9 resultados para Telefonia celular - Japão - Indústria
em SAPIENTIA - Universidade do Algarve - Portugal
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Dissertação de mest., Biologia Molecular e Microbiana, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2011
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O objetivo desta comunicação consiste em fazer uma abordagem genérica nos sistemas de informação e à tecnologia de suporte no âmbito da gestão das organizações ligadas à Cadeia de Valor do Turismo e Hotelaria. Pretende-se ainda refletir sobre as conclusões de um estudo efetuado pelos autores à utilização de Sistemas do tipo ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) nas unidades hoteleiras.
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Tese de dout., Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, Faculdade de Economia, Univ. do Algarve, 2012
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Tese de dout., Ciências do Mar, Terra e Ambiente (Ecotoxicologia), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2012
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Dissertação de mest., Turismo e Culturas Urbanas, Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo, Univ. do Algarve, 2013
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Com este estudo pretende-se investigar a relação da liquidez com o investimento das empresas e avaliar o papel moderador do ambiente da indústria e da estratégia empresarial na relação anterior. Literatura recente, que se seguiu ao trabalho de Fazzari, Hubbard e Petersen (1988), sugere que a intensidade da relação entre os fluxos de caixa e o investimento é reveladora dos constrangimentos financeiros das empresas no acesso ao mercado de capitais. A investigação aplicada é desenvolvida com uma amostra de empresas não financeiras da indústria transformadora portuguesa, período 1998-2005. São estimados dois modelos para dados em painel, um restrito com variáveis financeiras, ambientais e estratégicas e outro, mais alargado, onde se incluem, também, variáveis interactivas. O método de estimação utilizado é a regressão linear múltipla de efeitos fixos para a indústria e ano com o estimador robusto das variâncias. Através do modelo restrito e recorrendo à regressão de subgrupos, constituídos com base em indicadores teoricamente tradutores dos constrangimentos financeiros das empresas, capacidade de endividamento a médio e longo prazo e endividamento total, constata-se que a relação entre os fluxos de caixa e o investimento é sempre positiva e intensifica-se à medida que a capacidade de financiamento da empresa diminui. Através do modelo alargado e recorrendo, em simultâneo, à regressão de subgrupos e à regressão moderada observa-se que o ambiente da indústria (munificência e dinamismo) e a estratégia da empresa (inovação e diversificação) moderam a relação dos fluxos de caixa com o investimento, intensificando-a ou atenuando-a. Este facto sugere que os factores ambientais e estratégicos influenciam os custos de agência e de selecção adversa das empresas e, consequentemente, o acesso aos fundos de que necessitam. Ao evidenciar as implicações financeiras das opções estratégicas e das características do ambiente da indústria, o estudo contribui para o aprofundamento do conhecimento dos determinantes do investimento e para a melhoria da gestão das empresas.
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The aquaculture industry aims at replacing significant amounts of marine fish oil by vegetable oils in fish diet. Dietary lipids have been shown to alter the fatty acid composition of bone compartments, which would impact the local production of factors controlling bone formation. Knowledge on the mechanisms underlying the nutritional regulation of bone metabolism is however scarce in fish. Two in vitro bone-derived cell systems developed from seabream (an important species for aquaculture in the Mediterranean region) vertebra, capable of in vitro mineralization and exhibiting prechondrocyte (VSa13) and pre-osteoblast (VSa16) phenotype, were used to assess the effect of certain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs; arachidonic (AA), eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acids) on cell proliferation, extracellular matrix (ECM) mineralization and gene expression. While all PUFAs promoted morphological changes in both cell lines, VSa16 cell proliferation appeared to be stimulated by PUFAs in a dose dependent manner until 100M, whereas proliferation of VSa13 cells was impaired at concentrations above 10M. AA, EPA and DHA inhibited VSa13 ECM mineralization, alone and in combination, while VSa16 ECM mineralization was only inhibited by AA and EPA. DHA had the opposite effect, increasing mineralization almost by 2 fold. When EFAs were combined, DHA apparently compensated for the inhibitory effect of AA and EPA. Expression of marker genes for bone and lipid metabolisms has been investigated by qPCR and shown to be regulated in pre-osteoblasts exposed to individual PUFAs. Our results show that PUFAs are effectors of fish bone cell lines, altering cell morphology, proliferation and mineralization when added to culture medium. This work also demonstrates the suitability of our in vitro cell systems to get insights into mineralization-related effects of PUFAs in vivo and to evaluate the replacement of fish oils by vegetable oil sources in fish feeds.
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Dissertação de mestrado, Aquacultura e Pescas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Uniersidade do Algarve, 2015
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The identification of genes involved in signaling and regulatory pathways, and matrix formation is paramount to the better understanding of the complex mechanisms of bone formation and mineralization, and critical to the successful development of therapies for human skeletal disorders. To achieve this objective, in vitro cell systems derived from skeletal tissues and able to mineralize their extracellular matrix have been used to identify genes differentially expressed during mineralization and possibly new markers of bone and cartilage homeostasis. Using cell systems of fish origin and techniques such as suppression subtractive hybridization and microarray hybridization, three genes never associated with mechanisms of calcification were identified: the calcium binding protein S100-like, the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase sdr-like and the betaine homocysteine S-methyltransferase bhmt3. Analysis of the spatial-temporal expression of these 3 genes by qPCR and in situ hybridization revealed: (1) the up-regulation of sdr-like transcript during in vitro mineralization of gilthead seabream cell lines and its specificity for calcified tissues and differentiating osteoblasts; (2) the up-regulation of S100-like and the down-regulation of bhmt3 during in vitro mineralization and the central role of both genes in cartilaginous tissues undergoing endo/perichondral mineralization in juvenile fish. While expression of S100-like and bhmt3 was restricted to calcified tissues, sdr-like transcript was also detected in soft tissues, in particular in tissues of the gastrointestinal tract. Functional analysis of gene promoters revealed the transcriptional regulation of the 3 genes by known regulators of osteoblast and chondrocyte differentiation/mineralization: RUNX2 and RAR (sdr-like), ETS1 (s100-like; bhmt3), SP1 and MEF2c (bhmt3). The evolutionary relationship of the different orthologs and paralogs identified within the scope of this work was also inferred from taxonomic and phylogenetic analyses and revealed novel protein subfamilies (S100-like and Sdr-like) and the explosive diversity of Bhmt family in particular fish groups (Neoteleostei). Altogether our results contribute with new data on SDR, S100 and BHMT proteins, evidencing for the first time the role for these three proteins in mechanisms of mineralization in fish and emphasized their potential as markers of mineralizing cartilage and bone in developing fish.