Institutions for the protection of children and youth at risk: the case of the correctional colony "Vila Fernando" and "Padre António Oliveira" reformatory

Esta comunicação visa apresentar as origens de duas instituições reformadoras de crianças e jovens em risco, numa perspetiva histórica. Analisamos o caso da Colónia Correcional de Vila Fernando e o exemplo do Reformatório Padre António de Oliveira. Do ponto de vista conceptual seguimos as perspetivas teóricas defendidas por Erving Goffman (1974) e Michel Foucault (1988). As fontes documentais assentam em três níveis: a análise da legislação, algumas monografias históricas e, ainda, ordens de serviço das respetivas instituições. Estas instituições responderam a uma necessidade socioeducativa de crianças e jovens em perigo moral. Para o efeito eram cumpridos um conjunto de regras apertadas como mecanismos de poder no interior destas instituições em regimes próprios de vivência

Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies and rheumatoid factor in Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and clinical significance of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP-Abs), IgM and IgA rheumatoid factors (RFs) in primary Sjogren's Syndrome (pSS). Materials and Methods:We compared clinical and serological. characteristics of 31 pSS and 31 Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients. Both, anti-CCP-Abs and RFs (IgM, IgA) directed against Fc determinants of IgG from humans and rabbit were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). We included 31 blood donors as control group for the evaluation of RFs and anti-CCP-Abs. Nine (29%) pSS patients presented arthritis, and 10 (32,3%) RA patients also had secondary Sjogren's syndrome (sSS) Results: IgM and IgA RFs prevalence was similar in pSS and RA, whichever the antigene (Human or Rabbit IgG) used. However, RA patients with sSS showed a tendency to present more often RF positivity, longer disease duration and higher ESR and CRP when compared with pSS patients with arthritis. Anti-CCP-Abs were detected in 64,5% of RA patients and in only 6,9% of pSS patients (p<0,0005). Anti-CCP-Abs were more often positive in RA patients with sSS (RA/sSS) (8 patients, 80%) than in RA patients without sSS (18 patients, 58,1%), and were absent in pSS patients with arthritis. RF-positive pSS patients presented more often pulmonary involvement and higher inflammatory parameters, and less often neuropathy compared to RF-negative patients. In controls, anti-CCP-Abs were absent and REs were negligible. Conclusions: Anti-CCP-Abs were detected in only a few pSS patients, none of whom presented arthritis, which contrasts with the high frequency of these antibodies in RA/sSS. These results suggest that anti-CCP-Abs could be useful in the distinction between pSS and RA with sSS. Although not useful for the differential diagnosis between RA and pSS, RFs may have a prognostic role in pSS.publishersversionpublishe

Impact Evaluation of Solar Photovoltaic Electrification: Indigenous Community Case Study in Brazilian Amazon

Despite efforts to promote universal access to electrification, the Brazilian Amazon basin has around 82,000 families without electricity. The basin is huge, with few roads, many rivers, and conservative areas, which is an enormous challenge in terms of logistics and electrification costs. This paper describes a case study at the Nova Esperan&ccedil;a community site in the Cuieiras River, Brazil. The community received stand-alone solar photovoltaic systems in 2018 and 2019. The process started with a survey and finished with an interview with each dweller that received a 975 W and 2-day autonomy photovoltaic system. A monitoring system was developed and deployed, and weather monitoring was performed to evaluate the impact of high temperatures on the equipment. The community does not have cell phone coverage and it is far from the main cities. We claim that the model created and adopted in the case study has interesting outcomes, even considering a small budget. Some houses, after 1 year of deployment, had their electrical demand rise by 300%, and 50% improved their income. We estimate the number of greenhouse gases annually avoided after electrification, replacing the consumed fossil fuel. The project also estimates the expenditure on energy sources that residents used due to the lack of electricity, which they stopped doing after electrification. The avoided expense can cover maintenance costs over the years. The goals of the SDG that were covered by the project are good health and well-being, accessible and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, combating climate change, and partnerships for the goals

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Enhancing Market Readiness for nZEB Implementation

ABSTRACT: Despite transposing the 2010/31/EU Directive's requirements creates legal responsibilities at the national level, the nearly Zero energy building (nZEB) principle does not appear to be widely adopted just yet in many nations. Previous studies have shown that the most significant barriers include determining the cost-effective ideal integration of the technologies appropriate for nZEB and the skills constraints faced by the construction industry. In order to meet the challenge of an efficient nZEB implementation, existing certification courses and training programs are still insufficient and inadequate, and hiring experienced specialists for building retrofit and new construction is not common practice. The traditionally conservative real estate industry is nevertheless hesitant to adopt the new building standards and practices, notably in the residential sector, despite a significant movement towards nZEB and extensive energy renovation. In this specific situation, this paper provides a preliminary analysis of the European project nZEB Ready Enhancing Market Readiness for nZEB Implementation, which aims to address the issue of the effective implementation of the nZEB and make use of new possibilities to act at the market level in order to boost the market's readiness for a successful implementation of the nZEB and to encourage demand for energy-related skills among construction workers and specialists in the countries involved and beyond.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Perfis composicionais como base metodológica para a modelagem do Prelúdio n.2 de Santoro

Neste artigo, realizamos a modelagem do "Prelúdio n.2" , de Claudio Santoro, com a finalidade de determinar um sistema composicional hipotético com potencial de gerar uma nova obra, aparentada somente em ní­vel profundo com a obra original. Durante a fase analí­tica foram propostos cinco perfis composicionais totalmente distintos e, partindo desses perfis, chegamos aos sistemas composicionais S2 e S3. Esses sistemas nos possibilitaram planejar e compor dois movimentos de uma nova obra para quarteto de cordas, cujas caracterí­sticas estéticas se distinguem drasticamente das caracterí­sticas da obra original, embora ambas as obras tenham suas estruturas isomorficamente relacionadas no âmbito de determinados parâmetros musicais