Formas imaginadas - As figuras geométricas planas na ilustração de narrativas : uma proposta interdisciplinar

Relatório da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, Mestrado em Ensino de Artes Visuais, Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2020O presente relatório resulta da implementação de uma unidade didática numa turma de 30 alunos do 7.º ano de escolaridade do Ensino Básico, no Colégio de Santa Doroteia, em Lisboa, realizada no decorrer da Iniciação à Prática Pedagógica, do Mestrado em Ensino de Artes Visuais no 3.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e no Ensino Secundário. Os conteúdos abordados nas práticas educativas inserem-se no programa da disciplina de Educação Visual do 3.º Ciclo, realizando-se de acordo com os domínios de referência Técnica T7, Representação R7, Discurso D7 e Projeto P7, presentes nas Metas-Curriculares, definidas pela Direção-Geral da Educação. A didática foi implementada de acordo com três eixos: contextualização, através de referências da história da arte contemporânea e em exemplos de ilustradores como Bernardo P. Carvalho; familiarização, através da manipulação de recursos didáticos; e conceção, através da criação de ilustrações baseadas na obra de Luis Sepúlveda, História de Um Caracol Que Descobriu a Importância da Lentidão (2013), produzidas em grupos de trabalho, e cujo resultado fosse passível de ser exposto na escola. Ao longo da investigação foi seguido um paradigma interpretativo, que considerou a realidade como resultado da interpretação do observador e que se baseou em métodos qualitativos e, em alguns casos, quantitativos. O observador, foi aqui, simultaneamente, professor e investigador, ou seja, apresentou os conteúdos à turma mantendo uma atitude analítica, não só em relação aos alunos, mas também em relação a si mesmo, numa autorreflexão permanente. Desta forma, O trabalho apresentado centrou-se num estudo de caso que se caracteriza como uma investigação-ação, no âmbito de uma investigação em educação. A escolha deste tema para o relatório surgiu após a leitura crítica dos conteúdos e objetivos da disciplina de Educação Visual, no que se referem ao estudo dos traçados geométricos planos, nomeadamente no entendimento da geometria como organização da forma, na identificação de formas geométricas, no envolvimento natural ou criado pelo Homem, e na utilização de traçados geométricos simples na resolução de problemas práticos. Dos resultados obtidos foi possível concluir que os alunos conseguiram resultados bastante satisfatórios nesta unidade didática, que tiveram como mote as obras estudadas na disciplina de Língua Portuguesa, e os conteúdos de geometria plana, também abordados na disciplina de Matemática. Neste projeto de ilustração, através da convocação de diferentes saberes disciplinares, os alunos puderam descobrir a geometria e a literatura enquanto áreas do conhecimento a explorar através da linguagem plástica e, nesta interdisciplinaridade, construir aprendizagens significativas.This report results from the implementation of a didactic unit in a class of 30 students from the 7th year of elementary schooling, at Colégio de Santa Doroteia, in Lisbon, carried out during the Introduction to Pedagogical Practice, from the Master in Visual Arts Teaching in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education. The contents covered in the educational practices are part of the program of the Visual Education discipline of the 3rd Cycle, carried out according to the reference domains Technique T7, Representation R7, Discourse D7 and Project P7, present in the Curriculum Goals, defined by the Directorate-General for Education. The didactics were implemented according to three axes: contextualization, through references in the history of contemporary art and in examples from illustrators such as Bernardo P. Carvalho; familiarization, through the manipulation of teaching resources; conception, through the creation of illustrations based on the work of Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow (2013), produced in work groups, and the result of which could be exposed at school. Throughout the investigation, an interpretive paradigm was followed, which considered reality as result of the observer's interpretation and which was based on qualitative and, in some cases, quantitative methods. The observer was here, simultaneously, teacher and researcher, that is, he presented the contents to the class while maintaining an analytical attitude, not only in relation to the students, but also in relation to himself, in a permanent self-reflection. In this way, the work presented was centered on a case study that is characterized as an action-research, within the scope of an investigation in education. The choice of this theme for the report came after a critical reading of the contents and objectives of the discipline of Visual Education, with regards to the study of flat geometric outlines, namely in the understanding of geometry as organization of form, in the identification of geometric forms, in natural or man made involvement, and the use of simple geometric outlines to solve practical problems. From the results obtained, it was possible to conclude that the students achieved quite satisfactory results in this didactic unit, whose motto was the works studied in the discipline of Portuguese Language, and the contents of flat geometry, also addressed in the discipline of Mathematics. In this illustration project, through the call for different disciplinary knowledge, students were able to discover geometry and literature as areas of knowledge to be explored through plastic language and, in this interdisciplinarity, to build meaningful learning

Enquadramento e impacto dos sistemas de informação no Programa Aveiro Norte

O propósito deste artigo é o de demonstrar o relevo que os sistemas de informação têm em todo o processo de criação e desenvolvimento de uma nova oferta formativa potenciada pela Universidade de Aveiro no norte do distrito. Inicialmente, e com o intuito de desenvolver ferramentas para a gestão e administração do Programa Aveiro- Norte, criou-se o sítio do Programa Aveiro-Norte. A sua forte aderência por parte dos vários actores envolvidos na utilização do mesmo sistema, deu origem a novos inputs com vista ao aperfeiçoamento do mesmo, bem como novos sistemas que promovem uma maior interacção com o tecido empresarial da região. O Programa Aveiro-Norte surge como uma acção de Intervenção da Universidade de Aveiro no Norte do Distrito, com o objectivo de promover o reforço do ensino superior orientado para a formação inicial politécnica, formação especializada e requalificação profissional. Consiste numa Rede de Unidades de Formação Especializada a partir da qual se pretende implementar um conjunto de cursos, cujas propostas de formação pretendem responder não só às necessidades locais de formação inicial, mas também de actualização dos quadros das empresas e serviços existentes na região norte do distrito de Aveiro. Pretende-se que a oferta formativa do Programa Aveiro Norte articule e compatibilize tanto os graus do sistema de ensino superior que lhe estão a jusante (licenciaturas e pós- graduações) como as vias de acesso a montante, com origem no ensino secundário e pós-secundário não superior (cursos profissionalizantes, cursos de especialização , etc.). Pretendemos apresentar, de uma forma sucinta e clara, os vários sistemas em produção e desenvolvimento e como é que interagem no ‘Universo Aveiro-Norte’, dando origem a um portal informativo que promova todas as entidades envolvidas criando um fluxo de informação comum, em especial o sistema de informação do Programa Aveiro Norte

Práticas artísticas no ensino básico e secundário

Sobre a Matéria-Prima, há novidades e perigos. O tempo vivido na Europa e no contexto global tem vindo a acentuar a urgência das prioridades quantificadas, com um discurso dominante onde há menos política (pessoas) e mais representação económica (coisas). O correlato entre pessoas e coisas é, como sabemos, o dinheiro, ou trabalho reificado. A crise europeia, em torno da dívida soberana e dos maiores orçamentos do mundo, da capacidade da sua gestão na linguagem dura dos mercados e das taxas de juro veio modificar os objetivos imediatos da Europa, que em 2000 eram ambiciosos — “a sociedade mais competitiva do mundo em 2010” — para uma estratégia de emergência, agora chamada horizonte 2020. Este é o panorama ideal para colocar o ensino artístico em risco. Os fóruns internacionais passaram a valorizar os resultados da educação em rankings e sondagens de aproveitamento, cuja principal estratégia e preocupação é a mensurabilidade e comparabilidade, como são exemplo os relatórios PISA: avaliam-se em todos os países, as competências em Ciências, Matemática e Língua Materna. A matéria-prima de amanhã corre riscos de desaparecer gradualmente, pelos cortes de carga horária, pela concepção extracurricular da educação artística, pela sua perceção menorizada em função das concepções competitivas da sociedade contemporânea globalizada.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

SARS-CoV-2 introductions and early dynamics of the epidemic in Portugal

Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal was rapidly implemented by the National Institute of Health in the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic, in collaboration with more than 50 laboratories distributed nationwide. Methods By applying recent phylodynamic models that allow integration of individual-based travel history, we reconstructed and characterized the spatio-temporal dynamics of SARSCoV-2 introductions and early dissemination in Portugal. Results We detected at least 277 independent SARS-CoV-2 introductions, mostly from European countries (namely the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, and Switzerland), which were consistent with the countries with the highest connectivity with Portugal. Although most introductions were estimated to have occurred during early March 2020, it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 was silently circulating in Portugal throughout February, before the first cases were confirmed. Conclusions Here we conclude that the earlier implementation of measures could have minimized the number of introductions and subsequent virus expansion in Portugal. This study lays the foundation for genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal, and highlights the need for systematic and geographically-representative genomic surveillance.We gratefully acknowledge to Sara Hill and Nuno Faria (University of Oxford) and Joshua Quick and Nick Loman (University of Birmingham) for kindly providing us with the initial sets of Artic Network primers for NGS; Rafael Mamede (MRamirez team, IMM, Lisbon) for developing and sharing a bioinformatics script for sequence curation (https://github.com/rfm-targa/BioinfUtils); Philippe Lemey (KU Leuven) for providing guidance on the implementation of the phylodynamic models; Joshua L. Cherry (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health) for providing guidance with the subsampling strategies; and all authors, originating and submitting laboratories who have contributed genome data on GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org/) on which part of this research is based. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the view of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the United States government. This study is co-funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (234_596874175) on behalf of the Research 4 COVID-19 call. Some infrastructural resources used in this study come from the GenomePT project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022184), supported by COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), Lisboa Portugal Regional Operational Programme (Lisboa2020), Algarve Portugal Regional Operational Programme (CRESC Algarve2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Clonal chromosomal mosaicism and loss of chromosome Y in elderly men increase vulnerability for SARS-CoV-2

The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19) had an estimated overall case fatality ratio of 1.38% (pre-vaccination), being 53% higher in males and increasing exponentially with age. Among 9578 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the SCOURGE study, we found 133 cases (1.42%) with detectable clonal mosaicism for chromosome alterations (mCA) and 226 males (5.08%) with acquired loss of chromosome Y (LOY). Individuals with clonal mosaic events (mCA and/or LOY) showed a 54% increase in the risk of COVID-19 lethality. LOY is associated with transcriptomic biomarkers of immune dysfunction, pro-coagulation activity and cardiovascular risk. Interferon-induced genes involved in the initial immune response to SARS-CoV-2 are also down-regulated in LOY. Thus, mCA and LOY underlie at least part of the sex-biased severity and mortality of COVID-19 in aging patients. Given its potential therapeutic and prognostic relevance, evaluation of clonal mosaicism should be implemented as biomarker of COVID-19 severity in elderly people. Among 9578 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the SCOURGE study, individuals with clonal mosaic events (clonal mosaicism for chromosome alterations and/or loss of chromosome Y) showed an increased risk of COVID-19 lethality

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost