A 2ª geração de planos diretores municipais: continuidade ou mudança de paradigma de ordenamento do território? Vila Real de Santo António como caso de estudo.

Dissertação de Mestrado em Gestão do Território na Área de Especialização de Planeamento e Ordenamento do Território

Nos bastidores da Corte. O Rei e a Casa Real na crise da Monarquia 1889-1908

Tese apresentada para cumprimentos dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do graus de Doutor em História, especialidade História Contemporânea

Galeria de pintura no Real Paço da Ajuda

Contém indíce, introdução, conclusão e bibliografia

Novas utilizações das potencialidades BIM – produção de informação as-built e apoio à medição de trabalhos realizados com recurso a realidade aumentada

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau Mestre em Engenharia Civil – Perfil de Construção

Vilegiatura balnear – Imagem ideal / Imagem real

Revista do IHA, N.3 (2007), pp.254-267

Carga proviral do HTLV-1 e HTLV-2: um método simples através da PCR quantitativa em tempo real

Os vírus linfotrópicos de células T humanas, quando integrados ao genoma da célula hospedeira, provírus, têm como marcador de replicação seu DNA proviral. A carga proviral parece ser um importante fator no desenvolvimento de patologias associadas a estes retrovírus. Neste estudo foi desenvolvida uma metodologia para quantificação absoluta da carga proviral dos HTLV-1 e HTLV-2 através da PCR em tempo real. Cinqüenta e três amostras de doadores de sangue com teste de ELISA reagente foram submetidas à metodologia, que utilizou o sistema TaqMan® para três seqüências alvo: HTLV-1, HTLV-2 e albumina. A quantificação proviral absoluta foi determinada através da proporção relativa entre o genoma do HTLV e o genoma da célula hospedeira, levando em consideração o número de leucócitos. O método apresentado é sensível (215 cópias/mL), prático e simples para quantificação proviral, além de eficiente e adequado para confirmação e discriminação da infecção pelos tipos virais.

A private library in the Mateus Palace (Vila Real). The D. Luís António de Sousa Botelho Mourão (1722-1798) Books Collection

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia no âmbito de Bolsa de Doutoramento (SFRH/BD/86280/2012)

Sistema de avaliação da estabilidade transversal de navios em tempo real

A presente dissertação visa a aplicação dos conhecimentos adquiridos sobre estabilidade transversal estática de navios, conjugados com a análise dinâmica do comportamento do navio em mar regular, por intermédio da utilização de um inclinómetro de precisão e das equações matemáticas relacionadas com movimentos oscilatórios amortecidos livres e forçados, para a determinação das características do movimento do navio. É nitidamente claro que a determinação da estabilidade de navios deve ser tratada de uma forma dinâmica. A dificuldade reside essencialmente na medição exacta do efeito das forças dinâmicas tais como o vento e a ondulação. O objectivo principal deste trabalho consiste na obtenção de uma ferramenta expedita para a determinação, em tempo real, da condição de estabilidade transversal de navios, e com uma margem de erro pouco significativa. Para tal, além do tratamento das medições dinâmicas no modelo e no navio, por intermédio do MatlabTM e folha de cálculo ExcelTM para a determinação dos factores de amortecimento e de estabilidade, foram utilizadas as curvas de estabilidade para as condições de carga mais usuais do navio, assim como as curvas hidrostáticas necessárias. No final do trabalho são apresentadas folhas de cálculo em Excel para duas classes de navios, e do Navio-Escola Sagres, cujo objectivo consiste no traçado das curvas relacionadas com a estabilidade transversal em caso de embarque de pesos a bordo, e de alagamentos de determinados compartimentos do navio, com ou sem os efeitos do vento e da ondulação marítima, e respectiva comparação com os critérios de estabilidade transversal em vigor na Marinha.

“Em Direto”. A banalização da transmissão em tempo real na informação da SIC e da SIC Notícias

O avanço tecnológico da televisão possibilita cada vez mais chegar onde nunca antes fora possível. Hoje em dia é possível transmitir em direto de quase qualquer ponto do mundo e, com os canais de informação, a qualquer hora. Mas estará o direto a ser banalizado ao ponto de perder a sua importância? Como é que é utilizada a transmissão em tempo real nos canais portugueses, em particular na SIC e na SIC Notícias? Este relatório vai tentar entender as vantagens e desvantagens que o direto acarreta, enquanto apresenta o novo panorama tecnológico da televisão

Provide instructions and resources for assessment and training in earth building: the Pirate project

This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Thermal performance of cool facades: evaluation by Infrared Thermography

High reflective paints (cool paints) are used on flat roofs to reduce heat gains from the incidence of solar radiation and thus improve the thermal comfort and energy efficiency of buildings, especially in summer periods. Given the application potential of these paints on vertical surfaces, a research study has been developed to evaluate the thermal performance of reflective paints on walls under real exposure conditions. Accordingly, different reflective paints have been applied as the final coating of an ETICS type solution, on the facades of a full scale experimental cell built at LNEC campus. For being applied in an ETICS system a paint has to fulfill several requirements, whether aesthetic or functional (such as the adhesion between the coating layers or the durability of the insulation), essential for its efficient performance. Since this construction coating system is subject to a prolonged sun exposure, various problems may arise, such as paint degradation or deterioration of the thermal insulation properties, particularly when dark colors are applied. To evaluate the thermal performance of the chosen paints, the method of non-destructive analysis by Infrared Thermography was used. Thermography allows knowing the temperature distribution of facades by measuring the radiation emitted by their surfaces. To complement the thermographic diagnosis, thermocouples were placed between the insulation and the paint system of the experimental cell. Additional laboratory tests allowed the characterization of the optical properties (reflectance and emittance) of the different reflective paints used in this study. The comparative analysis of the thermal performance of reflective and conventional paints revealed that the reflective paint allows a reduction of the facade surface temperature, reducing the risk of loss of insulating properties of the ETICS system and thus ensuring its longevity and functionality. The color of the paint used affects, naturally, the reflective ability of the surface and may have an important role in energy balance of the building. This paper also showed the potential of infrared thermography in the evaluation of the thermal performance of reflective paints.

Evaporation from porous building materials and its cooling potential

Evaporative cooling is a traditional strategy to improve summer comfort, which has gained renewed relevance in the context of the transition to a greener economy. Here, the potential for evaporative cooling of two common porous building materials, natural stone and ceramic brick, was evaluated. The work has relevance also to the protection of built heritage becauseevaporation underlies the problems of dampness and salt crystallization, which are so harmful and frequent in this heritage. It was observed that the drying rate of the materials is, in some cases, higher than the evaporation rate of a free water surface. Surface area measurements by a three-dimensional optical technique suggested, as probable cause of this behavior, that surface irregularity gives rise to a large effective surface of evaporation in the material. Surface temperature measurements by infrared were performed afterward during evaporation experiments outside during a hot summer day in Lisbon. Their results indicate that ordinary building materials can be very efficient evaporative media and, thus, may help in achieving higher energy efficiency while maintaining a simultaneous constructive or architectural function.

Enterprise reference lexicon building from business models

Nowadays, a significant increase on the demand for interoperable systems for exchanging data in business collaborative environments has been noticed. Consequently, cooperation agreements between each of the involved enterprises have been brought to light. However, due to the fact that even in a same community or domain, there is a big variety of knowledge representation not semantically coincident, which embodies the existence of interoperability problems in the enterprises information systems that need to be addressed. Moreover, in relation to this, most organizations face other problems about their information systems, as: 1) domain knowledge not being easily accessible by all the stakeholders (even intra-enterprise); 2) domain knowledge not being represented in a standard format; 3) and even if it is available in a standard format, it is not supported by semantic annotations or described using a common and understandable lexicon. This dissertation proposes an approach for the establishment of an enterprise reference lexicon from business models. It addresses the automation in the information models mapping for the reference lexicon construction. It aggregates a formal and conceptual representation of the business domain, with a clear definition of the used lexicon to facilitate an overall understanding by all the involved stakeholders, including non-IT personnel.

Evaluation of the use of real-time PCR for human T cell lymphotropic virus 1 and 2 as a confirmatory test in screening for blood donors

INTRODUCTION: HTLV-1/2 screening among blood donors commonly utilizes an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (EIA), followed by a confirmatory method such as Western blot (WB) if the EIA is positive. However, this algorithm yields a high rate of inconclusive results, and is expensive. METHODS: Two qualitative real-time PCR assays were developed to detect HTLV-1 and 2, and a total of 318 samples were tested (152 blood donors, 108 asymptomatic carriers, 26 HAM/TSP patients and 30 seronegative individuals). RESULTS: The sensitivity and specificity of PCR in comparison with WB results were 99.4% and 98.5%, respectively. PCR tests were more efficient for identifying the virus type, detecting HTLV-2 infection and defining inconclusive cases. CONCLUSIONS: Because real-time PCR is sensitive and practical and costs much less than WB, this technique can be used as a confirmatory test for HTLV in blood banks, as a replacement for WB.

Real-time collaborative editing of OutSystems DSL models

Real-time collaborative editing systems are common nowadays, and their advantages are widely recognized. Examples of such systems include Google Docs, ShareLaTeX, among others. This thesis aims to adopt this paradigm in a software development environment. The OutSystems visual language lends itself very appropriate to this kind of collaboration, since the visual code enables a natural flow of knowledge between developers regarding the developed code. Furthermore, communication and coordination are simplified. This proposal explores the field of collaboration on a very structured and rigid model, where collaboration is made through the copy-modify-merge paradigm, in which a developer gets its own private copy from the shared repository, modifies it in isolation and later uploads his changes to be merged with modifications concurrently produced by other developers. To this end, we designed and implemented an extension to the OutSystems Platform, in order to enable real-time collaborative editing. The solution guarantees consistency among the artefacts distributed across several developers working on the same project. We believe that it is possible to achieve a much more intense collaboration over the same models with a low negative impact on the individual productivity of each developer.