Clima de segurança no setor hoteleiro : o caso de alguns estabelecimentos no Litoral Alentejano

Este artigo reflete os resultados de um estudo realizado com o objetivo de caracterizar o clima de segurança no setor hoteleiro do Litoral Alentejano. Centraliza-se na identificação dos elementos que constituem o clima de segurança existente, conducentes a um clima de segurança positivo ou negativo. A pesquisa envolveu um inquérito por questionário a uma população de 103 respondentes, trabalhadores de 7 estabelecimentos hoteleiros do Litoral Alentejano. Na investigação realizada utilizou-se como método científico o método hipotético – indutivo. Relativamente à natureza da pesquisa recorreu-se à investigação aplicada e quanto à forma de abordagem a opção recaiu na investigação quantitativa. A análise de correspondências múltiplas, a determinação da consistência interna e o cálculo de médias e desvios padrão constituíram os instrumentos de operacionalização da informação recolhida. O estudo dos dados obtidos, para resposta às hipóteses levantadas nesta investigação, permitiu, numa perspetiva generalista, caracterizar o clima de segurança nos estabelecimentos hoteleiros analisados como positivo e tendencialmente forte.This article reflects the results obtained from a study which aims to characterize the safety climate of the hotel sector in Alentejo Litoral, focus on the assessment of the elements that constitute the existing safety climate. These elements can be strengths and weaknesses that lead to a positive or a negative safety climate. The study involved a questionnaire survey to a population of 103 respondents, employees of 7 hotel establishments in Alentejo Litoral. In this research we used the hypothetical-inductive scientific method. Regarding the nature of the research it was employed the applied research, and as for the approaching method it was used the quantitative research. The operationalization instruments of information collected were multiple correspondence analysis, internal consistency determination and the means and standard deviations calculation. The study of data obtained, for answering the hypothesis raised in this investigation, allowed, in a general perspective, to characterize the safety climate of hotel establishments in Alentejo Litoral as positive and tendentiously strong

Does work per repetition and phase angle play a role in Sarcopenia?

Aging is related to the increase of several chronic diseases, such as, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, hypertension and sarcopenia. Sarcopenia (progressive loss of muscle mass and physical performance) is related to difficulties in treating other comorbidities, whether pharmacologically or non-pharmacologically.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Phase angle in osteoarthritis patients, relations with pain, muscular mass and strength

Several researches have been carried out to see the relation between the Phase Angle (PhA), disease and several health risks factors. Ageing is associated with the loss of muscle mass and changes in body composition, which result in a decrease of the PhA. Malnutrition and inflammation have been reported to have a strong influence on PhA in diseased individuals. Subjects with Osteoarthritis (OA) have decreased muscular strength and pain. The aim of this study was to understand if the PhA was altered in patients with OA and if it's related with pain, muscular mass and strength.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Performative Poetry as Program, Programmed Poetry as Performance

UIDB/05021/2020 UIDP/05021/2020Innovative forms of poetry such as language art and experimental poetry have adopted intersemiotic processes and linguistic constraints in their codification, promoting rereading and transgression of technical apparatuses from the techno-capitalist societies. In addition, new inventive forms of digital language art, such as electronic poetry, have integrated generativity, indeterminacy and combinatorics in their programming, stimulating the reinvention and subversion of computing mechanisms from the networked societies. Through the appropriation of media, poetry articulates creative strategies that question the interface between arts and languages, forms and mechanisms. The experimental attitude of performative poetry presents itself as a program. Similarly, using the potentialities of the computer as a semiotic machine, programmed poetry can be regarded as performative, producing unique, unrepeatable events. Poetry and performance can thus be regarded as floating entities, promoting the transition from a fixed order to an economy of circulations. This scenario fuels the discussion concerning the connections between poetry, performance and program, supporting our reflections through the presentation and description of different examples of poetic intervention in the Portuguese context, which use programming and coding to reconfigure the awareness of language and mediation.publishersversionpublishe

Performative poetry as program, programmed poetry as performance

Innovative forms of poetry such as language art and experimental poetry have adopted intersemiotic processes and linguistic constraints in their codification, promoting rereading and transgression of technical apparatuses from the techno-capitalist societies. In addition, new inventive forms of digital language art, such as electronic poetry, have integrated generativity, indeterminacy and combinatorics in their programming, stimulating the reinvention and subversion of computing mechanisms from the networked societies. Through the appropriation of media, poetry articulates creative strategies that question the interface between arts and languages, forms and mechanisms. The experimental attitude of performative poetry presents itself as a program. Similarly, using the potentialities of the computer as a semiotic machine, programmed poetry can be regarded as performative, producing unique, unrepeatable events. Poetry and performance can thus be regarded as floating entities, promoting the transition from a fixed order to an economy of circulations. This scenario fuels the discussion concerning the connections between poetry, performance and program, supporting our reflections through the presentation and description of different examples of poetic intervention in the Portuguese context, which use programming and coding to reconfigure the awareness of language and mediation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Ontogenia e estrutura do pericarpo e do envoltório da semente de Miconia albicans (Sw.) Triana (Melastomataceae) do cerrado, Brasil

Miconia albicans fruit and seed coat ontogeny were described under light microscope. The samples were fixed in formalin-aceto-alcohol (FAA), neutral-buffered formaldehyde solution (NBF) and formalin-ferrous sulphate (FFS) solutions, embedded in plastic resin, sectioned at 10 µm and stained with Toluidine Blue. Specific dyes and/or reagents were used for the microchemical tests. The ovary is semi-inferior and the indehiscent, fleshy globose berries are originated mainly from the development of the inferior portion of the ovary. The immature pericarp is mainly parenchymatous with some sclereids, druse crystal and phenolic-like compounds idioblasts widespread in the mesocarp. In the mature pericarp, the endocarp cells are often collapsed, the mesocarp is thick with cells more or less turgid, and the sclereids, the druses and the phenolic-like compound idioblasts are almost absent. The ovules are anatropous, bitegmic and crassinucellate, and the zig-zag micropyle is formed by both the exostome and the endostome. The mature seed is pyramidal-elongated in shape, exalbuminous and testal. The raphal part occupies about 40% of the seed coat total length and had the mechanical layer derived from its inner layer. The antiraphal side is non-multiplicative and the exotesta, mesotesta and endotesta are differentiated into a sclerotic layer, with the exotesta being the mechanical one. The tegmen is absent.A ontogenia dos frutos e das sementes de M. albicans foi descrita sob microscopia de luz. Os materiais foram fixados em soluções de formalina - ácido acético - álcool etílico 50% (FAA), formalina neutra tamponada (FNT) e sulfato ferroso em formalina (SFF), embebidos em resina plástica, seccionados a 10 µm de espessura e corados com Azul de Toluidina. Corantes e/ou reagentes específicos foram usados para os testes microquímicos. O ovário é semi-ínfero, e os frutos são bagas indeiscentes, originadas em sua maior parte a partir do desenvolvimento da porção ínfera do ovário. O pericarpo imaturo é principalmente parenquimático, com esclereídes, idioblastos cristalíferos e com compostos fenólicos no mesocarpo. No pericarpo maduro as células do endocarpo estão freqüentemente colapsadas, o mesocarpo é espesso, com células túrgidas, e as esclereídes e os idioblastos cristalíferos e com compostos fenólicos estão em pequena quantidade. Os óvulos são anátropos, bitegumentados e crassinucelados, e a micrópica, em zig-zag, é formada pelo exóstoma e pelo endóstoma. A semente madura é piramidal-alongada, exalbuminosa e testal. A porção rafeal ocupa aproximadamente 40% do comprimento total da semente e possui a camada mecânica derivada de suas camadas internas. A porção anti-rafeal é não-multiplicativa e possui a exotesta, a mesotesta e a endotesta diferenciadas em camada mecânica (esclerótica). O tégmen é ausente.717

A dependence modelling study of extreme rainfall in Madeira Island

The dependence between variables plays a central role in multivariate extremes. In this paper, spatial dependence of Madeira Island's rainfall data is addressed within an extreme value copula approach through an analysis of maximum annual data. The impact of altitude, slope orientation, distance between rain gauge stations and distance from the stations to the sea are investigated for two different periods of time. The results obtained highlight the influence of the island's complex topography on the spatial distribution of extreme rainfall in Madeira Island.The authors wish to thank the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for the financial support through the PhD grant SFRH/BD/39226/2007, financed by national funds of MCTES. They are also grateful to the Center of Statistics and Applications of the University of Lisbon (CEAUL) for the bibliographical and financial support through the FCT under the projects PEst- OE/MAT/UI0006/2011 and PEst-OE/MAT/UI0006/2014, and to the University of Madeira for the logistic support. The authors wish also to thank the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere and namely to Dr. Victor Prior, and the Department of Hydraulics and Energy Technologies of the Madeira Regional Laboratory of Civil Engineering and namely to Dr. Carlos Magro, for providing the rainfall data used in this study. The second author also thanks the Brazilian agency CAPES for the partial financial support during his sabbatical leaveinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Processo de mudança na terapia para as fobias de afetos na perspetiva do cliente: um estudo qualitativo

A pertinência do estudo da perspetiva do cliente é cada vez mais reconhecida como um meio de compreensão do modo como a psicoterapia funciona e de validação dos modelos terapêuticos. A mudança através do Modelo para o Tratamento das Fobias de Afetos (MTFA) ocorre quando os clientes aprendem a reconhecer e a comunicar as suas emoções – fator fundamental para que haja saúde mental. Contudo, as pesquisas sobre os mecanismos envolvidos no processo de mudança desta terapia são ainda muito escassas. Nesse sentido, pretendemos identificar qual a perspetiva dos clientes acerca do seu processo de mudança pelo MTFA. Para o efeito, foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas a oito clientes que concluíram um processo terapêutico. A análise das entrevistas foi realizada através de uma abordagem qualitativa, com base na Análise Temática, recorrendo ao software nVivo. Foram identificados dois temas, 10 categorias e 14 subcategorias. De forma geral, observa-se que os participantes atribuem a sua mudança a ganhos ao nível da compreensão, expressão e equilíbrio das suas emoções. Ao longo do processo, são referidos aspetos importantes como a proximidade terapêutica e experiência de libertação emocional. Os resultados são consistentes com os estudos qualitativos anteriores e com os estudos sobre o MTFA. As principais descobertas são discutidas com base na literatura atual sobre o processo de mudança em psicoterapia de acordo com a perspetiva dos clientes.The relevance of studying the client's perspective is increasingly recognized as a mean of comprehending how psychotherapy works and how it validates therapeutic models. Change through the Model for the Treatment of Affect Phobia (APT) occurs when clients learn to recognize and communicate their emotions – a fundamental factor for a good mental health. However, research on the mechanisms involved in the change process of this therapy is still very scarce. To clarify this, we intend to identify the client's perspective on their process of change by the APT. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were carried out with eight clients, who had completed the therapeutic process. The analysis of the interviews was carried out through a qualitative approach, based on Thematic Analysis, using the nVivo software. Two themes, 10 categories and 14 subcategories were identified. In general, is observed that the participants attribute their process of change to gains in comprehension, expression, and balance of their emotions. Throughout the process important aspects were mentioned, such as therapeutic proximity and the experience of emotional release. The results are consistent with previous qualitative studies, and studies on the APT. The main results are discussed based on the current literature on the process of change in psychotherapy through the perspective of clients

Resenha de Robert Rowland Smith. On Modern Poetry – From Theory to Total Criticism. London; New York: Continuum, 2012, 182 págs. ISBN 9781441174222

Ilustración: "Lectura poetica en Bukowski Club (Madrid)", pepeltensoOn Modern Poetry – From Theory to Total Criticism, de Robert Rowland Smith, constitui um manifesto teórico no panorama da crítica literária do séc. XX e XXI. O filósofo e autor de Breakfast with Socrates (2009) propõe, no seu mais recente livro, uma teoria radical de análise poética a que dá o nome de Criticismo Total, defendendo o regresso dos estudos literários ao texto. Identificando na poesia europeia recente uma “identidade moderna”, este trabalho aponta as insuficiências metodológicas do Criticismo Prático e da Teoria, propondo um novo método de “close reading” e abordagem analítica àquela identidade

Um buraco no ovo: Problemáticas da linguagem em António Aragão

António Aragão é uma das figuras mais icónicas do experimentalismo português. A sua pesquisa literária encontra-se intimamente ligada à natureza da linguagem e dos seus procedimentos de pesquisa. A obra “Povo/Ovo” (1977) é paradigmática neste contexto, apenas se conhecendo, no entanto, hoje, parte da sua história. Neste artigo ensaiam-se possíveis caminhos de entrada e saída para este episódio da literatura experimental, ao mesmo tempo que se reflete sobre os contributos deste autor para uma teorização experimental da linguagem