Portuguese Population in France: a snapshot 25 years after their arrival

In year 2000 Portugal is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the arrival to Brazil. The Portuguese overseas adventure is now five centuries old and more than one third of the Portuguese nationals are living outside their homeland; in France they are the largest foreign community. This paper uses the data from the French Employment Survey (Enqujte de l Emploi) 1994 and 1995 to characterise the Portuguese population and to study individual decisions taken by the Portuguese migrants concerning naturalisation, family, residence and education. As a result of the analysis it seems that the decisions of the younger Portuguese are getting closer to the decisions of their French neighbours, increasing the gap with respect to the decisions of their countrymen who stayed in Portugal. In this very sense, we can say that some assimilation by the Portuguese is occurring in France. There is an educational convergence of the Portuguese migrants in France and the French.

Yearning, learning and conceding: (Some of) the reasons people change their childbearing intentions

People's childbearing intentions change over the course of their reproductive lives. These changes have been conceptualised as occurring in response to the realisation that an individual is unlikely to achieve his or her intended fertility, because of constraints such as the biological clock or lack of a partner. In this paper we find that changes to childbearing plans are actually influenced by a much wider range of factors than this. People change their plans in response to the wishes of their partners, in response to social norms, as the result of re-partnering, and as the result of learning about the costs and benefits of parenthood; there are also differences between the factors which influence men's and women's decision-making. A key feature of this paper is that, in a departure from existing studies in this area, we use a flexible analytical framework which enables us to analyse increases in planned fertility separately from decreases. This allows us to uncover several complexities of the decision-making process which would otherwise be hidden, and leads us to conclude that the determinants of increases in planned fertility are not simply equal and opposite to the determinants of decreases

Portuguese Population in France: a Snapshot 25 Years After Their Arrival

In year 2000 Portugal is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the arrival to Brazil. The Portuguese overseas adventure is now five centuries old and more than one third of the Portuguese nationals are living outside their homeland; in France they are the largest foreign community. This paper uses the data from the French Employment Survey (Enquête de l’ Emploi) 1994 and 1995 to characterise the Portuguese population and to study individual decisions taken by the Portuguese migrants concerning naturalisation, family, residence and education. As a result of the analysis it seems that the decisions of the younger Portuguese are getting closer to the decisions of their French neighbours, increasing the gap with respect to the decisions of their countrymen who stayed in Portugal. In this very sense, we can say that some assimilation by the Portuguese is occurring in France. There is an educational convergence of the Portuguese migrants in France and the French.N/

A comparative study of rare earth metals recovery by bacteria and algae

Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the research project PTDC/AAG-TEC/5269/2014, the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE - 01 - 0145 - FEDER - 000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norteinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Auditory brainstem response in children with risk factor for hearing loss: comparative analysis between the use of different acoustic stimuli in electrophysiological findings

The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is classically evoked with the click stimulus. New stimuli, such as chirp, have been proposed with the aim of improving the identification of different types and degrees of hearing loss.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Who delays childbearing? The relationships between fertility, education and personality traits

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this paper assesses the in uence of personality traits on the timing of motherhood and investigates whether, and in what way, personality traits can explain the differences in maternity timing between more and less educated women. We estimate a log-logistic model of the time to first child birth and show that there is a statistically significant relationship between the Big Five personality traits and timing to motherhood. The results also show that within the more educated group, women who have an average to high score on Openness have lower hazards of childbirth

Necessidade psicológica de exploração-tranquilidade : relação com bem-estar e distress psicológico

Tese de mestrado, Psicologia (Secção de Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde, Núcleo de Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Comportamental e Integrativa), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Psicologia, 2011O Modelo de Complementaridade Paradigmática é um modelo integrativo que conceptualiza sete pares de necessidades psicológicas dialécticas (Vasco 2009a, 2009b) e que concebe o bem-estar como resultante de regulação da satisfação das necessidades psicológicas, através de um processo contínuo de negociação e balanço entre as polaridades das necessidades. Este estudo destaca uma destas necessidades - Exploração/Tranquilidade. Com base na literatura sobre a Exploração e sobre a Tranquilidade, construiu-se uma escala de avaliação do grau de regulação de ambos os pólos desta necessidade, que foi aplicada a 562 participantes através de uma plataforma Web. Foram depois comparados estes resultados com os resultados de uma escala de Bem-Estar Psicológico e Distress Psicológico, pertencentes ao Inventário de Saúde Mental (Ribeiro, 2001). A amostra foi dividida em 4 grupos relativos aos pares de resultados de Exploração e Tranquilidade (com base nas medianas), o grupo de resultados mais elevados nos dois pólos revela resultados mais elevados de Bem-Estar Psicológico e mais baixos de Distress Psicológico. Na conclusão são também apresentadas algumas limitações do estudo e as implicações para a psicologia geral e para psicoterapia.The Paradigmatic Complementary Model is an integrative model which conceptualizes seven pairs of Dialectical Psychological Needs (Vasco 2009 a, 2009b), and which conceives Well-Being as a result of regulation of the satisfaction of psychological needs, through a continuous process of negotiation and balance between both polarities of needs. This study focuses one of these needs - Exploration/Tranquillity. Grounded on the literature of Exploration and Tranquillity, it was built a scale to evaluate the degree of regulation of both poles of this need, which was applied to 562 participants through a Web platform. Later on, these results were related to the results obtained on a scale that measures Psychological Well- Being and Psychological Distress, belonging to the Mental Health Inventory (Ribeiro, 2001). The participants were divided into four groups based on the median of the pairs of results from Exploration and Tranquillity, where the group with higher results on both poles shows higher results of Psychological Well-Being and lower results of Psychological Distress. On conclusion it was also presented some limitations of the study and the implications for general psychology and psychotherapy

A influência das caraterísticas governance na performance bancária europeia

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar o efeito das características da governance na performance das instituições bancárias europeias. Para alcançar este objetivo, foram analisados 212 bancos no período compreendido entre 2013 e 2022, recorrendo ao método de estimação Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) system. Os resultados obtidos mostram que os efeitos da governance na performance variam consoante a variável utilizada para medir a performance (Q de Tobin, Rendibilidade do Ativo Média e Rendibilidade do Capital Próprio Média). Especificamente, os resultados destacam que a performance é consistentemente explicada pela existência de uma comissão de responsabilidade social, pela dimensão do conselho de administração e pela existência de um board governance committee, embora não exista consenso entre os vários stakeholders acerca do efeito positivo ou negativo, de acordo com as suas várias expetativas. A originalidade e contribuições principais deste estudo estão relacionadas com a consideração de uma ampla gama de métricas contabilísticas e de mercado na avaliação da performance bancária europeia, assim como de aspetos de governo que permitem enriquecer o conhecimento académico, proporcionando ferramentas práticas de gestão e orientação para melhores decisões, tanto de stakeholders internos como externos às instituições

Jornalismo econômico: o posicionamento da mídia de economia no Brasil sobre a Taxa Selic

Journalism produces and disseminates information in society influencing it in thinking about and what to think. Through the media framework, methodology used in communication studies, one can see how it gives the communication strategies used by different media vehicles to disseminate information on economic journalism regarding the base interested rate: Selic. One should take into account that in economic journalism, as well as other professional groups, social relations exert interests and power relations. Thus, this dissertation investigates the different communication strategies present in the economic journalism discourse in Brazil in the newspaper O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, the State of São Paulo and Valor Economico. To answer the problem that this proposed work, we sought to answer the following questions: What are the most recurrent journalistic genres in the field over the Selic? To which social agents that the media gives voice? And what are the categories most frequently cited in the field of economy over the Selic? What is the predominant framing over the Selic rate?. The strategies used by vehicles directly affect the way of publishing information on the Selic interest rate to the same content can be given different approaches. Since the communication strategies used by the media are defined by the vehicle profile and the public one wants to affect.O jornalismo produz e dissemina informações na sociedade influenciando-a na forma de pensar e sobre o quê pensar. Por meio do enquadramento midiático, metodologia utilizada em estudos de comunicação, pode-se verificar neste estudo de que forma se dão as estratégias de comunicação utilizada por diferentes veículos midiáticos, para disseminar informação no jornalismo econômico no que concerne à Taxa Básica de Juros: Selic. Deve-se levar em consideração que no jornalismo econômico, bem como nas demais categorias profissionais, as relações sociais exercem interesses e relações de poder. Sendo assim, esta dissertação buscou analisar as diferentes estratégias de comunicação presentes no discurso do jornalismo econômico no Brasil nos jornais: O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo e Valor Econômico. Para responder o problema que este trabalho propôs, buscou-se responder os seguintes questionamentos: Quais os gêneros jornalísticos mais recorrentes nas matérias sobre a Selic? A quais agentes sociais os veículos de comunicação dão voz? E quais são as categorias mais citadas nas matérias de economia sobre a Selic? Qual o framing predominante sobre a taxa Selic?. As estratégias utilizadas pelos veículos implicam diretamente na forma de publicar informações sobre a variação da taxa Selic, isto é, para um mesmo conteúdo pode-se dar enfoques distintos. Já que as estratégias de comunicação usadas pelos veículos de comunicação são definidas pelo perfil do veículo e pelo público que se quer atingir

The morphofunctional design of Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi (Crocodyliformes, Upper Cretaceous) of the Bauru Basin, Brazil

Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, a Peirosauridae from the Upper Cretaceous of the Bauru Basin, was a Crocodyliformes of terrestrial habits. The fossils analyzed in this study belong to the pectoral girdle (scapula and coracoid) and anterior appendicular skeleton (humerus, radius, ulna, carpals, radiale, ulnale, metacarpals and phalanges). In this study we infer the locomotion habits of M. arrudacamposi. A morphometric, morphofunctional and 3D reconstruction of the elements of the pectoral girdle and the anterior limbs of M. arrudacamposi were performed. For a better understanding of the most plausible pectoral girdle and anterior limb posture, the studied bones were virtually disarticulated and articulated on 3D reconstruction. The herein results obtained indicate the structures present a relatively thin and elongated aspect, thus allowing an interpretation that M. arrudacamposi possessed more slender anterior limbs than living crocodyliforms. This condition allowed for an adducted stance and cursorial habits that would enable movement through terrestrial environments for prey searching