Na rota da cultura atlântica: dos estudos de caso brasileiros à sustentabilidade de projetos lisboetas

A presente pesquisa tratará, no primeiro capítulo sobre questões relacionadas ao Projeto Creatcity - Uma Cultura de Governança para a Cidade Criativa: Vitalidade Urbana e Redes Internacionais. Como objetivo principal este projeto propõe-se a uma discussão em torno da criatividade urbana e da identificação de formas de governança que a promovam, buscando como parâmetro de análise a Área Metropolitana de Lisboa e Barcelona e a cidade de São Paulo. Para isto, foi desenvolvido segundo uma metodologia de Work Packages, cada qual focando uma temática específica e inter-relacionadas. Buscou ainda selecionar 10 (dez) Estudos de Caso variados e abrangentes com o objetivo de analisar de forma prática e real a problemática da criatividade e tentar definir políticas adequadas para seu desenvolvimento. Por último, este capítulo buscou identificar as motivações que tal projeto proporcionou para a decisão do tema da pesquisa. Os segundo e terceiro capítulos buscaram refletir especificamente sobre dois Estudos de Caso: São Paulo Fashion Week e SESC São Paulo, respetivamente. Nestes capítulos foram refletidos os desafios e determinações que levaram estes dois veículos de cultura e arte atingirem patamares de respeito e sucesso mundiais, buscando por fim apresentar-se como exemplo de iniciativas a serem adotadas. O quarto e último capítulo procurou selecionar, a partir do documento: “Estratégias para a Cultura em Lisboa” 4 (quatro) projetos que tivessem semelhança com os Estudos de Caso refletidos nos capítulos anteriores e, por fim, tentar perceber os pontos fortes e fracos presentes nestes projetos, permitindo uma análise crítica.

Tratamento de superfícies metálicas por nanotecnologia

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Química e Biológica

A remote virtual experiment in mechanical engineering

Conferência: 2nd Experiment at International Conference (Exp at)- Univ Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal - Sep 18-20, 2013

De que forma o uso de packaging revivalista contribui para aumentar a percepção da qualidade e genuinidade das marcas e dos seus produtos

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.

Is it possible to remove polymeric nanoparticles from aqueous paints during the activated sludge treatment?

The market for emulsion polymers (latexes) is large and growing at the expense of other manufacturing processes that emit higher amounts of volatile organic solvents. The paint industry is not an exception and solvent-borne paints have been gradually substituted by aqueous paints. In their life-cycle, much of the aqueous paint used for architectural or decorative purposes will eventually be discharged into wastewater treatment facilities, where its polymeric nanoparticles (mainly acrylic and styrene-acrylic) can work as xenobiotics to the microbial communities present in activated sludge. It is well established that these materials are biocompatible at macroscopic scale. But is their behaviour the same at nanoscale? What happens to the polymeric nanoparticles during the activated sludge process? Do nanoparticles agregate and are discharged together with the sludge or remain in emulsion? How do microorganisms interact with these nanoparticles? Are nanoparticles degradated by them? Are they adsorbed? Are these nanoparticles toxic to the microbial community? To study the influence of these xenobiotics in the activated sludge process, an emulsion of cross-linked poly(butyl methacrylate) nanoparticles of ca. 50 nm diameter was produced and used as model compound. Activated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant was tested by the OCDE’s respiration inhibition test using several concentrations of PBMA nanoparticles. Particle aggregation was followed by Dynamic Light Scattering and microorganism surfaces were observed by Atomic Force Microscopy. Using sequential batch reactors (SBRs) and continuous reactors, both inoculated with activated sludge, the consumption of carbon, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate was monitored and compared, in the presence and absence of nanoparticles. No particles were detected in all treated waters by Dynamic Light Scattering. This can either mean that microorganisms can efficiently remove all polymer nanoparticles or that nanoparticles tend to aggregate and be naturally removed by precipitation. Nevertheless respiration inhibition tests demonstrated that microorganisms consume more oxygen in the presence of nanoparticles, which suggests a stress situation. It was also observed a slight decrease in the efficiency of nitrification in the presence of nanoparticles. AFM images showed that while the morphology of some organisms remained the same both in the presence and absence of nanoparticles, others assumed a rough surface with hilly like shapes of ca. 50 nm when exposed to nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are thus likely to be either incorporated or adsorbed at the surface of some organisms, increasing the overall respiration rate and decreasing nitrification efficiency. Thus, despite its biocompatibility at macroscopic scale, PBMA is likely to be no longer innocuous at nanoscale.

Metop-A generator for single top production via FCNC interactions

We present a generator for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral currents. The MEtop event generator allows for Next-to-Leading-Order direct top production pp -> t and Leading-Order production of several other single top processes. A few packages with definite sets of dimension six operators are available. We discuss how to improve the bounds on the effective operators and how well new physics can be probed with each set of independent dimension six operators.

TRFS: desenvolvimento de um protótipo para simulação microscópica de tráfego

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização de Vias de Comunicação e Transportes