major universities in Coimbra, Lisbon, and Oporto, and in a number of foundations and societies. For the history of the former colonial empire, the best collection of printed materials remains in the library of Lisbon's historic Geography Society, the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisbon; and for documents there is the state-run colonial archives, the Arquivo Historico Ultramarino, in Restelo, near Lisbon. Other government records are deposited in official archives, such as those for foreign relations in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, housed in Necessidades Palace, Lisbon.For researchers in North America, the best collections of printed materials on Portugal are housed in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; New York Public Library, New York City; Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois; and in university libraries including those of Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Indiana, Illinois, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California - Berkeley, University of California - Santa Barbara, Stanford, Florida State, Duke, University of New Hampshire, Durham, University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, McGill, and University of British Columbia. 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6 Computers
The brain has been compared to a digital computer because the neuron, like a switch or valve, either does or does not complete a circuit. But at that point the similarity ends. The switch in the digital computer is constant in its effect, and its effect is large in proportion to the total output of the machine. The effect produced by the neuron varies with its recovery from [the] refractory phase and with its metabolic state. The number of neurons involved in any action runs into millions so that the influence of any one is negligible.... Any cell in the system can be dispensed with.... The brain is an analogical machine, not digital. Analysis of the integrative activities will probably have to be in statistical terms. (Lashley, quoted in Beach, Hebb, Morgan & Nissen, 1960, p. 539)It is essential to realize that a computer is not a mere "number cruncher," or supercalculating arithmetic machine, although this is how computers are commonly regarded by people having no familiarity with artificial intelligence. Computers do not crunch numbers; they manipulate symbols.... Digital computers originally developed with mathematical problems in mind, are in fact general purpose symbol manipulating machines....The terms "computer" and "computation" are themselves unfortunate, in view of their misleading arithmetical connotations. The definition of artificial intelligence previously cited-"the study of intelligence as computation"-does not imply that intelligence is really counting. Intelligence may be defined as the ability creatively to manipulate symbols, or process information, given the requirements of the task in hand. (Boden, 1981, pp. 15, 16-17)The task is to get computers to explain things to themselves, to ask questions about their experiences so as to cause those explanations to be forthcoming, and to be creative in coming up with explanations that have not been previously available. (Schank, 1986, p. 19)In What Computers Can't Do, written in 1969 (2nd edition, 1972), the main objection to AI was the impossibility of using rules to select only those facts about the real world that were relevant in a given situation. The "Introduction" to the paperback edition of the book, published by Harper & Row in 1979, pointed out further that no one had the slightest idea how to represent the common sense understanding possessed even by a four-year-old. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 102)A popular myth says that the invention of the computer diminishes our sense of ourselves, because it shows that rational thought is not special to human beings, but can be carried on by a mere machine. It is a short stop from there to the conclusion that intelligence is mechanical, which many people find to be an affront to all that is most precious and singular about their humanness.In fact, the computer, early in its career, was not an instrument of the philistines, but a humanizing influence. It helped to revive an idea that had fallen into disrepute: the idea that the mind is real, that it has an inner structure and a complex organization, and can be understood in scientific terms. For some three decades, until the 1940s, American psychology had lain in the grip of the ice age of behaviorism, which was antimental through and through. During these years, extreme behaviorists banished the study of thought from their agenda. Mind and consciousness, thinking, imagining, planning, solving problems, were dismissed as worthless for anything except speculation. Only the external aspects of behavior, the surface manifestations, were grist for the scientist's mill, because only they could be observed and measured....It is one of the surprising gifts of the computer in the history of ideas that it played a part in giving back to psychology what it had lost, which was nothing less than the mind itself. In particular, there was a revival of interest in how the mind represents the world internally to itself, by means of knowledge structures such as ideas, symbols, images, and inner narratives, all of which had been consigned to the realm of mysticism. (Campbell, 1989, p. 10)[Our artifacts] only have meaning because we give it to them; their intentionality, like that of smoke signals and writing, is essentially borrowed, hence derivative. To put it bluntly: computers themselves don't mean anything by their tokens (any more than books do)-they only mean what we say they do. Genuine understanding, on the other hand, is intentional "in its own right" and not derivatively from something else. (Haugeland, 1981a, pp. 32-33)he debate over the possibility of computer thought will never be won or lost; it will simply cease to be of interest, like the previous debate over man as a clockwork mechanism. (Bolter, 1984, p. 190)t takes us a long time to emotionally digest a new idea. The computer is too big a step, and too recently made, for us to quickly recover our balance and gauge its potential. It's an enormous accelerator, perhaps the greatest one since the plow, twelve thousand years ago. As an intelligence amplifier, it speeds up everything-including itself-and it continually improves because its heart is information or, more plainly, ideas. We can no more calculate its consequences than Babbage could have foreseen antibiotics, the Pill, or space stations.Further, the effects of those ideas are rapidly compounding, because a computer design is itself just a set of ideas. As we get better at manipulating ideas by building ever better computers, we get better at building even better computers-it's an ever-escalating upward spiral. The early nineteenth century, when the computer's story began, is already so far back that it may as well be the Stone Age. (Rawlins, 1997, p. 19)According to weak AI, the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion than before. But according to strong AI the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. And according to strong AI, because the programmed computer has cognitive states, the programs are not mere tools that enable us to test psychological explanations; rather, the programs are themselves the explanations. (Searle, 1981b, p. 353)What makes people smarter than machines? They certainly are not quicker or more precise. Yet people are far better at perceiving objects in natural scenes and noting their relations, at understanding language and retrieving contextually appropriate information from memory, at making plans and carrying out contextually appropriate actions, and at a wide range of other natural cognitive tasks. People are also far better at learning to do these things more accurately and fluently through processing experience.What is the basis for these differences? One answer, perhaps the classic one we might expect from artificial intelligence, is "software." If we only had the right computer program, the argument goes, we might be able to capture the fluidity and adaptability of human information processing. Certainly this answer is partially correct. There have been great breakthroughs in our understanding of cognition as a result of the development of expressive high-level computer languages and powerful algorithms. However, we do not think that software is the whole story.In our view, people are smarter than today's computers because the brain employs a basic computational architecture that is more suited to deal with a central aspect of the natural information processing tasks that people are so good at.... hese tasks generally require the simultaneous consideration of many pieces of information or constraints. Each constraint may be imperfectly specified and ambiguous, yet each can play a potentially decisive role in determining the outcome of processing. (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, 1986, pp. 3-4)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Computers
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