Gender asymmetries in family and work spheres: strategies and conflicts of qualified women working in portuguese state administration

In Portugal, feminine activity rate of working mother is high but remains structural asymmetries of responsibilities between women and men in familiar spheres. Based on quantitative and qualitative data results are presented that show that, in spite of a global feminization rate of 58,6%, women workers in State Administration remains with major responsibilities in familiar/private lives than men. Women in technical and leadership functions have the same patterns of familiar and domestic responsibilities but different patterns of work-time. Women in technical functions tend to have a strategy of work-family time balance, despite less career opportunities, while women in leadership functions adopt a supremacy of wok-time, just as men. Nevertheless, both women, in technical and leadership functions, feel a permanent conflict between career and family responsibilities, which is not felt by men. Gender roles define dominant models of work and family organisation which conduct to different professional strategies and career opportunities

Que espaço para uma cidadania activa e participativa no contexto das reformas da administração pública em Portugal?

Comunicação apresentada no 6º Congresso Nacional de Administração Pública, realizado pelo INA em Lisboa, de 29 a 30 de Outubro de 200

Dynamical properties of nuclear and stellar matter and the symmetry energy

The effects of density dependence of the symmetry energy on the collective modes and dynamical instabilities of cold and warm nuclear and stellar matter are studied in the framework of relativistic mean-field hadron models. The existence of the collective isovector and possibly an isoscalar collective mode above saturation density is discussed. It is shown that soft equations of state do not allow for a high density isoscalar collective mode, however, if the symmetry energy is hard enough an isovector mode will not disappear at high densities. The crust-core transition density and pressure are obtained as a function of temperature for $\beta$-equilibrium matter with and without neutrino trapping. An estimation of the size of the clusters formed in the non-homogeneous phase as well as the corresponding growth rates and distillation effect is made. It is shown that cluster sizes increase with temperature, that the distillation effect close to the inner edge of the crust-core transition is very sensitive to the symmetry energy, and that, within a dynamical instability calculation, the pasta phase exists in warm compact stars up to 10 - 12 MeV.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures. Submitted for publication in Phys. Rev.

Características do modelo português de providência de bem estar como factor de fragilidade económica e social dos/as cidadãos/ãs e famílias, numa perspectiva de género

Comunicação apresentada no 7º Congresso Nacional de Administração Pública, realizado em Lisboa a 10 e 11 de novembro de 2009Os modelos de providência de bem estar (welfare) propostos por Esping-Andersen (1990; 2000) classificam o caso português como “familiarista”. Neste, a família assume uma forte responsabilidade pela provisão bem estar na sociedade. Tendo por base este quadro de análise, bem como o as alterações na estrutura da família nas últimas décadas – fortalecimento da família nuclear e do modelo dual-breadwiner - a insuficiente oferta pública de soluções de cuidado a crianças e pessoas idosas propomo-nos reflectir sobre a fragilidade do modelo português, não só em termos de capacidade de cuidado, como também como reprodutor de situações de exclusão social, que se agudizam em períodos de crise como aquele a que se assiste. Argumenta-se a necessidade de repensar o paradigma da provisão de bem estar, logo do papel do Estado, nomeadamente ao nível das políticas públicas sociais, tendo em conta uma perspectiva de mainstreaming de género, que se revela da mais crucial importância para a análise e compreensão das problemáticas elencadas e das possíveis soluções associadas

Evaluation of Blood Glucose before and after Bariatric Surgery

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The measurement of musculoskeletal pain intensity: a comparison of four methods

The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability of four scales of pain intensity measurement in patients with musculoskeletal disorders and low educational level. Verbal rating scale, face scale, visual analogy scale, and numeric scale were used. Reliability was evaluated by the stability (test-retest) using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, and the participant’s perception on understanding and completing the scale forms. Numerical scale presented the highest reliability value (r = 0,99), and verbal rating scale, had the lowest reliability value (r = 0,88). The numerical scale was considered the easiest to understand and to complete, while the most difficult was the visual analogy scale

Genetic control growth, wood density and stem characteristics of Pinus pinaster in Portugal

A Pinus pinaster Ait. progeny trial involving 46 open pollinated families was established at two locations in Portugal (Leiria and Escaroupim). Height, diameter, Pilodyn and stem characteristics (straightness, branch size and number of whorls) were assessed at age 5 and 12 and were used to estimate variance components, heritability, phenotypic and genetic correlations between traits. Estimates varied considerably between the two sites. However, this study indicates that the heritability for height followed the general pattern of increasing with the age of the trees. A strong and favourable genetic correlation between the stem form and branching was also found. Heritability of Pilodyn was very low, suggesting that measurements taken at age 12 were not a reliable measure of wood density, probably due to the high proportion of juvenile woo

Occurrence of microcystins along the Guadiana estuary

Blooms of toxic cyanobacteria develop regularly during summer and early autumn in the Guadiana River (South of Iberian Peninsula). Microcystis aeruginosa, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, Oscillatoria spp. and Anabaena spp. have been identified in previous studies as the main toxic cyanobacteria present. With the closure of the Alqueva dam and its new policy of water retention, the present project focused on the effect of these new hydrological conditions to toxic cyanobacteria bloom formations in the Guadiana estuary. This article shows data collected from three sampling stations located along the estuary during the spring of 2002. Physical and chemical parameters (temperature, salinity, turbidity and nutrients (dissolved nitrate, silicate and phosphate)) and biological characteristics of the water (chlorophyll a and phytoplankton composition) were evaluated, as well as microcystin (MC) content in particulate material using HPLC-PDA. Microcystis sp. was the dominant toxic cyanobacteria in the collected water samples. Results suggest the existence of a longitudinal gradient in toxin content directly related to the development of temperature, salinity and nutritional ratio gradients along the estuary, and indirectly related to the turbidity of the water. At least five MC variants were observed and quantified as MC-LR equivalents (MC-LR Equiv.). The total MC concentrations in particulate material varied from 0.0 to above 1.0 μg MCLR Equiv.·L-1, with higher values always observed at the freshwater station. Finally, higher dissolved silica concentrations were found in the water column when compared to results from previous years. These differences reflect changes in the Guadiana ecohydrological status which are probably related to the Alqueva dam construction.La formación de blooms de cianobacterias tóxicas se produce regularmente durante los meses de verano y principios del otoño en el Río Guadiana (Sur de la Península Ibérica). Entre las diferentes cianobacterias potencialmente tóxicas estudios previos han identificado a especies como Microcystis aeruginosa, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, Oscillatoria spp. y Anabaena spp. Con la puesta en funcionamiento de la presa de Alqueva y su nueva política de retención de aguas, se elaboró el presente proyecto enfocado hacia el estudio del efecto de las nuevas condiciones hidrológicas sobre la formación de blooms de cianobacterias tóxicas en el estuario del Guadiana. Este artículo muestra los datos obtenidos en tres estaciones de muestreo localizadas a lo largo del estuario del Guadiana durante la primavera del año 2002. Se analizaron parámetros físico-químicos (temperatura, salinidad, turbidez y nutrientes (nitrato, silicato y fosfato disueltos)) y características biológicas del agua (clorofila a y composición fitoplanctónica), así como el contenido de microcistina (MC) en el material particulado cuantificado por HPLC-PDA, en tres estaciones de muestreo situadas a lo largo del estuario. Microcystis sp. fue la cianobacteria tóxica predominante en las muestras de agua analizadas. Los resultados sugieren la existencia de un gradiente longitudinal en el contenido de toxinas directamente relacionado con el desarrollo de gradientes longitudinales de temperatura, salinidad y cocientes nutricionales a lo largo del estuario, e indirectamente relacionado con la turbidez del agua. Se observaron al menos cinco variantes de MC que se cuantificaron como equivalentes de MC-LR (Equiv. MC-LR). La concentración total de MC en material particulado varió de 0.0 a más de 1.0 μg Equiv. MC-LR·L-1, observándose siempre los valores superiores en la estación de agua dulce. Finalmente, fueron encontradas concentraciones de silicato disuelto en la columna de agua superiores a las de años anteriores. Estas diferencias reflejan cambios en el estado ecohidrológico del Guadiana probablemente relacionados con la construcción de la presa de Alqueva