Eros invicto combatente

The paper relates to the transference love as being double faced: it is, at the same time, a very important factor for the psychoanalysis development as well as a source of resistance to the psychoanalytical treatment. The transference of love to knowledge, which is sustained by the analyst’s position during the treatment, must be maintained as the analysis horizon, and never be confused with transference love. The analyst should receive this love as a genuine one, although not responding to or underestimating it. For that, he/ she shall use the analyst’s wish as an operator that maintains the tension at the point of suspension of knowledge.O texto expõe sobre o amor de transferência como algo de dupla face: sendo motor importante em uma psicanálise, ao mesmo tempo é fonte de resistência ao tratamento. A transferência de amor ao saber, que a psicanálise sustenta na posição do analista, deve ser mantida como horizonte da análise e nunca confundida com o amor de transferência. Cabe ao analista acolher esse amor como genuíno, sem atendê- lo ou minimizá-lo, valendo-se, para tanto, do desejo do analista como um operador que mantém a tensão no ponto de não-saber.El texto expone sobre el amor de transferencia como algo de doble cara: siendo motor importante en un psicoanálisis, al mismo tiempo que es fuente de resistencia al tratamiento. La transferencia de amor al saber, que el psicoanálisis sustenta en la posición del analista, debe ser mantenida como horizonte del análisis y nunca confundida con el amor de transferencia. Cabe al analista acoger este amor como genuino, sin corresponderle o minimizarlo, valiéndose, para tanto, del deseo del analista como un operador que mantiene la tensión en el punto de no-saber

The association of early touchscreen media use with the development of visual attention and executive function

Attention plays a pivotal role in information processing by filtering the potential information available based on individual goals, states, and past experiences. Early attention control is thought to underpin and support executive functions (EFs), which in turn are predictive of later behavioural outcomes. The development of attention and EF is partly subject to environmental influences, such as the use of digital media. There is a rapid increase in accessibility and usability of mobile touchscreen devices (i.e. smartphones and tablets) in the family environment, but rigorous scientific research investigating the impact on the developing mind lags behind the widespread usage. To address this, children with different levels of touchscreen use were followed longitudinally at 12 months, 18 months, and 3.5 years, and tested on attention control (bottom-up, and top-down), and EF (updating, shifting, and inhibiting). Children with high touchscreen use were faster on single (i.e. pop-out) visual search, with the amount of concurrent use associated with the speed of bottom-up attention in a linear manner. This saliency bias was repeatedly found on saccadic control tasks, where steady longitudinal high use was associated with a quickening of attention to peripheral salient onsets with a resulting detriment to top-down performance, i.e. disengagement and inhibition of attention. Finally, top-down difficulties were also seen in EF tasks in high users at 3.5 years, particularly in processes of updating and shifting between abstract mental sets. These results point to an influence of touchscreens use on the emerging attention and EF systems, in a way that experience of salient and contingent digital content elicits automatic biases to bottom-up processing, and displaces competency of top-down control and/or increases reliance on stimulus-response pairings. Future studies are needed to demonstrate causality, and to understand long-term trajectories and the interplay between bottom-up and top-down processes over time

Life paths and death perspective in elderly people at risk for suicide

O suicídio e os comportamentos suicidários são um problema de saúde pública. A ideação suicida nem sempre se torna no ato efetivo, por vezes passa apenas por pensamentos, desejos, sentimentos ou planos de autodestruição. Numa fase da vida avançada em que a situação de dependência a vários níveis vai aumentando, o suicídio surge como libertação da condição de decadência, dependência e fragilidade. O objetivo do estudo foi compreender os percursos de vida e a perspetiva de morte em idosos com risco de suicídio, recorrendo-se a histórias de vida de três pessoas idosas institucionalizadas, através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Os percursos de vida são distintos, têm pontos em comum, fazendo-nos refletir sobre a relação entre percurso de vida e as questões relacionadas com o suicídio, em que os fatores emocionais, físicos, sociofamiliares, as perdas e a própria situação de dependência contribuem para uma maior fragilidade do individuo colocando-o em risco.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Application of Biology to Cultural Heritage

Funding: This work was supported by National Funds through FCT-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology under the contracts EECIND/ 02598/2017 (A.C. Pinheiro).publishersversionpublishe

Práticas de diferenciação pedagógica em contexto de jardim-de-infância e de 1º Ciclo do ensino básico

Relatório de Estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino BásicoA diferenciação pedagógica é um desafio para todos/as os/as profissionais de educação, uma vez que as realidades educativas são dinâmicas, caracterizando-se por uma grande diversidade linguística, cultural e social, e estão em constante mutação. É igualmente um desafio de mudança para as Escolas. Inovar e construir estratégias de ensino e dispositivos que respondam às necessidades de todas as crianças, e que vão ao encontro dos vários perfis de aprendizagem, é sem dúvida uma problemática que carece de muita reflexão por toda a comunidade educativa. Neste sentido, tendo a problemática citada como base de trabalho e reflexão, o presente relatório visa refletir todo o meu percurso e desenvolvimento profissional ao longo do Mestrado em Educação Pré-escolar e em Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico realizado na Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém. Numa primeira parte do presente documento encontra-se a análise crítica e reflexiva da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada que desenvolvi ao longo do estágio, onde são descritos os vários contextos educativos, bem como o percurso de desenvolvimento profissional e investigativo que realizei nos momentos de estágio. Na segunda parte é apresentado o trabalho de pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, relativo à questão da Diferenciação Pedagógica, onde realizei entrevistas, a duas Educadoras de Infância e a duas Professora de 1ºCiclo do Ensino Básico. Seguindo os objetivos das mesmas foi possível conhecer como as docentes definem o conceito de Pedagogia Diferenciada, compreender a sua perspetiva relativamente à influência da pedagogia diferenciada no processo de ensino e aprendizagem e identificar quais as suas implicações nas práticas educativas, do Jardim de Infância e da Escola, dos princípios orientadores que caraterizam a pedagogia diferenciada.Pedagogical differentiation is a challenge for all / as the / as education professionals, since the educational realities are dynamic and is characterized by a great diversity linguistic, cultural and social, and are constantly changing. It is also a challenge to change schools. Innovate and build teaching strategies and devices that meet the needs of all children, and to meet the different learning profiles, is certainly an issue that requires much thought by the whole school community. In this sense, having the problems cited as the basis of work and reflection, this report aims to reflect all my career and professional development throughout the Master in Preschool Education and Teaching of the 1st cycle of basic education held at School Education, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém. In the first part of this document is critical and reflective analysis of the Supervised Teaching Practice I developed along the stage, where the various educational settings, as well as the professional development path and I conducted the investigative stage moments are described. The second part presents the research work qualitative, on the question of Pedagogical differentiation, which conducted interviews, two of Childhood Educators and two 1st cycle Professor of Basic Education. Following the objectives of the same was possible to know how the teachers define the concept of Differentiated Education, understand their perspective regarding the influence of differentiated learning in the process of teaching and learning and identify their implications for educational practices, Kindergarten and school, the guiding principles that characterize the differentiated learning.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Theta and alpha neurofeedback for age-related cognitive deficits

Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências da SaúdeWith the growing life expectancy, the number of elderly people is increasing tremendously worldwide. The progressive decrease of synaptic plasticity and neuronal inter-connectivity, concomitant with neurophysiological and behavioral alterations in the ageing brain, may be delayed by neurorehabilitation. Current approaches used to modify cognitive capabilities are often divided into behavioral training procedures and techniques for direct modulation of neural mechanisms, as neurostimulation or neurofeedback. Neurofeedback, which most of the times is based on electroencephalogram signals, is used to train individuals on learning how to influence their own brain functions based on the online-analysis of the brain activity. However, the potential greater effects of rehabilition through a combined methodology of these two trends are poorly investigated. In the present study, we wanted to examine the effects of a protocol with neurofeedback training interleaved with neurocognitive tasks. It was hypothesized that the combined approach might have a superior impact on cognitive performance, in comparison with a neurofeedback training alone approach. A protocol for neurorehabilitation covering the two proposed methodologies was developed. It supports Alpha and Theta neurofeedback up-training, and can be interleaved with neurocognitive tasks, namely the n-Back Task (the 1-back and the 2-back versions) and the Corsi Block-Tapping Task (either in forward or in backward order). Then, 10 participants from a Health Care Centre from Braga, aged above 55 years-old, were intervened in a twelve-day protocol with either a neurofeedback-combined cognitive protocol or a neurofeedback-single protocol. In general, the protocol established appear to induce an enhancement of Alpha and Theta activity as an enhancement in working-memory overall state. However, no clear conclusions could be drawn about the real effects of the intervention due to the small sample size and inter-individual differences. With a forthcoming increase in the number of participants (with more participants already being recruited and intervened) we hope to better address the potential enhancement effects of the combined approach of behavioral training and neurofeedback, as well as understand the possible explanations in the origin of these effects.Com o aumento da esperança média de vida, a população idosa tem vindo a aumentar exponencialmente no mundo inteiro, e Portugal não é excepção. O decréscimo progressivo da plasticidade sináptica e da inter-conectividade neuronal, em simultâneo com as alterações neurofisiológicas e comportamentais, decorrentes do envelhecimento do cérebro, podem ser atenuados pela neuro-reabilitação. As actuais abordagens utilizadas para estimular as capacidades cognitivas podem ser divididas entre treino comportamental e técnicas de modulação directa de mecanismos neuronais, como a neuroestimulação e o neurofeedback. O neurofeedback, que na maioria dos casos é baseado em sinais de electroencefalograma, é usado para treinar sujeitos no sentido de uma aprendizagem de como influenciar as suas próprias funções cerebrais com base numa análise em tempo real da actividade cerebral. Ainda assim, um possível benefício acrescido da reabilitação através de uma combinação metodológica destas abordagens não tem sido explorado com afinco. No presente estudo, procurámos examinar os efeitos de um protocolo de treino de neurofeedback intercalado com tarefas neurocognitivas. Partindo da hipótese de que uma abordagem combinada poderia ter um impacto positivo mais significativo no comportamento cognitivo, quando comparada com um treino de neurofeedback em exclusivo, desenvolveu-se um protocolo para neuroreabilitação abrangendo as duas metodologias propostas. O referido protocolo promove um treino de aumento da potência de Alfa e Teta e pode ser intercalado com tarefas neurocognitivas, nomeadamente a tarefa n-Back (as versões 1-back e 2-back) e a tarefa Corsi Block-Tapping (quer directa quer invertida). De seguida, foram recrutados 10 participantes do Centro de Saúde de Braga, com idade superior a 55 anos, que participaram num protocolo de treino de 12 dias, ou com um protocolo neurocognitivo e de neurofeedback combinado, ou com um protocolo simples de neurofeedback. Em termos gerais, o protocolo estabelecido poderá induzir um aumento da potência de Alfa e Teta, bem como uma melhoria da memória de trabalho. Salienta-se, contudo, que devido à pequena amostra de indivíduos neste trabalho, nenhuma conclusão exacta acerca dos efeitos da intervenção pode ser retirada. De todo o modo, com o aumento do número de participantes, esperamos estar aptos a responder e a providenciar um entendimento mais conclusivo acerca dos efeitos de uma abordagem combinada de treino comportamental e de neurofeedback, sem descurar as possíveis explicações na base destes efeitos

Portuguese colonial architectural archives at the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, mid 19th century - 1975

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Virtual reality therapy: the power of role-playing social skills

Role-play (RP) is a technique for teaching communication and training interpersonal skills, known for its effective way of transmitting learning, in which simulation is one of its main distinguishing features. Social skills, moreover, are behaviors that involve the interpersonal relationship carried out in each social context. Although social skills training is consensually considered one of the most beneficial approaches to improving social functioning in individuals with mental illness, long-term motivation deficits diminish its effectiveness. Virtual reality technology effectively solves the motivation problem, providing a realistic and immersive experience that allows for role-playing of social skills. They provide presence and allow individuals to practice and enhance their social skills. The benefits of both RP and VR technology are clear, and the combination of the two has even greater potential. However, there is still a limited amount of research on the impact of VR in the practice of RP, so further investigation is crucial.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Relación entre gestión del talento humano y el desempeño laboral en el área de cobranzas tardía de una institución financiera en Lima, 2022

La investigación tuvo por objetivo determinar la relación entre la gestión del talento humano y el desempeño laboral en el área de cobranzas tardía de una institución financiera en lima, 2022; considerando como dimensiones de la gestión del talento humano los procesos de integrar, desarrollar y retener personas y, de desempeño laboral las dimensiones participación por objetivos, capacidades y habilidades, evaluación de desempeño y motivación laboral. Para ello se aplicó un estudio metodológico tipo descriptivo correlacional con análisis cuantitativo, mediante la técnica de la encuesta y a través de un cuestionario de 37 preguntas con la escala de Likert dirigida a 35 colaboradores. Los resultados obtenidos, mediante Rho de Spearman, es que la gestión del talento humano y el desempeño laboral tiene una correlación negativa muy débil de 5.50%, la correlación alcanzada no es estadísticamente significativa, pero no quiere decir que no haya correlación. La gestión del talento humano con la participación por objetivos y, las capacidades y habilidades de manera independiente, tienen una relación directa positiva moderada de 40.7%. La gestión del talento humano y la evaluación de desempeño una relación negativa moderada de -40.7% y la gestión del talento humano y la motivación laboral una relación negativa muy débil de 5.50%.The objective of the research was to determine the relationship between human talent management and job performance in the late collections area of a financial institution in Lima, 2022; considering as dimensions of human talent management the processes of integrating, developing and retaining people and, of work performance, the dimensions of participation by objectives, capacities and abilities, performance evaluation and work motivation. For this purpose, a descriptive correlational methodological study with quantitative analysis was applied, using the survey technique and through a questionnaire of 37 questions with the Likert scale addressed to 35 collaborators. The results obtained, through Spearman's Rho, are that human talent management and job performance have a very weak negative correlation of 5.50%, the correlation achieved is not statistically significant, but it does not mean that there is no correlation. The management of human talent with participation by objectives and, capacities and abilities independently, have a moderate positive direct relationship of 40.7%. Human talent management and performance evaluation had a moderate negative relationship of -40.7% and human talent management and work motivation had a very weak negative relationship of 5.50%

Enter the virtual forest: exploring the benefits of forest therapy in a digital world

One of the many challenges of this urbanization is significantly reflected in the distribution of urban green spaces, which may still not meet the needs of all inhabitants and preclude the many benefits that urban green spaces bring to mental health. From this perspective, Shinrin-Yoku emerged a traditional Japanese practice known as Forest Therapy (FT) or Forest Bathing (FB), as a natural health treatment. Using virtual reality, in addition, makes it possible to reproduce scenarios or environments that, in certain contexts, it would be almost impossible to recreate in real life. Thus, VR can provide opportunities and allow many more people to benefit from the best therapies and positive outcomes. It’s important to note that the research on this union is still in its early stages, however, exploring this field represents, in many ways, a unique opportunity for healthcare, and would reach a wider population, providing the best possible therapy for everyone who could benefit from it.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio