Relatório de estágio

O presente Relatório de Estágio insere-se no âmbito do 2º ano do Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde da Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga que inclui a realização de um estágio em parceria com o ACES Cávado III- Barcelos/ Esposende. O documento apresenta uma reflexão acerca da experiencia ligada á aprendizagem metodológica. Assim numa primeira fase é apresentada uma breve caracterização da instituição, descrevendo serviço de psicologia e as atividades desenvolvidas aquando da observação. Apresenta-se também, todas as atividades desenvolvidas no âmbito do estágio, nomeadamente a ação de formação, a avaliação psicológica, a intervenção individual e a intervenção em grupo. Por fim, é exposto um caso clínico desenvolvido mais pormenorizadamente.This Internship Report falls within the framework of the 2nd year of the Masters in Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy of Braga that includes the completion of an internship in partnership with ACES Cávado III Barcelos / Esposende. This document presents a reflection on the methodological learning experience. So initially a brief characterization of the institution, describing the psychology service and the activities conducted during the observation is presented. It presents also all activities carried out under the stage, including the action of training, psychological assessment, individual intervention and group intervention. Finally, a case is exposed further elaborated

GIS for the determination of bioenergy potential in the centre region of Portugal

Every activity performed by mankind is directly or indirectly dependant on the use of energy. Fossil fuels are the main source used nowadays, a presumably limited energy source that may end in the near future (Boyle, 2004). World total annual consumption of all forms of primary energy increased drastically, and in the year 2006 it reached an estimated 10,800 Mtoe (million tons of oil equivalent) (U.S. Energy Information Administration [USEIA], 2009). The annual average energy consumption per person of the world population in 2006 was about 1.65 toe (ton of oil equivalent) (Population Reference Bureau, 2010). In 2010, the consumption of this energy may reach 12,800 Mtoe (USEIA, 2009) and in 2050 it is expected to achieve a range of 14,300 Mtoe to 23,900 Mtoe (International Energy Agency for Bioenergy [IEAB], 2009). We can also assume that it might possibly never end. The current energy crisis is affecting great part of the world population (U.S. Department of Energy, 2009).(undefined

Book of abstracts of the ICIEOM-CIO-IIIE International Conference 2015

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS OF THE ICIEOM-CIO-IIIE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2015: ENGINEERING SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS: The way ahead for industrial engineering and operations managemen

A China e a guerra Russo-Ucraniana

Apesar de existirem algumas interações pontuais, a Teoria dos Jogos e a Geopolítica têm permanecido largamente separadas enquanto campos de estudos, a primeira associada à Economia, a segunda às Relações Internacionais. Este artigo efetua uma breve síntese sobre as origens e evolução teórico-prática da Teoria dos Jogos e da Geopolítica, procurando, a partir daí, identificar pontos de contacto e complementaridades entre estas duas abordagens que evidenciem as vantagens de ligar esses conhecimentos. Para o efeito, são analisados alguns exemplos concretos onde são demonstradas as vantagens da interação entre a Teoria dos Jogos e a Geopolítica, bem como apontadas algumas pistas para investigação futura e desenvolvimento de um conhecimento pluridisciplinar nesta área.A discussão académica sobre as transformações dos regimes fronteiriços no âmbito europeu tem-se centrado, em grande medida, no processo de externalização das fronteiras no quadro da política migratória. Esta tendência de externalização do controlo tornou as fronteiras omnipresentes, através da implementação de um conjunto de práticas, mecanismos e acordos que constituem um complexo sistema sociotécnico para monitorizar os movimentos fronteiriços e as rotas migratórias para a União Europeia (UE). Estas políticas de externalização baseadas numa visão securitária converteram as fronteiras europeias em veículos de poder e controlo, criando novas formas de governabilidade centradas num enfoque de “emergência” em situações de crise, que suspende a prática comum e cria um estado de exceção. Neste trabalho, tomamos como ponto de partida os desembarques na costa portuguesa no período entre 2019 e 2021 para entender a sua relação com o processo de securitização e externalização das fronteiras europeias. Através de uma perspetiva construtivista, analisamos a transformação dos regimes migratórios no Atlântico e concluímos que as chegadas à costa do Algarve são uma das fissuras criadas no muro da fortaleza europeia, como consequência da crescente securitização das políticas migratóriasAs migrações constituem um fenómeno complexo e uma expressão da interdependência que caracteriza o nosso mundo. Embora a exploração, de forma instrumental, dos movimentos populacionais não constitua um fenómeno recente, consideramos que atualmente a manipulação destes fluxos reveste-se de uma natureza híbrida e assimétrica, sendo utilizada como verdadeira arma de guerra na prossecução de objetivos políticos, económicos e/ou militares. Apenas na última década, são variados os exemplos deste tipo de instrumentalização de migrantes, sendo a União Europeia (UE) um ator que tem sido impactado por esta atuação, capaz de colocar em causa a segurança europeia e o normal funcionamento dos seus Estados-membros mais afetados. A atual guerra na Ucrânia vem trazer receios de que novas rotas migratórias possam vir a ser exploradas por países terceiros, levando ao recrudescimento dos desafios migratórios para o espaço europeu e expondo algumas das eventuais deficiências que subsistem no sistema de asilo da UE.Este artigo aborda as alterações tecnológicas evidentes na Guerra da Ucrânia e que permitiram a manutenção da soberania ucraniana perante o assalto russo desencadeado a 24 de fevereiro de 2022. As principais tecnologias necessárias à resiliência do Estado e da sociedade, como um todo, são essencialmente digitais e exploram os novos domínios de confrontação, designadamente o espaço e o ciberespaço. Por outro lado, potenciam as capacidades de alguns sistemas tradicionais, numa ligação em rede entre os diversos setores da governação, da sociedade civil, da diáspora e do voluntariado, sendo observadas implicações nos diferentes níveis de decisão, nomeadamente político, estratégico, operacional e tático. As primeiras lições deste conflito remetem para a necessidade de uma reflexão profunda sobre as dependências externas e interdependências internas relativas às tecnologias emergentes, em especial no que concerne às indústrias de defesa nacionais, último reduto da soberania.A Guerra Russo-Ucraniana tem uma importância crucial para a evolução da posição internacional da China. O regresso da guerra entre Estados à Europa põe em causa a balança regional europeia e a equação de segurança no continente euroasiático, cujo centro se transfere para Pequim. A China, tal como a Rússia, não tem alternativa à parceria estratégica sino-russa. Por outro lado, está criado um vínculo entre a estratégia de Putin na Ucrânia e a estratégia de Xi na “questão de Taiwan”. A rutura entre a Rússia e os Estados Unidos precede a rutura entre a China e os Estados Unidos e consolida a parceria estratégica entre as duas grandes potências revisionistas. Por último, a estratégia ofensiva da República Popular da China em relação a Taiwan torna irreversível o confronto com os Estados Unidos e consolida a tendência de bipolarização entre o “Ocidente Global” e o “Oriente Global” – entre a coligação conservadora dirigida por Washington e a coligação revisionista dirigida por Pequim.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Partitioning of bovine lactoferrin in aqueous two-phase system containing poly(ethylene glycol) and sodium citrate

The partitioning of the whey protein lactoferrin, which is an iron transporter glycoprotein, in an aqueous two-phase system composed of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and sodium citrate was evaluated. Equilibrium data at 25 °C were determined for each system studied using PEG with a molar mass of 1000 and 4000 g·mol1 at pH values of 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5. An increase in the molar mass of the polymer promoted the expansion of the two-phase region and caused the migration of the lactoferrin to the salt-rich bottom phase. An increase in pH also led to the expansion of the biphasic region. However, changing the pH over the tested range slightly affected protein partitioning. Lactoferrin recovery percentages greater than 94% were observed for all of the systems evaluated. The results indicated that lactoferrin can be successfully partitioned in an aqueous two-phase system formed of 14% (w/w) PEG and 10% (w/w) sodium citrate at pH 5.5 and 25 °C. The protein was concentrated 1000-fold in the salt-rich bottom phase in this system.Brazilian agencies FAPESB,CNPq, and FAPEMIG for their financial suppor

Complete blood count parameters as biomarkers of retinopathy of prematurity: a Portuguese multicenter study

© The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Purpose: To evaluate complete blood count (CBC) parameters in the first week of life as predictive biomarkers for the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Methods: Multicenter, prospective, observational study of a cohort of preterm infants born with gestational age (GA) < 32 weeks or birth weight < 1500 g in eight Portuguese neonatal intensive care units. All demographic, clinical, and laboratory data from the first week of life were collected. Univariate logistic regression was used to assess risk factors for ROP and then multivariate regression was performed. Results: A total of 455 infants were included in the study. The median GA was 29.6 weeks, and the median birth weight was 1295 g. One hundred and seventy-two infants (37.8%) developed ROP. Median values of erythrocytes (p < 0.001), hemoglobin (p < 0.001), hematocrit (p < 0.001), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (p < 0.001), lymphocytes (p = 0.035), and platelets (p = 0.003) of the group of infants diagnosed with ROP any stage were lower than those without ROP. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) (p = 0.044), red blood cell distribution width (RDW) (p < 0.001), erythroblasts (p < 0.001), neutrophils (p = 0.030), neutrophils-lymphocytes ratio (p = 0.028), and basophils (p = 0.003) were higher in the ROP group. Higher values of MCV, erythroblasts, and basophils remained significantly associated with ROP after multivariate regression. Conclusion: In our cohort, the increase in erythroblasts, MCV, and basophils in the first week of life was significantly and independently associated with the development of ROP. These CBC parameters may be early predictive biomarkers for ROP.Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). This work was supported by the Laboratório de Genética and the Instituto de Saúde Ambiental (ISAMB) of the Faculdade de Medicina of Universidade de Lisboa and the Instituto de Investigação Científica Bento da Rocha Cabral. The writing of the manuscript was also supported by funds from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to ISAMB (ref. UIDB/04295/2020 and UIDP/04295/2020). This work was also part of a doctoral project funding by the company CUF with a PhD grant in Medicine awarded in 2021 and by the Portuguese Society of Ophthalmology with a PhD grant awarded in 2019.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL : A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in P ortugal

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being includedin the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associatedwith habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam-mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion formarine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func-tionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is cru-cial to delineate and support conservation actions. MAMMALS INPORTUGAL is a publicly available data set compiling unpublishedgeoreferenced occurrence records of 92 terrestrial, volant, and marine mam-mals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira thatincludes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occur-ring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live obser-vations/captures (43%), sign surveys (35%), camera trapping (16%),bioacoustics surveys (4%) and radiotracking, and inquiries that represent lessthan 1% of the records. The data set includes 13 types of records: (1) burrowsjsoil moundsjtunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animaljhairjskullsjjaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8),observation in shelters, (9) photo trappingjvideo, (10) predators dietjpelletsjpine cones/nuts, (11) scatjtrackjditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalizationjecholocation. The spatial uncertainty of most records ranges between 0 and100 m (76%). Rodentia (n=31,573) has the highest number of records followedby Chiroptera (n=18,857), Carnivora (n=18,594), Lagomorpha (n=17,496),Cetartiodactyla (n=11,568) and Eulipotyphla (n=7008). The data setincludes records of species classified by the IUCN as threatened(e.g.,Oryctolagus cuniculus[n=12,159],Monachus monachus[n=1,512],andLynx pardinus[n=197]). We believe that this data set may stimulate thepublication of other European countries data sets that would certainly contrib-ute to ecology and conservation-related research, and therefore assisting onthe development of more accurate and tailored conservation managementstrategies for each species. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite thisdata paper when the data are used in publications.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Mammals in Portugal: a data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in Portugal

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with ~26% of all species being included in the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associated with habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mammals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion for marine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems functionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is crucial to delineate and support conservation actions. MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL is a publicly available data set compiling unpublished georeferenced occurrence records of 92 terrestrial, volant, and marine mammals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira that includes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occurring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live observations/captures (43%), sign surveys (35%), camera trapping (16%), bioacoustics surveys (4%) and radiotracking, and inquiries that represent less than 1% of the records. The data set includes 13 types of records: (1) burrows | soil mounds | tunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animal | hair | skulls | jaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8), observation in shelters, (9) photo trapping | video, (10) predators diet | pellets | pine cones/nuts, (11) scat | track | ditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalization | echolocation. The spatial uncertainty of most records ranges between 0 and 100 m (76%). Rodentia (n =31,573) has the highest number of records followed by Chiroptera (n = 18,857), Carnivora (n = 18,594), Lagomorpha (n = 17,496), Cetartiodactyla (n = 11,568) and Eulipotyphla (n = 7008). The data set includes records of species classified by the IUCN as threatened (e.g., Oryctolagus cuniculus [n = 12,159], Monachus monachus [n = 1,512], and Lynx pardinus [n = 197]). We believe that this data set may stimulate the publication of other European countries data sets that would certainly contribute to ecology and conservation-related research, and therefore assisting on the development of more accurate and tailored conservation management strategies for each species. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite this data paper when the data are used in publications

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements