Transnational identities in the fiction of Monica Ali: In the Kitchen and Alentejo Blue

Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen shows London as a cosmopolitan and postmodern city, a locus of transnational identities. Although this is not a new theme in contemporary English writing, in this novel the topic of migration is detached from the usual postcolonial loci that feature in “immigrant” or “diasporic” literature. In the novel Alentejo Blue, set in the South of Portugal, Monica Ali had already approached the question of migration from the point of view of the exiled citizen, whose situation is part of globalization processes outside of the normal push/pull (centre/periphery, east/west, north/south) conceptions of migration. The focus in the article is, thus, on the ways the new world order of economic globalization relates to the processes of immigration and the dispersal of a stable sense of individual and national identity.

O "ser português" e o "outro": Revisitar a história de Portugal no diálogo com a civilização chinesa - O caso Tomás Pereira

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Cultura - Especialidade em Culturas do Extremo Oriente

Avaliação externa de escolas: perspetivas dos diretores da região norte de Portugal

Este trabalho insere-se no âmbito do Projeto de investigação «Impacto e Efeitos da Avaliação Externa nas Escolas do Ensino Não-Superior» (FCT PTDC/CPE-CED/116674/2010), desenvolvidopor 6 universidades nacionais. Em concreto, situa a sua análise sobre os resultados de um inquérito por questionário enviado a todos os diretores de unidades educativas do continente português. Analisamos, neste texto, os resultados atinentes às perspetivas da Região Norte de Portugal, por ser aquela que está geograficamente mais próxima da Universidade do Minho. Os resultados apontam para uma perceção moderadamente positiva da Avaliação Externa de Escolas.

Estudo das necessidades de médicos especialistas na Região Norte de Portugal

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial

A cooperação transfronteiriça como oportunidade de desenvolvimento das regiões de fronteira. Da Raia Ibérica à euroregião Galiza-Norte de Portugal

Tese de Doutoramento em Geografia Humana.

The Portuguese programme one laptop per child: political, educational and social impact

In 2008, the XVII Portuguese Constitutional Government launched the ‘e.escolinha’ programme, within the Technological Plan for Education, which set out the distribution of a computer, called ‘Magalhães’, designed for chil-dren attending the 1st cycle of basic education. Suspended in 2011 by the XIX Government, this programme has allowed, however, almost 500 000 children to have access to a personal computer. It was expected that this political measure would “revolutionise” the national education system by bringing changes to the pedagogical practices of teachers and the learning processes of children and by achieving educational success, in general. Based on documental analysis and on a set of interviews with key decision-makers in conceiving, implementing and monitoring this governmental initiative, the fi rst part of this chapter presents and analyses the ‘e.escolinha’ initiative and the policies be-hind that governmental programme, seeking to disassemble those objectives and provide some insights into the relationship between discourses, rhetoric, and reality. After that, the chapter focuses on children’s uses and practices with the ‘Magalhães’ laptop, at school and at home. Based on the results of questionnaires fi lled in by approximately 1500 children from 32 First Cycle public schools of the municipality of Braga (north of Portugal) and also from questionnaires applied to their parents and teachers, this chapter intends to analyse the real impact of this initiative for children, family and school. It also seeks to discuss the contribution of this educational policy to children’s digital literacy and also to their own and their families’ social and digital inclusion. To understand if it represented an added value to teachers’ pedagogical practice is another of its aims. The fi ndings point out a major focus on technology and access rather than on uses and competences or even on social, educational and cultural change. In fact, a major conclusion is the existence of a strong gap between the policy and the practices, typical of a top-down policy design. This study is an integrant part of a research project titled “Navigating with ‘Magalhães’: Study on the Impact of Digital Media in Schoolchildren” conducted at the University of Minho, Portugal, financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [PTDC/CCI-COM/101381/2008] and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund [COMPETE: FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-009056].

Estudo paleoetnobotânico do povoado da Idade do Ferro do Crastoeiro (Noroeste de Portugal)

Dissertação de mestrado em Arqueologia

O Calcolítico e a Idade do Bronze na bacia do rio Neiva, NW de Portugal

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Arqueologia

Prospecção de ocorrências filonianas do tipo LCT nas formações metassedimentares entre Boticas e Montalegre (N de Portugal)

Dissertação de mestrado em Geologia (área de especialização em Valorização de Recursos Geológicos)

Ingestão de plásticos por aves marinhas na Costa Norte de Portugal

Dissertação de mestrado em Ecologia

Dislexia: conhecimentos de educadores e professores do 1º ciclo do ensino básico na Zona Norte de Portugal

Dissertação de mestrado em Educação Especial (área de especialização em Dificuldades de Aprendizagem Específicas)

Perfil de habilidades motoras finas de crianças com e sem perturbação do espectro do autismo, na zona norte de Portugal: um estudo comparativo

Dissertação de mestrado em Educação Especial (área de especialização em Intervenção Precoce)

Avaliação de habilidades motoras globais em crianças com e sem perturbação do espectro do autismo na zona Norte de Portugal

Dissertação de mestrado em Educação Especial (área de especialização em Intervenção Precoce)

Requalificação do Palacete Manuel Rodrigues Alves: re – integração do Palacete no quotidiano da cidade

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Arquitectura

Dynamic range prediction for an electric vehicle

Electric Vehicles (EVs) have limited energy storage capacity and the maximum autonomy range is strongly dependent of the driver's behaviour. Due to the fact of that batteries cannot be recharged quickly during a journey, it is essential that a precise range prediction is available to the driver of the EV. With this information, it is possible to check if the desirable destination is achievable without a stop to charge the batteries, or even, if to reach the destination it is necessary to perform an optimized driving (e.g., cutting the air-conditioning, among others EV parameters). The outcome of this research work is the development of an Electric Vehicle Assistant (EVA). This is an application for mobile devices that will help users to take efficient decisions about route planning, charging management and energy efficiency. Therefore, it will contribute to foster EVs adoption as a new paradigm in the transportation sector.