Seasonal variations in gross biochemical composition, percent edibility, and condition index of the clam Ruditapes Decussatus cultivated in the Ria Formosa (South Portugal)

The grooved carpet shell clam, Ruditapes decussatus (L. 1758), is one of the most popular and profitable molluscs exploited in rearing plots in the Mediterranean. However, annual catch has been declining steadily since the early nineties. In order to understand the seasonality of its nutritional value, thus providing an improved basis for economical valuation of the resource, gross biochemical composition, percentage edibility and condition index were investigated during a year with monthly periodicity in a commercially exploited population of the clam Ruditapes decussatus in the Ria Formosa, a temperate mesotidal coastal lagoon located in the south of Portugal. Our results show that total and non-protein nitrogen co-varied during the year, resulting in a protein content that peaked in the warmest months. Although complementary in summer, carbohydrate and lipid contents showed irregular annual trends. The observed seasonality was comparable to that shown by studies elsewhere at similar latitudes, and are underpinned by the reproductive cycle of the species. Our results show the clams to be at their prime nutritional value at the beginning of summer, when protein content peaks.

Microplankton composition, production and upwelling dynamics in Sagres (SW Portugal) during summer 2001

Microplankton community, production, and respiration were studied alongside physical and chemical conditions at Sagres (SW Portugal) during the upwelling season, from May to September 2001. The sampling station was 5 km east of the upwelling center off Cabo S. Vicente, and 2 km of an offshore installation for bivalve aquaculture.

Chromatographic analysis and comparison of chemical composition of the samples between olive oils in Europe and some chinese oils

Dissertação de mest., Qualidade em Análises, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2013

Avaliação dos impactos de um projecto turístico - cultural: o festival internacional de jazz de Loulé

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo principal avaliar as perceções e as atitudes dos residentes e comerciantes da cidade de Loulé face ao Festival Internacional de Jazz. A materialização deste objetivo implicou a realização de uma reflexão teórica, a partir de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, sobre o turismo cultural, categorização e classificação dos eventos e por fim uma pesquisa específica sobre as perceções dos impactos dos eventos e os modelos que têm sido utilizados para avaliar as atitudes dos residentes e dos comerciantes face ao seu desenvolvimento. Com base nesta reflexão teórica foi construído um modelo de investigação, o que implicou a utilização de um questionário a residentes e a comerciantes tendo-se usado o processo de amostragem por conveniência; e a realização de seis entrevistas aos organizadores e a entidades que apoiam o Festival Internacional de Jazz de Loulé. Dos questionários e das entrevistas realizadas verificou-se que embora o Festival de Jazz de Loulé seja reconhecido como um dos agentes no processo de desenvolvimento da comunidade, ele não reúne todas as condições por si só para criar uma imagem diferenciadora do concelho e do destino maduro do Algarve.

On the solvation in lipid bilayers measured by pyrene fluorescence: thermal and molecular composition influence on equivalent polarity in lipidic mixtures

Phosphatidylcholine (PC), sphingomyelin (SM) and cholesterol (CHOL) are major constituents of mammalian cell membranes. DPPC/CHOL and DPPC/DMPC are well-known binary mixtures. POPC/CHOL, DOPC/CHOL, egg-SM/CHOL, egg-SM/POPC and egg-SM/DOPC are less studied, but also important for the comprehension of the POPC/egg-SM/CHOL mixtures. These provide complex media for which polarity is hard to access. It is mainly determined by the water penetrating the bilayer (unevenly distributed creating a polarity gradient), though the influence of the dipoles from phospholipids (e.g. –PO, –CO, –OH) and the double bond in the steroid ring of CHOL cannot be neglected. CHOL derivatives are an interesting tool to verify the influence of the double bonds in the polarization of its surroundings. Pyrene fluorescence was used to access an equivalent polarity (associated to the dielectric constant) near the lipid/water interface of lipid bilayers. POPC/CHOL and DOPC/CHOL have similar thermal behavior and variation with CHOL content, though for lower CHOL content the equivalent polarity is higher for the DOPC/CHOL mixtures. The studies with DPPC and DMPC showed that pyrene does not seem to have a marked preference for either ordered or disordered phases. For DPPC/CHOL and egg-SM/CHOL the highlight goes to the behavior of the mixtures at higher CHOL amounts, where there is a substantial change in the thermal behavior and polarity values especially for the egg-SM/CHOL mixture. Egg-SM/POPC and egg-SM/DOPC show different behavior depending on which phospholipid has a higher molar proportion. The ternary mixtures analyzed do not exhibit significant differences, though there is the indication of the existence of a more ordered environment at lower temperatures and a less ordered environment for higher temperatures. The presence of 7DHC or DCHOL in egg-SM bilayers showed a tendency for the same behavior detected upon mixing higher amounts of CHOL.

A satisfação do consumidor de jazz: o caso da associação grémio das músicas

Dissertação de mestrado, Marketing, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

Graffiti composition: screenplay

Ongoing collaboration with Christian Marclay. ‘Graffiti Composition’ and ‘Screenplay’ are two related works consisting of live musical improvisation and performance. They are part of an ongoing collaboration with the artist Christian Marclay. 'Graffiti Composition' involved Beresford directing an invited orchestra of improvising musicians. The work focuses on making music from the random compositional acts of strangers. Prior to realization, Marclay fly-posted several hundred sheets of blank manuscript paper, collecting the sheets some days later, after passers-by had written on them – using either traditional music notation or more transgressive interference modes (colour-blocks, torn holes in or abstract graphic symbols on the paper) – and sending photographs of them to Beresford. Beresford’s directorial decisions helped these random graffiti become music via simple formal processes – restricting each musician to a handout of two MS each, or stipulating a mini-concerto for each player. Beresford’s contribution explores the paradox of improvisation stipulated by strangers and controlled, however loosely, by the structuring agency of a musical director. ‘Screenplay’ extended this collaborative process between Marclay and Beresford. Beresford and other musicians responding to a visual track comprising found and public domain moving images manipulated by Marclay – gunfight scenes from a TV Western; running water; racing cars morphing into crying children, and so on, in black-and-white, with single-colour blocks appearing and developing as lines, spots, and other suggestive ‘notation’. The elliptical, surprising, humorous nature of the images at times is hyperexplicated by the improvised music, and at others challenged, ignored or contradicted by the musicians’ interaction. ‘Graffiti Composition’ was performed by the LSO at St. Luke’s, London, March 22, 2005. ‘Screenplay’ premiered in Dundee in 2006, and toured Europe during 2007. Reviewed in the Herald (21 Feb 06) and Times (24 March 07). Beresford’s work as improviser, composer and performer was profiled in The Wire (April 2002, May 2005).

Second Annual Spring Collegiate Jazz Festival, May 23, 1976

Concert program for Second Annual Spring Collegiate Jazz Festival, May 23, 1976

Microbial community composition and mercury cycling in sediments of tagus estuary

Tese de doutoramento, Farmácia (Toxicologia), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Farmácia, 2016

Jazz Concert, February 22, 1977

Concert program for Jazz Concert, February 22, 1977

The Studio Jazz Ensemble, The Western Washington State University Workshop Band, The University of Washington Contemporary Group Jazz Ensemble November 23, 1977

Concert program for Studio Jazz Ensemble, Western Washington State University Workshop Band, The University of Washington Contemporary Group Jazz EnsembleNovember 23, 1977

Studio Jazz Ensemble, May 18, 1978

Concert program for Studio Jazz Ensemble, May 18, 1978

Jazz Combos, March 2, 1993

Concert program for Jazz Combos, March 2, 1993

Modern band, Studio Jazz Ensemble, March 5, 2012

Concert program for Modern band, Studio Jazz Ensemble, March 5, 2012

The influence of salinity and sea star wasting syndrome on sea star species composition and distribution in Nootka Sound, British Columbia

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445