Organising for growth:Irish state administration 1958-2008

This paper analyses some key features of Irish public administration as it has developed since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the period from the late 1950s onward. During these decades, notwithstanding successive waves of concern expressed over the need for public sector reform, the evidence suggests an underlying lack of coherence in the evolution of the public administrationsystem that resulted in a poor capacity for effective policy coordination. Yet the drive toward economic modernisation also resulted in the creation of new state competence to support industrial development both directly and indirectly. These changes can be tracked organisationally, drawing on the database of the IRCHSS-funded Mapping the Irish State project.

Sound Art and Spatial Practices: Situating Sound Installation Art Since 1958

This dissertation examines the emergence and development of sound installation art, an under-recognized tradition that has developed between music, architecture, and media art practices since the late 1950s. Unlike many musical works, which are concerned with organizing sounds in time, sound installations organize sounds in space; they thus necessitate new theoretical and analytical models that take into consideration the spatial situated-ness of sound. Existing discourses on ���spatial sound��� privilege technical descriptions of sound localization. By contrast, this dissertation examines the ways in which concepts of space are socially, culturally, and politically construed, and how spatially-organized sound works reflect and resist these different constructions. Using an interdisciplinary methodology of critical spatial analysis and critical studies in music, this dissertation explores such topics as: conceptions of acoustic space in postwar Western art music, architecture, and media theory; the development of sound installation art in relation to philosophies of everyday life and social space; the historical links between musical performance, conceptual art, and sound sculpture; the body as a site for sound installations; and sonicspatial strategies that confront politics of race and gender. Through these different investigations, this dissertation proposes an ���ontopological��� model for considering sound: a critical model of analysis and reception that privileges an understanding of sound in relation to ontologies of space and place.

Resumos de teses de mestrado

A publica����o de um livro de resumos de teses de mestrado, elaboradas na Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Algarve, �� um prop��sito da Direc����o da ADIFE, agora cumprido. N��o foi poss��vel obter todos os resumos de teses, cerca de 90, apesar dos pedidos formais endere��ados aos autores. N��o obstante, esta edi����o conta com 41 resumos, aos quais se juntam mais quatro de docentes da Faculdade, que conclu��ram os seus mestrados noutras institui����es. Pretende-se, pela relev��ncia desta iniciativa, despertar o interesse para a leitura das vers��es completas das disserta����es, existentes nas bibliotecas da Universidade do Algarve, e contribuir para a divulga����o da investiga����o realizada na Faculdade, ao n��vel dos cursos de mestrado. De igual modo, tamb��m �� prop��sito desta edi����o motivar os actuais e os futuros estudantes de mestrado a enveredar pelos caminhos estimulantes da investiga����o cient��fica e a realizar a sua pr��pria disserta����o. Tendo em conta este prop��sito, e para facilitar a identifica����o das teses que abordam determinados temas espec��ficos, inclui-se no final do livro um ��ndice remissivo de palavras chave, bem ainda como um ��ndice remissivo de autores. Aos mestres que decidiram aliar-se a esta iniciativa, enviando os seus resumos, �� devida uma palavra de profundo agradecimento. Aos restantes estende-se novo convite de publica����o dos seus resumos numa futura edi����o.

A avalia����o do impacto da forma����o : um estudo explorat��rio na For��a A��rea

Tese de mestrado, Ci��ncias da Educa����o (Avalia����o em Educa����o), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educa����o, 2010

O impacto da avalia����o externa numa escola da Marinha Portuguesa

Tese de mestrado, Ci��ncias da Educa����o (Avalia����o em Educa����o), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educa����o, 2010

Processos de cuidar em enfermagem:idosos com hiperten����o arterial

Tese de doutoramento, Enfermagem, Universidade de Lisboa, com a participa����o da Escola Superior de Enfermagem, 2014

Educar nas virtudes:programa de interven����o para alunos do 1�� ciclo de ensino b��sico

Tese de doutoramento, Psicologia (Psicologia da Educa����o), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Psicologia, 2014

A moral, mural! : as ideias nos mapas e quadros parietais

Tese de doutoramento, Educa����o (Hist��ria da Educa����o), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educa����o, 2014