O papel do teatro na desopressão do olhar em relação a pessoas com deficiência intelectual e dificuldades de aprendizagem

Neste trabalho é abordada a permanência da autora na CERCICA (Cooperativa para a Educação e Reabilitação de Cidadãos Inadaptados de Cascais) durante doze anos, onde criou e implementou um curso de Formação Profissional em Teatro e Animação, para pessoas com deficiência intelectual e dificuldades de aprendizagem. Por não possuir conhecimentos específicos sobre esta matéria, serviu-se da sua experiência profissional e do seu percurso de vida para a sua criação e implementação, os quais relata no sentido de tornar compreensíveis as acções desenvolvidas posteriormente. Dado existirem ainda muitos preconceitos em relação à deficiência, procura dar a conhecer um pouco do que é esse universo, e desdramatizar medos que levem à rejeição e ao afastamento. É igualmente abordada a necessidade de não restringir os direitos do deficiente ao direito à diferença, mas abrir esse olhar para uma consciência abrangente, que inclua o reconhecimento das semelhanças, assim como a compreensão de que as margens alimentam as regras, transformando-as.

Controlo de desactivação de catalisadores em destilação reactiva

A presente dissertação tem como objectivo estudar o efeito da desactivação do catalisador em colunas de destilação reactiva e estratégias para manter a coluna em funcionamento após o início da desactivação do catalisador. Investiga-se a utilização da temperatura da alimentação como forma de manter o desempenho em situações de desactivação parcial do catalisador. O sistema considerado para o estudo é a metátese das olefinas em que o 2-penteno é convertido em 2-buteno e 3-hexeno (2C5H10  C4H8 + C6H12). Desenvolveram-se vários casos, com diferentes cenários de possíveis colunas de destilação reactivas utilizando a reacção acima mencionada, e foram efectuados vários estudos de simulação, estado estacionário e dinâmico, recorrendo ao software Aspen PlusTM/Aspen DynamicsTM. Com base nos estudos efectuados foi então possível realizar uma análise de custos comparativos, conseguindo assim desenvolver um modelo de custos e com este se concluir que a alternativa de prolongar as purezas iniciais dos produtos controlando as temperaturas de alimentação das colunas de destilação reactiva, enquanto o catalisador se encontra em processo de desactivação, esta é uma alternativa mais rentável, ao invés de uma paragem do processo para a troca do catalisador.

O “Programa de Generalização das Actividades de Enriquecimento Curricular” como instrumento de regulação da política educativa

A partir de uma abordagem pela “análise das políticas públicas”problema público, tendo como fonte os textos e os discursos oficiais do Governo e de outros actores, pretende-se ensaiar um quadro explicativo para a génese das medidas de generalização do alargamento do horário das escolas do 1.º ciclo e das actividades de enriquecimento curricular (AEC), procurando desocultar as situações problemáticas que lhes estão subjacentes e justificar a sua “entrada” na “agenda política”. Neste processo releva-se o papel dos actores enquanto “empreendedores”, na definição das políticas públicas de educação. Focusing on the public policy analysis, a framework to explain the genesis of the generalization of the extension of school day and curriculum enrichment activities (CEA) in primary schools (1st Cycle) is provided, trying to make clear the problems underneath, as well as to justify their ‘entry’ in the ‘policy agenda’. The inquiry is based on the texts and discourse of government and other stakeholders. In this process the actors’ role is emphasized as "entrepreneurs" in the definition of the public policies for education

Cr2O3 thin films grown at room temperature by low pressure laser chemical vapour deposition

Chromia (Cr2O3) has been extensively explored for the purpose of developing widespread industrial applications, owing to the convergence of a variety of mechanical, physical and chemical properties in one single oxide material. Various methods have been used for large area synthesis of Cr2O3 films. However, for selective area growth and growth on thermally sensitive materials, laser-assisted chemical vapour deposition (LCVD) can be applied advantageously. Here we report on the growth of single layers of pure Cr2O3 onto sapphire substrates at room temperature by low pressure photolytic LCVD, using UV laser radiation and Cr(CO)(6) as chromium precursor. The feasibility of the LCVD technique to access selective area deposition of chromia thin films is demonstrated. Best results were obtained for a laser fluence of 120 mJ cm(-2) and a partial pressure ratio of O-2 to Cr(CO)(6) of 1.0. Samples grown with these experimental parameters are polycrystalline and their microstructure is characterised by a high density of particles whose size follows a lognormal distribution. Deposition rates of 0.1 nm s(-1) and mean particle sizes of 1.85 mu m were measured for these films. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Coexistence of Universal and Topological Anomalous Hall Effects in Metal CrO2 Thin Films in the Dirty Limit

The scaling exponent of 1.6 between anomalous Hall and longitudinal conductivity, characteristic of the universal Hall mechanism in dirty-metal ferromagnets, emerges from a series of CrO2 films as we systematically increase structural disorder. Magnetic disorder in CrO2 increases with temperature and this drives a separate topological Hall mechanism. We find that these terms are controlled discretely by structural and magnetic defect populations, and their coexistence leads to apparent divergence from exponent 1.6, suggesting that the universal term is more prevalent than previously realized.

CVD of CrO(2): Towards a lower temperature deposition process

The deposition of highly oriented a-axis CrO(2) films onto Al(2)O(3)(0001) by atmospheric pressure (AP)CVD at temperatures as low as 330 C is reported. Deposition rates strongly depend on the substrate temperature, whereas for film surface microstructures the dependence is mainly on film thickness. For the experimental conditions used in this work, CrO(2) growth kinetics are dominated by a surface reaction mechanism with an apparent activation energy of (121.0 +/- 4.3) kJ mol(-1). The magnitude and temperature dependence of the saturation magnetization, up to room temperature, is consistent with bulk measurements.

CVD of CrO2 thin films: Influence of the deposition parameters on their structural and magnetic properties

This work reports on the synthesis of CrO2 thin films by atmospheric pressure CVD using chromium trioxide (CrO3) and oxygen. Highly oriented (100) CrO2 films containing highly oriented (0001) Cr2O3 were grown onto Al2O3(0001) substrates. Films display a sharp magnetic transition at 375 K and a saturation magnetization of 1.92 mu(B)/f.u., close to the bulk value of 2 mu(B)/f.u. for the CrO2.

Influence of growth temperature and carrier flux on the structure and transport properties of highly oriented CrO2 on Al2O3 (0001)

In this work we report on the structure and magnetic and electrical transport properties of CrO2 films deposited onto (0001) sapphire by atmospheric pressure (AP)CVD from a CrO3 precursor. Films are grown within a broad range of deposition temperatures, from 320 to 410 degrees C, and oxygen carrier gas flow rates of 50-500 seem, showing that it is viable to grow highly oriented a-axis CrO2 films at temperatures as low as 330 degrees C i.e., 60-70 degrees C lower than is reported in published data for the same chemical system. Depending on the experimental conditions, growth kinetic regimes dominated either by surface reaction or by mass-transport mechanisms are identified. The growth of a Cr2O3 interfacial layer as an intrinsic feature of the deposition process is studied and discussed. Films synthesized at 330 degrees C keep the same high quality magnetic and transport properties as those deposited at higher temperatures.

KrF pulsed laser deposition of chromium oxide thin films from Cr8O21 targets

Chromium oxides, CrxOy, are of great interest due to the wide variety of their technological applications. Among them, CrO2 has been extensively investigated in recent years because it is an attractive compound for use in spintronic heterostructures. However, its synthesis at low temperatures has been a difficult task due to the metastable nature of this oxide. This is indeed essential to ensure interface quality and the ability to coat thermal-sensitive materials such as those envisaged in spintronic devices. Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) is a technique that has the potential to meet the requirements stated above. In this work, we describe our efforts to grow chromium oxide thin films by PLD from Cr8O21 targets, using a KrF excimer laser. The as-deposited films were investigated by X-ray diffraction and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry. Structural and chemical composition studies showed that the films consist of a mixture of amorphous chromium oxides exhibiting different stoichiometries depending on the processing parameters, where nanocrystals of mainly Cr2O3 are dispersed. The analyses do not exclude the possibility of co-deposition of Cr2O3 and a low fraction of CrO2.

Laser-assisted deposition of thin films from photoexcited vapour phases

Laser-assisted chemical vapour deposition (LCVD) has been extensively studied in the last two decades. A vast range of applications encompass various areas such as microelectronics, micromechanics, microelectromechanics and integrated optics, and a variety of metals, semiconductors and insulators have been grown by LCVD. In this article, we review briefly the LCVD process and present two case studies of thin film deposition related to laser thermal excitation (e.g., boron carbide) and non-thermal excitation (e.g., CrO(2)) of the gas phase.

The spin polarization of CrO2 revisited

Here, we use Andreev reflection spectroscopy to study the spin polarization of high quality CrO2 films. We study the spin polarization as a function of growth temperature, resulting in grain size and electrical resistivity. In these films low temperature growth appears to be a necessary but not sufficient condition to guarantee the observation of high spin polarization, and this is only observed in conjunction with suppressed superconducting gap values and anomalously low interface properties. We suggest that this combination of observations is a manifestation of the long range spin triplet proximity effect. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.

KrP laser CVD of chromium oxide by photodissociation of Cr(CO)(6)

This work reports on the synthesis of chromium oxide thin films prepared by photodissociation of Cr(CO)(6) in an oxidizing atmosphere, using a pulsed UV laser (KrF, lambda = 248 nm). The experimental conditions, which should enable the synthesis of CrO2, are discussed and results on the deposition of CrxOy films on Al2O3 (0001) substrates are presented.

Morphological and structural characterization of CrO2/Cr2O3 films grown by laser-CVD

This work reports on the synthesis of chromium (III, IV) oxides films by KrF laser-assisted CVD. Films were deposited onto sapphire substrates at room temperature by the photodissociation of Cr(CO)(6) in dynamic atmospheres containing oxygen and argon. A study of the processing parameters has shown that partial pressure ratio Of O-2 to Cr(CO)(6) and laser fluence are the prominent parameters that have to be accurately controlled in order to co-deposit both the crystalline oxide phases. Films consistent with such a two-phase system were synthesised for a laser fluence of 75 mJ cm(-2) and a partial pressure ratio of about 1. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Structural and Microanalytical Studies of CrO2 Thin Films on c-Sapphire by High Resolution Electron Microscopy Methods

Chromium dioxide (CrO2) has been extensively used in the magnetic recording industry. However, it is its ferromagnetic half-metallic nature that has more recently attracted much attention, primarily for the development of spintronic devices. CrO2 is the only stoichiometric binary oxide theoretically predicted to be fully spin polarized at the Fermi level. It presents a Curie temperature of ∼ 396 K, i.e. well above room temperature, and a magnetic moment of 2 mB per formula unit. However an antiferromagnetic native insulating layer of Cr2O3 is always present on the CrO2 surface which enhances the CrO2 magnetoresistance and might be used as a barrier in magnetic tunnel junctions.

O efeito de um programa de fisioterapia na estabilização do prematuro

Mestrado em Fisioterapia.