Optimização de um sistema híbrido off-grid PV, Gerador Diesel e Baterias

Tese de mestrado integrado, Engenharia da Energia e do Ambiente, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2016

Hidatidose hepática complicada : revisão da literatura : a propósito de um caso clínico

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Associação de infecção por Streptococcus Bovis e o carcinoma colorrectal

Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2014

Construção e Validação da ERSMG: Escala de Representações Sonoro-musicais na Gravidez

This paper describes the construction and validation of the Scale of Sound-Music Representations in Pregnancy (SSMRP). This scale was used with a sample of 211 pregnant women at the second and at the third trimesters of gestation, before the morphologic ultrasound examination by the 22nd week of gestation and previously to the ultrasound examination at the 32nd week of gestation. The SSMRP aims to assess the level of sound-music sensibility from the 22nd week of gestation on. After several factorial analysis and the respective internal consistency analysis, it was decided to retain an unifactorial structure with 25 items and a good internal consistency (α = .815).The adequate psychometric consistency of this scale allows the access to a variable of study yet less developed in research, but that we consider as pertinent to evaluate its relation with the study of the psychological organization during pregnancy and, particularly with the mother-fetus liaison.

Nietzsche, la pulsion, l’histoire

Cette étude vise à comprendre le rôle de l’histoire dans la philosophie de Nietzsche et à faire ressortir son lien étroit avec l’articulation du corps vivant comme fil conducteur philosophique. Notre objectif principal est de montrer comment cette philosophie aphoristique a su maintenir les préoccupations historiographiques de jeunesse en permutant leur sens à l’aune de la pulsionnalité interprétative du corps. Prenant notre départ des considérations critiques écrites lors de son professorat à Bâle, nous démontrons que le sens historique se manifeste alors comme une sensibilité historique déterminée par une saisie intuitive, mais existentiellement difficile, du passé. Nous procédons ensuite à décrire comment le renouveau philosophique de sa période intermédiaire peut être vu comme une réduction pathologique de l’histoire de la métaphysique qui emprunte ses éléments critiques au scepticisme de Michel de Montaigne, à l’évolutionnisme naissant et au développement du néo-kantisme. Cette réduction, qui ramène l’expression des valeurs morales et métaphysiques au corps vécu (Leib). Par sa déconstruction de la subjectivité au profit d’une réalité pulsionnelle primordiale, mais irréductible, nous démontrons ensuite comment Nietzsche a su réinterpréter l’hérédité biologique comme une mémoire physiologique incorporée dont l’expression première est la reconduction de la notion d’espèce à celle de type. Enfin, par un retour à la sensibilité historique et notre analyse du phénomène historique en tant que tel, nous proposons de comprendre l’articulation ultime de la philosophie nietzschéenne comme une philosophie historique qui ne cherche pas à comprendre ou à expliquer le devenir, mais en opérer la synthèse par le truchement de « l’instant décisif ».

Estudo de balística interna

O conhecimento e a compreensão dos processos que ocorrem no interior do tubo de uma arma de fogo, desde a ignição da carga propulsora, até à saída do projétil, é importante no desenvolvimento do armamento, de uma forma económica e segura. Com a modelação matemática destes processos, que é uma abordagem muito utilizada atualmente, é possível otimizar a carga explosiva e os materiais utilizados. Este estudo foi realizado no âmbito do projeto FIREND, resultante da colaboração entre a Academia Militar e o Instituto Superior Técnico O modelo desenvolvido foi aplicado a um sistema, arma, carga propulsora e projétil, já existente, tendo os resultados obtidos sido validados com o software PRODAS e tabelas referentes ao presente sistema. Para melhor compreender a importância das variáveis envolvidas, é feita uma análise de sensibilidade a diversos parâmetros balísticos, mantendo constante as dimensões da arma em estudo. Na análise dos resultados verifica-se que a cinta de travamento é um elemento muito importante, alterando significativamente os valores da pressão e da velocidade. Verificou-se também que com cargas propulsoras de maior taxa de queima é possível obter valores mais elevados de pressão máxima e velocidade à saída. Palavras chave: Balística interna; Projétil de Artilharia; Pressão; Velocidade; Modelação matemática; Análise de sensibilidade.

Nietzsche, la pulsion, l’histoire

Cette étude vise à comprendre le rôle de l’histoire dans la philosophie de Nietzsche et à faire ressortir son lien étroit avec l’articulation du corps vivant comme fil conducteur philosophique. Notre objectif principal est de montrer comment cette philosophie aphoristique a su maintenir les préoccupations historiographiques de jeunesse en permutant leur sens à l’aune de la pulsionnalité interprétative du corps. Prenant notre départ des considérations critiques écrites lors de son professorat à Bâle, nous démontrons que le sens historique se manifeste alors comme une sensibilité historique déterminée par une saisie intuitive, mais existentiellement difficile, du passé. Nous procédons ensuite à décrire comment le renouveau philosophique de sa période intermédiaire peut être vu comme une réduction pathologique de l’histoire de la métaphysique qui emprunte ses éléments critiques au scepticisme de Michel de Montaigne, à l’évolutionnisme naissant et au développement du néo-kantisme. Cette réduction, qui ramène l’expression des valeurs morales et métaphysiques au corps vécu (Leib). Par sa déconstruction de la subjectivité au profit d’une réalité pulsionnelle primordiale, mais irréductible, nous démontrons ensuite comment Nietzsche a su réinterpréter l’hérédité biologique comme une mémoire physiologique incorporée dont l’expression première est la reconduction de la notion d’espèce à celle de type. Enfin, par un retour à la sensibilité historique et notre analyse du phénomène historique en tant que tel, nous proposons de comprendre l’articulation ultime de la philosophie nietzschéenne comme une philosophie historique qui ne cherche pas à comprendre ou à expliquer le devenir, mais en opérer la synthèse par le truchement de « l’instant décisif ».

Urbanities; essays new and old

Partly reprinted from various sources.

Philosophy and psychology pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

The novels and letters of Jane Austen;

v. 1-2. Sense and sensibility.--v. 3-4. Pride and prejudice.--v. 5-6. Mansfield Park.--v. 7-8. Emma.--v. 9. Northanger Abbey.--v. 10. Persuasion.--v. 11. Lady Susan. The Watsons. Letters.--v. 12. Letters.

[Novels]

v.1. Sense and sensibility.--v.2. Pride and prejudice.--v.3. Mansfield Park.--v.4. Emma.--v.5. Northanger abbey. Persuasion.--v.6. Lady Susan. The Watsons. A memoir of Jane Austen [by J. E. Austen Leigh] Letters of Jane Austen.

Sacred dramas,

"Search after happiness" has special t.-p.

Dizziness and unsteadiness following whiplash injury: Characteristic features and relationship with cervical joint position error

Dizziness and/or unsteadiness are common symptoms of chronic whiplash-associated disorders. This study aimed to report the characteristics of these symptoms and determine whether there was any relationship to cervical joint position error. Joint position error, the accuracy to return to the natural head posture following extension and rotation, was measured in 102 subjects with persistent whiplash-associated disorder and 44 control subjects. Whiplash subjects completed a neck pain index and answered questions about the characteristics of dizziness. The results indicated that subjects with whiplash-associated disorders had significantly greater joint position errors than control subjects. Within the whiplash group, those with dizziness had greater joint position errors than those without dizziness following rotation (rotation (R) 4.5degrees (0.3) vs 2.9degrees (0.4); rotation (L) 3.9degrees (0.3) vs 2.8degrees (0.4) respectively) and a higher neck pain index (55.3% (1.4) vs 43.1% (1.8)). Characteristics of the dizziness were consistent for those reported for a cervical cause but no characteristics could predict the magnitude of joint position error. Cervical mechanoreceptor dysfunction is a likely cause of dizziness in whiplash-associated disorder.

Jung and the dreaming: Analytical psychology's encounters with Aboriginal culture

This article reviews some contributions of the Jungian analytic tradition to indigenous ethnopsychiatric thought in Australia. The authors review Jung's writings on Aboriginal culture, then describe some of their own fieldwork findings. Acknowledging that the contemporary post-Jungian tradition is pluralist, they propose a notion of 'Jungian sensibility.' They discuss some of the ways in which the Jungian sensibility might contribute positively to Aboriginal mental health, with especial reference to theories of subjectivity, and note that some Aboriginal people find the Jungian world-view very compatible with the Aboriginal one.

Characterization of acute whiplash-associated disorders

Study Design. An experimental study of motor and sensory function and psychological distress in subjects with acute whiplash injury. Objectives. To characterize acute whiplash injury in terms of motor and sensory systems dysfunction and psychological distress and to compare subjects with higher and lesser levels of pain and disability. Summary of Background Data. Motor system dysfunction, sensory hypersensitivity, and psychological distress are present in chronic whiplash associated disorders ( WAD), but little is known of such factors in the acute stage of injury. As higher levels of pain and disability in acute WAD are accepted as signs of poor outcome, further characterization of this group from those with lesser symptoms is important. Materials and Methods. Motor function ( cervical range of movement [ ROM], joint position error [JPE]; activity of the superficial neck flexors [EMG] during a test of craniocervical flexion), quantitative sensory testing ( pressure, thermal pain thresholds, and responses to the brachial plexus provocation test), and psychological distress (GHQ-28, TAMPA, IES) were measured in 80 whiplash subjects ( WAD II or III) within 1 month of injury, as were 20 control subjects. Results. Three subgroups were identified in the cohort using cluster analysis based on the Neck Disability Index: those with mild, moderate, or severe pain and disability. All whiplash groups demonstrated decreased ROM and increased EMG compared with the controls ( all P < 0.01). Only the moderate and severe groups demonstrated greater JPE and generalized hypersensitivity to all sensory tests ( all P < 0.01). The three whiplash subgroups demonstrated evidence of psychological distress, although this was greater in the moderate and severe groups. Measures of psychological distress did not impact on between group differences in motor or sensory tests. Conclusions. Acute whiplash subjects with higher levels of pain and disability were distinguished by sensory hypersensitivity to a variety of stimuli, suggestive of central nervous system sensitization occurring soon after injury. These responses occurred independently of psychological distress. These findings may be important for the differential diagnosis of acute whiplash injury and could be one reason why those with higher initial pain and disability demonstrate a poorer outcome.