Aesthetics and brands : crosscultural evaluation of furniture design

Do aesthetics relate with brands? In this work, we try to find out if brands interfere with aesthetics, and we use experimental aesthetics in trying to develop a new brand. The brand will apply to the furniture of Álvaro Siza, a famous Portuguese architect, and our concern was consumer’s assessment of it. We confront his design with the one of other relevant authors, and analyse how consumer’s judgement varies in face of some basic factors. Our approach is market oriented, explores cultural differences, uses WMDS - Weighted Multidimensional Scaling, and we believe it brought us a preliminary, but fundamental understanding of consumers’ opinion, as well as some evidence about such a relationship

Changing Practices, Changing Identities: A Study with Students at Risk of Educational Exclusion

This study discusses how students at risk of educational exclusion can restore their identity and improve learning and scientific literacy. This qualitative research adopts an interpretative orientation. Twenty-eight secondary school students, aged 16 to 20 participated. Data was collected of the interactions between students in lessons, focus group interview and written documents. Data analysis was inductive, consistent with a naturalistic research paradigm, and consisted of uncovering salient patterns, singularities, and themes associated with research aims. Several students, at risk of educational exclusion, value this kind of practice. By changing practice, the learning social context varied, as well as students’ identities and their relationships with knowledge, teachers and school

A Música mesmo no meio da Escola

Todos reconhecemos na Música um enorme poder de sedução. Todos nós sentimos que na Escola se joga oincómodo desafio de nos projectarmos no futuro. Todos nós reconhecemos à Música o direito de se manifestarpelo interior da Escola e de, com ela, nos ajudar a encontrar os lugares de memória da nossa cultura. Será possívelagora, num arco curto de tempo, cartografar cumplicidades quanto baste e propor a construção de uma reflexãoque desperte em todos sonhos e poderes?</p

Student Perceptions of Secondary Science Teachers’ Practices Following Curricular Change

Inquiry-based teaching has emerged as a highly valued strategy in science education. In Portugal, the science curriculum has been redesigned in order to promote such teaching. This implies substantial change in teacher practice. It is therefore important to understand students’ perceptions of teacher practice. Aim: In this study, we describe student perception of teacher practices and look for associations between the perceptions and student motivation. Method: Three low-achieving, secondary-level science classes were studied. Motivation was measured by two scales (Intrinsic and Extrinsic); Perceptions were measured in four dimensions. Results: Significant associations (p < .05) were observed between intrinsic motivation and (a) Perception of the use of Laboratory Work; (b) Perception of Science-Technology-Society and (c) Perceived Student Autonomy. No association was noted between intrinsic motivation and the Perception of Teacher as Facilitator. Conclusions: Results are generally consistent with previous literature. Teacher professional development lags behind curricular change. Teachers require new conceptions of assessment.Projeto financiado pelo CIEFCU

The closing lemma and the planar general density theorem for Sobolev maps

We prove that given a non-wandering point of a Sobolev-(1,p) homeomorphism we can create closed trajectories by making arbitrarily small perturbations. As na application, in the planar case, we obtain that generically the closed trajectories are dense in the non- wandering set.The first and fourth authors were partially supported by the Research Centre of Mathematics of the University of Minho with the Portuguese Funds from the "Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia", through the Project UID/MAT/00013/2013. The third and fourth authors were partially supported by the Project "New trends in Lyapunov exponents" (PTDC/MAT-PUR/29126/2017)

Sobolev homeomorphisms are dense in volume preserving automorphisms

In this paper we prove a Lusin theorem for the space of Sobolev-(1,p) volume preserving homeomorphism on closed and connected n-dimensional manifolds, n >= 3, for pn this result is not true.The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for the careful reading of the manuscript and for giving very helpful comments and suggestions. AA and MJT were partially supported by the Research Centre of Mathematics of the University of Minho with the Portuguese Funds from the “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia”, through the Project UID/MAT/ 00013/2013. MB was partially supported by FCT - ‘Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia’, through Centro de Matemática e Aplicações (CMA-UBI), Universidade da Beira Interior, project UID/MAT/00212/2013

Estudo biográfico sobre o Engenheiro Agrónomo Joaquim Pedro d' Assunção Rasteiro

Lido pelo prof. Mário d' Azevedo Gomes, na sessão de homenagem que, em 4 de maio de 1933, o Instituto Superior de Agronomia consagrou à memória daquele seu antigo professor e directorinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Nota sobre o ensino de silvicultura no Instituto Superior de Agronomia

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