Business intelligence no suporte às autarquias locais e à sua gestão orçamental

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Modelos de simulação de processos por junção de componentes

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Single line for assembly just-in-sequence multiple models

Programa Doutoral em Líderes para as Indústrias Tecnológicas

O currículo da formação em engenharia no âmbito do processo de bolonha: desenvolvimento de competências e perfil profissional na perspetiva dos docentes, dos estudantes e dos profissionais

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Educação (área de especilização em Desenvolvimento Curricular).

Estudo numérico sobre o reforço de pilares de betão armado com cantoneiras e presilhas metálicas: análise paramétrica e modelo de cálculo

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

FISHji: new ImageJ macros for the quantification of fluorescence in epifluorescence images

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is based on the use of fluorescent staining dyes, however, the signal intensity of the images obtained by microscopy is seldom quantified with accuracy by the researcher. The development of innovative digital image processing programs and tools has been trying to overcome this problem, however, the determination of fluorescent intensity in microscopy images still has issues due to the lack of precision in the results and the complexity of existing software. This work presents FISHji, a set of new ImageJ methods for automated quantification of fluorescence in images obtained by epifluorescence microscopy. To validate the methods, results obtained by FISHji were compared with results obtained by flow cytometry. The mean correlation between FISHji and flow cytometry was high and significant, showing that the imaging methods are able to accurately assess the signal intensity of fluorescence images. FISHji are available for non-commercial use at http://paginas.fe.up.pt/nazevedo/.

Quantifying the risk of coronary artery disease in a community: The Bambuí Project

OBJECTIVE: To determine the coronary risk profile in adults and elderly in a community. METHODS: The study comprised a sample of adults (30-59 years, n=547) and the entire elderly population (60-74 years, n=1165) residing in Bambuí town, Brazil. The Framingham score based on sex, age, smoking, diabetes mellitus, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, and HDL-C was used. The score based on age and sex was defined as "expected" and compared with the mean score obtained by the sum of all risk factors in each age group and sex (score "observed"). RESULTS: The difference between the scores "observed" and "expected" increased with aging in both sexes. Smoking increased the difference from 30 years of age onwards, in both sexes, and hypertension was important in men above the age of 30 years and in women above the age of 50 years. Diabetes and elevated total cholesterol increased the risk of the disease above the age of 50 years in both sexes. A higher level of HDL-C reduced the risk among men above the age of 30 years, with no significant difference among women. Less schooling (< 4 years versus ³ 4 years) was associated with a higher score in adults of both sexes, but not among the elderly. CONCLUSION: Based on these results, in the community studied, the risk of coronary artery disease may be reduced up to 44% in men and 38% in women.

Modernização administrativa O licenciamento zero das atividades económicas nas Autarquias locais - Câmara Municipal de Óbidos

Dissertação de Mestrado em MPA – Administração Pública

Tradução e validação para o português do Medication Regimen Complexity Index

FUNDAMENTO: A complexidade da farmacoterapia consiste de múltiplas características do regime prescrito, incluindo o número de diferentes medicações no esquema, o número de unidades de dosagem por dose, o número total de doses por dia e os cuidados na administração dos medicamentos. O Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI) é um instrumento específico, validado e utilizado para medir a complexidade da farmacoterapia, desenvolvido originalmente em língua inglesa. OBJETIVO: Tradução transcultural e validação desse instrumento para o português do Brasil. MÉTODOS: Foi desenvolvido um estudo transversal envolvendo 95 pacientes com diabete do tipo 2 utilizando múltiplas medicações. O processo de validação teve início pela tradução, retrotradução e pré-teste do instrumento, gerando uma versão adaptada chamada Índice de Complexidade da Farmacoterapia (ICFT). Em seguida foram analisados parâmetros psicométricos, incluindo validade convergente, validade divergente, confiabilidade entre avaliadores e teste-reteste. RESULTADOS: A complexidade da farmacoterapia medida pelo ICFT obteve média de 15,7 pontos (desvio padrão = 8,36). O ICFT mostrou correlação significativa com o número de medicamentos em uso (r = 0,86; p < 0,001) e a idade dos pacientes (r = 0,28; p = 0,005). A confiabilidade entre avaliadores obteve correlação intraclasse igual a 0,99 (p < 0,001) e a confiabilidade teste-reteste obteve correlação de 0,997 (p < 0,001). CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados demonstraram que o ICFT apresenta bom desempenho de validade e confiabilidade, podendo ser utilizado como ferramenta útil na prática clínica e em pesquisas envolvendo análise da complexidade da terapia.

Procesos adaptativos y dimensiones del comportamiento biosocial en cazadores recolectores del SW de la provincia de La Pampa.

Resumen del proyecto: Este resumen se incluirá en la base de datos de la Biblioteca Digital del Ministerio, por lo que se debe elaborar el mismo sobre la base de la siguiente estructura y completar todos los campos que se indican a continuación: identificación y caracterización del problema objeto del estudio, hipótesis, planteo de objetivos, materiales y métodos a utilizar, resultados esperados, importancia del proyecto (extensión del campo 4000 caracteres). Proyecto diseñado para aportar al conocimiento de los procesos adaptativos y la dinámica biosocial de las sociedades del pasado prehistórico argentino. Propone analizar y evaluar el potencial documental de los restos bioarqueológicos con fehaciente asociación contextual para posibilitar la realización de inferencias sobre procesos biosociales de naturaleza adaptativa o no adaptativa. Está centrado en el análisis osteológico y biocultural de materiales esqueletales (aproximadamente cien individuos) correspondientes a poblaciones aborígenes prehistóricas del actual territorio de la provincia de La Pampa (Médano Petroquímica, Departamento Puelén). Entre otros muchos aspectos, la importancia de estos materiales reside en que son asignables a sociedades con economía cazadora-recolectora y cuya cronología corresponde al Holoceno tardío final (Entierros datados en 393 ± 41 cal AP AMS.), una época particularmente interesante por la dinámica sucesión de eventos socioculturales y poblacionales que la caracterizan. La evidencia recuperada da cuenta de prácticas funerarias complejas que consisten en la realización de enterratorios colectivos, indirectos, secundarios, y presencia de eventos de violencia y/o tensión social. Los métodos y técnicas consisten en la descripción e identificación basados en observación y registro de marcadores esqueléticos conforme a prácticas estándares de nuestro laboratorio: Planillas de observación y registro durante excavaciones de la Archaeological Summer Field School (ASFS) de la Universidad de Chicago y planillas de los “Standards” de Buikstra y Ubelaker, modificadas y adaptadas por nuestro grupo de trabajo, entre otros). Los datos obtenidos serán empleados para graficación (estadística descriptiva) y también se realizará sobre ellos análisis multivariados y estadística no paramétrica (etapa inferencial). Se tendrán en cuenta aspectos descriptivos y analíticos vinculados con el reconocimiento de la edad y el sexo, hábitos dietarios (marcadores morfológicos y químicos de hueso y dientes), economía de subsistencia, patrones de diferenciación social, exploración de eventuales relaciones de parentesco, roles vinculados con el sexo, el uso del cuerpo, dieta, salud y enfermedad, en relación con la economía de subsistencia, etc. (Buikstra y Beck 2006, Larsen, 1997, White y Folkens 2000). Dado la naturaleza y complejidad de los hallazgos, caracterizados por la conformación de entierros colectivos secundarios e indirectos, un capítulo de interés lo constituye el análisis de las dimensiones sociales del comportamiento mortuorio y la discusión de los indicadores de violencia y/o tensión social asociados a los hallazgos (O´Shea 1984, Rakita et al. 2005, entre otros). Dado el hecho de que se cuenta con la disponibilidad de materiales adecuados para este tipo de estudios, la información relevante y los datos a analizar serán obtenidos mediante la aplicación de métodos y técnicas bioarqueológicas específicas antes mencionados, con la finalidad de observar y discutir tendencias y proponer modelos de interpretación sujetos a ulterior validación, particularmente toda vez que se cuente con una mayor representación numérica y casuística tanto a nivel de individuos como de sitios bioarqueológicos excavados. El proyecto se enmarca en la firma de un Convenio Específico de Trabajo entre la UNRC y el Gobierno de La Pampa. Palabras clave: Ingrese hasta 5 palabras clave, distintas de las utilizadas en el título del proyecto y que describan la naturaleza del objeto de estudio. bioarqueología economía cazadora-recolectora adaptación biosocial comportamiento mortuorio Violencia y tensión social. Abstract: Resumen del proyecto en inglés (extensión del campo 2000 caracteres). This project has been designed to improve the knoledge on adaptive processes and biosocial dynamics among aborigine past societies in Argentina. This research is focused on the analysis and evaluation of documentary potential of bioarchaeological skeletal remains with reliable contextual associations. It is specifically centered in the osteological as well as cultural analysis of more than one hundred skeletons from native prehistoric populations from a prehistoric collective burial site in La Pampa province. (Médano Petroquímica, Departamento Puelén). Among other aspects, the importance of the materials to be analyzed lies in the fact that they correspond to a subsistence economy based on hunting and gathering, and have been chronologically assigned to Late Holocene times (burials dated 393 ± 41 cal AP AMS), a period denoting particular interest due to the dynamic succession of sociocultural events that characterized it. Evidence so far recovered accounts for complex funerary practices consisting of indirect, secondary collective burials, as well as the presence of events of violence and/o social tension. Methods and techniques consist in the description and identification based on the observation, and recording of skeletal markers, according to laboratory as well as field work standards: The University of Chicago Archaeological Summer Field School (ASFS) forms, and the “Standards” forms from Buikstra y Ubelaker (1994), modified and adapted by our research team, among others. Data obtained shall be used for graphic (descriptive statistics) as well as multivariate analyses and non parametric statistics (inferential stage). Descriptive as well as analytical aspects such as those related to age and sex determination, feeding habits (morphological as well as chemical markers of bones and teeth), subsistence economy, patterns of social differentiation, kinship patterns, sex-linked roles, body use, diet, health and disease, all of them in close relationship with the hunter-gatherer subsistence economy (Buikstra y Beck 2006, Larsen, 1997, White y Folkens 2000). Given the nature and complexity of the burial disposals, characterized by complex collective burials, a core chapter of our interest is that of social dimensions of mortuary behavior as well as the discussion and interpretation of markers of violence and/or social tension. Given the amount of evidence gathered so far, relevant information as well as data to be analyzed will be obtained by specific bioarchaeological methods and techniques, trying to observe and discuss possible trends as well as to formulate interpretive models to be verified or rejected with the arrival of new, reliable data both at individual level as well as at the archaeological sites to be excavated. This project has been particularly considered in a bilateral agreement between UNRC and the Government of La Pampa Province.

Groundwater vulnerability and protection in County Tipperary (South Riding), Ireland

The aim of the project was to determine the extent and quality of the groundwater in Tipperary South Riding with a view to developing a groundwater protection plan which would allow the Local Authority to manage, protect and develop the groundwater as efficiently as possible. The geology of the area varies with topography. The low-lying areas of the county comprise mainly Carboniferous limestones while the elevated regions consist of sandstones and shales of Upper Carboniferous, Devonian and Silurian ages. Deformation of these rocks decreases in magnitude moving northwards over the area; the Southern Synclines having suffered the effects of the Hercynian orogeny and the northern region exhibiting Caledonian orogenic trends. Quaternary (subsoil) deposits are found throughout the area and are of variable thickness and permeability. Till is the most widespread deposit with discontinuous pockets of sand and gravel in various proportions, and some marl, alluvium and peat in places. The principal aquifers of the area are the Kiltorcan sandstone formation and various limestone units within the Carboniferous succession. 50 % of south Tipperary constitutes either regionally or locally important aquifers. Secondary permeabilities created by structural deformation, dolomitisation, karstification and weathering processes create high transmissivities and often have large well yields. Specific baseflow analysis highlighted the complexity of the aquifers and proved that the lower part of the Suir river system is a major groundwater resource region. The hydrochemistry and water quality of the local authority groundwater sources was examined briefly. The majority of south Tipperary is underlain by limestone or Quaternary deposits derived from limestone and, consequently, calcium/magnesium bicarbonate waters predominate. The quality of the groundwater in south Tipperary demonstrates that the main concern originates from the presence of E.coli, and Total coliforms. The primary sources of contamination are from farmyard wastes and septic tanks. The vulnerability of groundwater to diffuse and point sources of pollution has been found to be dependent on the overlying soil, subsoil and the thickness of the unsaturated zone. A conceptual rather than quantitative approach is used and it is found that approximately 60% of south Tipperary is designated as being extremely or highly vulnerable. The groundwater protection plan was devised subsequent to an understanding of the aquifer systems, an assessment of the vulnerability, and a review of the Irish planning system and environmental law. It is recommended that the plan be integrated into the county development plan for legislative purposes. A series of acceptability matrices were devised to restrict potentially polluting activities in vulnerable areas while maintaining a balance between protection of the groundwater resource and the need to site essential developments.

Instrumentation and software for the VERITAS Project and the detection of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the BL Lacertae Object 1ES1959+650

Transmission of Cherenkov light through the atmosphere is strongly influenced by the optical clarity of the atmosphere and the prevailing weather conditions. The performance of telescopes measuring this light is therefore dependent on atmospheric effects. This thesis presents software and hardware developed to implement a prototype sky monitoring system for use on the proposed next-generation gamma-ray telescope array, VERITAS. The system, consisting of a CCD camera and a far-infrared pyrometer, was successfully installed and tested on the ten metre atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope operated by the VERITAS Collaboration at the F.L. Whipple Observatory in Arizona. The thesis also presents the results of observations of the BL Lacertae object, 1ES1959+650, made with the Whipple ten metre telescope. The observations provide evidence for TeV gamma-ray emission from the BL Lacertae object, 1ES1959+650, at a level of more than 15 standard deviations above background. This represents the first unequivocal detection of this object at TeV energies, making it only the third extragalactic source seen at such levels of significance in this energy range. The flux variability of the source on a number of timescales is also investigated.