O prolongar da tradição na contemporaneidade. Espaço em transformação em Riba de Ave.

Pretende-se desenvolver um trabalho teórico-prático que aborda a problemáticada intervenção numa pré-existência e consequente reestruturação do gaveto navila de Riba D'Ave, em Famalicão. Através do desenvolvimento de uma propostade reabilitação de um edifício existente e a criação de um novo programa,procura-se abordar a problemática da intervenção arquitetónica numa malha urbanadesfragmentadaA dissertação pretende construir uma reflexão crítica sobre o processo de desenho.Utilizando o desenho como o principal instrumento de análise e pesquisa,e como veículo de verificação de ideias, apresentam-se referências, abordam-setemas de projeto, como a importância do lugar, o programa, a estratégia, a relaçãonovo/antigo e a restruturação do espaço público.It is purposed to develop a theoretical and practical work that addresses the issueof intervention in a before-existence and the consequent restructuring of onecorner in the village of Riba D'Ave in Famalicão. Through the developmentof a proposal for rehabilitation an existing building and the creation of a newprogram, seeks to address the question of intervention in a defragmented urbantissue.The dissertation aims to make a critical reflection on the drawing process. Usingthe drawing as the main tool for analysis and research, and as a means of checkingideas, are introduced references, are approached project themes like theimportance of place, program, relation new / old and restructuring of public space

Estudo do patrocínio na comunicação online das marcas desportivas

O presente estudo procurou analisar a estratégia de comunicação online, a nível europeu das marcas desportivas, Sporting Clube de Portugal, Sport Lisboa e Benfica e Futebol Clube do Porto, versus algumas das maiores marcas desportivas da Europa, nomeadamente no destaque do patrocinador na comunicação online, caracterizando os adeptos ou simpatizantes, o perfil no uso da internet, o conhecimento dos patrocinadores da sua marca desportiva preferencial e a preferência por um patrocinador exclusivo. Neste sentido, procedeu-se à recolha de informação qualitativa e quantitativa. Aplicou-se um questionário aos vários adeptos das marcas desportivas nacionais e foram observados os respectivos sites, bem como os sites de algumas das maiores marcas desportivas europeias. Podemos concluir que as marcas desportivas nacionais ainda têm de percorrer um largo caminho, juntamente com as marcas patrocinadoras, de modo a potenciarem o negócio de ambas e aproximarem-se dos níveis europeus já praticados. A importância do presente estudo, prende-se com o facto da necessidade de se percepcionar o posicionamento, no tema mencionado, das marcas desportivas nacionais versus as europeias de uma forma concreta, dando simultaneamente um caminho às mesmas, de modo a potenciarem o seu negócio, nunca esquecendo o ganho win-win com o patrocinador. Uma excelente oportunidade de estudo será verificar na prática a opção, ou não, por um determinado artigo do patrocinador, pelo facto de o mesmo patrocinar a marca desportiva em questão, cruzando posteriormente os resultados alcançados com os do presente estudo, maximizando assim o negócio na perspectiva win-win, entre a marca desportiva e o patrocinador.The presented study is an analysis of the sponsoring at the online communication, in the European context, of sports brands Sporting Clube de Portugal, Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Futebol Clube do Porto versus some of the major sport brands. The characterization of the fans is made through the identification of the internet user profile, the knowledge of their sport brand preferential sponsor and their preference for an exclusive sponsor by collecting qualitative information (serchead websites) and quantitative information (questionnaires). The results of this study show that Portuguese sport brands and sponsor brands still have a long way to go in order to potentiate their businesses (win-win) and catch up to the levels that are being practiced at other countries in Europe. The presented investigation not only positions the Portuguese sport brands when compared with the European as it provides a guideline for the future of the same brands. Following the analysis included in this document, an excellent option for a future work could be a practical verification of the fans option for a sponsor product because of the fact that this product is sponsoring the fan sport brand. The results of that future study can be crossed with the results of the present study

Progress in Identifying High Nature Value Montados: Impacts of Grazing on Hardwood Rangeland Biodiversity

Due to their complex structure and traditional low-intensity management, Portuguese oak woodland rangelands known as montados are often considered high nature value (HNV) farming systems, and as such, they may be deemed eligible for subsidies and incentives by governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Too little is known about how the HNV concept might be applied to conserve complex silvopastoral systems. These systems, due to their structural and functional complexity at multiple scales, tend to support high levels of biodiversity. Montados are in sharp decline as a result of the rapid specialization of land management that, through simplification, undermines multifunctionality. Understanding how changes in management influence these systems and their biodiversity is needed for prioritizing conservation efforts and for ensuring they remain HNV systems. On the basis of a field survey in 58 plots distributed among 29 paddocks on 17 farms, we conducted an integrated analysis of the relationship between grazing intensity and biodiversity in montados of similar biophysical and structural characteristics. Data on management were obtained through interviews, and biodiversity data (vegetation, macrofungi, birds, herpetofauna) were obtained through specific field protocols. Additional spatial data, such as soil characteristics, slope, land cover, and linear landscape elements, were also analyzed. The results show no overall biodiversity variation as a result of different management practices. However, different groups of species react differently to specific management practices, and within a pasture, grazing impacts are heterogenous. In low grazing intensity plots, macrofungi species richness was found to be higher, while bird species richness was lower. Using tree regeneration as proxy for montado sustainability, results show less tree regeneration in areas with higher forage quality and more intense grazing. Pathways for future progress are proposed, including creating areas within a paddock that attract grazing away from where regeneration is desired

Programa Regional de Ordenamento Florestal. Alentejo - Capítulo A – Enquadramento

Os Programas Regionais de Ordenamento Florestal (PROF) são instrumentos setoriais de gestão territorial, previstos na Lei de Bases da Política Florestal (Lei n.º 33/96, de 17 de agosto) e regulados pelo Decreto-Lei (DL) n.º 16/2009, de 14 de janeiro, alterado pelos DL n.º 114/2010, de 22 de outubro, n.º 27/2014, de 18 de fevereiro e n.º 65/2017, de 12 de junho, que estabelecem normas específicas de utilização e exploração florestal dos seus espaços, com a finalidade de garantir a produção sustentada do conjunto de bens e serviços a eles associados. O conteúdo desenvolvido dos PROF é estabelecido pela Portaria n.º 364/2013, de 20 de dezembro. Segundo o Artigo 2.º do diploma supramencionado os PROF são constituídos por Documento Estratégico, um Regulamento e por Peças Gráficas que asseguram a respetiva representação territorial

a clinical perspective

This article was funded by the project NORTE-08-5369-FSE-000018, supported by Norte Portugal Regional Programme (Norte2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and by FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [UID/ BIM/04293/2013].Background: In phenylketonuria (PKU), modified casein glycomacropeptide supplements (CGMP-AA) are used as an alternative to the traditional phenylalanine (Phe)-free L-amino acid supplements (L-AA). However, studies focusing on the long-term nutritional status of CGMP-AA are lacking. This retrospective study evaluated the long-term impact of CGMP-AA over a mean of 29 months in 11 patients with a mean age at CGMP-AA onset of 28 years (range 15–43) [8 females; 2 hyperphenylalaninaemia (HPA), 3 mild PKU, 3 classical PKU and 3 late-diagnosed]. Outcome measures included metabolic control, anthropometry, body composition and biochemical parameters. Results: CGMP-AA, providing 66% of protein equivalent intake from protein substitute, was associated with no significant change in blood Phe with CGMP-AA compared with baseline (562 ± 289 µmol/L vs 628 ± 317 µmol/L; p = 0.065). In contrast, blood tyrosine significantly increased on CGMP-AA (52.0 ± 19.2 μmol/L vs 61.4 ± 23.8 μmol/L; p = 0.027). Conclusions: Biochemical nutritional markers remained unchanged which is an encouraging finding in adults with PKU, many of whom are unable to maintain full adherence with nutritionally fortified protein substitutes. Longitudinal, prospective studies with larger sample sizes are necessary to fully understand the metabolic impact of using CGMP-AA in PKU.publishersversionpublishe

Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in pppp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The datasets used correspond to integrated luminosities from 4.6 fb^-1 to 4.9 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions collected at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in 2011. The Higgs boson mass ranges of 111.4 GeV to 116.6 GeV, 119.4 GeV to 122.1 GeV, and 129.2 GeV to 541 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, while the range 120 GeV to 560 GeV is expected to be excluded in the absence of a signal. An excess of events is observed at Higgs boson mass hypotheses around 126 GeV with a local significance of 2.9 standard deviations (sigma). The global probability for the background to produce an excess at least as significant anywhere in the entire explored Higgs boson mass range of 110-600 GeV is estimated to be ~15%, corresponding to a significance of approximately one sigma.Peer Reviewe

Search for nonpointing and delayed photons in the diphoton and missing transverse momentum final state in 8 TeV pppp collisions at the LHC using the ATLAS detector

A search has been performed, using the full 20.3  fb-1 data sample of 8 TeV proton-proton collisions collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, for photons originating from a displaced vertex due to the decay of a neutral long-lived particle into a photon and an invisible particle. The analysis investigates the diphoton plus missing transverse momentum final state, and is therefore most sensitive to pair production of long-lived particles. The analysis technique exploits the capabilities of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter to make precise measurements of the flight direction, as well as the time of flight, of photons. No excess is observed over the Standard Model predictions for background. Exclusion limits are set within the context of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking models, with the lightest neutralino being the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and decaying into a photon and gravitino with a lifetime in the range from 250 ps to about 100 ns.Peer Reviewe

Search for dark matter in events with heavy quarks and missing transverse momentum in pppp collisions with the ATLAS detector

This article reports on a search for dark matter pair production in association with bottom or top quarks in $20.3 \mathrm {~fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions collected at $\sqrt{s} = 8$  TeV by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events with large missing transverse momentum are selected when produced in association with high-momentum jets of which one or more are identified as jets containing $b$ -quarks. Final states with top quarks are selected by requiring a high jet multiplicity and in some cases a single lepton. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model expectations and limits are set on the mass scale of effective field theories that describe scalar and tensor interactions between dark matter and Standard Model particles. Limits on the dark-matter–nucleon cross-section for spin-independent and spin-dependent interactions are also provided. These limits are particularly strong for low-mass dark matter. Using a simplified model, constraints are set on the mass of dark matter and of a coloured mediator suitable to explain a possible signal of annihilating dark matter.Peer Reviewe

Measurement of W+W−W^+W^- production in pp collisions at s\sqrt{s}=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector and limits on anomalous WWZ and WWγ couplings

This paper presents a measurement of the W^+W^- production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=7 TeV. The leptonic decay channels are analyzed using data corresponding to an integrated 4.6 fb-1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The W^+W^- production cross section sigma(pp -> W^+W^-+X) is measured to be 51.9 +- 2.0 (stat) +- 3.9 (syst) +- 2.0 (lumi) pb, compatible with the Standard Model prediction of 44.7 +2.1 -1.9 pb. A measurement of the normalized fiducial cross section as a function of the leading lepton transverse momentum is also presented. The reconstructed transverse momentum distribution of the leading lepton is used to extract limits on anomalous WWZ and WWgamma couplings.Peer Reviewe