The fourth dimension in landscape analysis: changing of heritage and ecological values in the Évora cultural landscapes.

Time is one of the most important driving forces in Landscape Ecology. Time along with geosystem, biosystem and socialsystem determines landscape heterogeneity which reveals itself in different patterns and functions. Cultural Landscapes are the result of the interactions between man and environment along time

Sintering response and mechanical properties of microwave sintered 316L Powder Blends

Microwave sintering can be an efficient, economic and valuable approach for the processing of some PM materials. Recent findings on the ability of powdered metals to absorb and dissipate microwave radiation, opened new opportunities for the PM world. Being the particle size of the metallic powders one of the key parameters that rules the heating rate and the temperature performance during microwave sintering, work has been carried out on compacts of 316L powder blends with 60, 50, 25 and 7 m mean particle sizes, at 1150ºC for 30 minutes in a 2.45 GHz-1000 W microwave oven. Green and sintered densities and corresponding transverse rupture strength (TRS) are reported as well as hardness and porosity. Densities in excess of 95% were attained for the finer powders. TRS tests were performed on all but the 7 m powder specimens, being the highest value of 630 MPa obtained for the 25 m powder specimen

Montado’s ecosystem functions and services: the case study of Alentejo Central – Portugal

Although the concept of ecosystem services is well defined and centred on human use of natural systems, it is not yet consensual. The ecosystem services connect ecology and economy; they allow to integrate ecology into policies and to bring a monetary value. Even if the authors do not entirely agree with the idea of giving a monetary value to all elements, living and not living, they consider that the concept of ecosystem services can be improved in the sense of a holistic landscape ecological approach. Montado is a high valuated cultural landscape typical from the Southwest of Iberian Peninsula. It concerns a human-shaped ecosystem composed by a mosaic of scattered cork oaks, holm oaks or mix oaks, with a high grazing diversity. The most important products of Montado are cork and other non-timber products. Nevertheless it’s highly value is on the ecosystem functions it can provide, namely biodiversity conservation, water cycle regulation, carbon sequestration and soil conservation. These ecosystem services are highly interconnected, and have a lot of dependences in a complex structure. So, the first goal of this paper is to identify the main Montado ecosystem services that must be valued in sustainable management and policies, in order to prevent biodiversity losses and other types of ecosystem degradation.ICAAM,CIMAC,CIDEHU

Montado’s Ecosystem Services

Although the concept of ecosystem services is well defined and centred on human use of natural systems, it is not yet consensual. The ecosystem services connect ecology and economy; they allow to integrate ecology into policies and to bring a monetary value. Even if the authors do not entirely agree with the idea of giving a monetary value to all elements, living and not living, they consider that the concept of ecosystem services can be improved in the sense of a holistic landscape ecological approach. Montado is a high valuated cultural landscape typical from the Southwest of Iberian Peninsula. It concerns a human-shaped ecosystem composed by a mosaic of scattered cork oaks, holm oaks or mix oaks, with a high grazing diversity. The most important products of Montado are cork and other non-timber products. Nevertheless its highly value is on the ecosystem functions it can provide, namely water cycle regulation, carbon sequestration and conservation of biodiversity, soil and cultural landscape values. These ecosystem services are highly interconnected, and have a lot of dependences in a complex structure. So, the first goal of this paper is to identify the main Montado ecosystem services that must be valued in sustainable management and policies, in order to prevent biodiversity losses and other types of ecosystem and landscape degradation. It is therefore of the utmost importance enhance Montados ecosystems services knowledge.CIMAC,ICAAM,DPAO e CIDEHUS (UID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702) project

Guidelines for the integration of biological and cultural values in a Landscape Interpretation Center: application in southern Portugal

The city of Évora (the Roman Ebora Liberalitas Julia) is the most important town in Alentejo province (Southern Portugal) and is surrounded by a quite rich cultural and biological landscape involving archaeological sites of several epochs, old field networks and farms, as well as specific multifunctional cultural landscapes, the agro-forestry-pastoral systems called montados. Based on previous studies and land surveys, in which where identified the best preserved sectors and marks around Évora concerning the old cadastral systems, ecological corridors networks and the most important montados areas for preservation, it is presented the main guidelines for the development of an interpretation centre for the cultural and biological values in the Évora region. The methodology applies GIS spatial analysis and multilevel approaches and gives the guidelines for the integration of the different cultural and biological values in a holistic approach of landscape. The conceptual model is presented as well as the results obtained for the Évora Region

The Montado Great Route Sustainable tourism: treats and opportunities

Montado landscape is a highly valuated agro-forestry-pastoral system protected by law and integrated in the Portuguese Nacional List for Cultural Landscape World Heritage of UNESCO. It provides important environmental and cultural functions and services. These types of multifunctional landscapes are very attractive for sustainable tourism, like walking,birdwatching and other leisure activities. Alentejo Central is covered by montado landscapes (cork oak and holm oaktrees) in about 50% of its area. In 2016, the Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alentejo Central (CIMAC), decided tu implement a walking path network that connect the main villages and rural landscape and their cultural and natural heritage. lhe Montado Great Route (GRM), is planned for more than 1.000 km and connects natural, scenic, architectural and cultural values that everyone can enjoy walking through the landscape. These paths connect also with the contiguous regions namely to Alto and Baixo Alentejo, Vicentina Coast and Spain

Torção de mesentério – um caso clínico

Os autores descrevem um caso clínico numa cadela Boxer de dezoito meses, cujo diagnóstico definitivo de torção mesentérica, foi alcançado numa laparotomia exploratória de urgência. A cirurgia foi um sucesso e passados dezoito meses da mesma, a cadela apresenta-se em bom estado geral e exame clínico normal. Esta é uma situação pouco frequente nos nossos animais de companhia, de prognóstico grave e cuja taxa de mortalidade ronda os 100%. Está descrita com maior incidência na raça Pastor Alemão e Pointer, não tendo sido encontrados, até à data, quaisquer registos na raça Boxer. A maior parte dos diagnósticos é apenas alcançado em necrópsia, dado que a maioria dos animais sucumbe antes de um diagnóstico definitivo

Symptoms Impact and eHealth Intervention for Menopausal Women with Urinary Incontinence

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Motivação e consciência do self : impacto na duração do processo psicoterapêutico

Tese de mestrado, Psicologia (Secção de Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde - Núcleo de Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Comportamental e Integrativa), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 2008Em consequência das exigências da sociedade contemporânea, nos últimos anos têm-se vindo a valorizar, cada vez mais, a maximização dos resultados e a optimização da duração do processo psicoterapêutico. Reflectindo sobre o conceito de motivação para a terapia, pretendi evidenciar os processos subjacentes ao seu surgimento e avaliar o seu impacto na duração do processo psicoterapêutico. Sabendo que são poucos os modelos psicoterapêuticos que contemplam a motivação como uma variável relevante, recorri, como referencial teórico, a dois meta-modelos integrativos, o Modelo Transteórico (Prochaska, 1982) e o Modelo de Complementaridade Paradigmática (Vasco, 2006), que consideram a consciência do self um marcador de mudança. Este estudo, de natureza não experimental, de tipo quantitativo e longitudinal, considera o grau de discrepância do self e a qualidade da aliança terapêutica como variáveis que podem interferir na rapidez da mudança. O objectivo é avaliar de que forma o estádio de mudança, em que o paciente se encontra inicialmente, interfere no tempo necessário ao alcance dos objectivos estratégicos da segunda fase do Meta-modelo de Complementaridade Paradigmática (aumento da consciência do self). Para cada hipótese especulei sobre o significado dos possíveis resultados e explorei algumas implicações para a prática clínica.As a consequence of the demands of contemporary society, increasing emphasis has been placed in recent years on maximizing results and optimizing the length of the psychotherapeutic process. Reflecting on the concept of motivation for therapy, I have sought to show the underlying processes that bring it into play and to assess its impact on the length of the psychotherapeutic process. Given that few psychotherapeutic models treat motivation as a relevant variable, I have used two integrative meta-models as a theoretical system of reference, the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska, 1982) and the Paradigmatic Complementary Model (Vasco, 2006), which take self-awareness as a means of measuring change. This study, which is non-experimental and is of a quantitative and longitudinal type, will consider the degree of self-discrepancies and the quality of the working alliance as variables that can interfere in the speed of change. The objective of the study will be to assess the way in which the patient's initial stage of change interferes with the time needed to attain the strategic objectives of the second phase of the Paradigmatic Complementary Meta-model (to increase self-awareness). For each hypothesis I have examined the significance of the possible results and explored certain implications for clinical practice

A solidão na gravidez : determinantes da solidão e seu impacto na ligação materno-fetal

RESUMO - O sentimento de solidão tem vindo a tornar-se cada vez mais frequente entre os indivíduos, fruto do desenvolvimento da sociedade moderna. Especificamente, ocorrendo durante a gravidez, situação que produz na mulher importantes alterações não só físicas, como também psicológicas, familiares e sociais, deve passar a ser alvo de uma atenção especial. De um ponto de vista da Saúde Mental, o desenvolvimento saudável da gravidez exige uma rede de suporte social e uma relação conjugal satisfatórias. Tais elementos devem ser considerados como factores protectores do aparecimento de sentimentos de solidão. Pelo contrário, um baixo sentido de coerência e o aparecimento de depressão durante a gravidez são factores de risco que, inevitavelmente, irão interferir na qualidade da ligação materno-fetal, com repercussões no desenvolvimento psico-social do futuro ser humano. Este protocolo de projecto propõe um estudo transversal, exploratório e de natureza quantitativa. Engloba dois sub-estudos, focando os determinantes da solidão e o impacto desta na ligação materno-fetal, e pretende identificar associações pertinentes entre as várias dimensões envolvidas. A amostra em estudo será constituída por 202 grávidas que frequentam o Centro de Saúde de Torres Vedras. As variáveis correspondentes serão operacionalizadas através de questionários estandardizados e validados para a população portuguesa, sendo eles a Escala de Solidão da UCLA, a Escala de Satisfação com o Suporte Social, a Escala de Avaliação de Áreas da Vida Conjugal, a Escala de Ligação Materno-Fetal, a Escala de Depressão Pós-Parto de Edimburgo e o Questionário de Orientação para Viver. Espera-se identificar e caracterizar as possíveis associações entre a solidão e a satisfação com o suporte social, a satisfação conjugal, a depressão durante a gravidez e o sentido de coerência, que a explicarão, e a ligação materno-fetal, que será influenciada por ela. Os questionários serão respondidos pelas grávidas seleccionadas de acordo com critérios de inclusão e exclusão. Além das descrições estatísticas iniciais, as análises de associação serão realizadas em função das distribuições encontradas, e tendo em conta dimensões do contexto sociodemográfico. Os resultados da investigação serão divulgados num relatório final. ----------------------- ABSTRACT - The feeling of loneliness is increasing as a result of developments in modern society. Specifically occurring during pregnancy, when important changes - physical, psychological and related to the family structure and interaction with society - take place, special attention should be devoted. To maintain good mental health during pregnancy it is important to have good social support and harmonious conjugal relations, both considered as factors preventing the emergence of feelings of loneliness. By contrast low sense of coherence and depression during the pregnancy are risk factors which, inevitably, will affect the quality of the maternal-fetal attachment and have repercussions on the psycho-social development of the future individual. This protocol of draft proposes a transversal exploratory study of a quantitative nature on two sub-studies, exploring the determinants of loneliness and its impact on the maternal-fetal attachment, which intends to identify some correlations between parameters. The study sample is made up of 202 pregnant women who are patients at the Health Centre of the city of Torres Vedras. They will be selected according to criteria of inclusion and exclusion. All variables will be measured through standardized and validated surveys illustrating the Portuguese population, like the Scale of Loneliness of the UCLA, Scale of Satisfaction with the Social Support, Scale of Evaluation of Areas of the Conjugal Life, Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, and Orientation To Life Questionnaire. We expect to identify correlations between loneliness and satisfaction with social support and conjugal relations, depression during pregnancy and sense of coherence, which will explain it, and the maternal-fetal attachment, which will influence it. Beyond the initial statistical descriptions, the data analysis will be executed according to the distributions found and will be carried taking into account the socio-demographic context. The results of the survey will be published in a final report