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Administrative burden reduction over time: Literature review, trends and gap analysis
Burden reduction is a key issue in modern public administrations’ and businesses’ agendas. Compliance with mandatory regulations can have a direct impact on a country’s economic performance, growth, and development. Research in this area, contributes to a better understanding of the implications and context of administrative burden, and increases the efficiency of the strategies adopted to reduce it.
The goal of this study is to undertake a review of the current state of the art on Administrative Burden Reduction (ABR), in order to gain a deeper insight about the subject, identify current gaps, and better plan for future research. A total of 122 papers were identified as relevant, out of a pool of 742 papers retrieved from the current literature. The relevant papers were analyzed across four dimensions: methodology, type and focus, and targeted stakeholders. Three key gaps were identified and discussed in relation to: citizen orientated services and burden reduction; empirical research and post-initiative re-evaluation; and, the role of stakeholders, interest groups and end-users in driving ABR. Lastly a conceptual framework model and next steps are proposed.“SmartEGOV: Harnessing EGOV for Smart Governance (Foundations, methods, Tools) / NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000037”, supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European
Regional Development Fund (EFDR
Stapes surgery results: the recent experience of Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca
Objectivo: analisar a experiência recente em cirurgia
estapédica do Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca,
recorrendo à avaliação dos seus resultados audiométricos.
Materiais e métodos: avaliação retrospectiva de processos
clínicos referentes a 155 cirurgias estapédicas consecutivas
realizadas no Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca,
entre Janeiro de 2006 e Dezembro de 2010.
Resultados: a média de idades foi de 43,6 anos. A média
de 4 frequências (0.5, 1, 2 e 4 kHz) do gap aero-ósseo pós-
operatório foi de 5,2 dB. O ganho auditivo médio registado
foi de 27 dB sendo a taxa de sucesso cirúrgico de 88,2%. A
alteração da condução óssea nas altas frequências foi de 4,9 dB.
Conclusões: A cirurgia estapédica apresenta uma elevada
taxa de sucesso e baixa frequência de complicações, sendo
uma opção preferencial no tratamento da otosclerose. Os
resultados deste trabalho confirmam-no reforçando o recurso
à cirurgia estapédica no Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando
Fonseca.Objective: analyze the recent experience in stapes surgery
of Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca through the
evaluation of its audiometric results.
Materials and methods: retrospective evaluation of clinical
records concerning 155 consecutive stapes surgeries
performed in Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca
between January 2006 and December 2010.
Results: the mean age was 43,6 years. The mean 4-frequency
(0.5, 1, 2 and 4 kHz) postoperative air-bone gap was 5,2 dB.
The mean hearing gain obtained was 27 dB and the surgical
success rate was 88,2%.The bone conduction variation in high
frequencies was 4,9 dB.
Conclusion: stapes surgery has a high success rate and a
low complication rate, and is a preferential treatment for
otosclerosis. Our results confirm that tendency, supporting the
use of stapes surgery in Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando
Fonseca
Endoscopic nasal dacryocystorhinostomy: results of Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca
Objectivo: analisar os resultados da experiência de um
hospital distrital na realização de dacriocistorrinostomias
(DCR) endoscópicas e determinar o papel actual desta técnica
para tratamento de obstruções da via nasolacrimal.
Materiais e Métodos: Reviram-se os processos clínicos de 67
dacriocistorrinostomias endoscópicas consecutivas realizadas
no Hospital Fernando Fonseca entre Janeiro de 1997 e
Dezembro de 2012. Analisou-se a clínica apresentada pelos
doentes, o nível da estenose detectado na dacriocistografia,
as complicações intra e pós-operatórias e os resultados
funcionais e anatómicos pós-operatórios.
Resultados: Dos 51 doentes, 12 eram do sexo masculino e 34
do sexo feminino, com média de idades de 57 anos. A epífora
foi a queixa predominante. Com a excepção de dois casos,
todas as cirurgias foram executadas com instrumentos de
dissecção motorizados. O sucesso da DCR endoscópica foi de
78,1%.
Conclusões: A DCR endoscópica é uma técnica simples, segura
e eficaz para o tratamento das obstruções distais da via
nasolacrimal.Objective: analyze the results of a district hospital’s experience
in endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy and state the current
role of this technique in the treatment of distal nasolacrimal
pathway obstruction.
Methods: the clinical records of 67 consecutive endoscopic
dacryocystorhinostomies performed in Hospital Professor
Doutor Fernando Fonseca between January 1997 and
December 2012 were reviewed. The clinical presentation, level
of stenosis detected in the dacryocystography, intraoperative
and postoperative complications and functional and
anatomical results were analyzed.
Results: Of the 51 patients, 12 were male and 34 female, with
an age-average of 57 years. Epyphora was the main symptom.
With the exception of two cases, all surgeries were performed
with powered tools. Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy
success rate was 78,1%.
Conclusions: Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy is a simple,
safe and effective technique for the treatment of distal
obstructions of the nasolacrimal pathway
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Anisotropy studies around the galactic centre at EeV energies with the Auger Observatory
Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory are analyzed to search for
anisotropies near the direction of the Galactic Centre at EeV energies. The
exposure of the surface array in this part of the sky is already significantly
larger than that of the fore-runner experiments. Our results do not support
previous findings of localized excesses in the AGASA and SUGAR data. We set an
upper bound on a point-like flux of cosmic rays arriving from the Galactic
Centre which excludes several scenarios predicting sources of EeV neutrons from
Sagittarius . Also the events detected simultaneously by the surface and
fluorescence detectors (the `hybrid' data set), which have better pointing
accuracy but are less numerous than those of the surface array alone, do not
show any significant localized excess from this direction.Comment: Matches published versio
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons bioaccessibility in seafood: Culinary practices effects on dietary exposure
This work aimed to determine the effect of culinary practices on the contamination level and bioaccessibility of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in seafood. The selected farmed seafood species (marine shrimp, clams and seaweed) were commercially available in Portugal. The mean concentrations of PAHs varied between 0.23 and 51.8 µg kg-1, with the lowest value being observed in raw shrimp and the highest in dried seaweed. The number of compounds detected in seaweed and clams (naphthalene, acenaphthene, fluorene, phenanthrene, benzo(b)fluoranthene and benzo(j)fluoranthene) were higher than in shrimp (fluorene and pyrene). Among the PAHs measured, fluorene was the predominant one. There was a significant interaction effect between species and culinary treatment (p < 0.05), thus boiled and dried seaweed samples presented the lowest and the highest levels of fluorene (0.13 and 1.8 µg kg-1), respectively. The daily intake of PAHs decreased with bioaccessibility, varying from 22% for benzo(k)fluoranthene (in raw clam) to 84% for phenanthrene (in steamed clam). According to the potency equivalent concentrations, screening values and bioaccessibility of PAHs, the consumption of marine shrimp, clam and seaweed is considered as safe for consumers.This work received financial support from European (FEDER funds through COMPETE) and Portuguese funds (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia Project UID/QUI/50006/2013). The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology supported the Ph.D. Grant of ALM (SFRH/BD/103569/2014) as well as the post-doc Grant of P.A. (SFRH/BPD/100728/2014) and the IF2014 contract of AM.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
O pensar vivenciado na formação de professores
Analisa-se, neste artigo, um estudo de caso que discute a possibilidade de desenvolvimento do pensar vivenciado na formação de professores. A formação de professores é correntemente conduzida a partir de uma visão reducionista intelectual. Neste estudo, a formação de professores é entendida dentro de uma visão ampliada que inclui o desenvolvimento de forma integrada do querer, sentir e pensar. Ancorados em trabalhos anteriores de Goethe, Schiller e Rudolf Steiner, destacamos a importância e o impacto do trabalho com ciência, atividades criativo-artísticas e desenvolvimento pessoal no processo de formação de professores
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