Strategic marketing plan for Sant'Anna

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

A percepção da ordem e a consciência do tempo em Mari no período Paleo-Babilónico (séc. XIX- XVIII a. C.)

O presente estudo tem como objectivo estudar as questões do tempo e da ordem no reino de Mari. A análise destas questões evidencia dois aspectos importantes: por um lado, a convergência de duas culturas distintas – uma cultura acádica, tipicamente mesopotâmica, e uma cultura amorrita, mais ocidental – num mesmo espaço e, por outro lado, a importância do reino de Mari como um estudo de caso que retrata, por vezes com grande pormenor, a influência da penetração dos povos nómadas nas terras da Mesopotâmia e as suas repercussões nos vários domínios da vida pública. Estudar a ordem implica compreender a organização do mundo e da sociedade, bem como a relação entre as esferas humana e celeste. Estudar o tempo implica, por sua vez, entender como o homem se posiciona no espaço, como entende a sua história e o seu destino. Uma análise focada nestes dois temas permitir-nos-á, pois, compreender qual era o verdadeiro sentido da vida e do mundo para o homem de Mari. Como veremos, para o mariota, a vida assentava numa intensa dinâmica na qual a família detinha o papel principal: era ela que o enquadrava na sociedade, que lhe permitia participar nos destinos da vida pública e receber as devidas honras após a morte. Nesta perspectiva, a família e os laços de sangue adquiriam um papel preponderante em vários domínios da vida humana. Eram os laços consanguíneos que imperavam aquando da escolha de aliados e partidários. Por outro lado, o culto do parentesco impunha uma visão da história segundo a qual o tempo passado se afirmava como o grande modelo teórico das acções desenvolvidas no quotidiano (no presente). Paralelamente à família, o homem de Mari acreditava que no mundo divino residia a sua verdadeira esperança de levar uma vida feliz. A imagem de uma teocracia, onde homem e deus partilhavam o mesmo destino, é transversal a todo o pensamento e acção do homem de Mari. Nesta tese, propomos desenvolver um estudo de conjunto, uma análise transversal que abranja todos os aspectos da vida social e humana: a religião, a política, a cultura e a sociedade

Francisco de Sá Noronha e L'Arco di Sant'Anna : Para o estudo da ópera em Portugal (1860/70)

Trabalho de síntese apresentado à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, para discussão na prova de habilitação prevista no art° 58°do E.C.D.U.

Contribuição para um modelo de circulação do LCR na cabeça

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

Metals in proteins from sulphate-reducing bacteria: adenylate kinase and ATP sulfurylase. Proteins containing cobalt, zinc, iron (II) ions

A Thesis submitted at the Faculty Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon for a degree in Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry with specialization in Physical Biochemistry

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of adenosine triphosphate sulfurylase (ATPS) from the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774

Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2008 Jul 1;64(Pt 7):593-5

Analysis of mental health service financial models with a particular emphasis of Ireland

ABSTRACT: Financing is a critical factor in ensuring the optimal development and delivery of a mental health system. The primary method of financing worldwide is tax-based. However many low income countries depend on out-of-pocket payments. There is a report on Irish Health Care funding but none that deals exclusively with mental health care. This paper analyses the various financial models that exist globally with respect to financing the mental health sector, examines the impact of various models on service users, especially in terms of relative ‘financial burden’ and provides a more detailed examination of the current mental health funding situation in Ireland After extensive internet and hardcopy research on the above topics, the findings were analysed and a number of recommendations were reached. Mental health service should be free at the point of delivery to achieve universal coverage. Government tax-based funding or mandatory social insurance with government top-ups, as required, appears the optimal option, although there is no one funding system applicable everywhere. Out-of-pocket funding can create a crippling financial burden for service users. It is important to employ improved revenue collection systems, eliminate waste, provide equitable resource distribution, ring fence mental health funding and cap the number of visits, where necessary. Political, economic, social and cultural factors play a role in funding decisions and this can be clearly seen in the context of the current economic recession in Ireland. Only 33% of the Irish population has access to free public health care and the number health insurance policy holders has dramatically declined, resulting in increased out-of-pocket payments. This approach risks negatively impacting on the social determinants of health, increasing health inequalities and negatively affecting economic productivity. It is therefore important the Irish government examines other options to provide funding for mental health services.

Drivers and barriers to value creation in mobile service delivery

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

Drivers of participation in collaborative consumption ventures

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

Development of novel ionic liquids based on biological molecules

Ionic Liquids (ILs) belong to a class of compounds with unusual properties: very low vapour pressure; high chemical and thermal stability and the ability to dissolve a wide range of substances. A new field in research is evaluating the possibility to use natural chiral biomolecules for the preparation of chiral ionic liquids (CILs). This important challenge in synthetic chemistry can open new avenues of research in order to avoid some problems related with the intrinsic biodegradability and toxicity associated to conventional ILs. The research work developed aimed for the synthesis of CILs, their characterization and possible applications, based on biological moieties used either as chiral cations or anions, depending on the synthetic manipulation of the derivatives. Overall, a total of 28 organic salts, including CILs were synthesized: 9 based on L-cysteine derivatives, 12 based on L-proline, 3 based on nucleosides and 4 based on nucleotides. All these new CILs were completely characterized and their chemical and physical properties were evaluated. Some CILs based on L-cysteine have been applied for discrimination processes, including resolution of racemates and as a chiral catalyst for asymmetric Aldol condensation. L-proline derived CILs were also studied as chiral catalysts for Michael reaction. In parallel, the interactions of macrocyclic oligosugars called cyclodextrins (CDs) with several ILs were studied. It was possible to improve the solubility of CDs in water and serum. Additionally, fatty acids and steroids showed an increase in water solubility when ILs-CDs systems were used. The development of efficient and selective ILs-CDs systems is indispensable to expand the range of their applications in host-guest interactions, drug delivery systems or catalytic reactions. Novel salts derived from nucleobases were used in order to enhance the fluorescence in aqueous solution. Additionally, preliminary studies regarding ethyl lactate as an alternative solvent for asymmetric organocatalysis were performed.

Na rota dos albatrozes : Lowry leitor de Coleridge

Actas do XIX encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos - APEAA (Sintra 1-3 de Abril, 1998)