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Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Educação

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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências da Educação, Especialidade Educação, Sociedade e Desenvolvimento

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ABSTRACT: Background: Sleep is integral to biological function and sleep disruption can result in both physiological and psychological dysfunction. The acute cognitive consequences of sleep loss has been an active field of recent investigation, evidence suggests that sleep disruption in critically ill older adults can result in acute decrements in cognitive functioning. Surgery activates the innate immune system, inducing neuroinflammatory changes that interfere with cognition. The fact that patients with sleep disorders have an increased likelihood of exhibiting postoperative delirium encourages us to investigate the contribution of perioperative SF to the neuroinflammatory and cognitive responses of surgery. Methods: The effects of 24h sleep fragmentation (SF) and surgery were explored on adult C57BL/6J male mice. SF procedure started at 7 am with the home-cages being placed on a large platform orbital shaker cycled every 120 seconds (30 sec on/90 sec off). This procedure lasted for 24h. Stabilized tibia fracture was performed either before or after the 24h SF procedure. Separate cohorts of mice were tested for systemic and hippocampal inflammation and cognition. Results: Twenty-four hours of SF induced non-hippocampal memory dysfunction and increase in systemic IL-6. SF and surgery caused hippocampal-dependent memory impairment, although memory impairment was not exacerbated by combining SF with surgery. One day after either SF or surgery there was a significant increase in IL6 mRNA and TNF-alpha mRNA. These increments were more pronounced when either pre or post operative SF was combined with surgery. Conclusions: We show that while SF and surgery can independently produce significant memory impairment, perioperative SF significantly increased hippocampal inflammation without further cognitive impairment. The dissociation between neuroinflammation and cognitive decline may relate to our use of a sole memory paradigm that does not capture other aspects of cognition, especially learning.

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Os autores relatam três casos de varíola bovina em humanos, ordenhadores manuais em vacas infectadas, na microrregião de Itajubá, MG. As técnicas diagnósticas foram: isolamento de amostra semelhante ao vírus vaccinia de secreções das lesões cutâneas, reação em cadeia de polimerase, microscopia eletrônica e anticorpos para Orthopoxvirus no sangue dos pacientes.

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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar os limites de esbelteza preconizados nos regulamentos e normas utilizados em Portugal relativamente ao estado limite de deformação. Serão comparados diretamente para os mesmos vãos, os conceitos de verificação indireta de deformação do Regulamento de Estruturas de Betão Armado e Pré-esforçado (REBAP) e do Eurocódigo 2: Parte 1–1 (EC2-1-1), para lajes e vigas. Inicialmente será efetuado um estudo académico paramétrico, onde são avaliadas as flechas verticais em serviço para diferentes vãos, condições de apoio e geometria em planta. São comparados inicialmente os valores das flechas para análises lineares, usando as tabelas de Bares e modelos de elementos finitos com o software comercial SAP2000, de maneira a validar o modelo. De seguida são aplicados os métodos simplificativos de cálculo de flechas a longo prazo usando os ábacos do Comité Euro-International du Béton (CEB). Estes valores são depois comparados com as análises fisicamente não lineares em estado fendilhado a longo prazo com o SAP2000. O objetivo principal é portanto estabelecer comparações entre os dois métodos de análise pretendendo-se mostrar que a modelação com elementos finitos conduz a valores de deformações inferiores ao cálculo analítico permitindo uma maior economia no dimensionamento de elementos estruturais. Para finalizar é apresentado um manual de utilizador com o intuito de auxiliar o processo de modelação de elementos estruturais com elementos finitos não lineares utilizando o programa referido.

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Neste trabalho estudam-se os parâmetros que influenciam o processo de cromagem de segmentos de pistão utilizado na MAHLE Componentes de Motores S.A., situada em Portugal na zona industrial de Murtede perto de Coimbra. Pretende-se identificar a influência dos vários parâmetros do processo de cromagem na dureza, com o intuito de otimizá-la. Estabelece-se como objetivo principal a identificação de fatores que permitam diminuir o aparecimento de lascas (objeto de estudo) no revestimento dos segmentos. Para além disso, pretende-se quantificar a dureza extremamente fragil do revestimento para futuramente melhorar o controlo de qualidade efetuado na fábrica e deste modo, reduzir a ocorrência de peças com defeito. Neste trabalho recorre-se à metodologia Seis Sigma, muito utilizada em engenharia no melhoramento contínuo de processos. Após a realização de ensaios e correspondente análise de resultados, obtêm-se os valores dos parâmetros do processo que permitem a redução dos defeitos na cromagem dos segmentos. Com os resultados deste estudo espera-se melhorar a qualidade dos produtos (segmentos de pistão), aumentar a produtividade e simultaneamente diminuir o refugo, com as vantagens económicas daí decorrentes.

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The future of the construction industry will require changes at many levels. One is the ability of companies to adapt to new challenges, converting needs to opportunities and simultaneously contributing to the solving of social and environmental problems. In the coming decades we will see a change in attitude in the industry, with a strong tendency to adopt natural and recycled materials, as well as bet on green technology and social innovation oriented to emerging countries. On the other hand, emerging countries have a high demand for housing construction on a large scale, but the current techniques in the developed countries for building requires a large amount of natural resources and skilled labor. This contextualization brings sustainability problems for the construction sector in emerging countries, often with scarce natural resources and with the construction sector underdeveloped. Through a cooperative action between the construction company Mota-Engil Engineering and the University of Minho in Portugal, a construction technology was developed based on the use of Compressed Earth Blocks as part of a social concept for innovative small houses, favoring the adoption of local and natural materials and with the main premise of being dedicated to self-construction. The HiLoTec project - Development of a Sustainable Self-Construction System for Developing Countries was based on this idea. One of the several results of this project is this construction manual. To Mota-Engil the project was a platform for incubation of knowledge about earth construction and to obtain a constructive solution validated technically and scientifically, suitable to be implemented in the markets where it operates. For the University of Minho the project was an opportunity to strengthen skills in research, laboratory and scientific development, through the development of engineering studies, architecture and sustainability, as well as supporting the doctoral scholarships and dissemination of scientific publications. May the knowledge of this project be of benefit, in the future, for the welfare of those who build a HiLoTec house.

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Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

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Recent research is showing that the addition of Recycled Steel Fibres (RSF) from wasted tyres can decrease significantly the brittle behaviour of cement based materials, by improving its toughness and post-cracking resistance. In this sense, Recycled Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete (RSFRC) seems to have the potential to constitute a sustainable material for structural and non-structural applications. To assess this potential, experimental and numerical research was performed on the use of RSFRC in elements failing in bending and in beams failing in shear. The values of the fracture mode I parameters of the developed RSFRC were determined by performing inverse analysis with test results obtained in three point notched beam bending tests. To assess the possibility of using RSF as shear reinforcement in Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams, three point bending tests were executed with three series of RSFRC beams flexurally reinforced with a relatively high reinforcement ratio of longitudinal steel bars in order to assure shear failure for all the tested beams. By performing material nonlinear simulations with a computer program based on the finite element method (FEM), the applicability of the fracture mode I crack constitutive law derived from the inverse analysis is assessed for the prediction of the behaviour of these beams. The performance of the formulation proposed by RILEM TC 162 TDF and CEB-FIP 2010 for the prediction of the shear resistance of fibre reinforced concrete elements was also evaluated.

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Candida bracarensis is an uncommon Candida species found during an epidemiological study of candidiasis performed in Braga, Portugal. Initially, it was identified as C. glabrata, but recently detailed analyses pointed out their differences. So, little information is still available about C. bracarensis virulence factors and antifungal susceptibilities. Therefore, the main goal of this work is to evaluate the ability of C. bracarensis to form biofilms, to produce hydrolytic enzymes (proteases, phospholipases and hemolysins), as well as its susceptibility to amphotericin B and fluconazole. It was shown, for the first time, that all C. bracarensis strains were able to form biofilms and display proteinase and hemolytic activities. Moreover, although planktonic cells presented antifungal susceptibility, amphotericin B and fluconazole were unable to inhibit biofilm formation and eradicate pre-formed biofilms. Due to the propensity of C. bracarensis to display antifungal resistance and virulence attributes, the control of these emerging pathogens is recommended.

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Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

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Major advances in the development and use of antimicrobial textiles to control bacterial proliferation on wound beds continue. However, wound dressings are, in general, not included in standardized regimens for measuring and monitoring their antimicrobial effectiveness. This work adapts these methods to assess the antibacterial activity of textiles designed for wound healing purposes. Environmental conditions representative of those present at the wound site (i.e., moisture levels, infection, and available nutrients) were evaluated. This work shows that moisture levels were the environmental factor that had the greatest influence on the antimicrobial agent activities tested. These results suggest that it is possible to use the more representative environmental conditions present on the wound bed for in vitro screening of textile antimicrobial activity.

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Context: Caffeic acid is described as antibacterial, but this bioactive molecule has some issues regarding solubility and stability to environmental stress. Thus, encapsulation devices are required. Objective: The aim of this work was to study the effect of the caffeic acid encapsulation by cyclodextrins on its antibacterial activity. Materials and methods: The interactions between the caffeic acid and three cyclodextrins (-cyclodextrin (CD), 2-hydroxypropyl--cyclodextrin (HPCD) and methyl--cyclodextrin were study. Results and discussion: The formation of an aqueous soluble inclusion complex was confirmed for CD and HPCD with a 1:1 stoichiometry. The CD/caffeic acid complex showed higher stability than HPCD/caffeic acid. Caffeic acid antibacterial activity was similar at pH 3 and pH 5 against the three bacteria (K. pneumoniae, S. epidermidis and S. aureus). Conclusions: The antibacterial activity of the inclusion complexes was described here for the first time and it was shown that the caffeic acid activity was remarkably enhanced by the cyclodextrins encapsulation.

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Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos da Criança (área de especialização em Educação Especial)

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De acordo com a lei portuguesa, a Educação Sexual (ES) é obrigatória desde o 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico (CEB) até ao Ensino Secundário. No entanto, muitos projetos de ES em meio escolar não consideram as necessidades do seu público-alvo, o que limita a sua eficácia. Assim, esta investigação-ação procurou averiguar necessidades e conceções de professores e alunos sobre ES em meio escolar e, a partir destas, desenvolver as competências dos professores para abordar a ES de modo a promover a vivência de uma sexualidade saudável por parte dos alunos. A investigação desenrolou-se em três fases: diagnóstico, intervenção e avaliação. Para a fase de diagnóstico construímos um questionário, validado por meio de um estudo piloto, que aplicámos a professores de 1.º, 2.º e 3.º CEB de escolas do concelho do Porto. O questionário foi preenchido on-line e os dados obtidos foram tratados com o programa SPSS. A mesma metodologia foi utilizada para analisar as conceções de alunos de 2.º e 3.º CEB de uma escola do Porto. Na fase de intervenção começamos por um focus group com professores para clarificar as suas opiniões e registar reações à imposição legal da ES. Seguiram-se sessões de formação para professores e a implementação de um conjunto de ações estruturadas com os alunos. A avaliação efetuou-se com novo focus group com os professores intervenientes e através de um questionário aplicado aos alunos das turmas alvo de intervenção. Os resultados revelaram que, depois da intervenção, os professores se sentiam mais confiantes, com mais conhecimentos e mais estratégias para implementar projetos de ES. Os alunos ampliaram o seu conceito de sexualidade, demonstraram uma atitude mais favorável face ao papel da ES no seu desenvolvimento, aumentaram a sua confiança na escola como agente educativo nesta temática, aumentaram os seus conhecimentos sobre sexualidade e atenuaram-se algumas diferenças de género.