Football in Lusophone Africa

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the game of football has spread across the territories of the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa—Angola, Mozambique, Guinea- Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe—quickly becoming part of the daily life of main colonial cities. It was introduced by Portuguese settlers and by individuals of other nationalities; in particular, members of the English business diaspora. Religious missions and schools as well as migrant individuals from trade and labor networks were all agents in the expansion of the game which, since the first decades of the century, has become integrated into the leisure practices of different imperial territories through the formation of clubs, associations, and tournaments. Sports associations were the most mobilizing form of its integration in the Portuguese colonial empire. This network became more extensive in colonies that were significantly urbanized, more populated, had more dynamic economies, and that had more settlers, who increasingly became fans of the game and followed competitions in the newspapers and on the radio. The institutionalization of the game incorporated the discriminatory structure of the Portuguese colonial system. The logic behind official sports policies created by the Estado Novo regime (1933–1974), which until the early 1960s did not include natives (indígenas), was thus applied. And yet, Africans soon took over the game, creating their own clubs and competitions. Resistance to Portuguese colonialism forced political changes, which resulted in a war fought on three different fronts, but also in a gradual abandonment of official policies of racial discrimination. In the colonial football sphere, this opening, combined with the development of a professional market, led to the movement of African players first to colonial clubs, and then to metropolitan clubs, and even to the national team. The fame and talent of these players, especially Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, ultimately helped in disseminating official government propaganda of a multiracial empire.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The death of a football player: Eusébio and the struggle for Portuguese History

The death, in 2004, of Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, considered the greatest African footballer of all time, was followed by a process of nationalization, led by the Portuguese state, and the player’s body was moved into the National Pantheon, a site devoted to the celebration of the country’s heroes. Born in the capital of colonial Mozambique, Eusébio came to Portugal at the age of 18, where he played and represented the national team. The celebration of Eusébio as a Portuguese hero offered the state a vehicle, able to narrate the traumatic end of its empire and evoke the virtues of the colonial experience. Tapping into the affective economy generated by football, the official biographical construct of ‘people’s hero’ elides the edification of a violent and uneven colonial society in Mozambique, and reifies a symbolic order created during the Portuguese colonial rule.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Lisbon: reading the (post-)colonial city from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century

The study of the urban experience in Lisbon, the former capital of the Portuguese empire, creates a specific observatory to interpret the colonial process and its post-colonial developments. Following an itinerary from colonial to post-colonial times, this article examines the continuities and discontinuities of Lisbon's urban dynamics linked with Portugal's colonial history through three interlinked processes. First, the material inscription of policies of national identity in the memory space of the city since the late nineteenth century until today. Second, the expansion of a network of economic relations that affected Lisbon's industrial, commercial and urban life. And finally, the development of a system of social and political organization, where spatial distribution and civil and political rights were unequally distributed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Understanding the implied market risk premium in analysts´ forecasts

Analysts play a preponderant role in asset price formation. Although there is abundant literature on analysts' outputs, such as price targets, few robust analyses are performed on valuation inputs. This paper explores a large sample of analysts’ market risk premium estimates, evaluating whether specific characteristics/incentives influence the parameter used when performing valuation exercises. We use publicly available I/B/E/S price targets to derive the implied market risk premium, obtaining an average of 5.15% for2010-2019. We then employ a multivariate regression analysis and document that analysts providing optimistic earnings forecasts use heftier risk premium estimates, possibly to maintain predetermined price targets

Development of an ambient assisted living ecosystem

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de ComputadoresThe society that we live in faces today big demographic changes. Nowadays, peo-ple live longer, and it is expected that this trend will proceed. In 2000, there were already 420 million people with more than 65 years old, which correspond to about 7% of the world population. In 2050, it is expected that this number reaches 1500 million which corresponds to about 16% of the world population. Naturally, in these circumstances, the number of disabled people will increase as well. This context brings new challenges to the traditional health care systems in Portugal and in the rest of the world. There is an urgent need to search for new solutions that will allow people to live in the best possible way, in the latest stages of life. In order to fulfill this need, it is necessary to develop systems that allow to extend their life in their favorite environment, improving their safety, autonomy, mobility and welfare. Nowadays, information and communication technologies (ICT) offer new opportunities to provide care and assistance. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), is such a paradigm, in which technology is used as a way to improve the independ-ence and welfare of aged or disabled people at their homes. This dissertation has the purpose of contributing to providing an answer to this necessity, associated to a development of an ecosystem for Ambient Assisted Living, associated to a business model and the search for the possibility of collabo-rative networks creation, in order to look for efficient and accessible solutions for AAL services provision

On the cloud deployment of a session abstraction for service/data aggregation

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia InformáticaThe global cyber-infrastructure comprehends a growing number of resources, spanning over several abstraction layers. These resources, which can include wireless sensor devices or mobile networks, share common requirements such as richer inter-connection capabilities and increasing data consumption demands. Additionally, the service model is now widely spread, supporting the development and execution of distributed applications. In this context, new challenges are emerging around the “big data” topic. These challenges include service access optimizations, such as data-access context sharing, more efficient data filtering/ aggregation mechanisms, and adaptable service access models that can respond to context changes. The service access characteristics can be aggregated to capture specific interaction models. Moreover, ubiquitous service access is a growing requirement, particularly regarding mobile clients such as tablets and smartphones. The Session concept aggregates the service access characteristics, creating specific interaction models, which can then be re-used in similar contexts. Existing Session abstraction implementations also allow dynamic reconfigurations of these interaction models, so that the model can adapt to context changes, based on service, client or underlying communication medium variables. Cloud computing on the other hand, provides ubiquitous access, along with large data persistence and processing services. This thesis proposes a Session abstraction implementation, deployed on a Cloud platform, in the form of a middleware. This middleware captures rich/dynamic interaction models between users with similar interests, and provides a generic mechanism for interacting with datasources based on multiple protocols. Such an abstraction contextualizes service/users interactions, can be reused by other users in similar contexts. This Session implementation also permits data persistence by saving all data in transit in a Cloud-based repository, The aforementioned middleware delivers richer datasource-access interaction models, dynamic reconfigurations, and allows the integration of heterogenous datasources. The solution also provides ubiquitous access, allowing client connections from standard Web browsers or Android based mobile devices

Práticas de professores de educação física no contexto da avaliação inicial numa escola secundária do concelho de Lisboa

O currículo português de Educação Física prevê uma Avaliação Inicial que deve ocorrer  nas primeiras semanas do ano letivo e constituir um processo essencial para que as  escolas tenham um papel primordial na organização do ensino. O principal objetivo  deste estudo era pesquisar práticas de professores no período previsto para a Avaliação  Inicial e as suas possíveis relações com a organização e o desenvolvimento do ensino  daquela disciplina. Para concretizar este objetivo realizou‐se um estudo de natureza  qualitativa e descritiva numa escola do ensino secundário do concelho de Lisboa em que  participaram  voluntariamente  três  professores  de  Educação  Física.  Os  dados  da  pesquisa,  que  foram  objeto  de  análise  de  conteúdo,  foram  obtidos  através  de  documentos oficiais da escola, de entrevistas aos professores e aos alunos participantes,  de observações de aulas e de reuniões de professores e de notas de campo. Dois dos  principais resultados do estudo foram os seguintes: a) os professores centraram o seu  trabalho de Avaliação Inicial na verificação do nível de desempenho dos alunos nas  Áreas Matérias e Aptidão Física, utilizando um maior número de aulas na avaliação das  Matérias que os alunos tinham escolhido; e b) as práticas de avaliação dos professores  eram,  no  geral,  de  referência  criterial,  utilizando  critérios  para  cada  Nível  de  especificação das Matérias (e.g., andebol, ténis de mesa, ginástica de solo, basquetebol)  e critérios específicos da bateria de testes do Fitnessgram. Estes e outros resultados  permitiram concluir que o processo de Avaliação Inicial teve um papel relevante no  desenvolvimento  do  currículo  de  Educação  Física  porque  influenciou  as  práticas  pedagógicas que ocorreram nas aulas; contribuiu para reorientar o ensino ajustando‐o  aos objetivos a atingir; e induziu a participação ativa dos alunos nas suas aprendizagens.

As políticas desportivas do estado colonial em Moçambique

Este artigo procura efectuar uma abordagem introdutória às políticas do estado colonial em Moçambique no que concerne às actividades desportivas, centrando-se no período do Estado Novo. O regime colonial procurou instrumentalizar a educação-física no quadro de uma política educativa mais ampla, estruturada na metrópole durante a década de 1930.Em Moçambique, o braço institucional desta política, a Mocidade Portuguesa de Moçambique, reificava o regime de segregação imposto pelo sistema de indigenato. As políticas desportivas oficiais concorriam num espaço de práticas desportivas vasto, cuja dinâmica, de natureza associativa, e dominada pelo futebol, respondia também a um princípio de divisão racial. Neste artigo, procurar-se-á avaliar os efeitos das políticas desportivas coloniais e a sua transformação, decorrente da própria evolução das formas de poder colonial bem como do desenvolvimento relativamente autónomo de um campo de práticas desportivas local.This article aims to engage in a preliminary approach to the policies of the colonial state in Mozambique regarding sport practices during the Estado Novo period. The colonial regime attempted to instrumentalise physical education within the broad educational policy designed by the Estado Novo during the 1930s.The Mocidade Portuguesa (Portuguese Youth), the institutional body responsible for implementing this policy in Mozambique, contributed to the reification of the segregation regime imposed by the indigenato (native forced labour) system. The official sports policies developed in a wide field of physical practices promoted by local associations. This associative dynamics, in which football had a leading role, also contributed to the enduring local system of racial discrimination. This article will attempt to assess the effects of colonial sports policies and analyze how they were transformed by the evolution of the colonial power structure and development of a relatively autonomous local field of sports practices.Dans cet article, une première approche des politiques de l’État colonial au Mozambique dans le domaine des activités sportives, pendant la période de l’Estado Novo, est tentée Le régime colonial a tenté d’instrumentaliser l’éducation physique dans le cadre d’une politique éducative plus large, structurée en métropole au cours des années 1930.Au Mozambique, le bras institutionnel de cette politique, la Mocidade Portuguesa (jeunesse portugaise) du Mozambique, mettait en œuvre le régime de ségrégation imposé par le système de l’indigénat. Les politiques sportives officielles ont été développées dans un grand nombre d’activités sportives, organisées de façon associative et dominées par le football, contribuant ainsi au système de discrimination raciale. Dans cet article, sont analysés les effets des politiques sportives coloniales, ainsi que leur transformation poussée par l’évolution des formes de pouvoir colonial et par le développement de pratiques sportives locales relativement autonomes