Planning the portuguese "Riviera": the expectations of the touristic-urbanistic developments of "Costa do Sol": Lisbon-Cascais

New paradigms of leisure began to assert themselves in Europe, throughout the nineteenth century, highlighting the importance of new territorial dynamics associated with the fluxes of vacation areas (vilegiature). In parallel with spas, a “bathing cult” in the beach, combined with gambling, gained prominence. The French Riviera served as a reference for new coastal tourism developments in Southern Europe. The Lisbon Coast, especially the western part, is one of the major milestones in the Portuguese tourism genealogy and it should be referenced in this cultural context, stating the importance of the international tourist resorts such as Estoril and Cascais. Through the consulted sources, the reference as “Riviera Portuguesa” is noted for this coast, mainly from the beginning of the twentieth century. The Lisbon-Cascais coastline subject to successive urban interventions, focused on the recovery and tourist development idea, represents a legacy of great importance, considering the relationship between tourism and urban planning.Peer Reviewe

Neighbourhood’s narratives as cultural heritage: from country lanes to urban narratives

This research is based on the dialectic City – Neighbourhood, focusing on the importance of the ancient rural settlements – important districts of Lisbon – as fundamental urban structures for a new historical and cultural city approach. It is essential, in the light of the new economic paradigm of post-industrial city, to understand the role that this may have on both economic and social development of the contemporary city. Our study will focus on the urban and tourist potential, which comes from understanding the city as a network of historical cores where the urban, cultural and social heritage, when properly integrated, potentiate the city as a whole. The territory is a palimpsest where it is rewritten, at each moment, a new urban history. Our research considers the urban narratives’ importance, supported in territorial elements (such as country lanes), in their role on structuring the territory and creating identity relations.Peer Reviewe

Waterfront Architectures: A comparative analysis between Lisbon and Trieste

The relationship between the city and the water has always been very close, being in some cases the reason for the origin and development of the territory­­. The proximity to the seaside it took to the development of commercial ports, which allowed the growth of the city they served. In this sense, the ports were, for a long time, the geographical and functional centre of the city, being the quay the centre of the structure of the urban fabrics. Thus, the quay was the main urban public space. The transformation of port activity resulting from industrialisation contributed to landfills and new waterfront architectures. In this sense, our research focuses on the comparative analysis between Praça do Comércio, in Lisboa (Portugal), and Piazza dell' Unità d'Italia, in Trieste (Italy).Keywords: Waterfronts; Port Cities; Architecture; Public SpaceeISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i11.1683         

Percepção e codificação do espaço no desenho urbano

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O projecto nas periferias : dos limites da cidade à intermunicipalidade

A expansão da cidade revela ao longo do tempo formas de consolidação precisas, que assumem maiores dimensões e protagonismo no território, contrastando com uma significativa diversidade de tecidos periféricos. Com frequência associamos aos tecidos periféricos uma ideia de limite, algo que está para além de uma ordem reconhecida, com formas de agregação e delimitação menos precisas, onde poderá estar um projecto urbano adiado. O projecto da periferia revela-se então como uma reflexão actual e emergente, quer nas novas expansões, quer na qualificação de tecidos de franja, em áreas periféricas às antigas formas de consolidação, como as áreas limítrofes das sucessivas delimitações administrativas municipais. Os limites da cidade constituem marcos de grande relevância na reflexão sobre as formas da expansão urbana, revelando-se como matéria essencial no suporte de uma linha de investigação em desenvolvimento nos últimos anos, na qual identificamos fragilidades e potencialidades nas sucessões de limites administrativos da cidade. Este trabalho constitui uma reflexão crítica, perspectivando formas de intervenção através da cooperação e do planeamento intermunicipal, previsto na lei, mas com escassos ensaios no contexto do território nacional

RODA - A Service-Oriented Repository to Preserve Authentic Digital Objects

4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : Fedora User Group PresentationsDate: 2009-05-20 03:30 PM – 05:00 PMIn mid 2006, the Portuguese National Archives (Directorate-General of the Portuguese Archives) launched a project called RODA (Repository of Authentic Digital Objects) aiming at identifying and bringing together all the necessary technology, human resources and political support to carry out long-term preservation of digital materials being produced by the Portuguese public administration. As part of the original goals of RODA was the development of a digital repository capable of ingesting, managing and providing access to the various types of digital objects produced by national public institutions. The development of such repository should be supported by open-source technologies and, as much as possible, be based on existing standards. Since RODA is nearly finished, this communication aims at describing its main results.European Union; POAP; Ministry of Culture; Portuguese Republi

Influência da Espiritualidade no Idoso

O presente estudo tem como finalidade estudar a influência da espiritualidade na vida do idoso. Os seus objectivos são: conhecer as características sociodemográficas, avaliar o nível de espiritualidade e relacionar o nível de espiritualidade com algumas variáveis sociodemográficas num grupo de 101 idosos, 25 do sexo masculino (24,8%) e 76 do sexo feminino (75,2%), com idades compreendidas entre os 65 e os 95 anos de idade que frequentam centros de dia e lares do distrito de Leiria. Este estudo é transversal, de cariz quantitativo e do tipo descritivo e correlacional. O instrumento utilizado na recolha de dados foi um Questionário Sociodemográfico e a “Escala de Avaliação da Espiritualidade”, elaborada por Cândida Pinto e José Luís Pais-Ribeiro. Os idosos participantes neste estudo têm uma forte crença em Deus e atribuem uma grande importância à religião. O nível de espiritualidade encontrado na amostra é baixo. Relativamente aos dois factores analisados na Escala de Avaliação da Espiritualidade (Factor 1: “Crenças” e Factor 2: “Esperança/Optimismo”), o factor “Crenças” é o predominante na espiritualidade dos idosos em estudo. Não há relação estatisticamente significativa entre o nível de espiritualidade e a idade, contacto com familiares, existência de doença crónica e percepção de saúde. Contudo, o estudo sugere uma relação entre o nível de espiritualidade e a crença em Deus, grau de religiosidade, importância dada à religião, percepção de qualidade de vida, percepção de satisfação com a vida e percepção de felicidade. / This essay aims to study the influence of spirituality in the elderly’s life. Its objectives are: to identify the sociodemographic characteristics, to evaluate the level of spirituality and to relate the spiritual level with some of the sociodemographic variables in a group of 101 elderly, being 25 male (24,8%) and 76 female (75,2%), aged between 65 and 95 years old and attending day care and nursing homes in the district of Leiria. The present study is transversal, quantitative, descriptive and correlational. To gather the data, it was applied a sociodemographic questionnaire using the “Spirituality Evaluation Scale”, drawn up by Cândida Pinto and José Luís Pais-Ribeiro. The elderly that participated in this study have a deep belief in God and give a great importance to religion. The level of spirituality found in the sample is low. Regarding the two coefficients analysed in the Spirituality Evaluation Scale (Coefficient 1: “Beliefs” and Coefficient 2: “Hope/Optimism”), the coefficient “Beliefs” prevails in the spirituality of the studied elderly. There is no statistically significant relationship between the spirituality level and the age, contact with relatives, chronic disease and health perception. Yet, the study suggests a relationship between the level of spirituality and the belief in God, level of religiousness, religion significance and perceptions regarding quality of life, life satisfaction and happiness

Vulvovaginal candidiasis: Epidemiology, microbiology and risk factors

Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is an infection caused by Candida species that affects millions of women every year. Although Candida albicans is the main cause of VVC, the identification of non-Candida albicans Candida (NCAC) species, especially Candida glabrata, as the cause of this infection, appears to be increasing. The development of VVC is usually attributed to the disturbance of the balance between Candida vaginal colonization and host environment by physiological or nonphysiological changes. Several host-related and behavioral risk factors have been proposed as predisposing factors for VVC. Host-related factors include pregnancy, hormone replacement, uncontrolled diabetes, immunosuppression, antibiotics, glucocorticoids use and genetic predispositions. Behavioral risk factors include use of oral contraceptives, intrauterine device, spermicides and condoms and some habits of hygiene, clothing and sexual practices. Despite a growing list of recognized risk factors, much remains to be elucidated as the role of host versus microorganisms, in inducing VVC and its recurrence. Thus, this review provides information about the current state of knowledge on the risk factors that predispose to VVC, also including a revision of the epidemiology and microbiology of VVC, as well as of Candida virulence factors associated with vaginal pathogenicity.The authors report no declarations of interest. This study was supported by the Programa Operacional, Fatores de competitividade – COMPETE and by national funds through FCT – Fundac¸a ˜o para a Cie ˆncia e a Tecnologia on the scope of the projects FCT PTDC/EBB-EBI/120495/2010, RECI/EBBEBI/0179/2012 and PEst-OE/EQB/LA0023/2013. The authors thank the Project ‘‘BioHealth – Biotechnology and Bioengineering approaches to improve health quality,’’ Ref. NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000027, co-funded by the Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), QREN, FEDER

Antifungal activity of natural extracts from Northeastern Portuguese flowers against Candida biofilms

In healthy individuals, many species of Candida are endogenous commensals of the gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts. However, the prevalence of opportunistic fungal infections (candidosis) has been increasing dramatically over the recent decades and this is particularly evident in immunocompromised individuals. The importance of candidosis is the potential synergistic effect on virulence and subsequent difficulties encountered in treatment. Moreover, a major virulence factor of Candida is its ability to adapt to a variety of different habitats and the consequent formation of surface attached microbial communities known as biofilms. The resistance of Candida biofilms to antifungal agents was first demonstrated by Hawser et al., 1995. Although most episodes of candidosis are attributed to C. albicans, nowadays non-Candida albicans Candida (NCAC), such as C. glabrata, C. tropicalis and C. parapsilosis have emerged as important pathogens and tend to be inherently less susceptible to commonly used antifungal agents. So, in the last years the interest in natural compounds has increased, specifically some phenolic extracts which have been known in folk medicine as antimicrobial agents. Thus, this work aimed to preform a screening of the antifungal potential of phenolic extracts from Castanea sativa, Filipendula ulmaria and Rosa micrantha flowers against Candida biofilms. The extracts were exhaustively characterized by HPLC-DAD-ESI/MS. Hydrolysable tannins were the main group of phenolic compounds in C. sativa and F. ulmaria samples, while flavonoids were the most abundant group in R. micrantha (6090 ± 253 mg/Kg). The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) was determined according to the guidelines in NCCLS document M27-A2 with some modifications. All extracts revealed promising antifungal effect, with MIC values ranging from concentrations under 0.05 to 0.625 mg/ml. R. micrantha extract showed a strong effect (MIC ≤ 0.155mg/ml) against all strains tested and, it is also possible to assume that was against C. glabrata and C. parapsilosis that the phenolic extracts showed the highest activity (MIC <0.05mg/ml). Finally, the natural extracts effect was assessed on biofilm formation and on pre-formed biofilms by total biomass quantification using CV staining (1%, v/v). F. ulmaria and R. micrantha were causative agents of important inhibition and destruction of C. tropicalis biofilms. In summary, the significant antifungal activity evident in this work of C. sativa, F. ulmaria and R. micrantha, advise that they could be used as a source of compounds with therapeutic potential against Candida-related infections caused by biofilms

Natural extracts from wild flowers used in Portuguese folk medicine like a new antifungal agents against Candida species

The prevalence of opportunistic fungal infections has been increasing dramatically over the recent decades mainly due to the boom of the AIDS epidemic, increasing number of immunocompromised patients and the commonly use of indwelling medical devices. Although Candida albicans has been regarded as the most common causative agent of fungal infection in humans, nowadays other non-Candida albicans Candida (NCAC) species such as Candida glabrata, Candida tropicalis and Candida parapsilosis, are emerging as significant nosocomial pathogens and with high level of resistance to certain antifungal drugs. So, in the last years the interest in natural compounds has raised, specifically some phenolic extracts which have been known in folk medicine as antimicrobial agents. Thus, this work aimed to perform a screening of the antifungal potential of phenolic extracts of Castanea sativa, Filipendula ulmaria and Rosa micrantha flowers from Northeastern Portugal, against Candida species. The extracts were exhaustively characterized by HPLC-DAD-ESI/MS. Hydrolysable tannins were the main group of phenolic compounds in C. sativa and F. ulmaria samples, while flavonoids including procyanidins were the most abundant group in R. micrantha (6090 ± 253 mg/Kg). The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) was determined according with the guidelines in National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS, M27-A2 document) with some modifications. All extracts revealed promising antifungal effect, with MIC values ranging from concentrations under 0.05 to 0.625 mg/ml. R. micrantha extract showed a strong effect (MIC ≤ 0.155mg/ml) against the four strains assayed. Furthermore, it is also possible to assume that was against C. glabrata and C. parapsilosis that the phenolic extracts showed the highest activity (MIC <0.05mg/ml). Finally, the natural extracts effect was assessed on biofilm formation and on pre-formed biofilms by total biomass quantification using CV staining (1%, v/v). F. ulmaria and R. Micrantha were causative agent of important inhibition and destruction of C. tropicalis biofilms. In summary, the significant antifungal activity of C. sativa, F. ulmaria and R. micrantha revealed in this work, suggest that they could serve as a source of compounds with therapeutic potential against Candida-related infections