8 resultados para Desgaste de restauração dentária
em SAPIENTIA - Universidade do Algarve - Portugal
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Dissertação de Mestrado , Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Algarve, 2008
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Esta dissertação utiliza a metodologia Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) no contexto da previsão de falência empresarial dentro do setor da restauração em Portugal. Em particular, utiliza-se uma amostra total de 222 empresas deste ramo de atividade, das quais 33 entram em situação de falência entre 2010 e 2011. A utilização do DEA no nosso contexto de investigação permite classificar corretamente um terço das empresas que acabaram por falir no nosso período amostral. Por outro lado, a mesma metodologia permite identificar corretamente 93,3% das empresas não falidas da amostra e concluir ainda que a diferença entre os rácios destes dois grupos de empresas aumentava à medida que o ano de falência se aproximava, algo que demonstra a utilidade prática da aplicação do DEA na previsão de falência no setor da restauração nacional.
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Tese dout., Ciências e Tecnologias do Ambiente, 2009, Universidade do Algarve
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Relatório de Estágio de Licenciatura em Bioquímica, Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2001
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Dissertação de mest., História do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Univ. do Algarve, 2011
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Cardiogenesis is a delicate and complex process that requires the coordination of an intricate network of pathways and the different cell types. Therefore, understanding heart development at the morphogenetic level is an essential requirement to uncover the causes of congenital heart disease and to provide insight for disease therapies. Mouse Cerberus like 2 (Cerl2) has been defined as a Nodal antagonist in the node with an important role in the Left-Right (L/R) axis establishment, at the early embryonic development. As expected, Cerl2 knockout mice (Cerl2-/-) showed multiple laterality defects with associated cardiac failure. In order to identify the endogenous role of Cerl2 during heart formation independent of its described functions in the node, we accurately analyzed animals where laterality defects were not present. We thereby unravel the consequences of Cerl2 lossof- function in the heart, namely increased left ventricular thickness due to hyperplasia of cardiomyocytes and de-regulated expression of cardiac genes. Furthermore, the Cerl2 mutant neonates present impaired cardiac function. Once that the cardiac expression of Cerl2 is mostly observed in the left ventricle until around midgestration, this result suggest a specific regulatory role of Cerl2 during the formation of the left ventricular myoarchitecture. Here, we present two possible molecular mechanisms underlying the cardiac Cerl2 function, the regulation of Cerl2 antagonist in activation of the TGFßs/Nodal/Activin/Smad2 signaling identified by increased Smad2 phosphorilation in Cerl2-/- hearts and the negative feedback between Cerl2 and Wnt/ß-catenin signaling in heart formation. In this work and since embryonic stem cells derived from 129 mice strain is extensively used to produce targeted mutants, we also present echocardiographic reference values to progressive use of juveniles and young adult 129/Sv strain in cardiac studies. In addition, we investigate the cardiac physiology of the surviving Cerl2 mutants in 129/Sv background over time through a follow-up study using echocardiographic analysis. Our results revealed that Cerl2-/- mice are able to improve and maintain the diastolic and most of systolic cardiac physiologic parameters as analyzed until young adult age. Since Cerl2 is no longer expressed in the postnatal heart, we suggest that an intrinsic and compensatory mechanism of adaptation may be active for recovering the decreased cardiac function found in Cerl2 mutant neonates. Altogether, these data highlight the role of Cerl2 during embryonic heart development in mice. Furthermore, we also suggest that Cerl2-/- may be an interesting model to uncover the molecular, cellular and physiological mechanisms behind the improvement of the cardiac function, contributing to the development of therapeutic approaches to treat heart failures.
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Dissertação de mestrado, Arqueologia, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, 2015
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Dissertação de mestrado em Turismo e Culturas Urbanas, Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo, Universidade do do Algarve, 2016