User participation in mental healthcare in Suriname: the implementation of a client council

User participation in mental healthcare has increased considerably in many countries around the world in the past decades. However, users’ voices are still incipient in other countries. This was the case of Suriname where user participation emerged just recently with the creation of a client council at the national mental healthcare service (PCS). The PCS client council was implemented as a result of a project involving a transnational partnership between stakeholders in Suriname and the Netherlands. Employing a qualitative research approach, this paper examines the client council implementation process and analyses stakeholders’ expectations for its future performance, benefits and disadvantages. The paper concludes that the client council offers a space from which traditionally excluded users can renegotiate their identities, develop new skills, influence care provision and exercise their citizenship. For genuine participation to emerge, however, it will be necessary to invest in effecting cultural and organisational change in mental healthcare, tackling power differentials between care providers and users, resourcing the council and reducing the stigma attached to mental illness. Transparency, consultation, negotiation and full collaboration are also identified as key elements to foster productive transnational partnerships, especially when they involve stakeholders belonging to countries with a colonial history

Imagination wide open: accessibility project in Bragança's Contemporary Art Museum

Museums are intensely visual places and traditionally not accessible to people with impairments, although many cultural institutions have made it their job to go the extra mile so as to include ALL people. These have been a source of inspiration for a myriad of professionals, trainers and visitors. The new millennium stands for the mushrooming of multisensory experiments, participatory exhibitions, all of which attempt to heed people’s concerns, needs and views. It is in the light of these principles that we aim to report on an ongoing accessibility project, within the master’s degree in Translation, at a local museum of contemporary art in Bragança – the Museum of Contemporary Art Graça Morais. The first stage intended to ascertain the willingness of the museum to develop a project for the blind and visually-impaired and then the museum’s accessibility conditions, by means of a diagnosis form. This was followed by the pilot test for an exhibition, named “Humanity” (painter Graça Morais, 2018; curatorship by Jorge Costa, 2018; production by the City Council of Bragança, 2018), which consisted of an audio visit for a group of three blind people, including orientation audiodescription through the 7 rooms of the exhibition and replacement audiodescription for the selected pieces. The second stage of this project will be directed to a new exhibition – “Blue Eyes of the Sea” (painter Graça Morais, 2005; curatorship by Jorge Costa, 2019; production by the City Council of Bragança, 2019) – which shall offer an audiodescribed visit by means of a QR code, in Portuguese, English and Spanish.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Cogumelos e seus efeitos terapêuticos

Projeto de Pós-Graduação/Dissertação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências FarmacêuticasOs efeitos terapêuticos dos cogumelos são conhecidos há séculos principalmente na medicina oriental. A sua utilização maioritariamente empírica traz enormes benefícios para a saúde, no entanto nunca nos podemos esquecer da possível toxicidade de alguns cogumelos que pode mesmo levar à morte. Nos tempos mais recentes tem-se assistido a uma enorme vontade de melhor conhecer os efeitos farmacológicos destes fungos com base em análises científicas. Este trabalho tem como objetivo fazer um levantamento dos efeitos terapêuticos devidamente documentados dos cogumelos. Efeitos antioxidantes, imunomoduladores e anti-tumorais são comuns a todas as espécies estudadas. No entanto em espécies como a Ganoderma lucidum, já foram determinados mais efeitos terapêuticos, como hipoglicémica, hipolipidémica e antiviral, entre outros. Verificou-se pela análise de diversos artigos que os cogumelos apresentam enormes vantagens na terapêutica das mais diversas patologias, sendo ainda uma área com enorme potencial para estudo e aplicação prática na terapêutica diária, mesmo como adjuvante da terapia medicamentosa convencional.Mushroom therapeutic effects are known for centuries in oriental medicine. Mushrooms use is mostly empirical, and the benefits are well known, however we can never forget mushroom toxicity, that can even lead to death. There is a recent interest in scientific documentation of the pharmacological effects of these funguses. The aim of this study is to review the therapeutic effects of mushrooms that are well documented. Antioxidant, antitumor and immunomodulatory activities are documented in almost every species. Well studied species like Ganoderma Lucidum shows also hipoglicemic, hipolipidemic and antiviral activities, among others. This scientific papers review brings forward the enormous therapeutical benefits in different pathologies, showing that there is a lot of work to be done to the use of these funguses as a complement in conventional medicine

Identifying family ties among politicians: Challenges of information extraction evaluation

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Automatic information extraction: a distant reading of the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary

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