Análise do mercado de remessas: Portugal/Brasil

Estudo para o conhecimento do mercado de remessas de imigrantes de Portugal para o Brasil. O estudo inclui as tendências e características actuais da imigração brasileira em Portugal e o contexto regulador do mercado.Versão Final, remessas, emigração, instituições financeiras, imigrantes brasileiros, legislação, Portugal, Brasil Final Report, remittances, immigration, financial institutions, immigrants, brazilians, legislation, Portugal, Brazil Reporte final, remesas

A unionização das políticas educativas no contexto europeu

Neste artigo é abordada a política educativa no quadro do processo evolutivo da União Europeia. São referidas as condicionantes económicas e políticas que conduziram ao processo de «construção europeia» bem como as contradições que lhe subjazem. Nesse contexto é descrito o percurso em que a educação se projectou do âmbito exclusivo das nações para a sua progressiva absorção pelos tratados regionais, evoluindo da concertação de uma «dimensão europeia da educação» para uma governação supranacional em crescente afirmação. A «Estratégia de Lisboa (2000)», o «Método Aberto de Coordenação» e os grupos de peritos têm uma especial importância, neste processo, contribuindo para que a recente aprovação do Tratado Constitucional de Lisboa (2008) ocorra a par de uma unionização da educação sem precedentes

Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale: the portuguese version

CONTEXTO: A Escala Multidimensional de Perfeccionismo de Frost (FMPS) é uma das escalas mais usadas em todo o mundo para avaliar o perfeccionismo. OBJETIVO: Analisar as características psicométricas da versão portuguesa da FMPS. MÉTODOS: A amostra foi constituída por 217 estudantes do ensino superior (178 mulheres). Um subgrupo (n = 166) completou o reteste após quatro semanas. RESULTADOS: A consistência interna da escala mostrou ser elevada (alfa de Cronbach = ,857). As correlações item-total corrigido variaram entre ,019 e ,548. Os resultados também sugeriram uma boa estabilidade temporal da escala, sendo a correlação teste-reteste de ,765. Foi realizada a análise das componentes principais com rotação Varimax e com base no Scree plot foram extraídas duas soluções fatoriais robustas (quatro e seis fatores). A análise paralela (Monte Carlo PCA) confirmou a solução de seis fatores. A validade concorrente com a escala MPS de Hewitt e Flett foi elevada, assim como a sua capacidade discriminante dos afetos positivos e negativos (Perfil de Estados de Humor - POMS). CONCLUSÃO: As duas estruturas fatoriais (quatro e seis fatores) encontradas na versão portuguesa da Escala Multidimensional de Perfeccionismo de Frost replicam os resultados obtidos por diferentes autores, em diferentes amostras e culturas. Esse fato sugere que essa escala é um instrumento robusto para a avaliação do perfeccionismo em vários contextos, clínicos e de investigação, bem como em estudos transculturais.BACKGROUND: The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale is one of the most world widely used measures of perfectionism. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. METHODS: Two hundred and seventeen (178 females) students from two Portuguese Universities filled in the scale, and a subgroup (n = 166) completed a retest with a four weeks interval. RESULTS: The scale reliability was good (Cronbach alpha = .857). Corrected item-total correlations ranged from .019 to .548. The scale test-retest reliability suggested a good temporal stability with a test-retest correlation of .765. A principal component analysis with Varimax rotation was performed and based on the Scree plot, two robust factorial structures were found (four and six factors). The principal component analyses, using Monte Carlo PCA for parallel analyses confirmed the six factor solution. The concurrent validity with Hewitt and Flett MPS was high, as well as the discriminant validity of positive and negative affect (Profile of Mood Stats-POMS). DISCUSSION: The two factorial structures (of four and six dimensions) of the Portuguese version of Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale replicate the results from different authors, with different samples and cultures. This suggests this scale is a robust instrument to assess perfectionism, in several clinical and research settings as well as in transcultural studies

HERA LIDAR INSTRUMENT DEVELOPEMENT

The AIDA (Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment) is a collaboration between NASA DART mission and ESA Hera mission. The aim is to study asteroid deflection through a kinetic collision. For this mission two spacecrafts will be developed DART provided by NASA and HERA provided by ESA. DART spacecraft will collide with Didymoon, while the orbit change is monitored by ground stations. HERA spacecraft will study the post impact scenario. The HERA spacecraft is composed by the main spacecraft and two small CubeSats. HERA will study the asteroid with imaging, Radar, Satellite-to-Satellite Doppler tracking, Lidar, Seismometry and Gravimetry. We report a first iteration on the LIDAR instrument that we called HELENA (HERA LIDAR ENGINEERING MODEL ALTIMETER). HELENA is a TOF altimeter that provides time tagged distances and velocity measurements. The instrument can be used to support near asteroid navigation and provides scientific information (e.g. asteroid 3D topography, fall dawn velocity).The development of this instrument is done in the frame of an ESA activity. The LIDAR design comprises a microchip laser and a low noise sensor. The synergies between these two technologies enable the development of a compact instrument for range measurements of up to 20 km. We report the LIDAR design, namely, optics, opto-mechanics and electronics

High resolution melting : improvements in the genetic diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a Portuguese cohort

© 2012 Susana et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Background: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a complex myocardial disorder with a recognized genetic heterogeneity. The elevated number of genes and mutations involved in HCM limits a gene-based diagnosis that should be considered of most importance for basic research and clinical medicine. Methodology: In this report, we evaluated High Resolution Melting (HRM) robustness, regarding HCM genetic testing, by means of analyzing 28 HCM-associated genes, including the most frequent 4 HCM-associated sarcomere genes, as well as 24 genes with lower reported HCM-phenotype association. We analyzed 80 Portuguese individuals with clinical phenotype of HCM allowing simultaneously a better characterization of this disease in the Portuguese population. Results: HRM technology allowed us to identify 60 mutated alleles in 72 HCM patients: 49 missense mutations, 3 nonsense mutations, one 1-bp deletion, one 5-bp deletion, one in frame 3-bp deletion, one insertion/deletion, 3 splice mutations, one 5’UTR mutation in MYH7, MYBPC3, TNNT2, TNNI3, CSRP3, MYH6 and MYL2 genes. Significantly 22 are novel gene mutations. Conclusions: HRM was proven to be a technique with high sensitivity and a low false positive ratio allowing a rapid, innovative and low cost genotyping of HCM. In a short return, HRM as a gene scanning technique could be a cost-effective gene-based diagnosis for an accurate HCM genetic diagnosis and hopefully providing new insights into genotype/phenotype correlations.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Thrombus aspiration in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: results of a national registry of interventional cardiology

BACKGROUND: We aimed to evaluate the impact of thrombus aspiration (TA) during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (P-PCI) in 'real-world' settings. METHODS: We performed a retrospective study, using data from the National Registry of Interventional Cardiology (RNCI 2006-2012, Portugal) with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients treated with P-PCI. The primary outcome, in-hospital mortality, was analysed through adjusted odds ratio (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). RESULTS: We assessed data for 9458 STEMI patients that undergone P-PCI (35% treated with TA). The risk of in-hospital mortality with TA (aOR 0.93, 95%CI:0.54-1.60) was not significantly decreased. After matching patients through the propensity score, TA reduced significantly the risk of in-hospital mortality (OR 0.58, 95%CI:0.35-0.98; 3500 patients). CONCLUSIONS: The whole cohort data does not support the routine use of TA in P-PCI, but the results of the propensity-score matched cohort suggests that the use of selective TA may improve the short-term risks of STEMI..info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Influence of EPICardial adipose tissue in HEART diseases (EPICHEART) study: Protocol for a translational study in coronary atherosclerosis

Accumulation of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and increased risk of coronary events in asymptomatic subjects and low-risk patients, suggesting that EAT promotes atherosclerosis in its early stage. Recent studies have shown that the presence of CAD affects the properties of adjacent EAT, leading to dynamic changes in the molecular players involved in the interplay between EAT and the coronary arteries over the history of the disease. The role of EAT in late-stage CAD has not been investigated.coronárioResumoIntroduc¸ão:Acumulac¸ão de tecido adiposo epicárdico (TAE) tem sido associado a doenc¸acoronária aterosclerótica (DC) e aumento do risco de eventos coronários em indivíduos ass-intomáticos e doentes de baixo risco, sugerindo que o TAE pode promover fases precoces daDC. Estudo recentes mostraram que a presenc¸a de DC afeta as características do TAE adja-cente levando a modificac¸ões dinâmicas nos mediadores envolvidos na comunicac¸ão entre oTAE e as artérias coronárias ao longo da história da DC. O papel doTAE nas fases avanc¸adas daaterosclerose coronária não foi investigado.Objetivos: Através de análise comparativa com o tecido adiposo mediastínico e subcutâneo,pretendemos investigar se o volume do TAE, avaliado por tomografia computadorizada (TC), eo seu proteoma, avaliado por espectrometria de massa técnica de SWATH, estão associados aestadios avanc¸ados da DC numa coorte de estenose aórtica grave.Métodos: O estudo EPICHEART (NCT03280433) é um estudo prospetivo que inclui doentescom estenose aórtica grave referenciados para substituic¸ão eletiva da válvula aórtica, cujoprotocolo envolve avaliac¸ão pré-operatória clínica, nutricional, ecocardiográfica, por TC eangiografia coronária invasiva. Durante a cirurgia cardíaca, colhemos amostras de tecido adi-poso epicárdico, mediastínico e subcutâneo para análise do seu proteoma por espectrometriade massa técnica de SWATH. Adicionalmente, colhemos líquido pericárdico, sangue venoso per-iférico e do seio coronário para investigar mediadores de DC derivados do TAE na circulac¸ãosistémica e local.Conclusão: Desenhámos um estudo de translac¸ão para explorar a associac¸ão da quantidade equalidade do TAE com a DC tardia. Esperamos identificar mediadores da comunicac¸ão recíprocaentre o TAE e as artérias coronárias que estão envolvidos na patogénese das fases avanc¸adas daDC, especialmente, calcificac¸ão coronária, os quais podem servir como novos alvos terapêuticose soluc¸ões de engenharia biomédica para visualizac¸ão da DC

Both “illness and temptation of the enemy”: melancholy, the medieval patient and the writings of King Duarte of Portugal (r. 1433–38)

Recent historians have rehabilitated King Duarte of Portugal, previously maligned and neglected, as an astute ruler and philosopher. There is still a tendency, however, to view Duarte as a depressive or a hypochondriac, due to his own description of his melancholy in his advice book, the Loyal Counselor. This paper reassesses Duarte's writings, drawing on key approaches in the history of medicine, such as narrative medicine and the history of the patient. It is important to take Duarte's views on his condition seriously, placing them in the medical and theological contexts of his time and avoiding modern retrospective diagnosis. Duarte's writings can be used to explore the impact of plague, doubt and death on the life of a well-educated and conscientious late-medieval ruler

Análise do mercado de remessas: Portugal/Brasil

Estudo para o conhecimento do mercado de remessas de imigrantes de Portugal para o Brasil. O estudo inclui as tendências e características actuais da imigração brasileira em Portugal e o contexto regulador do mercado