Louis Macneice: poeta do devir

Polissema: Revista de Letras do ISCAP 2002/N.º 2 Linguagens

O ‘heróico cinema português’: 1930-1950

As décadas de trinta e quarenta do século XX português constituem, dentro da trajectória bastante irregular do cinema nacional, a época de maior regularidade. Com efeito, foi neste período que se verificou um considerável desenvolvimento do meio cinematográfico nacional. Este revelou-se um tempo dinâmico, quer a nível da produção, com o aparecimento dos filmes sonoros e das produtoras nacionais e respectivos estúdios, quer no que ao consumo diz respeito, com a multiplicação de salas de cinema; traduziu-se ainda no advento de revistas da especialidade, como a Kino, a Imagem ou o Cinéfilo, e no aparecimento de importantes realizadores portugueses – António Lopes Ribeiro, Leitão de Barros, Jorge Brum do Canto, Chianca Garcia –, produzindo-se relevantes trabalhos cinematográficos. Desta forma, neste artigo pretende-se apresentar o projecto cinematográfico nacional da época em estudo, possibilitando uma compreensão mais clara da evolução cinematográfica portuguesa no período de edificação do Estado Novo.

Ziembinski, o encenador dos tempos modernos: a construção de uma trajetória na crítica de Décio de Almeida Prado (1950-1959)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Uma cidade portuária: a Horta entre 1880 e 1926. Sociedade e cultura com a política em fundo

Tese de Doutoramento, História (História Contemporânea), 29 de Novembro de 2013, Universidade dos Açores.

O Governo Civil de Ponta Delgada na década de 1880 : a sua ação política, social e económica

Dissertação de Mestrado em História Insular e Atlântica (Séculos XV-XX)

AQUILINO RIBEIRO AND THE MODERNISTS - PORTRAITS OF THE FIRST PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC

Portuguese version:

Os estudos de astronomia em Portugal de 1850 a 1950

Dissertação de Doutoramento em História da Ciência

Francine Benoit e a cultura musical em Portugal : estudo das críticas e crónicas publicadas entre 1920- e 1950

Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências Musicais

Açorianidade: literatura, política, etnografia (1880-1940)

Etnográfica, Vol. I (2), pp. 191-211

An indirect immunofluorescence assay to detect antibodies against St. Louis Encephalitis virus

An in house indirect immmunofluorescence assay ( IFA ) in relation to neutralization (NT) reference test, was assessed as a fast and cheap method to carry out serological surveys for St. Louis Encephalitis virus (SLE). Sera obtained from 213 blood donors were analyzed by both tests. The prevalence of seropositivity obtained with IFA was lower than (30.98%) that observed on NT (41.78%). The relative specificity rate of IFA was 96.77% whereas its relative sensitivity rate was 69.66%. Kappa index showed a good correlation between both tests. The results indicate that neutralization assay is still the serological test with the highest sensitivity and specificity relative rates for detecting antibodies against SLE virus. Nevertheless, the IFA could be useful as an alternative test in order to learn the circulation of the Flavivirus genus in a certain area.

Age-related seroprevalence study for St. Louis encephalitis in a population from Cordoba, Argentina

A serological screening was performed in 615 individuals aged 0-87 years, living in the city of Cordoba, Argentina to study the relationship between antibody prevalence for the SLE virus and age. A 13.98% prevalence of neutralizing antibodies was obtained and its relation to age was significantly high (p = 0.045). The highest seroprevalence was noted on individuals over 60 years old (>20%), whereas no subject under 10 was seropositive for this virus. Our results confirm that the agent is endemic in this area and neurological pathology studies should be performed on those individuals aged 60 since they represent the most susceptible group to SLE virus.

St. Louis encephalitis vírus: first isolation from a human in São Paulo state, Brasil

This paper reports the isolation of St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) from a febrile human case suspected to be dengue, in São Pedro, São Paulo State. A MAC-ELISA done on the patient's acute and convalescent sera was inconclusive and hemagglutination inhibition test detected IgG antibody for flaviviruses. An indirect immunofluorescent assay done on the C6/36 cell culture inoculated with the acute serum was positive for flaviviruses but negative when tested with dengue monoclonal antibodies. RNA extracted from the infected cell culture supernatant was amplified by RT-PCR in the presence of NS5 universal flavivirus primers and directly sequenced. Results of BLAST search indicated that this sequence shares 93% nucleotide similarity with the sequence of SLEV (strain-MSI.7), confirmed by RT-PCR performed with SLEV specific primers. Since SLEV was identified as the cause of human disease, it is necessary to improve surveillance in order to achieve early detection of this agent in the state of São Paulo and in Brazil. This finding is also an alert to health professionals about the need for more complete clinical and epidemiological investigations of febrile illnesses as in the reported case. SLEV infections can be unrecognized or confused with other ones caused by an arbovirus, such as dengue.

Regards croisés francophones et portugais : les images des Portugais dans la littérature romanesque contemporaine (1950-2000)

Tese de doutoramento em Línguas e Literaturas Românicas, Literatura Românica Comparada

Alpiarça, 1950. As rotinas da sobrevivência e o meomento de uma bala

O objectivo desta comunicação é confrontar as perspectivas que, dentio dos gmpos sociais dominantes e dos assalariados no Portugal mral salazarista, foram convocadas por um mesmo acontecimento, dando legibiUdade às configurações de classe que, num tempo social determinado - o im'cio da década de 50 em Portugal - permitem identificar o interesse dos gmpos e as relações entie os níveis local e nacional, bem como a detecção de um instante de mudança nas relações das forças sociais. A investigação de que representa uma fase dos resultados, decorre há cerca de tires anos, envolve uma equipa interdisciplinar, dirigida pelos professores Jorge Crespo e Femando Rosas, e é composta pelas três investigadoras, inseridas num projecto financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (programa PRAXIS XXI). Além de uma pesquisa documental^ os dados aqui apresentados constitiiem uma etapa entie o levantamento extensivo, levado a cabo por todo o país, e uma pesquisa de caracter intensivo, atendendo à pecuUaridade de um lugar e às características de um momento

SAINT LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS IN MATO GROSSO, CENTRAL-WESTERN BRAZIL

The dengue virus (DENV), which is frequently involved in large epidemics, and the yellow fever virus (YFV), which is responsible for sporadic sylvatic outbreaks, are considered the most important flaviviruses circulating in Brazil. Because of that, laboratorial diagnosis of acute undifferentiated febrile illness during epidemic periods is frequently directed towards these viruses, which may eventually hinder the detection of other circulating flaviviruses, including the Saint Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV), which is widely dispersed across the Americas. The aim of this study was to conduct a molecular investigation of 11 flaviviruses using 604 serum samples obtained from patients during a large dengue fever outbreak in the state of Mato Grosso (MT) between 2011 and 2012. Simultaneously, 3,433 female Culex spp. collected with Nasci aspirators in the city of Cuiabá, MT, in 2013, and allocated to 409 pools containing 1-10 mosquitoes, were also tested by multiplex semi-nested reverse transcription PCR for the same flaviviruses. SLEV was detected in three patients co-infected with DENV-4 from the cities of Cuiabá and Várzea Grande. One of them was a triple co-infection with DENV-1. None of them mentioned recent travel or access to sylvatic/rural regions, indicating that transmission might have occurred within the metropolitan area. Regarding mosquito samples, one pool containing one Culex quinquefasciatus female was positive for SLEV, with a minimum infection rate (MIR) of 0.29 per 1000 specimens of this species. Phylogenetic analysis indicates both human and mosquito SLEV cluster, with isolates from genotype V-A obtained from animals in the Amazon region, in the state of Pará. This is the first report of SLEV molecular identification in MT.