Bottom-up regulation of phytoplankton in the Guadiana estuary

Tese dout., Ciências do Mar (Ecologia Marinha), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2010

Étude de profils psychomoteurs d'enfants à hauts potentiels intellectuels en difficulté d'apprentissage à l'école primaire française

Cette recherche professionnelle porte sur les profils psychomoteurs d'un échantillon de 83 enfants français, garçons et filles de 7, 8 et 9 ans à hauts potentiels intellectuels rencontrant des difficultés pour apprendre à l'école primaire. Elle est mise en oeuvre au moyen d'une méthodologie mixte. Née en France, la psychomotricité est un corpus paramédical qui propose une approche éducative et de remédiation des difficultés d'apprentissage, à partir d'une conception du développement psychomoteur qui considère que les interrelations entre les fonctionnements corporels, les éprouvés émotionnels et les cognitions sont primordiales et qu'elles se réalisent et sont accessibles via l'expérience corporelle globalisante. Ce construit, et les outils d'évaluation qui en découlent, c'est-à-dire le bilan psychomoteur, sont ici mobilisés pour décrire les profils adaptatifs d'enfants à hauts potentiels intellectuels en souffrance pour apprendre. Si les principaux travaux consacrés à ces enfants hors-normes et à leurs développements atypiques évoquent leur sensibilité et fragilité, ils sont trop souvent restreints aux seuls aspects du quotient intellectuel. Les apports de la psychomotricité peuvent donc les compléter. À partir de la description du dialogue tonicoémotionnel, qui inscrit le sujet dans la continuité biologiquepsychologique, l'expérience du corps, sous le double effet de la maturation neuromotrice et du bain environnemental, évolue vers la différenciation des fonctions psychomotrices qui permet la maîtrise gestuelle, la représentation du corps, de l'espace et du temps. Ces descriptions sont cohérentes avec d'autres conceptions multi-référencées qui reconnaissent aux émotions et à leur devenir un rôle important dans le développement, comme la théorie de l'attachement. Elles conduisent au repérage de troubles psychomoteurs. Ceux-ci peuvent friner l'accès aux apprentissages scolaires notamment l'écriture. Ce sont des perturbations de l'équilibre psychocorporel. Par définition et spécifiquement, ils ne répondent pas à une atteinte neurologique et expriment une souffrance psychique. L'analyse centrée sur les variables fournit une vision générale des données collectées. Les corrélations entre les 30 rubriques sont étudiées en les classant par sphères correspondant aux fonctions psychomotrices - motricité - rythme - espace - intégration corporelle - graphomotricité; puis par processus - tonicoémotionnel - sensori-perceptivo-moteur - cognitif - apprentissage explicité. Cette taxonomie éclaire les corrélations et donc les niveaux d'organisation. Ce premier traitement statistique débouche sur a) l'intérêt de la démarche globale en psychomotricité puisque toutes les rubriques étudiées se sont avérées troublées, b) l'apport de la prise en considération des dimensions tonicoémotionnelles, c) l'importance de l'articulation sensori-perceptivo-motrice et d) une confirmation des liens entre les compétences psychomotrices et l'écriture. La seconde étape est une classification hiérarchique ascendante puis une analyse factorielle des grappes. Elle dégage des résultats concernant des différences entre les organisations internes de ces enfants sous-réalisateurs, à partir des poids respectifs des facteurs 1) de la dyspraxie et de la dysgraphie, 2) de l'hyperactivité et de l'anxiété avec impulsivité et difficultés graphiques, 3) des troubles de la motricité large et fine et de l'expression émotionnelle, 4) des troubles spatiaux, 5) des troubles visuopraxiques et de l'intégration corporelle floue, 6) des troubles diffus et légers et 7) des troubles du rythme. Ainsi les cinq grappes sont décrites de manière dynamique comme caractérisées par 1) de bonnes compétences scripturales, des difficultés légères mais aussi des perturbations du tonus musculaire, 2) des tendances dysgraphiques pour des enfants maladroits et inquiets mais aussi avec des compétences préservées, qui se différencient 3) d'enfants franchement dysgraphiques avec des difficultés à se situer et manier les informations relatives à l'espace et au rythme, 4) d'enfants également dysgraphiques mais aussi hyperactifs, anxieux et manquant de référence spatio-temporelle, et 5) de sujets qui dysgraphiques, dyspraxiques, émotifs ont des tendances hyperactives et des incertitudes visuopraxiques. Ainsi à partir de la référence holistique-interactionniste, ces résultats confirment l'intérêt des approches globales et multi-référencées pour explorer les profils des enfants dont le développement n'est pas harmonieux et qui se trouvent confrontés à des difficultés pour apprendre dans le cadre scolaire.

Autour d’un paradigme juridique de la reconnaissance

Les travaux de l’actuel directeur de l’Institut de recherches sociales (Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS) de Francfort et les commentaires qu’ils se sont attirés posent la question des conditions de possibilité d’une étude scientifique de la vie institutionnelle du principe d’égalité juridique qui comprenne celui-ci comme une composante essentielle de l’infrastructure morale de la société moderne et qui, de cette vie, permette de diagnostiquer les pathologies ainsi que d’indiquer les forces actives de développement. Ce projet de sociologie juridique critique suppose un concept de droit qui dépasse l’opposition traditionnelle, du moins depuis plus de deux siècles, entre positivisme juridique et jusnaturalisme. Par son truchement, un tel concept de droit se présente comme une contribution de la Théorie critique de la société (ci-après « TCS »). Nous verrons cependant que, en raison de l’état d’avancement actuel du projet honnéthien de sociologie critique, la dimension proprement sociologique du présent dossier était limitée d’emblée.

Vox Dei:metáfora(s) da espiritualidade

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Pintura), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2014

O Seminário Episcopal da Conceição na formação das elites de Mato Grosso - Brasil (1858-1880)

Tese de doutoramento, Educação (História da Educação), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2015

Monsenhor Airosa - pedagogo - empresário : história do colégio de regeneração de Braga : (1869-1931)

Tese de doutoramento, Educação (História da Educação), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2015

Satellite based productivity models across the Kuroshio extension

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Does Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Have a Role in US Managed Care Drug Formularies? An Empirical Study of Utilization, Costs, Outcomes, and Elasticity of Demand of a Value-Based Formulary

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2015

New insights into functional regulation in MS-based drug profiling

We present a novel data analysis strategy which combined with subcellular fractionation and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based proteomics provides a simple and effective workflow for global drug profiling. Five subcellular fractions were obtained by differential centrifugation followed by high resolution LC-MS and complete functional regulation analysis. The methodology combines functional regulation and enrichment analysis into a single visual summary. The workflow enables improved insight into perturbations caused by drugs. We provide a statistical argument to demonstrate that even crude subcellular fractions leads to improved functional characterization. We demonstrate this data analysis strategy on data obtained in a MS-based global drug profiling study. However, this strategy can also be performed on other types of large scale biological data.

MASDScheGATS: a prototype system for dynamic scheduling

A manufacturing system has a natural dynamic nature observed through several kinds of random occurrences and perturbations on working conditions and requirements over time. For this kind of environment it is important the ability to efficient and effectively adapt, on a continuous basis, existing schedules according to the referred disturbances, keeping performance levels. The application of Meta-Heuristics and Multi-Agent Systems to the resolution of this class of real world scheduling problems seems really promising. This paper presents a prototype for MASDScheGATS (Multi-Agent System for Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search).

Meta-heuristics tunning using CBR for dynamic scheduling

This paper addresses the problem of Biological Inspired Optimization Techniques (BIT) parameterization, considering the importance of this issue in the design of BIT especially when considering real world situations, subject to external perturbations. A learning module with the objective to permit a Multi-Agent Scheduling System to automatically select a Meta-heuristic and its parameterization to use in the optimization process is proposed. For the learning process, Casebased Reasoning was used, allowing the system to learn from experience, in the resolution of similar problems. Analyzing the obtained results we conclude about the advantages of its use.

Dynamical modelling of a genetic algorithm

This work addresses the signal propagation and the fractional-order dynamics during the evolution of a genetic algorithm (GA). In order to investigate the phenomena involved in the GA population evolution, the mutation is exposed to excitation perturbations during some generations and the corresponding fitness variations are evaluated. Three distinct fitness functions are used to study their influence in the GA dynamics. The input and output signals are studied revealing a fractional-order dynamic evolution, characteristic of a long-term system memory.

A New Approach in the Design of Air Stripping Columns for the Treatment of Groundwater Contaminated With Volatile Organic Compounds

Volatile organic compounds are a common source of groundwater contamination that can be easily removed by air stripping in columns with random packing and using a counter-current flow between the phases. This work proposes a new methodology for column design for any type of packing and contaminant which avoids the necessity of an arbitrary chosen diameter. It also avoids the employment of the usual graphical Eckert correlations for pressure drop. The hydraulic features are previously chosen as a project criterion. The design procedure was translated into a convenient algorithm in C++ language. A column was built in order to test the design, the theoretical steady-state and dynamic behaviour. The experiments were conducted using a solution of chloroform in distilled water. The results allowed for a correction in the theoretical global mass transfer coefficient previously estimated by the Onda correlations, which depend on several parameters that are not easy to control in experiments. For best describe the column behaviour in stationary and dynamic conditions, an original mathematical model was developed. It consists in a system of two partial non linear differential equations (distributed parameters). Nevertheless, when flows are steady, the system became linear, although there is not an evident solution in analytical terms. In steady state the resulting ODE can be solved by analytical methods, and in dynamic state the discretization of the PDE by finite differences allows for the overcoming of this difficulty. To estimate the contaminant concentrations in both phases in the column, a numerical algorithm was used. The high number of resulting algebraic equations and the impossibility of generating a recursive procedure did not allow the construction of a generalized programme. But an iterative procedure developed in an electronic worksheet allowed for the simulation. The solution is stable only for similar discretizations values. If different values for time/space discretization parameters are used, the solution easily becomes unstable. The system dynamic behaviour was simulated for the common liquid phase perturbations: step, impulse, rectangular pulse and sinusoidal. The final results do not configure strange or non-predictable behaviours.

Prestadores de cuidados familiares a doentes com VIH/SIDA: perfil psico-emocional e social

RESUMO: Com o presente estudo pretendemos identificar a sobrecarga resultante do envolvimento familiar com os doentes portadores de VIH/SIDA. Numa breve introdução teórica, procedemos à revisão dos conceitos sobrecarga familiar e dos sentimentos/emoções vivenciados pelos prestadores de cuidados. Metodologia: Estudo do tipo descritivo e exploratório, com uma amostra de 51 indivíduos, cuja finalidade consiste na caracterização dos prestadores de cuidados familiares a doentes com VIH/SIDA. Objectivos: Identificar quem o doente com VIH/SIDA, considera ser a pessoa significativa nos cuidados informais. Caracterizar, do ponto de vista sócio-demográfico, os doentes e os prestadores de cuidados familiares. Identificar sentimentos e emoções de vivências, que justifiquem o sofrimento emocional e as repercussões na sobrecarga familiar nos prestadores de cuidados informais. Instrumentos: Na avaliação da sobrecarga familiar, utilizámos o Questionário de Problemas Familiares”- FPQ (Family Problemas Questionnaire). Para identificação dos Acontecimentos de Vida, adoptámos a escala de Holmes e Rahe (Life Events); Para identificação do estrato social escolhemos escala de Graffar. Finalmente, para a caracterização sócio-demografica concebemos dois questionários: um dirigido aos doentes e o outro aos prestadores de cuidados informais. Conclusões: A sobrecarga da doença VIH/SIDA, nos prestadores de cuidados familiares, não é uniforme nas diferentes dimensões. A dimensão sobrecarga subjectiva é superior à objectiva. O suporte social revela-se fraco, relacionado com as perdas familiares, devidas a morte, pelas relações familiares disfuncionais, entre os membros da família, pela falta de apoio e informação dos técnicos de saúde. O sexo feminino é predominante nos cuidadores. As mães e esposas são o grau de parentesco dominante. Os solteiros são o grupo mais afectado pelo VIH/SIDA. Os cuidadores apresentam idade superior à dos doentes. O estrato social preponderante é o médio baixo e o baixo. Os familiares, apesar da atitude negativa dos doentes perante os cuidadores, mantêm-se envolvidos. Segundo a avaliação multiaxial proposta pelo DM-IV, constatámos, ao nível do eixo I, sintomatologia clínica do tipo das perturbações depressivas e perturbações da ansiedade. No eixo IV, os cuidadores evidenciam problemas psicossociais e ambientais, nomeadamente nas categorias problemas com o grupo de apoio primário, problemas relacionados como grupo social, problemas educacionais, problemas de alojamento, problemas económicos. Os problemas relacionados com o grupo de apoio primário, são os que mais parecem contribuir para os problemas psicossociais e ambientais.---------------------------------------ABSTRACT: This study wants to describe several problems as a result of the family’s relationship with HIV/AIDS patients, like overload. In a brief theoric introduction, we made a small revision about the concepts of family’s overload, and feelings or emotions that have been lived by the people who provide cares to the patients with this chronic disease. Methodology: This is a describing and exploratory study, with a sample with 51 individuals, with the aim to characterize the people inside the family who give care HIV/AIDS patients. Aim: To identify who are the most important people in informal cares from the patient perspective. To characterize, in a social-demographic point of view, patients and the people who take care of them. To identify feelings and emotions that could explain an emotional suffer, and some causes in the family burden. Means: to evaluate the family’s overload we used the Family Problems Questionnaire (FPQ). To identify life events we adopted the Holmes and Rahe scale. To identify the social stratum we used the Graffer scale. Finally to do a socio-economic characterization we did two kinds of questionnaire, the first one was directed for the patients, and the second one was chosen for the people who give care. Conclusions: The HIV/AIDS disease burden on the people who takes familiar cares isn’t uniform on several areas that we studied. The subjective overload it is superior to the objective. The social support is weak and poor, and related with family losses by dead, dysfunctional family relationships, and the lack of support and information by the medical staff. Mothers and wives are the dominant relative degree. And the singles are the major group with HIV/AIDS disease. The people who take care are usually older than the sick. The major social status is low or medium-low. The relatives keep evolved though the negative attitude of the sick. According with the evaluation multiaxial proposed by the DM-IV, in axle 1 we note clinic sintomatologic belonging to the type depressive perturbations and perturbations of the anxiety. Regarding with axle IV the caretakers show up psycho-social and environmental problems, namely on the categories: problems with the primary support group and problems related as social group, educational problems, accommodation problems and.

A política religiosa do Estado Novo (1933-1974): estado, leis, governação e interesses religiosos

Tese de Doutoramento em História Contemporânea