A high order model for piezoelectric rods: an asymptotic approach

Preprint submitted to International Journal of Solids and Structures. ISSN 0020-7683

Perceções dos enfermeiros e doentes com AVC sobre a educação para a saúde

Enquadramento: O Acidente Vascular Cerebral (AVC) acarreta múltiplas alterações no quotidiano do doente e seus familiares mas a reabilitação é considerada uma oportunidade. A Rede Nacional de Cuidados Continuados Integrados (RNCCI) facilita a reabilitação e a educação para a saúde possibilita a mudança de atitude necessária para a reabilitação. Objetivos: Conhecer e divulgar as perceções de doentes com AVC e enfermeiros relativamente às práticas de Educação para a Saúde na RNCCI. Metodologia: Qualitativa, com entrevista semi-estruturada, a 8 doentes e a 17 enfermeiros. A técnica escolhida foi a análise de conteúdo das entrevistas. Partimos de categorias definidas a priori, e emergiram outras categorias. Resultados: Os doentes atribuíram aos enfermeiros a maior parte da responsabilidade pela reabilitação. Os enfermeiros relacionaram os aspetos psicológicos e a importância do envolvimento da família com a adesão do doente ao regime terapêutico. Conclusão: Os doentes demonstram que se encontram no modelo biomédico, por outro lado os enfermeiros apontam o modelo biopsicossocial como orientador das suas práticas de Educação para a Saúde na rede.

Numerical modeling and assessment of the thermal environment in an industrial premise of automotive components

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial

Sistema de visão robótico baseado no sensor kinect para orientação no espaço e contorno de obstáculos

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (área de especialização em Robótica)

Cylindrically symmetric models of gravitational collapse to black holes: a short review

We survey results about exact cylindrically symmetric models of gravitational collapse in General Relativity. We focus on models which result from the matching of two spacetimes having collapsing interiors which develop trapped surfaces and vacuum exteriors containing gravitational waves. We collect some theorems from the literature which help to decide a priori about eventual spacetime matchings. We revise, in more detail, some toy models which include some of the main mathematical and physical issues that arise in this context, and compute the gravitational energy flux through the matching boundary of a particular collapsing region. Along the way, we point out several interesting open problems.

Algorithms and computational tools for metabolic flux analysis

PhD thesis in Biomedical Engineering

Investigations on relational control of time perception

Tese de Doutoramento em Psicologia Básica

O livro na revista: como revistas semanais brasileiras e portuguesas abordam livros e literatura

Dissertação de mestrado em Comunicação, Arte e Cultura

Compatibilidade do contrato de concessão comercial com as regras de defesa da concorrência

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito dos Contratos e da Empresa

A critical evaluation of methods for the reconstruction of tissue-specific models

Under the framework of constraint based modeling, genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) have been used for several tasks, such as metabolic engineering and phenotype prediction. More recently, their application in health related research has spanned drug discovery, biomarker identification and host-pathogen interactions, targeting diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer, obesity or diabetes. In the last years, the development of novel techniques for genome sequencing and other high-throughput methods, together with advances in Bioinformatics, allowed the reconstruction of GSMMs for human cells. Considering the diversity of cell types and tissues present in the human body, it is imperative to develop tissue-specific metabolic models. Methods to automatically generate these models, based on generic human metabolic models and a plethora of omics data, have been proposed. However, their results have not yet been adequately and critically evaluated and compared. This work presents a survey of the most important tissue or cell type specific metabolic model reconstruction methods, which use literature, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics data, together with a global template model. As a case study, we analyzed the consistency between several omics data sources and reconstructed distinct metabolic models of hepatocytes using different methods and data sources as inputs. The results show that omics data sources have a poor overlapping and, in some cases, are even contradictory. Additionally, the hepatocyte metabolic models generated are in many cases not able to perform metabolic functions known to be present in the liver tissue. We conclude that reliable methods for a priori omics data integration are required to support the reconstruction of complex models of human cells.

L’imaginaire et la reliance dans la sociologie de Durkheim

[Excerto] Le positivisme durkheimien n’a jamais fait l’ombre d’un doute. Dans Les règles de la méthode sociologique, Durkheim s’est fixé la tâche de définir a priori le statut de la sociologie en se réclamant explicitement du rationalisme, entendu comme modèle théorique et pratique : « Notre principal objectif, en effet, est d’étendre à la conduite humaine le rationalisme scientifique, en faisant voir que, considérée dans le passé, elle est réductible à des rapports de cause à effet qu’une opération non moins rationnelle peut transformer ensuite en règles d’action pour l’avenir 1. » La science sociologique a donc pour vocation de faire accéder ce qui est encore irrationnel à l’ordre du rationnel en le rendant intelligible et d’apporter ainsi sa contribution à un projet de transformation de la société selon les canons de la raison.

Do pré-escolar para o 1º ano do ensino básico: "A Voz da Criança"

Dissertação de mestrado em Educação da Infância (área de especialização em Supervisão e Pedagogia da Infância)

Evaluation of antimicrobial strategies against biomaterial-associated infections: impact of the surrounding environmental conditions

Dissertação de mestrado em Bioengenharia