Levantamento e identificação de manifestações patológicas em fachadas de edifícios antigos da baixa portuense

Tendo em consideração o estado de degradação do parque habitacional nacional é necessário promover a sua regeneração dado o efeito nocivo com que este se repercute na nossa sociedade. É de referir a existência em Portugal de uma cultura reativa, por vezes tardia, de resolução de problemas dos edifícios, devendo-se, de certo modo, à existência de uma legislação generalista e claramente insuficiente, de uma fiscalização inoperante e à inexistência, durante décadas, de políticas de incentivo à manutenção. Torna-se imperativo a necessidade da implementação de medidas preventivas que evitem o aparecimento do mesmo cenário de deterioração. A presente dissertação insere-se no âmbito da reabilitação de edifícios pelo facto de esta atividade ter uma importância fundamental no desempenho do parque edificado, o que reflete a situação socioeconómica do país e no desenvolvimento sustentável das sociedades. Neste contexto, desenvolve-se o objeto de investigação deste trabalho, que se relaciona com manifestações patológicas de edifícios antigos da baixa portuense, procurando o estudo de fenómenos anómalos ao nível das fachadas das edificações. A reabilitação surge como uma medida possível e desejável de correcção das anomalias que se verificam na generalidade dos edifícios, principalmente nos mais antigos. O processo de reabilitação no presente tempo deve ser realizado de forma sustentável, de modo a minimizar desperdícios de recursos, custos e proporcionar o máximo bem-estar aos utilizadores. O estudo destes fenómenos desenvolve-se para a recuperação das fachadas ao seu estado inicial, procurando enquadrar e incentivar para uma posterior estratégia de manutenção condicionada, baseada em inspeções e numa perspetiva preventiva de atuação, ou seja, intervindo na origem dos problemas e evitando o seu desenvolvimento, com o objetivo principal de otimizar a vida útil e os custos diferidos dos respetivos edifícios.

Creativity and digital spaces in the intercultural society

In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience builds interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migrations, traffics, globalization, communication, regulations, arts, literature, and other intercultural processes, in the context of past and present times. The book offers a convergence of perspectives, combining conceptual and empirical work by sociologists, anthropologists, historians, linguists, educators, lawyers, media, specialists, and literary studies writers, in their shared attempt to understand the many routes of the intercultural experience. In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience builds interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migrations, traffics, globalization, communication, regulations, arts, literature, and other intercultural processes, in the context of past and present times. The book offers a convergence of perspectives, combining conceptual and empirical work by sociologists, anthropologists, historians, linguists, educators, lawyers, media, specialists, and literary studies writers, in their shared attempt to understand the many routes of the intercultural experience.

Peculiarities of the professional education and qualification appraisal of assistants of pharmacists in Lithuania

Following the alterations and additions to the pharmaceutical law of Lithuanian Republic the pharmaceutical activity in Lithuanian pharmacies is carried out by pharmacy specialists – pharmacists and pharmacy assistants (pharmacy technicians). The ability of pharmacy specialists to adapt, to improve and to develop their competencies is one of the success preconditions for Lithuanian health care pharmacy sector. Work aim: to investigate the changes among the specialists employed in pharmacies and pharmacy sector as well as to highlight the necessity to develop the qualification of pharmacy assistants (pharmacy technicians) according to the modern pharmaceutical legal basis in Lithuania. In 2008–2011 the research in Lithuanian pharmacy sector was performed which identified the changes in the numbers of pharmacies and their staff: the number of pharmacies decreased, while the number of pharmacists increased and the number of the assistants of pharmacists (pharmacy technicians) decreased. The decrease in the number of the assistants of pharmacists (pharmacy technicians) and the danger of their extinction in the future has been identified. The qualification appraisal for pharmacy assistants (pharmacy technicians) is implemented through the leveling studies at the Pharmacy technique department at the Health care faculty of Kauno Kolegija University of applied sciences and pharmacy study programme at the faculty of Pharmacy of Medical Academy at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. 75 % of respondents use their own money to pay for the qualification appraisal, and 25 % of respondents get financial support for the qualification appraisal activities from the pharmacy managers.

Welcome to the new world disorder: conflict and transformation in Ian McEwan’s saturday

Ian McEwan‘s novel Saturday deals with the complex issues of conflict and transformation in the age of terrorism. The plot presents one internal dilemma and several interpersonal altercations that occur within a mere twenty-four hours: a) Perowne (the protagonist) vs. himself, in face of his ambivalent thoughts regarding British military participation in the war in the Middle East; b) The protagonist vs. Baxter, a ruffian from East End, in the context of a car accident; c) Perowne vs. a fellow anaesthetist, Jay Strauss, during a squash game; d) Perowne‘s daughter, Daisy vs. her grandfather, John Grammaticus, both poets and rivals; e) Perowne‘s family vs. Baxter, who intrudes the protagonist‘s house. In this paper, I exemplify, analyse and discuss how: a) Understanding the causes of what we call evil constitutes an important step towards mutual understanding; b) Both science and arts (which Perowne considers, at first, irrelevant) are important elements in the process of transformation; c) Both personal and interpersonal conflicts are intrinsic to human nature — but they also propitiate healthy changes in behaviour and opinion, through reflection. In order to do so, I resort to Saturday, and to the work of several specialists in the field of conflict management.