Burns prevention in children under 5 years: increasing health literacy

Trabalho apresentado em 4th European Congress of the European Region of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy (ER-WCPT), 11-12 November 2016, Liverpool, UKinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Explicative clauses in Portuguese as a case of parentheses

A subset of causal explicative clauses in European Portuguese (EP) introduced by the connectors pois ‘for’, que ‘that’ and porque ‘because’ has been classified either as coordinate or subordinate clauses, or alternatively as autonomous discursive expressions. Extending previous work, we claim that, although the sentences they head present most of the characteristics of subordination, they establish with the host sentence a paratactic link, and involve secondary and non-restrictive information. We will argue that these explicative clauses arise from parenthetical inclusion via Par-Merge, in the sense of de Vries (2012). This analysis allows us to provide a syntactic account for these clauses, and to capture some of their correlated discursive properties.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Ênclise e próclise na coordenação

Em Português europeu, o padrão neutro de colocação de clíticos em frases finitas é a ênclise, ocorrendo a próclise sob escopo local de itens específicos, nomeadamente CPs realizados ou itens com conteúdo negativo, quantificacional ou de foco. Neste estudo, proporemos uma análise da próclise em estruturas de coordenação oracional, um tópico que apenas recentemente recebeu alguma atenção (Martins 2013, Matos & Colaço 2013). Proporemos que a próclise na coordenação pode ser induzida ou pelos traços de algumas conjunções simples ou correlativas, ou pelo valor discursivo de algumas estruturas de coordenação correlativa. A próclise na coordenação pode também ocorrer com uma conjunção coordenativa não proclisadora, se esta estiver sob o escopo de um proclisador. Este facto sugere a existência de contextos de próclise a longa distância em Português europeu. No entanto, mostraremos que esses casos podem integrar-se no fenómeno de próclise local, tendo em conta as propriedades de Conj enquanto categoria subespecificada que, por Agree, partilha a natureza categorial do seu especificador. A opcionalidade da próclise em contextos de longa distância pode também ser explicada. Na verdade, esta opcionalidade é apenas aparente, sendo um efeito do nível oracional envolvido na coordenação.In European Portuguese the unmarked pattern of clitic placement in finite sentences is enclisis, proclisis occurring under the local scope of specific items, namely overt CPs or items with negative, quantificational and focus content. In this study we will propose an analysis of proclisis in sentence coordination, an issue that only recently has received some attention in the field (Martins 2013, Matos & Colaço 2013). We will claim that proclisis in coordination may be induced either by the features of some single and correlative conjunctions, or by the discourse value of some correlative coordinate structures. Proclisis in coordination may also occur with a conjunction that is not a proclisis inducer, if this one is itself under the scope of a proclisis trigger. This fact suggests that there are contexts of long-distance proclisis in European Portuguese. However, we will show that all these cases may be subsumed under local proclisis, taking into account the properties of Conj as an underspecified category that, by Agree, shares the categorial nature of its specifier.The optionality of proclisis in long-distance contexts may also be explained. In fact, this optionality is only apparent and is an effect of the sentential level involved in coordination.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A natureza paratática das causais explicativas em português

Causal explicative clauses headed by the connectors pois, que and porque in Portuguese, despite presenting some properties of subordination establish a paratactic relation with the sentence they are related to. We argue that they are parenthetical clauses that exhibit the properties of specifying coordination.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Educating for safety at school: accident prevention and action in case of burns

According to the Portuguese General Directorate of Health, accidents are the fourth most common cause of death in Europe. Among these are burns, for which children are a particularly vulnerable group. In the EU, burns are the 4th leading cause of accidental death in children. In addition to consequences on morbidity and mortality, burns influence quality of life, with physical, emotional and mental consequences The majority of burns happen at home and 90% are preventable. The school plays an important role in improving the student’s health and life quality, responding to problems in society and preparing new generations for responsible citizenship. It is up to the school to promote the adoption of safety behaviors, prevention, and adequate risk management. The SOS Fire project (2019-22) was a co-funded ERASMUS + project aiming to create awareness among school children, teachers and families about the risks caused by fire, its prevention, and the most important measures to put in place in case of emergency. In the early stages of the project, a survey (71 respondents) and a focus group (9) showed that teachers had a low level of literacy regarding fire and burn prevention, although they considered it to be a very important issue. Additionally, they felt there are few didactic materials available, and they rarely cover these topics, although they acknowledge the important role the school has in education for risk and accident prevention. Therefore, a training workshop with a workload of 50h was designed to empower teachers to act, make decisions, improve their skills on Education for safety and risk prevention. This paper addresses the pilot training in Portugal, its design, implementation, results and conclusions. The results suggest that there is a clear need to empower teacher with tools and methodologies to address the education for risk and prevention of fire and burn, teachers fully understand the importance of the issue and are highly motivated to tackle it and those are the key ingredients for promoting effective changes.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Especificidades de nem coordenativo em português europeu

European Portuguese nem corresponds to two different categories, a coordenative conjunction and a negative non-conjunctional element that in some contexts assumes a scalar meaning. We will show that, although both of these homonymous particles necessarily occur in negative domains, they have a different syntactic distribution and display specific properties. Focusing on coordenative nem in correlative and the non-correlative constructions, we will propose an account of their licensing conditions in integrated and parenthetical coordinate structures.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Floating parenthetical coordinate clauses

Floating parenthetical coordinate clauses exhibit a challenging behaviour: they disrupt the structure of the host sentence, do not present an overt first term, occur in different positions inside the host clause and, although notionally related to their host, they present syntactic autonomy. Taking into account data from European Portuguese, we claim that these clauses are derived from the core devices of the computational system: the coordinate structure is built up by Set Merge and takes, as first term, a ull constituent denoting the host clause; then, Pair erge operates by adjoining the parenthetical coordinated CP to a functional or verbal projection of the host sentence. Considering the autonomy of the parenthetical clause with respect to its host, we assume that this adjunction is an instance of Late Merge, a counter cyclic operation that applies at PF.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Cohehre Conference 2017: Educational implications of Globalization and Global Citizenship

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Synchrotron microtomography applied to the volumetric analysis of internal structures of Thoropa miliaris tadpoles

Amphibians are models for studying applied ecological issues such as habitat loss, pollution, disease, and global climate change due to their sensitivity and vulnerability to changes in the environment. Developmental series of amphibians are informative about their biology, and X-ray based 3D reconstruction holds promise for quantifying morphological changes during growth—some with a direct impact on the possibility of an experimental investigation on several of the ecological topics listed above. However, 3D resolution and discrimination of their soft tissues have been difficult with traditional X-ray computed tomography, without time-consuming contrast staining. Tomographic data were initially performed (pre-processing and reconstruction) using the open-source software tool SYRMEP Tomo Project. Data processing and analysis of the reconstructed tomography volumes were conducted using the segmentation semi-automatic settings of the software Avizo Fire 8, which provide information about each investigated tissues, organs or bone elements. Hence, volumetric analyses were carried out to quantify the development of structures in different tadpole developmental stages. Our work shows that synchrotron X-ray microtomography using phase-contrast mode resolves the edges of the internal tissues (as well as overall tadpole morphology), facilitating the segmentation of the investigated tissues. Reconstruction algorithms and segmentation software played an important role in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of each target structure of the Thoropa miliaris tadpole at different stages of development, providing information on volume, shape and length. The use of the synchrotron X-ray microtomography setup of the SYRMEP beamline of Elettra Synchrotron, in phase-contrast mode, allows access to volumetric data for bone formation, eye development, nervous system and notochordal changes during the development (ontogeny) of tadpoles of a cycloramphid frog Thoropa miliaris. As key elements in the normal development of these and any other frog tadpole, the application of such a comparative ontogenetic study, may hold interest to researchers in experimental and environmental disciplines