Ambivalent Islam: the identity construction of Muslims under Portuguese colonial rule

This article wishes to contribute to the study of the historical processes that have been spotting Muslim populations as favourite targets for political analysis and governance. Focusing on the Portuguese archives, civil as well as military, the article tries to uncover the most conspicuous identity representations (mainly negative or ambivalent) that members of Portuguese colonial apparatus built around Muslim communities living in African colonies, particularly in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The paper shows how these culturally and politically constructed images were related to the more general strategies by which Portuguese imagined their own national identity, both as ‘European’ and as ‘coloniser’ or ‘imperial people’. The basic assumption of this article is that policies enforced in a context of inter-ethnic and religious competition are better understood when linked to the identity strategies inherent to them. These are conceived as strategic constructions aimed at the preservation, the protection and the imaginary expansion of the subject, who looks for groups to be included in and out-groups to reject, exclude, aggress or eliminate. We think that most of the inter-ethnic relationships and conflicts, as well as the very experience of ethnicity, are born from this identity matrix.

Modelling HIV/AIDS length of stay in Portugal

Tese apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Estatística e Gestão de Informação pelo Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Understanding the internet banking adoption by Portuguese customers - a unified theory of acceptance and use of technology and perceived risk application.

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estatística e Gestão de Informação

Effect of European Sovereign debt crisis on banks’ stock market performances: application to Portuguese data

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Innovation at Polisport: Discoverding the drivers and impact on performance at a Portuguese SME

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Obama's law : analysis of a breakthrough law on healthcare access and lessons for the Portuguese health system management

ABSTRACT - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act shook the foundations of the US health system, offering all Americans access to health care by changing the way the health insurance industry works. As President Obama signed the Act on 23 March 2010, he said that it stood for “the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care”. Unlike the U.S., the Article 64 of the Portuguese Constitution provides, since 1976, the right to universal access to health care. However, facing a severe economic crisis, Portugal has, under the supervision of the Troika, a tight schedule to implement measures to improve the efficiency of the National Health Service. Both countries are therefore despite their different situation, in a conjuncture of reform and the use of new health management measures. The present work, using a qualitative research methodology examines the Affordable Care Act in order to describe its principles and enforcement mechanisms. In order to describe the reality in Portugal, the Portuguese health system and the measures imposed by Troika are also analyzed. The intention of this entire analysis is not only to disclose the innovative U.S. law, but to find some innovative measures that could serve health management in Portugal. Essentially we identified the Exchanges and Wellness Programs, described throughout this work, leaving also the idea of the possibility of using them in the Portuguese national health system.

Testing for volatility persistence change: The effect of the credit crisis on the Portuguese banks

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Portuguese investor profile in Poland, a managerial approach

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Orientalism and Imperialism in French West Africa. Considerations on travel literature, colonial tourism, and the desert as a “commodity” in Mauritania

In this article we intend to make a summary overview of the influence that literary production, originated under colonial mapping missions or later in travel writing, had in the construction and establishment of a discourse to advertise and promote tourism in Mauritania. To this end we will draw on travel narratives that are illustrative of different periods and that correspond in some way to discourses of otherness. In this specific case, such discourses relate to the “Moors” of the West African coast and were produced in various historical contexts. We will also consider the discourse present in the tourism promotion materials of the colonial period and we will demonstrate to what extent it can be engaged in a dialogue with 19th and 20th centuries’ Western colonial literature.

How differently do our non-large companies listed on the Portuguese Stock Exchange perform?

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Evaluation of neuroprotective potential of plyphenols derived from Portuguese native plants: Juniperus sp. and Rubus sp.

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biochemistry

A technology diffusion perspective of Enterprise Resource Planning across European Small and Medium Enterprises: from determinants to Use to Value

Tese apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Gestão de Informação

Influence of abiotic stress factors on VOCs emission from Portuguese rice paddy fields: relation with increased climate change

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente Perfil de Gestão de Sistemas Ambientais

Cuidados informais : os idosos em situação de dependência em Portugal

RESUMO - Enquadramento: As mudanças demográficas e na estrutura social das famílias precipitaram reformas das políticas dos cuidados de longa duração da população idosa no continente Europeu. Após um período em que as mulheres assumiam o papel de principais cuidadoras dos membros mais idosos, o aumento da sua inclusão no mercado de trabalho, assim como o envelhecimento geral da população introduziu mudanças no enquadramento dos cuidados a idosos. Estas mudanças têm particular impacte nos países da Europa do Sul, visto que tradicionalmente o cuidado a idosos é prestado maioritariamente pelo sector informal. Finalidade/objectivos: O presente estudo tem como finalidade conhecer as características dos cuidadores informais e dos idosos dependentes em Portugal. Definiram-se três objectivos principais. O primeiro é compreender a realidade demográfica, de saúde e dependência funcional dos idosos alvo de cuidados informais em Portugal. Em segundo pretende-se conhecer a situação actual dos prestadores informais de cuidados de longa duração em Portugal. Em terceiro, discutem-se os aspectos que mais influenciam a acessibilidade a cuidados informais entre os idosos dependentes em Portugal. Metodologia: Para concretizar estes objectivos, para além de se proceder a uma sistematização bibliográfica da literatura mais relevante nesta área, recorre-se à análise descritiva e regressão logística binária. Utilizando os dados do inquérito Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe descreve-se a realidade nacional dos idosos dependentes e seus cuidadores informais e estimam-se modelos de acessibilidade aos cuidados informais em Portugal. Resultados/conclusões: Este estudo contribui para o conhecimento de três aspectos fundamentais sobre os cuidados informais em Portugal: o primeiro prende-se com a quantificação da realidade nacional dos idosos dependentes em Portugal; o segundo relaciona-se com a quantificação da situação portuguesa dos cuidadores informais; e, por último, estima-se modelos explicativos sobre a acessibilidade a cuidados informais. Para além da quantificação da realidade nacional, o principal contributo deste trabalho reside na demonstração de que o actual modelo de prestação de cuidados (baseado nos cuidados informais prestados por membros da família) deixa de fora uma parte significativa dos idosos dependentes. Na verdade, este estudo demonstra que uma parte significativa dos idosos não tem acesso a cuidados e que, embora sejam os elementos da família que maioritariamente prestam os cuidados informais, esse facto, por si só, não explica o acesso aos cuidados.

Os secretários de estado da democracia portuguesa: perfis sociopolíticos e carreiras governativas

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais