Carnitine tailored Sensors on Surface Molecular Imprinting based on Graphene layers

III Jornadas de Electroquímica e Inovação (Electroquímica e Nanomateriais), na Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, 16 a 17 de Setembro de 2013

Host-Tailored Sensors for Carnitine Potentiometric Measurements based on Surface Molecular Imprinting

Graduate Student Symposium on Molecular Imprinting 2013, na Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom, 15 a 17 de Agosto de 2013

Estratégias de representação do «eu» e do sentir feminino em narrativas de Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir e Rita Ferro

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estudos Portugueses – Estudos Literários.

Madalena – História e mito

Estudo da personagem de Maria Madalena construída através dos textos literários e representações pictóricas e escultóricas em Portugal, Espanha e importações europeias do séc. XIV ao XXI.

Neo-Modernismos: o artista-engenheiro no século XXI

A partir de Fernando Pessoa e Marinetti desenvolve-se a tese de que os artistas são também engenheiros e os engenheiros orientados por intenções estéticas

Human ceruloplasmin and neurotransmitters: complex stabilization and crystallization

Dissertation to obtain a Master Degree in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine at Faculty of Sciences and Technology,Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Avatars and the «Imitation Game» – can machines smile?

Considering Alan Turing’s challenge in «Computing Machinery and Intelligence» (1950) – can machines play the «imitation game»? – it is proposed that the requirements of the Turing test are already implicitly being used for checking the credibility of virtual characters and avatars. Like characters, Avatars aim to visually express emotions (the exterior signs of the existence of feeling) and its creators have to resort to emotion codes. Traditional arts have profusely contributed for this field and, together with the science of anatomy, shaped the grounds for current Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and their databases. However, FACS researchers have to improve their «instruction tables» so that the machines will be able, in a near future, to be programmed to carry out the operation of recognizing human expressions (face and body) and classify them adequately. For the moment, the reproductions have to resort to the copy of real life expressions, and the presente smile of avatars comes from mirroring their human users.

Narrative Bifurcation, Cloud Computing Interfaces and Hitchcok

From a narratological perspective, this paper aims to address the theoretical issues concerning the functioning of the so called «narrative bifurcation» in data presentation and information retrieval. Its use in cyberspace calls for a reassessment as a storytelling device. Films have shown its fundamental role for the creation of suspense. Interactive fiction and games have unveiled the possibility of plots with multiple choices, giving continuity to cinema split-screen experiences. Using practical examples, this paper will show how this storytelling tool returns to its primitive form and ends up by conditioning cloud computing interface design.

Narrative Memory in Hyperfiction and Games

The aim of this paper is to address some theoretical issues concerning the narrative practice in cyberspace. From a narratological perspective it intends to clarify the functioning of time and space in storytelling. For that purpose it traces the concept(s) of memory inherited from rhetoric; the use of memory as a narrative device in traditional accounts; the adaptations imposed by hyperfiction. Using practical examples (including two Portuguese case studies - InStory 2006, and Noon 2007) it will show how narrative memory strategies can be helpful in game literacy. The main purpose is to contribute to serious game research and (trans)literary studies.

InStory – The Making of na Interactive Digital Narrative

Em cooperação com Glorianna Davenport do M.I.T. Media Lab

Dom Dinis e as Donas: Uma galeria & Antologia de Poemas de D. Dinis

Em 1361 Boccaccio publica uma obra – De Mulieribus Claris [Mulheres Famosas], onde recolhe a biografia de 106 damas célebres até ao seu tempo. Ter‐se‐á inspirado directamente numa outra dedicada a varões ilustres, feita por Petrarca (1341) que lhe alcança o louro. Têm por raiz os catálogos de mulheres, um deles atribuído a Hesíodo (c.700 a.C.), mas em que as figuras femininas aparecem retratadas de modo pejorativo (começa com Pandora). Durante a Idade Média há a tradição das colecções de vidas (mais religiosas que profanas), mas será essa ideia que preside à organização desta antologia e orienta esta leitura do rei Dinis, da força de Isabel, e do seu tempo.

Documenting InStory – Mobile Storytelling in a Cultural Heritage Environment

This paper describes the process and problems that had to be faced during the elaboration of a digital interactive narrative for the Instory project (http://img.di.fct.unl.pt/InStory/) implanted in «Quinta da Regaleira», Sintra, Portugal, and classified as World Heritage by Unesco. It also explores some of the practical and theoretical issues in what regards the literary terminology and strategies involved.

Almeida Garrett: O Trovador Moderno

Três estudos sobre Almeida Garrett que se unem quase naturalmente a partir da ideia de regeneração - da poesia, do teatro e dos mitos portugueses - com que Garrett nacionaliza o mais vasto anseio romântico de recuperação das tradições medievais. O primeiro ensaio é sobre o Romanceiro; o segundo sobre Um Auto de Gil Vicente, e o terceiro sobre As Trovas do Bandarra.

A 'Laura de Anfriso' de Manuel da Veiga Tagarro – Poesia e História

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Assessment of Notch1 ligands production - key protein targets in breast cancer

Cell-to-cell communication is required for many biological processes in development and adult life. One of the most common systems utilized by a wide range of eukaryotes is the Notch signalling pathway. Four Notch receptors and five ligands have been identified in mammals that interact via their extracellular domains leading to transcription activation. Studies have shown that the Notch ligands expression is undetectable in normal breast tissues, but moderate to high expression has been detected in breast cancer. Thus, any of the Notch1 ligands can be studied as possible therapeutic targets for breast cancer. To study Notch pathway proteins there is the need to obtain stable protein solutions. E. coli is the host of excellence for recombinant proteins for the ease of use, fast growth and high cell densities. However, the expression of mammalian proteins in such systems may overwhelm the bacterial cellular machinery, which does not possess the ability for post-translational modifications, or dedicated compartments for protein synthesis. Mammalian cells are therefore preferred, despite their technical and financial increased demands. We aim to determine the best expression and purification conditions for the different ligand protein constructs, to develop specific function-blocking antibodies using the Phage Display technology. Moreover, we propose to crystallize the Notch1 ligands alone and in complex with the phage display selected antibodies, unveiling molecular details. hJag2DE3 and hDll1DE6 proteins were purified from refolded inclusion bodies or mammalian cell culture supernatants, respectively, and purity was confirmed by SDS-PAGE (>95%). Protein produced in mammalian cells showed to be more stable, apparently with the physiological disulfide pattern, contrary to what was observed in the refolded protein. Several nano-scale crystallization experiments were set up in 96-well plates, but no positive result was obtained. We will continue to pursue for the best expression for the Notch ligand constructs in both expression systems.