Competências das entidades inspectoras ou organismos de inspecção de acordo com a norma NP EN 45 004

O regulamento técnico relativo ao projecto, construção, exploração e manutenção de redes de gás combustível canalizado tem sofrido algumas alterações ao longo dos últimos treze anos. Este facto está directamente relacionado com o projecto de introdução do gás natural (GN) no território nacional, considerado como uma das prioridades na política energética dos últimos governos. A área geográfica de concessão de serviço público de importação de gás natural e do seu transporte e fornecimento através da rede de alta pressão encontra-se actualmente alargada a todos os municípios do continente, por força da Portaria n.º 2/2001, de 2 de Janeiro.

Co-morbidity of depression and anxiety in common age-related eye diseases : a population-based study of 662 adults

This study examined the prevalence of co-morbid age-related eye disease and symptoms of depression and anxiety in late life, and the relative roles of visual function and disease in explaining symptoms of depression and anxiety. A community-based sample of 662 individuals aged over 70 years was recruited through the electoral roll. Vision was measured using a battery of tests including high and low contrast visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, motion sensitivity, stereoacuity, Useful Field of View, and visual fields. Depression and anxiety symptoms were measured using the Goldberg scales. The prevalence of self-reported eye disease [cataract, glaucoma, or age-related macular degeneration (AMD)] in the sample was 43.4%, with 7.7% reporting more than one form of ocular pathology. Of those with no eye disease, 3.7% had clinically significant depressive symptoms. This rate was 6.7% among cataract patients, 4.3% among those with glaucoma, and 10.5% for AMD. Generalized linear models adjusting for demographics, general health, treatment, and disability examined self-reported eye disease and visual function as correlates of depression and anxiety. Depressive symptoms were associated with cataract only, AMD, comorbid eye diseases and reduced low contrast visual acuity. Anxiety was significantly associated with self-reported cataract, and reduced low contrast visual acuity, motion sensitivity and contrast sensitivity. We found no evidence for elevated rates of depressive or anxiety symptoms associated with self-reported glaucoma. The results support previous findings of high rates of depression and anxiety in cataract and AMD, and in addition show that mood and anxiety are associated with objective measures of visual function independently of self-reported eye disease. The findings have implications for the assessment and treatment of mental health in the context of late-life visual impairment...

A new period of volcanogenic massive sulfide formation in the Yilgarn: A volcanological study of the ca 2.76 Ga Hollandaire VMS deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

The Archean Hollandaire volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit is a felsic–siliciclastic VMS deposit located in the Murchison Domain of the Youanmi Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. It is hosted in a succession of turbidites, mudstones and coherent rhyodacite sills and has been metamorphosed to upper greenschist/lower amphibolite facies and includes a pervasive S1 deformational fabric. The coherent rhyodacitic sills are interpreted as syndepositional based on geochemical similarities with well-known VMS-associated felsic rocks and similar foliations to the metasediments. We offer several explanations for the absence of textural evidence (e.g. breccias) for syn-depositional origins: 1) the subaqueous sediments were dehydrated by long-lived magmatism such that no pore-water remained to drive quench fragmentation; 2) pore-space occlusion by burial and/or, 3) alteration overprinting and obscuring of primary breccias at contact margins. Mineralisation occurs by sub-seafloor replacement of original host rocks in two ore bodies, Hollandaire Main (~125 x >500 m and ~8 m thick) and Hollandaire West (~100 x 470 m and ~5 m thick), and occurs in three main textural styles, massive sulfides, which are exclusively hosted in turbidites and mudstones, and stringer and disseminated sulfides, which are also hosted in coherent rhyodacite. Most sulfides have textures consistent with remobilisation and recrystallisation. Hydrothermal metamorphism has altered the hangingwall and footwall to similar degrees, with significant gains in Mg, Mn and K and losses in Na, Ca and Sr. Garnet and staurolite porphyryoblasts also exhibit a footprint around mineralisation, extending up to 30 m both above and below the ore zone. High precision thermal ionisation mass spectrometry of zircons extracted from the coherent rhyodacite yield an age of 2759.5 ± 0.9 Ma, which along with geochemical comparisons, places the succession within the 2760–2735 Ma Greensleeves Formation of the Polelle Group of the Murchison Supergroup. Geochemical and geochronological evidence link the coherent rhyodacite sills to the Peter Well Granodiorite pluton ~2 km to the W, which acted as the heat engine driving hydrothermal circulation during VMS mineralisation. This study highlights the importance of both: detailed physical volcanological studies from which an accurate assessment of timing relationships, particularly the possibility of intrusions dismembering ore horizons, can be made; and identifying synvolcanic plutons and other similar suites, for VMS exploration targets in the Youanmi Terrane and worldwide.

Reproduction of painted portrait of Marcus Elias Marcus, age 76. Portraits Men

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Reproduction of painted portrait of Marcus Elias Marcus, age 76. Portraits Men

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Reproduction of painted portrait of Marcus Elias Marcus, age 76 Portraits Men

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Synthesis, structural characterization and ferroelectric properties of Pb(0.76)Ca(0.24)TiO(3) nanotubes

A capillary-enforced template-based method has been applied to fabricate Pb(0.76)Ca(0.24)TiO(3) (PCT24) nanotubes via filling PCT24 precursor solution, prepared by modified sol-gel method, into nanochannels of anodic aluminum oxide templates. The morphology and structure of as-prepared PCT24 were examined by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction techniques. The obtained PCT24 nanotubes with diameter of similar to 200 nm and wall thickness of similar to 20 nm exhibited a tetragonal perovskite structure. High resolution TEM (HRTEM) analysis confirmed that as-obtained PCT24 nanotubes made up of nanoparticles (5-8 nm) which were randomly aligned in the nanotubes. Formation of some solid crystalline PCT24 nanorods, Y-junctions and multi-branches were observed. Interconnections in the pores of template are responsible for the growth of Y-junctions and multi-branches. The possible formation mechanism of PCT24 nanotubes/nanorods was discussed. Ferroelectric hysteresis loops of PCT24 nanotube arrays were measured, showing a room temperature ferroelectric characteristic of as-prepared PCT24 nanotubes. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Determinación de aptitud combinatoria de ocho lineas de maiz (Zea mays L.) derivadas de la población 76 C2 (Tropical Intermedia Blanco Cristalino)

En las épocas de primera y postrera de 2000 en terrenos de las estaciones experimentales Santa Rosa y San Cristóbal del Centro Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (CNIA) pertenecientes al Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), se evaluaron 28 cruzas dialélicas, derivadas de 8 líneas promisorias de maíz (Zea mays L.) de la Población 76 C 2. Los objetivos fueron: (1) Determinar los efectos de aptitud combinatoria general y específica, (2) Identificar las mejores cruzas simples y (3) Determinar la heterosis de las cruzas simples en estudio. Se establecieron tres ensayos uniformes, dos en la época de primera y uno en postrera, el diseño experimental fue un Bloques Completos al Azar, con cuatro repeticiones. El análisis de las cruzas dialélicas fue a través del diseño IV de Griffing (1956) (Martínez, 1983), en el cual se ensaya P(P-1)12 combinaciones, donde P se refiere al número de progenitores involucrados en los cruzamientos. El análisis dialélico combinado, la aptitud combinatoria general (ACG) y específica (ACE), presentaron diferencias altamente significativas (a=0.01) para cada tratamiento, en cada localidad y a través de localidades, lo que indica que algunas líneas al combinarse dieron como resultado cruzas con un comportamiento superior o simi1ar al esperado a la ACG de sus padres. Las líneas LN-l, LN-5, LN-7 y LN-9 presentaron los efectos positivos de ACG (0.17, 0.06, 0.07 y 0.13 t/ha). Asimismo, las cruzas simples (LN-1 x LN-5), (LN-7 x LN-11), (LN-7 x LN-15) y (LN-13 x LN-13) obtuvieron estimaciones de ACE positivas (0.69, 0.63, 0.76 y 0.08 t/ha) y con porcentajes de heterosis de 202.7, 172.0, 184.2 y 156.1% respectivamente, lo que es un buen indicador para el aprovechamiento de los efectos genéticos no aditivos principalmente genes de acción de dominancia que son aprovechados en la heterosis.

Sapientia, 1965, Vol. XX, nº 76 (número completo)

Contenido: Humanismo y trascendencia / Octavio N. Derisi – La sustancia como sujeto en Aristóteles / Cesáreo López Salgado – La significación de la muerte / Oswaldo Robles – La obra de arte y el intelecto / Omar Argerami – Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 662]

Adiamento da discussão da proposta sobre concessão de anistia a dívidas de microempresários. Criação de comissão para examinar as causas da dívida externa brasileira. Concessão de pensão aos ex-combatentes e aos seringueiros que atuaram na 2ª Guerra Mundial.

Epidermis differentiation in Salmo irideus Gilb. development [Translation from: Archo ital.Anat.Embriol. 76, 19-30, 1971]

Recent histochemical and histophysiological research on the skin of fish has posed interesting problems both with regard to the presence of specialized types of cell and with regard to the function of this organ. The present paper intends to study the development and the functional differentiation of the trout's skin, both from the histomorphological and the histochemical point of view. The skin of Salmonids is devoid of specialized cells; the granular cells of Petromyzonti, the serous cells of Selacii and the clavate cells described in many other teleosts and it lacks keratin. As such it can be considered a good working model which can be used to show the eventual histomorphological and histochemical changes occurring both in the transformation from the endovular to the aqueous environment. Histomorphological observations were carried out demonstrate the great structural simplicity of the trout's skin at all stages. The article concludes that glycogen increases greatly when the epidermis thickens and therefore when it becomes necessary to guarantee resistance, amongst which is a support mechanism.

A contribution to the algal flora of the Kola Peninsula [Translation from: Trudy Institut Botaniki Trudy Institut Botaniki Kharkivskii. Univ Vol. 4, pp. 53-76, 1941]

During recent years in connection with the industrialisation of the Kola Peninsula, the study of this district in the botanical respect, in particular the study of the microflora of various bodies of water, began to advance markedly. This article describes the algal flora of the Kola Peninsula. Morphological descriptions are given for three Tetraspora: Tetraspora simplex, Tetraspora tenera, Tetraspora imperfecta. Chlorophysema aduata is also described, and short descriptions of further algae found in the Kola Peninsula are given.