ALFRED-DONAT AGACHE URBAN PROPOSAL FOR COSTA DO SOL. FROM THE TERRITORY TO THE CITY.

This paper reviews the development of Costa do Sol, as planned by architect urbanist Alfred-Donat Agache, for Lisbon Region in Portugal. The Plano Expansão Região Oeste de Lisboa (1934-1936) prepared by Agache and requested by Portuguese Minister of Public Works, Duarte Pacheco will be analyzed. This paper aims also to identify the principles and the theoretical foundations that have determined Agache urban vision for Lisbon City and its Territory. Finally, this paper aims to demonstrate that Alfred-Donat Agache methodological framework has applied Frederick Le Play socio-economic scientific approach. Such approach has informed the construction of a ‘civic’ urbanism that will be identified and analyzed. Two main goals seem to have guided Agache work at Costa do Sol: (i) the fully urban analysis of the city, throughout its social, economic, geographic and urban conditions (past and present) and (ii) the need to expose such analysis to the city’s inhabitants. Finally, this paper demonstrates Costa do Sol proposal to testify a comprehensive understanding of three distinct scales: (i) the territory; (ii) the city; (iii) but also the urban form. The acknowledgment of Agache ‘civic’ urban vision requests a public divulgation to allow the building of Good Practice Lessons for contemporary urban planning theory and practice

ALFRED-DONAT AGACHE URBAN PROPOSAL FOR COSTA DO SOL. FROM THE TERRITORY TO THE CITY.

This paper reviews the development of Costa do Sol, as planned by architect urbanist Alfred-Donat Agache, for Lisbon Region in Portugal. The Plano Expansão Região Oeste de Lisboa (1934-1936) prepared by Agache and requested by Portuguese Minister of Public Works, Duarte Pacheco will be analyzed. This paper aims also to identify the principles and the theoretical foundations that have determined Agache urban vision for Lisbon City and its Territory. Finally, this paper aims to demonstrate that Alfred-Donat Agache methodological framework has applied Frederick Le Play socio-economic scientific approach. Such approach has informed the construction of a ‘civic’ urbanism that will be identified and analyzed. Two main goals seem to have guided Agache work at Costa do Sol: (i) the fully urban analysis of the city, throughout its social, economic, geographic and urban conditions (past and present) and (ii) the need to expose such analysis to the city’s inhabitants. Finally, this paper demonstrates Costa do Sol proposal to testify a comprehensive understanding of three distinct scales: (i) the territory; (ii) the city; (iii) but also the urban form. The acknowledgment of Agache ‘civic’ urban vision requests a public divulgation to allow the building of Good Practice Lessons for contemporary urban planning theory and practice

Uma Questão de Design de Comunicação

Multimédia, publicações on line, Internet, de facto aqui a novidade está na forma, e, até porque assim é, vamos tentar ir ao fundo da questão. Comunicação parece-nos a palavra chave. Transmissão - podendo ser em ‘directo’ e com alcance global - de informação da mais variada ordem, com possibilidade de integração de texto escrito, imagem e som, numa mesma mensagem. Características que não deixam de por em causa referenciais tão ‘humanos’ como tempo, espaço físico e contactos pessoais, bem como a materialização das mensagens divulgadas através destes novos e globais meios de comunicação/informação. "Once upon a time things were a lot simpler. Telephone signals ran on telephone wires and radio signals were carried on radio waves. Now, however, those wires and cables are having to work a bit harder. […] It is the computer that has enabled this sharing to take place. It can reduce text, sound and images to a similar digital form wich can share the same wire. This also provides the bases for the convergence of business that use text, sound and images. […] The convergence of previously discrete forms of communication is giving rise to new media". (Come Together. «Design» - Outubro 1992) Dada a sua extraordinária amplitude, até porque é resultado de formas de comunicação outrora independentes ou, quando muito, complementares, não pretendemos tratar de forma exaustiva o multimédia e as diversas problemáticas relacionadas com a Internet. Vamos, sim, tentar focalizar a nossa abordagem na temática da comunicação, nomeadamente nas questões que advêm da nossa relação com a ‘mensagem’ cujo suporte é o monitor da computador pessoal. Justificamos a opção de tentar explorar um pouco a problemática do ‘interface’ porque, por um lado, a nossa formação de base é ‘Design de Comunicação’, e, por outro, parece-nos que do ponto de vista dos utilizadores do computador pessoal subsistem inúmeros problemas de comunicação, nomeadamente de comunicação visual, que poderiam e deveriam ser resolvidos com uma maior intervenção dos designers na concepção/produção dos diversos ‘objectos’ envolvidos neste tipo de comunicação, i.e. desde CD’s a páginas da Internet, passando pelas barras de ‘scroll’ dos programas. Procuraremos interligar, estabelecer ‘links’, para usar o jargão adequado, a actual revolução na comunicação entre seres humanos e o que se passou aquando da ampla difusão dos chamados ‘mass media’, limitando grandemente a nossa abordagem à problemática das artes visuais e do design de comunicação

Study of the macrofungi community associated with pinus (Pinus pinaster), chestnut (Castanea sativa) and oak (Quercus pyrenaica), in the Northeast of Portugal

The work here presented concerns the preliminary result of Project AGRO 689 “Agronomic, economic and environmental interest of macrofungi associated with pinus (Pinus pinaster), chestnut (Castanea sativa) and oak (Quercus pyrenaica), in the Northeast of Portugal: Production of mycorrhizal, pinus, chestnut and oak plants”. We intend to evaluate the diversity of macrofungi associated with each habitat and to get insight into the differences between mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal species as well as of edible and non-edible ones. Edible mycorrhizal and nonedible mycorrhizal ratios will also be calculated in order to know the impact of their collection in either ecological or economical aspects. During the two seasons of collection (Autumn 2004 and Spring 2005), oak habitat showed the highest number of species and carpophores while pinus was the poorest habitat either in terms of number of species and of carpophores. We discuss the results obtained, comparing the three habitats in terms of biodiversity and potential economical interest of edible macrofungi collection and of ratio of the different trophic levels. We intend to contribute for the evaluation of risk assessment of overcollection of edible species and to a sustainable macrofungi management.The work here presented concerns the preliminary results of Project AGRO 689 "Agronomic, economic and environmental interest of macrofungi associated with pinus (Pinus pinaster), chestnut (Castanea sativa) and oak (Quercus pyrenaica), in the Northeast of Portugal: Production of mycorrhizal pinus, chestnut and oak plants" We intend to evaluate the biodiversity ot"macrofungi associated with each habitat and to get insight into the differences between mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal species as well as of edible and non edible ones. Edible mycorrhizal and nonedible mycorrhizal ratios will also be calculated in order to know the impact of their collection in either ecological and economical aspects. During the two seasons of collection (Autumn 2004 and Spring 2005), oak habitat showed the highest number of species and of carpophores while pinus was the poorest habitat either in terms of number of species and of carpophores. We discuss the results obtained, comparing the three habitats in terms of biod iversity and potential economical interest of edible macrofungi collection and of ratio of the different trophic levels. We intend to contribute for the evaluation of risk assessment of overcollection of edible species and to a sustainable macrofungi management.This work was financed by the Project AGRO 689

Evaluation of the Sigma Quality level for Serum Iron determination by two colorimetric methods, Ferrozine and Ferene S

Iron plays important functions in the body such as the formation and functioning of hemoglobin and it’s disorders are among the most common diseases of human1. It is essential to ensure that its levels determination through laboratory tests are accurate and precise. The participation of laboratories in the External Quality Assessment (EQA) allows the increases of the quality level of the laboratory results and improvement of its performance.2This study was developed in the Portuguese Nacional EQA Program (PNAEQ) concerning the laboratories results from the Clinical Chemistry Scheme. The main objective of this study was to evaluate and improve the sigma quality level regarding the Iron parameter and reduce the variability of the laboratories results participating in the EQA program of Clinical Chemistry of the Nacional External Quality Assessment Program (PNAEQ). The mean Sigma quality level indicated that the Ferrozine method had a better performance compared with Ferene S method. Half of the control samples had a sigma quality level higher than 3.0, which is set as the minimum acceptable quality.3 Despite of the improved of the Sigma quality level in the Pilot Test, the results demonstrated a need to improved the analytical process performance and to identified more potential causes and implement new improvement actions. It becomes necessary to raise awareness with the laboratories, improving the Pilot Test participation frequency, resulting in a recurrent and current assessment of the laboratory activity performance. Developing Six Sigma projects on a periodic basis is important for continuously and progressively increasing the level of Sigma quality in laboratory examinations. The main advantage of quality assessment on the sigma scale is providing evidence of overall laboratory performance, taking into account random and systematic errors.N/

Illness control and knowledge evaluation on individuals with diabetes mellitus

The Diabetes Mellitus is a disease without cure which affects approximately a half million of Portuguese people. There is an epidemic expansion and appears like the source or motive of several healthy problems. It is a complex disease to control due to numerous factors, in which, the own patient’s care, inadequate food, the sedentarism, the lack of knowledge of the consequences, and others. The main objectives of this work are to evaluate the present glucose in the blood in the collect day; to evaluate the glycol haemoglobin (HbA1c); to evaluate the patient’s knowledge height and care according the diabetes; to report the diary glucose and the glycol haemoglobin rates with the disease knowledge. The study occurs with 54 diabetic individuals of type 2, no dependents of insulin, who are treated in the diabetology appointment from the “Centro Hospitalar Cova da Beira”, both sexes, with ages from 48 to 92. The analyses of the results, reveals in the studied sample that a glycaemia rate was bigger than it was expected for these diseased people, on the other hand, the HbA1c, is in an acceptable rate; there was a very low correlation between the glycaemia and HbA1c ; we also checked that the knowledge don’t set apart according the gender and age and the knowledge don’t influence the glycaemia rates nor the HbA1c

From geosphere to biosphere: circulation of matter in nature

Con este experimento, para alumnos de la educación secundaria, se pretende estimular el gusto por la ciencia experimental. De una manera lúdica, vamos a intentar ejemplificar el movimiento de la materia en la naturaleza e ilustrar las consecuencias que los desequilibrios en los ciclos biogeoquímicos pueden tener para los seres vivos