O cinema ibérico e os óscares: razões para a não selecção dos filmes portugueses ao óscar de melhor filme em língua estrangeira, através da análise comparativa entre as cinematografias de Espanha, Portugal e o modelo de produção de Hollywood

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Audiovisual e Multimédia.

Overstock and stock-out in Volkswagen Autoeuropa

The following work is a case study of overstock and stock-out problems at Volkswagen Autoeuropa (VWAE). It introduces the supply chain of Autoeuropa and specializes then on failures connected to inventory problems. Having a successful supply chain is important in a world where products become more and more similar as it can give to companies an edge over their competitors. The case shows three practices that VWAE uses to prevent and to overcome stock problems. Information was gathered by doing interviews with different managers, by analyzing the company’s key processes and by literature research related to the topics of supply chain management and flexibility in the supply chain. Three practices were further investigated: the use of alternative parts, support of the supplier and a rating system of suppliers. In the question section of this work the importance of flexibility and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) when connected to supply chain management are explained. The described different practices are numerically analyzed and it is concluded that each practice brings both cost savings and the possibility of achieving target numbers to the company, showing the company’s flexibility to react to supply chain disturbances. Because of confidentiality reasons, persons in the case are fictionalized and numbers are wherever possible equalized to 100 in order to display true proportions.

Breaking Down and Breaking Out: Beckett’s ‘Absolute Liminality’ in the Third Age of Capitalist Traumas

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Fundação Millennium bcp

Quantitative and qualitative research on brief systemic therapies carried out within the framework of an ambulatory consultation for couples and families

Abstract: This article presents both a brief systemic intervention method (IBS) consisting in 6 sessions developed in an ambulatory service for couples and families, and two research projects done in collaboration with the Institute for Psychotherapy of the University of Lausanne. The first project is quantitative and it aims at evaluating the effectiveness of ISB. One of its main feature is that outcomes are assessed at different levels of individual and family functioning: 1) symptoms and individual functioning; 2) quality of marital relationship; 3) parental and co-parental relationships; 4) familial relationships. The second project is a qualitative case study about a marital therapy which identifies and analyses significant moments of the therapeutic process from the patients' perspective. Methodology was largely inspired by Daniel Stem's work about "moments of meeting" in psychotherapy. Results show that patients' theories about relationship and change are important elements that deepen our understanding of the change process in couple and family therapy. The interest of associating clinicians and researchers for the development and validation of a new clinical model is discussed.

New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation.

Platelets are the second most abundant cell type in blood and are essential for maintaining haemostasis. Their count and volume are tightly controlled within narrow physiological ranges, but there is only limited understanding of the molecular processes controlling both traits. Here we carried out a high-powered meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in up to 66,867 individuals of European ancestry, followed by extensive biological and functional assessment. We identified 68 genomic loci reliably associated with platelet count and volume mapping to established and putative novel regulators of megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation. These genes show megakaryocyte-specific gene expression patterns and extensive network connectivity. Using gene silencing in Danio rerio and Drosophila melanogaster, we identified 11 of the genes as novel regulators of blood cell formation. Taken together, our findings advance understanding of novel gene functions controlling fate-determining events during megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation, providing a new example of successful translation of GWAS to function.

La ubicación de la industria peruana de harina de pescado.

Anexo y a la vez, un extracto del trabajo en curso el cual se refiere a un más amplio estudio económico sobre la industria de harina de pescado en el Perú. El objeto principal es la ubicación de las fábricas, especialmente en Callo y Chimbote. Además, los mapas adjuntos muestran, en general, la actual ubicación de las fábricas en relación con la posición geográfica, con los factores del abastecimiento de materia prima y del transporte del producto manufacturado, con el aspecto sanitario, etc. La interrelación de las fábricas a propósito de varios factores económicos también se puede observar en los dibujos. El material aquí expuesto se basa en datos personalmente recogidos en las visitas a las fábricas en el periodo octubre 1961 – abril 1962

Capacidad de producción de la industria de harina de pescado en el Perú

Extracto de un trabajo más amplio, el cual estuvo en preparación y se refiere a varios aspectos económicos de la Industria Peruana de Harina de Pescado. La capacidad, objeto principal en este informe, es tratada exclusivamente como la unidad física sin conexión con la eficiencia del uso ni precio de costo.

La industria pesquera de la anchoveta

Estudio de estimación real de la magnitud del stock de anchoveta y aspecto biológico de dos tipos. La primera es tratar de solucionar las preguntas de reproducción, razón de longevidad, nutrición y distribución en el espacio y el tiempo. El segundo es obtener cifras sobre el desembarco total, medición del esfuerzo de pesca y captura por unidad de esfuerzo.

Análisis técnico de la industria de harina de pescado en el Perú

Estudio de la industria harinera, volumen, caracterìsticas de la materia prima, ubicaciòn de la fàbrica, capacidad fabril, capacidad de almacenaje y rendimientos.

Material estadístico sobre la industria peruana de harina de pescado

Cuadros estadísticos de aspectos cualitativos y cuantitativos ligados a la industria peruana de reducción, que se presenta desde el momento de la pesca de materia prima hasta la venta del producto final y su exportación.

Costos y beneficios en la industria de la pesca de anchoveta

En este estudio sobre costos y beneficios están comprendidas las embarcaciones, desde 40 hasta 80 pies de eslora, la cuales durante 1962 han pescado como mínimo 8 meses a lo lago de la costa peruana la anchoveta objeto de reducción en harina.

Validation of plant dynamic model by online and laboratory measurements – a tool to predict online COD loads out of production of mechanical printing papers

COD discharges out of processes have increased in line with elevating brightness demands for mechanical pulp and papers. The share of lignin-like substances in COD discharges is on average 75%. In this thesis, a plant dynamic model was created and validated as a means to predict COD loading and discharges out of a mill. The assays were carried out in one paper mill integrate producing mechanical printing papers. The objective in the modeling of plant dynamics was to predict day averages of COD load and discharges out of mills. This means that online data, like 1) the level of large storage towers of pulp and white water 2) pulp dosages, 3) production rates and 4) internal white water flows and discharges were used to create transients into the balances of solids and white water, referred to as “plant dynamics”. A conversion coefficient was verified between TOC and COD. The conversion coefficient was used for predicting the flows from TOC to COD to the waste water treatment plant. The COD load was modeled with similar uncertainty as in reference TOC sampling. The water balance of waste water treatment was validated by the reference concentration of COD. The difference of COD predictions against references was within the same deviation of TOC-predictions. The modeled yield losses and retention values of TOC in pulping and bleaching processes and the modeled fixing of colloidal TOC to solids between the pulping plant and the aeration basin in the waste water treatment plant were similar to references presented in literature. The valid water balances of the waste water treatment plant and the reduction model of lignin-like substances produced a valid prediction of COD discharges out of the mill. A 30% increase in the release of lignin-like substances in the form of production problems was observed in pulping and bleaching processes. The same increase was observed in COD discharges out of waste water treatment. In the prediction of annual COD discharge, it was noticed that the reduction of lignin has a wide deviation from year to year and from one mill to another. This made it difficult to compare the parameters of COD discharges validated in plant dynamic simulation with another mill producing mechanical printing papers. However, a trend of moving from unbleached towards high-brightness TMP in COD discharges was valid.