O ensino de teatro de animação: contribuições para construção de novos saberes e fazeres acerca da cultura de ensinar e aprender teatro

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Educação - Especialidade de Desenvolvimento Curricular

A VEP study in sleeping and awake one-month-old infants and its relation with social behavior

With the present study we aimed to analyze the relationship between infants' behavior and their visual evoked-potential (VEPs) response. Specifically, we want to verify differences regarding the VEP response in sleeping and awake infants and if an association between VEP components, in both groups, with neurobehavioral outcome could be identified. To do so, thirty-two full-term and healthy infants, approximately 1-month of age, were assessed through a VEP unpatterned flashlight stimuli paradigm, offered in two different intensities, and were assessed using a neurobehavioral scale. However, only 18 infants have both assessments, and therefore, these is the total included in both analysis. Infants displayed a mature neurobehavioral outcome, expected for their age. We observed that P2 and N3 components were present in both sleeping and awake infants. Differences between intensities were found regarding the P2 amplitude, but only in awake infants. Regression analysis showed that N3 amplitude predicted an adequate social interactive and internal regulatory behavior in infants who were awake during the stimuli presentation. Taking into account that social orientation and regulatory behaviors are fundamental keys for social-like behavior in 1-month-old infants, this study provides an important approach for assessing physiological biomarkers (VEPs) and its relation with social behavior, very early in postnatal development. Moreover, we evidence the importance of the infant's state when studying differences regarding visual threshold processing and its association with behavioral outcome.

Comunicação Android com câmaras ONVIF e gestão de Perfis de Media

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática

Sistema de aquisição e comunicação para sensores magnetoelétricos

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores

Otimização do internamento no Hospital de Braga usando metodologia Kaizen

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Biomédica (área de especialização em Engenharia Clínica)

A informação e a comunicação na escola: tecnologias, redes e fluxos

Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos da Criança (Especialidade de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação)

Treating the entire person

[Excerpt] A critical case from a Portuguese hospital reveals how the ultimate healthcare customer, the patient, is a complete system, not a jumble of parts. (...) The lean production philosophy has made inroads into service sectors, including medical care in the United Kingdom and the United States. Unfortunately, numerous medical organizations in those two countries and the rest of the world treat patients like they are made up of parts, not as a whole system. This leads to disjointed handoffs, bottlenecks in information flow that delay treatment, and sending the patient back and forth from department to department. The following case in Portugal shows how most of the world’s health systems still suffer from functional silos and how waste is all over the place. In this case, the missing links in communication between doctors, nurses, auxiliary staff, the patient and her family led to the patient’s death. Adopting lean healthcare with its proven tools would be a solution to many of the problems described. When a patient dies in a hospital, the family often is told that the doctors did everything they could. Normally, that is the case, as healthcare providers – doctors, nurses, auxiliary staff, therapists – do their best with the system they have.

A cooperar é que se aprende?: a aprendizagem cooperativa e educação intercultural: um contributo na construção da autonomia do aluno

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ensino de Inglês e Espanhol no 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e Ensino Secundário

Produção de um curso online: contributo para a comunicação entre técnico e professor

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

As relações bilaterais entre Portugal e a China: enquadramento histórico-económico e distância cultural

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Estudos Interculturais Português/Chinês: Tradução, Formação e Comunicação Empresarial

Avaliação sensoriomotora do complexo articular do ombro : validação de um protocolo

Introdução: São escassas as medidas objetivas, válidas e consistentes da função sensoriomotora do complexo articular do ombro (CAO). Objetivos: desenvolvimento e validação de um protocolo de avaliação sensoriomotora do CAO. Materiais e métodos: 40 Sujeitos (16 atletas e 24 não atletas) completaram 6 momentos de teste, 3 por cada um de 2 investigadores. Em cada momento avaliou-se a NPA pelo Biodex System 3, na elevação do braço no plano da omoplata a 80º e 160º, e na rotação externa (RE) a 45º e 80º , bem como o controlo postural do CAO avaliou-se pela plataforma Rsscan. Resultados/Discussão: Todas as variáveis apresentaram estabilidade temporal, exceto os erros a 80º na RE (p=0,021) e 80º no PO (p=0,006), nos atletas, para o Investigador 1, e as componentes do CP nos não atletas, para o investigador 2. Os ICC’s foram globalmente baixos, apresentando valores moderados no grupo de não atletas, para o Investigador 2, no comprimento (0,862) e velocidade média do CP (0,852). Excluindo a área do CP no grupo de não atletas (p=0,030), não houve diferenças significativas nas médias entre observadores. Verificaram-se correlações fortes entre as componentes do CP, mas não ocorreram correlações fortes entre estas e as da NPA. Conclusões: Os resultados poucos consistentes, não permitem retirar conclusões sólidas, impossibilitando assumir o protocolo como fiável e válido na avaliação sensoriomotora do CAO.

Social inequalities in health among children and adolescents in Germany : an investigation of political approaches

The present diploma thesis analyses the German political understanding of social inequalities in health (SIH) among children and adolescents, and explores the political strategies that are perceived as most effective to tackle SIH. The study is based on the qualitative content analysis of official political documents developed at different political levels, which were the national level as well as two purposefully selected counties, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Niedersachsen. The study's findings indicate a beginning awareness of the existence of SIH in Germany. Nevertheless, this judgement refers to few publishing ministries only, both at national and county levels. The suggested approaches to tackle SIH vary significantly among the analysed documents, and no consensus can be identified with regard to the preference of upstream or downstream policies. The existence of the social gradient is not criticised in any of the analysed data. However, there seems to be a common agreement on the importance of setting related interventions and the contribution of both the national, regional, and local politic levels. As the absence of a central coordinator can explain these highly heterogeneous findings, key recommendations concern the establishment of a nation-wide coordinator and a nation-wide collection of best practice examples. Here, the Federal Centre for Health Education has an adequate position and the required competences to act as a coordinator and facilitator. Further requirements for a successful reduction of SIH in Germany are the extension of a continuous communication between all actors, the adoption of the planned German Prevention Law, and the nation-wide and early promotion of children as part of education policies in the federal states.

Functional and histopathological identification of the respiratory failure in a DMSXL transgenic mouse model of myotonic dystrophy.

Acute and chronic respiratory failure is one of the major and potentially life-threatening features in individuals with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). Despite several clinical demonstrations showing respiratory problems in DM1 patients, the mechanisms are still not completely understood. This study was designed to investigate whether the DMSXL transgenic mouse model for DM1 exhibits respiratory disorders and, if so, to identify the pathological changes underlying these respiratory problems. Using pressure plethysmography, we assessed the breathing function in control mice and DMSXL mice generated after large expansions of the CTG repeat in successive generations of DM1 transgenic mice. Statistical analysis of breathing function measurements revealed a significant decrease in the most relevant respiratory parameters in DMSXL mice, indicating impaired respiratory function. Histological and morphometric analysis showed pathological changes in diaphragmatic muscle of DMSXL mice, characterized by an increase in the percentage of type I muscle fibers, the presence of central nuclei, partial denervation of end-plates (EPs) and a significant reduction in their size, shape complexity and density of acetylcholine receptors, all of which reflect a possible breakdown in communication between the diaphragmatic muscles fibers and the nerve terminals. Diaphragm muscle abnormalities were accompanied by an accumulation of mutant DMPK RNA foci in muscle fiber nuclei. Moreover, in DMSXL mice, the unmyelinated phrenic afferents are significantly lower. Also in these mice, significant neuronopathy was not detected in either cervical phrenic motor neurons or brainstem respiratory neurons. Because EPs are involved in the transmission of action potentials and the unmyelinated phrenic afferents exert a modulating influence on the respiratory drive, the pathological alterations affecting these structures might underlie the respiratory impairment detected in DMSXL mice. Understanding mechanisms of respiratory deficiency should guide pharmaceutical and clinical research towards better therapy for the respiratory deficits associated with DM1.

Systematic Construction of Goal-Oriented COTS Taxonomies

Informe de investigación realizado a partir de una estancia en el Department of Computer and Information Science de la Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Noruega, entre setiembre i diciembre de 2006. El uso de componentes de software llamados Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) en el desarrollo de sistemas basados en componentes implica varios retos. Uno de ellos es la falta de información disponible y adecuada para dar soporte al proceso de selección de componentes a ser integrados. Para lidiar con estos problemas, se esta desarrollando un trabajo de tesis que propone un método llamado GOThIC (Goal-Oriented Taxonomy and reuse Infrastructure Construction). El método está orientado a construir una infrastructura de reuse para facilitar la búsqueda y reuse de componentes COTS. La estancia en la NTNU, reportada en este documento, tuvo como objetivo primordial las mejora del método y la obtención de datos empíricos para darle soporte. Algunos de los principales resultados fueron la obtención de datos empíricos fundamentando la utilización del método en ámbitos industriales de selección de componentes COTS, así como una nueva estrategia para conseguir de forma factible e incremental, la federación y reuso de los diferentes esfuerzos existentes para encontrar, seleccionar y mantener componentes COTS y Open Source (OSS) -comúnmente llamados componentes Off-The-Shelf (OTS) - en forma estructurada.

Gestor de contraseñas en un dispositivo móvil accesible por Bluetooth

Este proyecto nace de la necesidad de dar más seguridad a nuestros datos cuando navegamos por Internet. Se ha implementado un plug-in para el navegador Firefox de Mozilla, que detecta un formulario de login/password conocido y rellena el campo de la contraseña automáticamente. La contraseña estará en nuestro dispositivo móvil y la comunicación entre el navegador y el dispositivo se hará mediante la tecnología Bluetooth.