Revitalização e inovação do sector agro-alimentar: o caso do café Brasileiro como produto diferenciado

Dissertação de dout. em Economia (Economia da empresa dos mercados e produtos), Faculdade de Economia, Univ. do Algarve, 2005

Estratégias de controlo da poluição das águas subterrâneas pelos nitratos de origem agrícola

Tese de dout., Ciências Agrárias, Faculdade de Engenharia de Recursos Naturais, Univ. do Algarve, 2003

Relatório profissional

Este relatório profissional foi determinado pelo meu contexto profissional; logo, será referido o meu percurso profissional enquanto técnica superior a exercer funções na Biblioteca Municipal de Faro António Ramos Rosa, desde dezembro de 1999 até à presente data. Procurarei colocar a tónica nos aspetos que mais contribuíram para o meu crescimento profissional, nomeadamente a coordenação do clube de leitura da biblioteca, desde novembro de 2005, e todo o meu trabalho ligado à implementação de certificação da qualidade, com base na norma de referência ISO e na ferramenta CAF, na Biblioteca Municipal. Todos estes aspetos serão alvo de descrição, análise e reflexão e contribuirão, de forma inequívoca, para chegar a algumas conclusões sobre parte do trabalho desenvolvido, ao longo de doze anos, na Biblioteca Municipal de Faro. Por último, este relatório permitir-me-á também fazer a análise crítica dos aspetos que limitaram ou contribuíram para o meu desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional.

An embodied approach to language: the role of bodily feedback in discourse processing

Theories of embodied cognition argue that language processing arises not from amodal symbols that redescribe sensorimotor and affective experiences, but from partial simulations (reenactments) of modality-specific states. Recent findings on processing of words and sentences support such a stance emphasizing that the role of the body in the domain of language comprehension should not be overlooked or dismissed. The present research was conducted to extend prior work in two important ways. First, the role of simulation was tested with connected discourse rather than words or sentences presented in isolation. Second, both “online” and “offline” measures of discourse comprehension were taken. In Experiments 1 and 2 participants’ facial postures were manipulated to show that preparing the body for processing of emotion-congruent information improves discourse comprehension. In Experiment 3 the direction of body posture was manipulated to show that implicit properties of simulations, such as spatial dimension or location, are at least somewhat involved in processing of large language segments such as discourse. Finally, in Experiments 4 and 5 participants’ body movement and body posture were manipulated to show that even understanding of language describing metaphorical actions physically impossible to perform involves constructing a sensorimotor simulation of the described event. The major result was that compatibility between embodiment and language strongly modulated performance effectiveness in experiments on simulation of emotion and metaphorical action. The effect of simulation on comprehension of discourse implying spatial dimension was fragile. These findings support an embodied simulation account of cognition suggesting that sensorimotor and affective states are at least partially implicated in “online” and “offline” discourse comprehension.