O Inventário Artístico do Patriarcado de Lisboa: história e análise de uma ferramenta museológica precursora

Artigo inserido no âmbito da realização da tese de doutoramento em História da Arte, financiada por bolsa FCT (SFRH/BD/63763/2009).

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Atrás da Máscara – O Teatro na Lusofonia

Este relatório pretende afirmar o trabalho desenvolvido pelo jornalista João Costa Dias sobre o seu programa na RDP África, Atrás da Máscara - O Teatro na Lusofonia. O trabalho encontra-se dividido em três fases. Na primeira, desenvolve-se uma contextualização da RDP África e do Programa Atrás da Máscara – O Teatro na Lusofonia. Numa segunda fase, apresentam-se as funções realizadas durante o estágio e a estrutura do programa. E, para finalizar, na terceira fase procura-se responder às questões que foram surgindo no decorrer do estágio, de que forma se poderá projetar a visibilidade do Teatro na Rádio e as dificuldades em divulgar o Teatro Africano na Rádio

Quadrature generators based on ring oscillators and shift registers

Quadrature oscillators are key elements in modern radio frequency (RF) transceivers and very useful nowadays in wireless communications, since they can provide: low quadrature error, low phase-noise, and wide tuning range (useful to cover several bands). RC oscillators can be fully integrated without the need of external components (external high Q-inductors), optimizing area, cost, and power consumption. The conventional structure of ring oscillator offers poor frequency stability and phasenoise, low quality factor (Q), and besides being vulnerable to process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations, its performance degrades as the frequency of operation increases. This thesis is devoted to quadrature oscillators and presents a detailed comparative study of ring oscillator and shift register (SR) approaches. It is shown that in SRs both phase-noise and phase error are reduced, while ring oscillators have the advantage of occupying less area and less consumption due to the reduced number of components in the circuit. Thus, although ring oscillators are more suitable for biomedical applications, SRs are more appropriate for wireless applications, especially when specification requirements are more stringent and demanding. The first architecture studied consists in a simple CMOS ring oscillator employing an odd number of static single-ended inverters as delay cells. Subsequently, the quadrature 4-stage ring oscillator concept is shown and post-layout simulations are presented. The 3 and 4-phase single-frequency local oscillator (LO) generators employing SRs are presented, the latter with 50% and 25% duty-cycles. The circuits operate at 600 MHz and 900 MHz, and were designed in a 130 nm standard CMOS technology with a voltage supply of 1.2 V.

Characterization of earth-based mortars for rammed earth repair

All over the world, many earth buildings are deteriorating due to lack of maintenance and repair. Repairs on rammed earth walls are mainly done with mortars, by rendering application; however, often the repair is inadequate, resorting to the use of incompatible materials, including cement-based mortars. It has been observed that such interventions, in walls that until that day only had presented natural ageing issues, created new problems, much more dangerous for the building than the previous ones, causing serious deficiencies in this type of construction. One of the problems is that the detachment of the new cement-based mortar rendering only occurs after some time but, until that occurrence, degradations develop in the wall itself. When the render detaches, instead of needing only a new render, the surface has to be repaired in depth, with a repair mortar. Consequently, it has been stablished that the renders, and particularly repair mortars, should have physical, mechanical and chemical properties similar to those of the rammed earth walls. This article intends to contribute to a better knowledge of earth-based mortars used to repair the surface of rammed earth walls. The studied mortars are based on four types of earth: three of them were collected from non-deteriorated parts of walls of unstabilized rammed earth buildings located in Alentejo region, south of Portugal; the fourth is a commercial earth, consisting mainly of clay. Other components were also used, particularly: sand to control shrinkage; binders stabilizers such as dry hydrated air-lime, natural hydraulic lime, Portland cement and natural cement; as well as natural vegetal fibers (hemp fibers). The experimental analysis of the mortars in the fresh state consisted in determining the consistency by flow table and the bulk density. In the hardened state, the tests made it possible to evaluate the following properties: linear and volumetric shrinkage; capillary water absorption; drying capacity; dynamic modulus of elasticity; flexural and compressive strength.

Proposal of a methodology for the design of the installation of turrets on aircrafts – the approach on the aerodynamic influences

The present work has its origin on the necessity of enabling a design certified company, or DOA (Design Organization Approval), to perform a modification; this modification is the installation of EO/IR (Electro-optical infrared) sensors on aircrafts. The subject of interest in this dissertation lies on the aerodynamic impact of the modification on the aircraft. The primary purpose of the present thesis is the creation of a methodology that regards the design stage of the modification. This methodology serves as guidance to the DOA design team that is assigned to the design of the modification. The methodology includes a recommendation to the certification of the modification; it contains a method intended to decide the location of the installation of the sensors on the aircraft; it also comprises of a design structure specifically adapted to the modification in study. Regarding the aerodynamic impact, it is studied the aerodynamic analysis’ tools, which allows one to relate the different stages of design to the most suited tools to each stage. A case study is performed with the purpose of not only validating the methodology which was created but also to giving a first approach to the preliminary design of the modification. As example, there are used the Lockheed Martin C-130 aircraft and the FLIR Star Safire III sensor.

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Inclui dossier temático «Os judeus e o comércio colonial (séculos XVI-XIX): novas abordagens», coord. José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim.

Determinantes sociais das desigualdades na Saúde dos Portugueses: Estudo ao nível dos Municípios

Antecedentes: As desigualdades na saúde estão associadas às desigualdades socioeconómicas, o que está demonstrado em farta literatura seja em comparações entre países, seja em comparações de populações e grupos sociais dentro dos países, evidenciando-se o triângulo fundamental riqueza-educação-saúde. Objectivos: Analisar a relação existente entre a mortalidade prematura da população nos municípios portugueses e alguns determinantes socioeconómicos Metodologia: Estudo ecológico transversal, utilizando indicadores publicados pelo INE para os 308 Municípios portugueses. Mediu-se a desigualdade das variáveis pelo rácio entre decis extremos (D10/D1) e testaram-se as associações existentes entre a mortalidade prematura e indicadores de rendimento, de educação e de desigualdade social pela correlação de ordem de Spearman. Resultados: Os resultados revelam que existe desigualdade entre municípios para todas as variáveis estudadas. Entre o nível de educação e o rendimento e entre estes e a mortalidade prematura foram encontradas correlações estatisticamente significativas (p<0,01 e p<0,05) e de sinal consistente com as hipóteses colocadas de que a mortalidade varia inversamente com o nível de rendimento e com o nível de educação. A educação é a variável com maior efeito na mortalidade prematura, em especial sobre a mortalidade abaixo dos 65 anos, resistente ao controle do rendimento. A dimensão da população parece ter um efeito sobre todas as outras variáveis.