A integração do Building Information Modeling (BIM) num projeto de reabilitação

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

Promoção da motivação e da autonomia com recurso às tecnologias de informação e comunicação em alunos normovisuais e em alunos com deficiência visual

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ensino de Informática

Introduction to special Issue: future priorities in European media and communication research

(Excerto) The European Journal of Communication seeks to present the best in current research in the broad field of media and communication research. Irregularly, we seek to take stock by inviting a small group of leading scholars to present their work at a symposium on a common theme, which then forms the basis for a Special Issue of the Journal. In 2014, the European Science Foundation (ESF) published one of their ‘Forward Looks’ entitled Media in Europe: New Questions for Research and Policy. We subsequently invited several of the Forward Look’s authors to meet and discuss their work with us at a symposium hosted by the European University Cyprus, and the discussion and revised papers that resulted are published here.

Mediação Penal Juvenil: um novo paradigma de resposta à delinquência

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito Judiciário (Direitos Processuais e Organização Judiciária)

O direito fundamental à proteção na velhice através dos impostos

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito das Crianças, Família e Sucessões

Why do we need randomized and epidemiological studies on cardiovascular disease? Evidence-based cardiology VII

Over the last two decades the results of randomized clinical studies, which are powerful aids for correctly assessing therapeutical strategies, have consolidated cardiological practice. In addition, scientifically interesting hypotheses have been generated through the results of epidemiological studies. Properly conducted randomized studies without systematic errors and with statistical power adequate for demonstrating moderate and reasonable benefits in relevant clinical outcomes have provided reliable and strong results altering clinical practice, thus providing adequate treatment for patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The dissemination and use of evidence-based medicine in treating coronary artery disease (CAD), heart failure (HF), and in prevention will prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths annually in developed and developing countries. CVD is responsible for approximately 12 million deaths annually throughout the world, and approximately 60% of these deaths occur in developing countries. During recent years, an increase in mortality and morbidity rates due to CVD has occurred in developing countries. This increase is an indication that an epidemiological (demographic, economical, and health-related) transition is taking place in developing countries and this transition implies a global epidemic of CVD, which will require wide-ranging and globally effective strategies for prevention. The identification of conventional and emerging risk factors for CVD, as well as their management in high-risk individuals, has contributed to the decrease in the mortality rate due to CVD. Through a national collaboration, several multi-center and multinational randomized and epidemiological studies have been carried out throughout Brazil, thus contributing not only to a generalized scientific growth in different Brazilian hospitals but also to the consolidation of an increasingly evidence-based clinical practice.

A imprensa desportiva do papel ao online: o exemplo do jornal Record

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Informação e Jornalismo)

Aromatic amines sources, environmental impact and remediation

Aromatic amines are widely used industrial chemicals as their major sources in the environment include several chemical industry sectors such as oil refining, synthetic polymers, dyes, adhesives, rubbers, perfume, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and explosives. They result also from diesel exhaust, combustion of wood chips and rubber and tobacco smoke. Some types of aromatic amines are generated during cooking, special grilled meat and fish, as well. The intensive use and production of these compounds explains its occurrence in the environment such as in air, water and soil, thereby creating a potential for human exposure. Since aromatic amines are potential carcinogenic and toxic agents, they constitute an important class of environmental pollutants of enormous concern, which efficient removal is a crucial task for researchers, so several methods have been investigated and applied. In this chapter the types and general properties of aromatic amine compounds are reviewed. As aromatic amines are continuously entering the environment from various sources and have been designated as high priority pollutants, their presence in the environment must be monitored at concentration levels lower than 30 mg L1, compatible with the limits allowed by the regulations. Consequently, most relevant analytical methods to detect the aromatic amines composition in environmental matrices, and for monitoring their degradation, are essential and will be presented. Those include Spectroscopy, namely UV/visible and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR); Chromatography, in particular Thin Layer (TLC), High Performance Liquid (HPLC) and Gas chromatography (GC); Capillary electrophoresis (CE); Mass spectrometry (MS) and combination of different methods including GC-MS, HPLC-MS and CE-MS. Choosing the best methods depend on their availability, costs, detection limit and sample concentration, which sometimes need to be concentrate or pretreated. However, combined methods may give more complete results based on the complementary information. The environmental impact, toxicity and carcinogenicity of many aromatic amines have been reported and are emphasized in this chapter too. Lately, the conventional aromatic amines degradation and the alternative biodegradation processes are highlighted. Parameters affecting biodegradation, role of different electron acceptors in aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation and kinetics are discussed. Conventional processes including extraction, adsorption onto activated carbon, chemical oxidation, advanced oxidation, electrochemical techniques and irradiation suffer from drawbacks including high costs, formation of hazardous by-products and low efficiency. Biological processes, taking advantage of the naturally processes occurring in environment, have been developed and tested, proved as an economic, energy efficient and environmentally feasible alternative. Aerobic biodegradation is one of the most promising techniques for aromatic amines remediation, but has the drawback of aromatic amines autooxidation once they are exposed to oxygen, instead of their degradation. Higher costs, especially due to power consumption for aeration, can also limit its application. Anaerobic degradation technology is the novel path for treatment of a wide variety of aromatic amines, including industrial wastewater, and will be discussed. However, some are difficult to degrade under anaerobic conditions and, thus, other electron acceptors such as nitrate, iron, sulphate, manganese and carbonate have, alternatively, been tested.

O contributo da narrativa digital para o desenvolvimento da fala num caso de Rubinstein-Taybi: estudo de caso

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Educação (área de especialização em Tecnologia Educativa)

Portugal: Postdoc rights need not hurt productivity

[Excerpt] Portugal’s government is on the verge of a historic process, recognizing at last that postdoctoral researchers should have the same rights as the rest of the country’s workforce (see go.nature.com/famkkn; in Portuguese). In defiance of European Union practice, more than 90% of these early-career scientists are currrently classed as ‘advanced students’ and funded by student scholarships. (...)

Intervenção precoce: as preocupações e os apoios sociais das mães do Vale do Sousa

Dissertação de mestrado em Educação Especial (área de especialização em Intervenção Precoce)

Optimización en el cómputos de algoritmos de cuadratura para funciones especiales. Optimization of quadrature algorithms for special functions.

En nuestro proyecto anterior aproximamos el cálculo de una integral definida con integrandos de grandes variaciones funcionales. Nuestra aproximación paraleliza el algoritmo de cómputo de un método adaptivo de cuadratura, basado en reglas de Newton-Cote. Los primeros resultados obtenidos fueron comunicados en distintos congresos nacionales e internacionales; ellos nos permintieron comenzar con una tipificación de las reglas de cuadratura existentes y una clasificación de algunas funciones utilizadas como funciones de prueba. Estas tareas de clasificación y tipificación no las hemos finalizado, por lo que pretendemos darle continuidad a fin de poder informar sobre la conveniencia o no de utilizar nuestra técnica. Para llevar adelante esta tarea se buscará una base de funciones de prueba y se ampliará el espectro de reglas de cuadraturas a utilizar. Además, nos proponemos re-estructurar el cálculo de algunas rutinas que intervienen en el cómputo de la mínima energía de una molécula. Este programa ya existe en su versión secuencial y está modelizado utilizando la aproximación LCAO. El mismo obtiene resultados exitosos en cuanto a precisión, comparado con otras publicaciones internacionales similares, pero requiere de un tiempo de cálculo significativamente alto. Nuestra propuesta es paralelizar el algoritmo mencionado abordándolo al menos en dos niveles: 1- decidir si conviene distribuir el cálculo de una integral entre varios procesadores o si será mejor distribuir distintas integrales entre diferentes procesadores. Debemos recordar que en los entornos de arquitecturas paralelas basadas en redes (típicamente redes de área local, LAN) el tiempo que ocupa el envío de mensajes entre los procesadores es muy significativo medido en cantidad de operaciones de cálculo que un procesador puede completar. 2- de ser necesario, paralelizar el cálculo de integrales dobles y/o triples. Para el desarrollo de nuestra propuesta se desarrollarán heurísticas para verificar y construir modelos en los casos mencionados tendientes a mejorar las rutinas de cálculo ya conocidas. A la vez que se testearán los algoritmos con casos de prueba. La metodología a utilizar es la habitual en Cálculo Numérico. Con cada propuesta se requiere: a) Implementar un algoritmo de cálculo tratando de lograr versiones superadoras de las ya existentes. b) Realizar los ejercicios de comparación con las rutinas existentes para confirmar o desechar una mejor perfomance numérica. c) Realizar estudios teóricos de error vinculados al método y a la implementación. Se conformó un equipo interdisciplinario integrado por investigadores tanto de Ciencias de la Computación como de Matemática. Metas a alcanzar Se espera obtener una caracterización de las reglas de cuadratura según su efectividad, con funciones de comportamiento oscilatorio y con decaimiento exponencial, y desarrollar implementaciones computacionales adecuadas, optimizadas y basadas en arquitecturas paralelas.

Report to the government of Baroda on the marine zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar, by James Hornell ... With supplementary reports on special groups by other zoologists ...

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