SIN 319 AND VOSKR 27 AND THE TRIODION CYCLE IN THE LITURGICAL PRAXIS IN RUSSIA DURING THE STUDITE PERIOD

A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Social and Human Science of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology

Breaking the Pattern and Creating New Paths – Feminist Mizrahi Women Artists in Israel

This article addresses the work of Mizrahi women artists, i.e., Israeli-Jewish women of Asian or African ethnic origin, using the artist Vered Nissim as a case study. Nissim seeks to affirm the politics of identity and recognition, as well as feminism in order to create a paradigm shift with regards to the local regime of cultural representations in the Israeli art scene. Endeavouring to find ways of undermining the rigid imbalances between different social groups, she calls for a comprehensive reform of the status quo through artistic activism. Nissim employs a style, content, and medium that disrupts the accepted social order, using humour and irony as unique weapons with which she takes liberties with conventional moral, social, and economic values. Placing issues of race, class and gender at the centre of her work, she seeks to undermine and problematize essentialist attitudes, highlighting the political intersections of different identity categories as the critical analysis of intersectionality unfolds.

A arqueologia urbana em Lisboa e a Praxis empresarial

O presente relatório resultou do estágio efectuado na Era-Arqueologia S.A., no âmbito da componente não lectiva do Mestrado em Arqueologia. O seu objectivo foi dar um contributo para a compreensão do estado actual da Arqueologia Urbana e Empresarial especificamente na cidade de Lisboa, através da experiencia e informação obtidas durante a realização do estágio na empresa.

Tomographic imaging with a scanning laser ophtalmoscop

Retinal imaging with a confocal scaning laser Ophthalmoscope (cSLO) involves scanning a small laser beam over the retina and constructing an image from the reflected light. By applying the confocal principle, tomographic images can be produced by measuring a sequence of slices at different depths. However, the thickness of such slices, when compared with the retinal thickness, is too large to give useful 3D retinal images, if no processing is done. In this work, a prototype cSLO was modified in terms hardware and software to give the ability of doing the tomographic measurements with the maximum theoretical axial resolution possible. A model eye was built to test the performance of the system. A novel algorithm has been developed which fits a double Gaussian curve to the axial intensity profiles generated from a stack of images slices. The underlying assumption is that the laser light has mainly been reflected by two structures in the retina, the internal limiting membrane and the retinal pigment epithelium. From the fitted curve topographic images and novel thickness images of the retina can be generated. Deconvolution algorithms have also been developed to improve the axial resolution of the system, using a theoretically predicted cSLO point spread function. The technique was evaluated using measurements made on a model eye, four normal eyes and seven eyes containing retinal pathology. The reproducibility, accuracy and physiological measurements obtained, were compared with available published data, and showed good agreement. The difference in the measurements when using a double rather than a single Gaussian model was also analysed.

Specification of software architecture reconfiguration

In the past years, Software Architecture has attracted increased attention by academia and industry as the unifying concept to structure the design of complex systems. One particular research area deals with the possibility of reconfiguring architectures to adapt the systems they describe to new requirements. Reconfiguration amounts to adding and removing components and connections, and may have to occur without stopping the execution of the system being reconfigured. This work contributes to the formal description of such a process. Taking as a premise that a single formalism hardly ever satisfies all requirements in every situation, we present three approaches, each one with its own assumptions about the systems it can be applied to and with different advantages and disadvantages. Each approach is based on work of other researchers and has the aesthetic concern of changing as little as possible the original formalism, keeping its spirit. The first approach shows how a given reconfiguration can be specified in the same manner as the system it is applied to and in a way to be efficiently executed. The second approach explores the Chemical Abstract Machine, a formalism for rewriting multisets of terms, to describe architectures, computations, and reconfigurations in a uniform way. The last approach uses a UNITY-like parallel programming design language to describe computations, represents architectures by diagrams in the sense of Category Theory, and specifies reconfigurations by graph transformation rules.

Gestão de resíduos hospitalares

Este trabalho de investigação analisa os aspectos psico-sociais e técnicos dos resíduos nos hospitais, fundamentalmente a preferência por dispositivos médicos (DM) reutilizáveis ou descartáveis e a separação de resíduos, tanto para reciclagem como nos grupos definidos pela legislação. Aborda, também, os riscos para a saúde e a percepção de risco induzidos pelos resíduos hospitalares (RH). A parte prática é efectuada em seis hospitais, sendo acompanhados entre oito e doze serviços por hospital. Na selecção destes hospitais foram considerados critérios que permitem a respectiva diferenciação em dois grupos, de acordo com as características (especializados/distritais) e com a localização geográfica (a norte/a sul). Os instrumentos de observação utilizados são: observação directa, entrevistas e questionários. Com a parte prática procura-se conhecer a evolução temporal dos aspectos anteriormente referidos, mas também as diferenças existentes entre grupos de hospitais, entre grupos de profissionais de saúde e entre grupos de profissionais com diferentes opções de gestão de RH. Tendo por base esta subdivisão, apresentam-se os principais resultados: * Evolução temporal. No espaço de um ano observa-se um acréscimo acentuado na preferência por DM descartáveis, contudo também se regista um aumento do conhecimento sobre a separação dos RH por grupos e uma diminuição da percepção de risco. * Grupos de hospitais. Nos hospitais especializados e nos hospitais a norte verifica-se um menor conhecimento sobre os vários aspectos inerentes aos RH e uma maior percepção de risco associada, comparativamente aos hospitais distritais e a sul. Neste últimos, é maior a preferência por descartáveis. * Grupos de profissionais de saúde. O grupo dos enfermeiros apresenta maior conhecimento sobre RH e uma percepção de risco mais elevada em oposição ao grupo dos médicos. O grupo dos auxiliares de acção médica demonstra maior divergência entre a percepção e a realidade, apresentando, também, a maior preferência por descartáveis. * Grupos de profissionais com diferentes opções de gestão de resíduos. Os profissionais que optam preferencialmente por descartáveis têm percepções de risco mais elevadas que os que preferem os reutilizáveis. Os recicladores estão mais despertos para os problemas dos RH que os não recicladores, sendo a formação sobre o tema um aspecto importante. Também, os profissionais que separaram mais correctamente os RH por grupos são os que têm mais conhecimento sobre o tema e uma percepção de risco mais aproximada da definida na legislação. Estes resultados podem dar um grande contributo na gestão de RH, nomeadamente se forem incluídos nos correspondentes planos e políticas

Design of a doctorate programme on technology assessment: A sabbatical leave project

The work agenda includes the production of a report on different doctoral programmes on “Technology Assessment” in Europe, the US and Japan, in order to analyse collaborative post-graduation activities. Finally, the proposals on collaborative post-graduation programme between FCTUNL and ITAS-FZK will be organised by an ongoing discussion process with colleagues from ITAS.

Ocorrência e diversidade de leveduras no filoplano de plantas seleccionadas do Parque Natural da Serra da Arrábida

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Biologia (especialidade Microbiologia), pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Children, space, and the urban street: an ethnomathematics posture

Dissertation presented for the PhD Degree in Education Science – Curricular Theory and Science Teaching, by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Factorization by invariant embedding of elliptic problems: circular and star-shaped domains

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Matemática na especialidade de Equações Diferenciais, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Romantismo inglês : uma interpretação

Apesar de se utilizar com freqüência o termo «escola romântica», apesar de ter sido possível, em certos cases, marcar datas limites para o período em que se desenvolveu a literatura dita romântica, a verdade é que nada disto é mais que convenção para facilidade de estudo. De facte, não há uma teoria romântica que defina uma praxis, «há tantos romantismes como românticos», segundo definição de um crítico (H. Bremend). Paul Valéry reforçou definitivamente esta idéia, quando considerou que «seria precise ter perdido todo o espírito de rigor para tentar definir o romantismo». O Romantismo é sobretudo um estado de espírito, que tem na base uma necessidade de afirmação pessoal do artista, cuja inspiração não cabe nos limites impostos pelos critérios de uma época e para quem a arte é uma realização de si próprio e o leva a isolar-se num mundo sò seu. Isto justifica, por exemple, que o drama seja a forma literária que menos atraiu es românticos.

Gender and reproductive autonomy : are there second-class citizens in Europe?

EUROPEAN MASTER’S DEGREE IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATISATION Academic Year 2007/2008

Síntese de N-arilaziridinas quirais

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Química,especialidade de Química Orgânica,pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Meta-analysis of gender and science research - Country report - Portugal

In Portugal, especially starting in the 1970s, women’s studies had implications on the emergency of the concept of gender and the feminist criticism to the prevailing models about differences between sexes. Until then, women had been absent from scientific research both as subject and as object. Feminism brought more reflexivity to the scientific thinking. After the 25th of April 1974, because of the consequent political openness, several innovating themes of research emerged, together with new concepts and fields of study. However, as far as gender and science relationship is concerned, such studies especially concentrate on higher education institutions. The feminist thinking seems to have two main objectives: to give women visibility, on the one hand, and to denunciate men’s domain in the several fields of knowledge. In 1977, the “Feminine Commission” is created and since then it has been publishing studies on women’s condition and contributing to the enhancement of the reflection of female condition at all levels. In the 1980s, the growing feminisation of tertiary education (both of students and academics), favoured the development of women’s studies, especially on their condition within universities with a special focus on the glass ceiling, despite the lack of statistical data by gender, thus making difficult the analysis of women integration in several sectors, namely in educational and scientific research activities. Other agglutinating themes are family, social and legal condition, work, education, and feminine intervention on political and social movements. In the 1990s, Women Studies are institutionalised in the academic context with the creation of the first Master in Women Studies in the Universidade Aberta (Open University), in Lisbon. In 1999, the first Portuguese journal of women studies is created – “Faces de Eva”. Seminars, conferences, thesis, journals, and projects on women’s studies are more and more common. However, results and publications are not so divulgated as they should be, because of lack of comprehensive and coordinated databases. 2. Analysis by topics 2.1. Horizontal and vertical segregation Research questions It is one of the main areas of research in Portugal. Essentially two issues have been considered: - The analysis of vertical gender segregation in educational and professional fields, having reflexes on women professional career progression with special attention to men’s power in control positions and the glass ceiling. - The analysis of horizontal segregation, special in higher education (teaching and research) where women have less visibility than men, and the under-representation of women in technology and technological careers. Research in this area mainly focuses on description, showing the under-representation of women in certain scientific areas and senior positions. Nevertheless, the studies that analyze horizontal segregation in the field of education adopt a more analytical approach which focuses on the analysis of the mechanisms of reproduction of gender stereotypes, especially socialisation, influencing educational and career choices. 1

Os caminhos do poder no feminino

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