City & Spectacle: A Vision of Lisbon Before the 1755 Great Earthquake

City & Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon consists of a virtual recrea on of the city of Lis- bon on the eve of the great earthquake of 1 November 1755, giving shape to a laboratory model for research into the city’s history. As its star ng point the project has the virtual recrea on of one the most emblema c of spaces from 18th century Lisbon, the Royal Opera House, which disappeared during the 1755 earthquake. The recrea on of the Opera House was developed in the scope of the commemora- ons of the 250th anniversary of the 1755 catastrophe as an a empt to restore this space of the highest ar s c quality to memory and to return it to the inventory of the Portuguese heritage of architectural history.1 Using Second Life® technology it was possible to put forward a model of both the struc- ture and interiors of the Opera House as well as its anima on combined with a small piece of the opera presented at the inaugura on of the building in April 1755. The public presenta on of this virtual model at the conference 1755: Catástrofe, memória e arte (1755: catastrophe, memory and art), which took place at the Centro de Estudos Compara- stas, Universidade de Lisboa, led to a debate on the study and cri cal analysis of documentary sources and their selec on and applica on on recrea ons using virtual world technology. It also emphasized the need to extend the research on pre-earthquake Lisbon.

Marca coletiva dos vinhos finos de Santa Catarina, Brasil: uma estratégia alternativa.

Com a abertura da economia brasileira a partir de meados da década de 1990, o setor vitivinícola nacional passou a enfrentar uma forte concorrência externa, registrando-se taxas significativas de importações. No período de 2002-2010, o crescimento das importações de produtos vitivinícolas (vinhos, espumantes, vinhos licorosos, etc.), pelo mercado brasileiro foi de aproximadamente 183%. Portanto, de modo semelhante a outros setores do agro-negócio mundial, o setor vitivinícola tem se caracterizado pela crescente competição entre blocos econômicos, a qual tem sido marcada por um ambiente empresarial cada vez mais intenso em tecnologia e gestão. Diante deste cenário e da evidência de que, para competir neste mercado, é necessário uma performance diferenciada, em 2008, a Associação Catarinense dos Produtores de Vinhos Finos de Altitude - ACAVITIS, com o apoio institucional e financeiro do Serviço Nacional de Apoio a Micro e Pequena Empresa - SEBRAE-SC e, sob a coordenação técnica da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa Uva e Vinho e da Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina - EPAGRI, implantou o projeto para criação da Marca Coletiva ACAVITIS (MCA), objetivando garantir qualidade e imagem diferenciada para seus produtos diante da concorrência. Em 2009, o registro da MCA foi protocolado junto ao Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial - INPI e, na safra de 2011, serão certificados seus primeiros vinhos.

Determination of bioactive amines in tropical wines produced at Brazilian's Northeast.

The wine production in the region of the Sub-middle São Francisco river Valley has started there are few years ago.The region has a climate variability that allows to obtain two or three harvests per year, which influences significantly the composition of the grapes. This work aimed to evaluate the amount of amines present in white and red tropical wines produced in the Northeast of Brazil. The winemaking was done by the traditional method. After stabilizing the wines were bottled and then analyzed for the determination of the amines putrescine, spermidine and spermine, by thin layer chromatography (TLC). The harvests were in June (harvest I) and November (harvest II) 2009. The results showed that the edaphoclimatic conditions of the two harvests had significant influence (p> 0.05) on bioactive amines concentration, with high values for red wines. In addition, tropical wines from Sub-middle São Francisco river Valley showed adequate correlation between bioactive amines as compared to other wines in the world.