Development of a fuzzy qualitative risk assessment model applied to construction industry

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Industrial

HIV-related discrimination in Sub-Sahran Africa: Explanatory characteristics and consequences on employment and HIV-testing

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

User-centered design of the interface prototype of a business intelligence mobile application

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Kids nature camp

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

A closer look at brazilwood and its lake pigments

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Mestrado em Conservação e Restauro, especialização em Ciências da Conservação

Analysable software language translations

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Informática

Re-evaluation of the basic procedures involved in the storage of measles vaccine in public health units of the municipality of Niterói, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Four years after the first visit seventeen public health units were visited again and evaluated as to standards of storage recommended by the Brazilian Immunization Programme. In 100% of the units, refrigerators and proper inside location of vaccines in the refrigerator were adequatety or regularfy maintained and checked, respectively. However, when control of temperature was checked, onfy 64.7% presented adequate storage conditions. In 94.1 % of the units, health workers complained of lack of immediate technical support in emergency situations. In 55.2 % the titers vaccine samples of were under the minimal recommended potency. It is necessary that the factors concerning the cold chain be continualfy evaluated so that the quality of the vaccines that will be used is not affected.

Development of chitosan-based microparticles for pulmonary drug delivery

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Química e Bioquímica

Establishment and characterization of a human model of the blood-brain barrier

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Genética Molecular e Biomedicina, pela Universidade N ova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Prevalência e aspectos epidemiológicos da giardíase em creches no município de Aracaju, SE, Brasil

A survey of the giardiasis prevalence was done in children from 2 till 5 years old who frequented two day nurseries ("A " and "B "). Its relation with some epidemiological aspects through the realization of parasitological exams of stool and an inquiry applied to mothers. Inday nursery "A " with a higth standard of life, 20 (66.6%) of 30 inquired children were parasitised and all the children in day nursery "B" had some enteroparasite. Giardia lamblia wasfound in 15 (50%) of the children-in better standart of life and in 19 (63.3%) of the children with a lower one. The ingesting of vegetables was the only allied factor to the high degree of giardiasis, in day nursery "A ". The day nursery "B " suffered influences from other aspects: no potable water in the residences, the inappropriate destiny of the garbage, the ingesting of vegetables habit and collective bedroom. The adequate sanitation and the existence of domestic animals were not related to parasitism by Giardia lamblia.

Influence of curing conditions in lime-metakaolin blended mortars – A mineralogical and mechanical study

3rd Historic Mortars Conference, 11-14 September 2013, Glasgow, Scotland

Natural hydraulic lime mortars: influence of the aggregates

3rd Historic Mortars Conference, 11-14 September 2013, Glasgow, Scotland

The influence of brick residues in the behaviour of lime mortars

XXXVI IAHS World Congress on Housing - National Housing Programs-New Visions, November 03–07, 2008, Kolkata, India

Prospective study of strongyloidosis in patients with hematologic malignancies

Immunocompromised individuals infected with Strongyloides stercoralis may develop severe hyperinfection or disseminated disease with high mortality. Patients with hematological malignancies are at risk because of immunodepression produced either by the disease or its treatment. A prospective study was undertaken at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, from July 1994 to July 1995. Seventy-two (HIV negative), had 3 stool samples collected at different days and had not received recent anti-helmintic therapy. Larvae, isolated in a modified Baermann method, were found in 6 patients, with a resultant prevalence of 8.3%. No complicated strongyloidosis was documented. The positive result for S. stercoralis larvae was significantly associated (p < 0.001) with eosinophilia. Knowledge of prevalence figures and incidence of severe disease is important to adequate guidelines for empirical treatment besides the rigorous search for strongyloidosis in patients with hematological malignancies.

Modelling lean and green supply chain

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Industrial