Shops with a history and public policy

A program to support historical shops was recently created in Lisbon; called ‘Lojas com História’, it was later extended to other cities in the country. This paper shows the changes in public policy towards retail in Portugal where one finds an evolution from purely government regulation to a policing context aiming to strengthen competition between businesses, which endowed the sector with a growing role both in city policy and planning, and competition between cities. The evolution of policies reflects an increased focus on place with a shift from the support to commercial units, to strengthen their competitiveness, to their valorisation in the context of competition between cities. On the other hand, it is argued that this evolution is linked to the reinforcement of entrepreneurship in urban management. After recalling the social and spatial functions of retail and the changes in policies towards retail, we present the program and some characteristics of the shops covered by this program in Lisbon, followed by a first review and considerations on the challenges it brings.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Globalizaçao e implosao do território.

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Public Policy for Sustainability and Retail Resilience in Lisbon City Center

International organizations, public authorities and researchers have increasingly been concerned with urban resilience and sustainability. We focus on the triangle retail, urban resilience and city sustainability, aiming to uncover how cities have coped with retail challenges to increase their resilience towards a sustainable path, highlighting the role played by public policy. The case study asks, is Central Lisbon strongly affected by processes of regeneration, touristification and gentrification, simultaneously with changes in retail. The analysis of planning and other policy documents complemented by fieldwork evidence shows a close link between public initiatives and private entrepreneurship and their impacts in the vitality of the core. The text shows that the policy outlined by local authorities to overcome the decline of the city center and to meet the aims of sustainability implies urban resilience. The transformation of retail is aligned with that vision and is supported its achievement, while the commercial fabric suffered an evolution from shopping to consumption spaces, polarized by culture and entertainment, targeting new consumers and lifestyles. However, new social and economic challenges arise due to escalating housing prices, change in retail supply, the excessive dependence of tourism and the danger of losing part of the city’s identity.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Erlotinib e metástases cerebrais

AbstractWe report two cases of brain metastases in context of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). After having progressed to chemotherapy they received erlotinib 150mg/m2 orally daily, with complete response of brain metastasis and partial response of thoracic lesions.Brain metastases are both prevalent and a major cause of mortality in NSCLC, with few systemic treatment options. Median survival after whole brain radiotherapy is 4-6 months and the role of systemic therapy for brain metastases is limited with the most drugs use to stage IV disease ineffective in this setting.This case demonstrates that brain metastases may be sensitive to erlotinib and give to us growing body of evidence that EGFR-associated tyrosine kinase inhibition is a feasible strategy in the management of NSCLC patients with brain metastasesWe propose further study into the continued use of this drug in the situation where there is a differential response.Rev Port Pneumol 2008; XIV (Supl 3): S35-S4

Datasets of ionospheric parameters provided by SCINDA GNSS receiver from Lisbon airport area

Here we present datasets provided by a SCINDA GNSS receiver installed in the Lisbon airport area from November of 2014 to July of 2019. The installed equipment is a NovAtel EURO4 with a JAVAD Choke-Ring antenna. The data are in an archived format and include the general messages on quality of records (*.msg), RANGE files (*.rng), raw observables as the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios, pseudoranges and phases (*.obs), receiver position information (*.psn), ionosphere scintillations monitor (ISMRB; *.ism) and ionospheric parameters: total electron content (TEC), rate of change of TEC index (ROTI), and the scintillation index S4 (*.scn). The presented data cover the full 2015 year. The raw data are of 1-minute resolution and available for each of the receiver-satellite pairs. The processing and the analysis of the ionosphere scintillation datasets can be done using a specific "SCINDA-Iono" toolbox for the MATLAB developed by T. Barlyaeva (2019) and available online via MathWorks File Exchange system. The toolbox calculates 1-hour means for ionospheric parameters for each of the available receiver-satellite pairs and averaged over all available satellites during the analyzed hour. Here we present the processed data for the following months in 2015: March, June, October, and December. The months were selected as containing most significant geomagnetic events of 2015. The 1-hour means for other months can be obtained from the raw data using the aforementioned toolbox. The provided datasets are interesting for the GNSS and ionosphere based scientific communities.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.0404

Apoio Público ao comércio: o Programa Lojas com História em Lisboa

Recentemente foi criado em Lisboa um programa de apoio a alguns estabelecimentos comerciais chamado “Lojas com História”, depois estendido a outras cidades do país. Nesta comunicação situa-se este programa na sucessão de medidas de apoio ao sector retalhista, no quadro de alteração nas políticas públicas e formas de governação. A evolução das políticas traduz aumento do foco no território com o deslizar do apoio às unidades comerciais, para as robustecer na concorrência entre empresas, para a sua valorização, no quadro de concorrência entre territórios. Por outro lado, argumenta-se que esta evolução se articula com o reforço do empresarialismo na gestão urbana. Depois de evocar as funções sociais e espaciais do comércio a retalho e as alterações registadas na intervenção pública face ao sector, apresenta-se o programa “Lojas com História” e as características das lojas classificadas pelo programa em Lisboa, seguido de um primeiro balanço e do enunciado de alguns desafios que esta intervenção coloca.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio