Assinatura tectono-sedimentar do auge da compressão bética em Portugal: a descontinuidade sedimentar Valesiano terminal-Turoliano

An Upper Miocene important sedimentary break can be accurately recognised in the Portuguese basins and is reflected by a drastic palaeogeographic change in relation to a large-scale tectonic event of probable uppermost Vallesian-Turolian (9,5 Ma; middle Tortonian) age. The characterisation of the sedimentary record of this tectonic event, as well as its relations with interpreted active faults is made for different situations: Douro (NW border), Mondego, Lower-Tagus and Sado Tertiary basins. The sedimentary record, considered upper Tortonian-Messinian ? (uppermost Vallesian-Turolian ?) is interpreted mainly as endorheic alluvial fans (internal drainage), developed along active NNE-SSW indent-linked strike-slip faults and NE-SW reverse faults. At NE Portugal, proximal fluvial systems of an endorheic hydrographic network drained eastwards to the Spanish Duero interior Basin. The main evidences of the betic compression clímax in Portugal mainland are presented; the interpreted active tectonic structures are in accordance with an intense NNW-SSE crustal shortening, but some regional differences are also documented.

Ansiedade pré-cirúrgica em crianças : avaliação da eficácia de um programa cognitivo-comportamental para a sua redução

Este estudo teve como objectivo avaliar a eficácia de uma sessão de informação a propósito de uma intervenção cirúrgica com anestesia geral na redução da ansiedade em jovens com idades compreendidas entre os 6 e os 12 anos. A amostra foi constituída por 125 jovens, 62 do sexo masculino e 63 do sexo feminino. Foram constituídos dois grupos, em que ao grupo experimental foi administrado um programa de informação sobre procedimentos cirúrgicos com anestesia geral, utilizando técnicas de modelagem, e em que ao grupo de controlo apenas foi aplicada a sessão avaliativa. Os resultados obtidos permitiram concluir que a eficácia da sessão informativa a propósito de uma intervenção cirúrgica com anestesia geral na redução da ansiedade, nas crianças, foi comprovada. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an information session about cirurgy, with general anesthesia induction, in reducing anxiety in children from 6 to 12 years undergoing cirurgy. Our sample was constituted by 125 children, 62 boys and 63 girls divided in two groups: the experimental group had an information session about chirurgical procedures with general anesthesia and had anxiety evaluated pre and post session, as the control group had only one anxiety evaluation. The results show that the session was effective on reducing pre-operatory anxiety in children.

Interpretação tectónica de um conjunto de lineamentos WNW-ESE observados em imagens landsat da margem oeste ibérica

The existence of satellite images ofthe West Iberian Margin allowed comparative study of images as a tool applied to structural geology. Interpretation of LANDSAT images of the Lusitanian Basin domain showed the existence of a not previously described WNW-ESE trending set oflineaments. These lineaments are persistent and only observable on small scale images (e.g. approx. 11200000 and 11500 000) with various radiometric characteristics. They are approximately 20 km long, trend l200±15° and cross cut any other families oflineaments. The fact that these lineaments are perpendicular to the Quaternary thrusts of the Lower Tagus Valley and also because they show no off-set across them, suggests that they resulted from intersection oflarge tensile fractures on the earth's surface. It is proposed in this work that these lineaments formed on a crustal flexure of tens ofkm long, associated with the Quaternary WNW-ESE oriented maximum compressive stress on the West Iberian Margin. The maximum compressive stress rotated anticlockwise from a NW -SE orientation to approximately WNW-ESE, from Late Miocene to Quaternary times (RIBEIRO et aI., 1996). Field inspection of the lineaments revealed zones of norm~1.J. faulting and cataclasis, which are coincident with the lineaments and affect sediments of upper Miocene up to Quaternary age. These deformation structures show localized extension perpendicular to the lineaments, i.e. perpendicular to the maximum compressive direction, after recent stress data along the West Portuguese Margin (CABRAL & RIBEIRO, 1989; RIBEIRO et at., 1996). Also, on a first approach, the geographical distribution of these lineaments correlates well with earthquake epicenters and areas of largest Quaternary Vertical Movements within the inverted Lusitanian Basin (CABRAL, 1995).

Using perspective schema and a reference model to design the ETL process

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Informática

Modelação de variadores contínuos de relação de transmissão

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica