Estratigrafia sismica do cenozóico na plataforma continental algarvia: interpretação do controle tectónico da sedimentação

The interpretation of 64 seismic reflection profiles in the Algarve continental platform (36º 20'-37º 00' paralels and 7º 20'-8º 40' meridians) calibrated with five petroleum exploration wells, with the identification of the geometric relations between six Cenozoic seismic units (B to G) and tectonic structures, allowed the construction of sucessive time-isopach maps (twt/s) and detailed interpretation of the geologic evolution. Two major tectonic structures were identified: a) the Portimão-Monchique fracture zone (striking N-S); b) an off-shore NW-SE fault zone, probably the S. Marcos-Quarteira fault. This accident separates two tectonic domains: the western domain (with N-S and E-W predominant structures and, secondarily, NW-SE and NE-SW) and the eastern domain (dominated by WSW-ENE, NW-SE, NE-SW, NNE-SSW and NNW-SSE structures). A persistent halokinetic activity had two major moments: a) sin-C unit; b) sin- and post-E unit. An increasing flexuration of the margin was identified, with spacial and temporal variation of the subsidence. The tectonic regime is considered as generally compressive, but the interpretation of the successíve stress-fields is rendered dificult by the existence of tectonic sub-domains and evaporitic structures.

O contributo de Julián Marías para uma teoria da filosofia aplicada à questão da felicidade

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de doutor em filosofia

A Autonomia da Geórgia e a Política Externa Russa. Uma análise do Cáucaso à Luz da Teoria da Regionalização

Dissertação de Tese Mestrado em Estudos Políticos de Área

Filosofia e Teoria da Imagem em Gilles Deleuze

O objectivo deste estudo é elucidar o estatuto da noção de imagem na filosofia de Gilles Deleuze. Para o atingir, começaremos por situar o nosso inquérito no problema que determina a sua primeira aparição no sistema – a «imagem do pensamento» –, seguindo de perto a sua acidentada trajectória em Nietzsche e a Filosofia, Proust e os Signos e Diferença e Repetição. Depois de clarificado o equívoco sentido do apelo de Deleuze, no magnum opus Diferença e Repetição, a um «pensamento sem Imagem» – que interpretamos, à luz das suas publicações ulteriores, menos como um rejeição do mundo das imagens do que como uma crítica da representação –, analisaremos a teoria da imagem-simulacro que, na mesma obra, se constitui como uma das principais formas de executar o programa do empirismo transcendental e de realizar aquela que é maior ambição da sua filosofia: instaurar um plano de univocidade e imanência desprovido de instâncias transcendentes. Na segunda metade deste estudo, que incide sobre os livros que Deleuze consagrou ao cinema – A Imagem-Movimento e a A Imagem-Tempo - examinaremos a singular aliança estabelecida pelo filósofo francês entre a teoria das imagens de Matéria e Memória de Bergson e a natureza do médium cinematográfico. Numa tentativa de pôr em evidência o aspecto sistemático do pensamento de Deleuze, a nossa análise desta nova filosofia da imagem – que não visa apenas as imagens cinematográficas mas pretende designar igualmente a própria textura do universo – deixar-se-á guiar pelo horizonte teórico e pelos principais problemas recortados no comentário a Diferença e Repetição que a precede: uma doutrina das faculdades renovada; uma filosofia do tempo distribuída em três sínteses passivas; a função da arte no empirismo transcendental e, acima de tudo, o papel atribuído à noção de imagem na instauração de um plano de imanência.

Determinants of mother-baby relationship evaluated during pregnancy

ABSTRACT Background Mental health promotion is supported by a strong body of knowledge and is a matter of public health with the potential of a large impact on society. Mental health promotion programs should be implemented as soon as possible in life, preferably starting during pregnancy. Programs should focus on malleable determinants, introducing strategies to reduce risk factors or their impact on mother and child, and also on strengthening protective factors to increase resilience. The ambition of early detecting risk situations requires the development and use of tools to assess risk, and the creation of a responsive network of services based in primary health care, especially maternal consultation during pregnancy and the first months of the born child. The number of risk factors and the way they interact and are buffered by protective factors are relevant for the final impact. Maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) is not yet a totally understood and well operationalized concept. Methodological problems limit the comparison of data as many studies used small size samples, had an exploratory character or used different selection criteria and different measures. There is still a lack of studies in high risk populations evaluating the consequences of a weak MFA. Instead, the available studies are not very conclusive, but suggest that social support, anxiety and depression, self-esteem and self-control and sense of coherence are correlated with MFA. MFA is also correlated with health practices during pregnancy, that influence pregnancy and baby outcomes. MFA seems a relevant concept for the future mother baby interaction, but more studies are needed to clarify the concept and its operationalization. Attachment is a strong scientific concept with multiple implications for future child development, personality and relationship with others. Secure attachment is considered an essential basis of good mental health, and promoting mother-baby interaction offers an excellent opportunity to intervention programmes targeted at enhancing mental health and well-being. Understanding the process of attachment and intervening to improve attachment requires a comprehension of more proximal factors, but also a broader approach that assesses the impact of more distal social conditions on attachment and how this social impact is mediated by family functioning and mother-baby interaction. Finally, it is essential to understand how this knowledge could be translated in effective mental health promoting interventions and measures that could reach large populations of pregnant mothers and families. Strengthening emotional availability (EA) seems to be a relevant approach to improve the mother-baby relationship. In this review we have offered evidence suggesting a range of determinants of mother-infant relationship, including age, marital relationship, social disadvantages, migration, parental psychiatric disorders and the situations of abuse or neglect. Based on this theoretical background we constructed a theoretical model that included proximal and distal factors, risk and protective factors, including variables related to the mother, the father, their social support and mother baby interaction from early pregnancy until six months after birth. We selected the Antenatal Psychosocial Health Assessment (ALPHA) for use as an instrument to detect psychosocial risk during pregnancy. Method Ninety two pregnant women were recruited from the Maternal Health Consultation in Primary Health Care (PHC) at Amadora. They had three moments of assessment: at T1 (until 12 weeks of pregnancy) they filed out a questionnaire that included socio-demographic data, ALPHA, Edinburgh post-natal Depression Scale (EDPS), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and Sense of Coherence (SOC); at T2 (after the 20th weeks of pregnancy) they answered EDPS, SOC and MFA Scale (MFAS), and finally at T3 (6 months after birth), they repeated EDPS and SOC, and their interaction with their babies was videotaped and later evaluated using EA Scales. A statistical analysis has been done using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, univariate logistic regression and multiple linear regression. Results The study has increased our knowledge on this particular population living in a multicultural, suburb community. It allow us to identify specific groups with a higher level of psychosocial risk, such as single or divorced women, young couples, mothers with a low level of education and those who are depressed or have a low SOC. The hypothesis that psychosocial risk is directly correlated with MFAS and that MFA is directly correlated with EA was not confirmed, neither the correlation between prenatal psychosocial risk and mother-baby EA. The study identified depression as a relevant risk factor in pregnancy and its higher prevalence in single or divorced women, immigrants and in those who have a higher global psychosocial risk. Depressed women have a poor MFA, and a lower structuring capacity and a higher hostility to their babies. In average, depression seems to reduce among pregnant women in the second part of their pregnancy. The children of immigrant mothers show a lower level of responsiveness to their mothers what could be transmitted through depression, as immigrant mothers have a higher risk of depression in the beginning of pregnancy and six months after birth. Young mothers have a low MFA and are more intrusive. Women who have a higher level of education are more sensitive and their babies showed to be more responsive. Women who are or have been submitted to abuse were found to have a higher level of MFA but their babies are less responsive to them. The study highlights the relevance of SOC as a potential protective factor while it is strongly and negatively related with a wide range of risk factors and mental health outcomes especially depression before, during and after pregnancy. Conclusions ALPHA proved to be a valid, feasible and reliable instrument to Primary Health Care (PHC) that can be used as a total sum score. We could not prove the association between psychosocial risk factors and MFA, neither between MFA and EA, or between psychosocial risk and EA. Depression and SOC seems to have a clear and opposite relevance on this process. Pregnancy can be considered as a maturational process and an opportunity to change, where adaptation processes occur, buffering risk, decreasing depression and increasing SOC. Further research is necessary to better understand interactions between variables and also to clarify a better operationalization of MFA. We recommend the use of ALPHA, SOC and EDPS in early pregnancy as a way of identifying more vulnerable women that will require additional interventions and support in order to decrease risk. At political level we recommend the reinforcement of Immigrant integration and the increment of education in women. We recommend more focus in health care and public health in mental health condition and psychosocial risk of specific groups at high risk. In PHC special attention should be paid to pregnant women who are single or divorced, very young, low educated and to immigrant mothers. This study provides the basis for an intervention programme for this population, that aims to reduce broad spectrum risk factors and to promote Mental Health in women who become pregnant. Health and mental health policies should facilitate the implementation of the suggested measures.

O contributo da teoria de aprendizagem musical nas aprendizagens de conteúdo rítmico no 2º e 3º ciclo de ensino básico

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Moçambique, Surge et Ambula: a interculturalidade no corpus literário obrigatório no Ensino Secundário Geral entre 2004 e 2011

Com esta tese almejámos compreender se o corpus literário consignado aos alunos dos 11º e 12º anos do Ensino Secundário Geral – ESG, fomenta a interculturalidade, em função dos diferentes grupos étnicos moçambicanos. Cientistas sociais têm apontado como prioridade, na área de Educação Cultural, o estabelecimento de estratégias para promover a interculturalidade, uma vez que Moçambique é um país multilingue e multicultural. Verificámos que a literatura, nomeadamente, ainda não foi abordada como prática que, a partir de recursos pedagógicos específicos, pode alavancar este princípio. Assim, realizámos uma pesquisa com o objetivo de: a) analisar as formas de interpretação de interculturalidade, a partir das representações culturais constantes do corpus literário obrigatório, por parte de intervenientes do processo educativo; b) mapear as representações culturais do mosaico identitário moçambicano nesse corpus literário; c) discutir se essas representações culturais promovem a interculturalidade; d) verificar de que forma é que esse corpus literário é utilizado enquanto meio que, a partir das respectivas representações culturais, pode estimular a interculturalidade. Como metodologia de trabalho analisámos diferentes estudos que abordam a interculturalidade, o texto literário e a Educação Cultural, para apreendermos que valor acrescentar relativamente à implementação da mesma em Moçambique. Debruçámo-nos também sobre a Agenda Nacional 2025 que traça os objetivos que o país deseja alcançar em Moçambique. No tocante às diretrizes escolares, estudámos os documentos que preconizam o que é prioritário para efetivar o Sistema Nacional de Ensino; analisámos o corpus literário obrigatório para os 11º e 12º anos do ESG moçambicano; aplicámos três questionários a intervenientes do processo educativo: alunos da Escola Portuguesa de Moçambique (estudado como grupo de controle) e alunos do ESG; uma planificadora curricular e uma autora de manuais de ensino. Um quarto questionário foi aplicado a um conjunto de nativos de cada grupo étnico moçambicano. Os documentos mencionados e as perguntas abertas dos questionários tiveram uma abordagem qualitativa. As perguntas fechadas foram analisadas de acordo com o método quantitativo. Recorremos ainda a um quadro teórico assente nos Estudos Culturais e na Teoria Literária, especificamente na Estética da Receção e na Sociologia da Leitura, por colocarem o leitor no centro de hipóteses de descodificação textual. No tocante ao questionário aplicado aos alunos, medimos os resultados da formação, realizada a partir desse tipo de texto, com recurso à corrente do Interacionismo Sócio-discursivo. Os resultados dessa análise levaram-nos a constatar que, na ótica da receção ativa de textos, as práticas educativas devem estimular os alunos a interpretarem os diferentes sentidos para os quais a obra literária aponta, atendendo à literariedade do texto, no quadro de modalizações culturais, uma vez que algumas obras literárias moçambicanas assentam sobre uma escrita de base etnográfica. Este pode ser um recurso para despertar os alunos para uma consciência intercultural. A conclusão a que chegámos é a de que o atual corpus literário tem limitações na promoção da interculturalidade. Foi nesse sentido que apresentámos um cânone literário multicultural e um modelo de análise de representações culturais dos grupos étnicos moçambicanos susceptível de aplicação aos contextos educativos

Decentralization and privatization in Portuguese health reforms

ABSTRACT - The Portuguese National Health Service (SNS), a universal, centralized and public owned health care system, exhibits an extraordinary record of equalization in the access to health care and health gains in the late thirty years. However, the most recent history of the Portuguese health reform is pervaded by the influence of decentralization and privatization. Decentralization has been present in the system design since the 1976 Constitution, at least in theory. Private ownership of health care suppliers and out-ofpocket expenditures, on the financing side, both have a long tradition of relevance in the NHS mix of services. The initial aim of this study was to demonstrate expected parallelism between health reforms and public administration reforms, where a common pattern of joint decentralization and privatization was observed in many countries. Observers would be tempted to consider these two movements as common signs of new public management (NPM) developments. They have common objectives, are established around the core concepts of gains in effectiveness, efficiency, equity and quality of public services, through improved accountability. However, in practice, in Portugal, each movement was developed in a totally separated way. Besides those rooted in the NPM theory, there are few visible signs of association between decentralization and privatization. Decentralization, in the Portuguese SNS, was never intended to be followed by a privatization movement; it was seen merely as a public administration tool. Private management of health services, as stated in the most recent SNS legislation, was never intended to have decentralization as a condition or as a consequence. Paradoxically, in the Portuguese context, it has led invariably to centralized control. While presented as separate instruments for a common purpose, the association between decentralization and privatization still lacks a convincing demonstration. Many common health care management stereotypes remain to be checked out if we want to look for eventual associations between these two organizational tools.

Da teoria à prática, implementação de sistemas CRM

Este Relatório de Estágio tem como objetivo principal dar a conhecer a empresa em que realizei o estágio (UNISYS), o contexto sobre o qual trabalhei (CRM), tecnologias que utilizei, as atividades e funções que fui tendo ao longo do estágio, bem como as skills necessárias a executar essas mesmas funções. É ainda, feita uma ponte entre o tema “Ciclo de Vida de Desenvolvimento de Software” (matéria dada ao longo da Licenciatura e Mestrado) e o estágio em si. A pertinência desta interligação, surge uma vez que se trata de uma matéria que me fascina, e pelo facto de terem sido utilizadas diversas metodologias ao longo do meu estágio.