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This essay examines a passage by Flavius Josephus, that of King Saul’s visit to the witch of En-Dor (AJ 6, 327-339), in which the Hellenistic historian paraphrases the biblical text (1 Sam 28: 21-25), but amplifying it considerably. In this amplification, Josephus makes use of his Hellenistic tools and recreates a scene of Necromancy with evident resonances in the surrounding cultures, being Josephus’ passage comparable to, and probably influenced by, other Greek texts and Latin narratives as the Odyssey, the Persians by Aeschylus, the Hecale by Callimachus, the Metamorphoses by Ovid and, above all, the Pharsalia or On the Civil War by Lucanus. It is thus proved, once again, that Flavius Josephus was notoriously a man of his time.

This volume allowed us to gather Brazilian, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian and Portuguese specialists who search about magic and superstition in the Ancient Mediterranean. The theme circled around the relationship between magic, religion and superstition in different ancient societies and with a sharp updated bibliography which leads us to reflect on the relationship between men and the gods and their different magical religious manifestations.

Feminisms and neo-Malthusianisms emerged in France as movements at the end of the nineteenth century. The neo-Malthusian feminists were a minority among feminists and within the neo-Malthusians. Nevertheless, they defended original topics which remained taboo at their time like the right for women to access abortion and sexual pleasure. These demands were part of a broader agenda that two French neo-Malthusian feminists, Madeleine Pelletier (1874-1939) and Nelly Roussel (1878-1922), both qualified as “integral feminism”, understood as the economic, intellectual, legal, political, religious, sexual and social emancipation of women. In such a wide range of claims, this article focuses on a comparative approach of how Pelletier and Roussel became neo-Malthusian “integral feminists”, analysing the similitudes and differences in their trajectories and showing how their literary production was a significant part of their activism.

In recent years, images of climate catastrophe have become commonplace. However, Black visions of the confluence of the Anthropocene and the apocalypse have been largely ignored. As we argue in this article, Black social thought offers crucial resources for drawing out the implicit exclusions of dominant representations of climate breakdown and developing an alternative account of the planet’s future. By reading a range of critical race theorists, from Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois to Octavia Butler and Ta-Nehisi Coates, we propose a rethinking of the climate apocalypse. The African American theoretical and cultural tradition elaborates an image of the end of the world that emphasises the non-revelatory nature of climate catastrophe, warns against associating collapse with rebirth, and articulates a mode of maroon survivalism in which the apocalypse is an event to be endured and escaped rather than fatalistically expected or infinitely delayed.

O texto recai sobre a evolução do Município nas suas diferentes acepções e muito particularmente sobre alfabetização, escolarização e sociabilidade escrita. A investigação recai sbre as dimensões processuais da acção, da materialidade, no que se refere à rede escolar, aos contextos político e educativo, ao papel dos protagonistas, à frequência e aproveitamento escolar, à apropriação escrita. No decurso da investigação, tornaram-se mais visíveis o contraste entre a zona rural e a zona industrial-urbana, bem assim como a associação entre a escolarização e os sectores económicos secundário e terciário.

Siblings' lives and well-being are potentially affected in profound ways when their brother or sister suffers from a chronic illness in childhood. The shift in the care of chronically ill children from the hospital to the home in recent years has had an impact on family relationships and interactions. Whilst studies on caregiving have focused on the parental care of children who are chronically ill; siblings may nevertheless take on some caring roles and responsibilities. This article intends to make a novel contribution to the sociological literature on siblings, caring, and chronic illness by presenting a review of the literature addressing siblings' caring roles and responsibilities in families of children with a chronic illness. Knowing about the caring roles and responsibilities undertaken by siblings when a brother or sister has a chronic illness, may be beneficial to healthcare professionals and influence their caring practice. In addition, this work may contribute to a better understanding of family relationships and further improve healthcare policies.

This chapter examines the discourse of the Portuguese right-wing populist André Ventura and compares it with his close counterparts, Santiago Abascal, Marine Le Pen, and Matteo Salvini. The empirical analysis is focused on the 2021 presidential campaign and looks at Twitter and YouTube as parts of an integrated political communication strategy that are used as tools of exposure and message dissemination. The results show how André Ventura appropriates the features of right-wing populism but adapts those to the Portuguese specific context as a strategy to gain both wider media visibility and popular support.

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) comprise a heterogeneous group of tumors that form a distinct entity. Approximately 75-80% of patients present with liver metastases at the time of their diagnosis, and 20%-25% will develop these lesions in the course of their disease. The presence of secondary deposits in the liver significantly increases the morbidity and mortality in these patients. The only potentially curative treatment is the surgical resection of the primary tumor and hepatic lesions. However, only 10% of patients presents under ideal conditions for that approach. Several techniques aimed at localized liver lesions have been applied also with interesting results in terms of survival and symptom control. The same has been demonstrated with new systemic therapies (target therapies). However, these are still under study, in order to define their true role in the management of these patients. This paper intends to address, in a general way, the various treatment options in patients with liver metastases from neuroendocrine tumors.

Despite news about the new virus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 grabbing the headlines in the beginning of 2020, life and work carried on as normal in most academic labs. Lab projects were the focus, results discussed face-to-face and hypothesis dismissed. Conferences were attended in person and flights to the next meeting often booked already. By March, the seriousness became clear. With surrounding countries reporting increasing number of infections, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal was a matter of time, with the first two Portuguese cases reported at the start of March. Newspapers reported the cases with warnings not to be alarmist and that officials would calmly follow the evolution of the events (see here). However, how do you follow the spread of a virus, especially when it is new and capacity to detect it is limited?

Background and purpose: Contingent negative variation (CNV) is a negative cortical wave that precedes a pre-cued imperative stimulus requiring a quick motor response. It has been related to motor preparation and anticipatory attention. The aim was to ascertain whether the clinical improvement of functional movement disorders after physiotherapy would be associated with faster reaction times and modulation of CNV. Methods: Motor performance and CNV were analysed during a pre-cued choice reaction time task with varying cue validity. Twenty-one patients with functional movement disorders and 13 healthy controls at baseline were compared. Patients then underwent physiotherapy. At follow-up after physiotherapy, patients were categorized as clinically improved (responders) or not improved (non-responders) and retested. Results: At baseline, patients did not generate CNV, contrary to controls [mean amplitude (µV) at the end of preparation to move: patients -0.47 (95% CI -1.94, 1.00) versus controls -2.59 (95% CI -4.46, -0.72)]. Responders performed faster after physiotherapy [mean natural logarithm (ln) reaction time (RT) (ms): follow-up 6.112 (95% CI 5.923, 6.301) versus baseline 6.206 (95% CI 6.019, 6.394), P = 0.010], contrary to non-responders. Simultaneously, responders showed a recovery of CNV after physiotherapy [follow-up -1.95 (95% CI -3.49, -0.41) versus baseline -0.19 (95% CI -1.73, 1.35), P < 0.001], contrary to non-responders [follow-up -0.32 (95% CI -1.79, 1.14) versus baseline -0.72 (95% CI -2.19, 0.75), P = 0.381]. Conclusions: Clinical improvement of functional movement disorders after physiotherapy was associated with faster reaction times and normalization of CNV, which was absent at baseline. These findings suggest that CNV may constitute a useful neurophysiological biomarker related to abnormal attention in functional movement disorders.

Risk amplification and spatial planning strategies are becoming increasingly intertwined, due to frequency and intensification of recurrent disasters, as a result of climate change. Promoted under the United Nations, the Sendai Framework for Disaster risk Reduction (2015-2030) set the priority of “investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience”, and therefore is committed with the mainstreaming of disaster risk assessment into land-use and spatial planning. In this research we present RiskOTe, a framework that aims at integrating the risk management component into municipal planning. RiskOTe is therefore a decision support system to assist spatial planning integrating the risk management components at the local level. RiskOTe tool is presented in order to explain its theoretical concepts, components (e.g., spatial database), and interface models. We use a case study to illustrate how the system operates.

When museums across the world closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and staff struggled to rethink their new roles in a challenging and unprecedented context, youth collectives – long-term programs for teens and young adults, aged 15–24 – reinvented themselves. The focus of my research is the digital projects developed during lockdown by youth collectives in three metropolitan contemporary art museums. These include MOCA Teens, the MCA Youth Committee and Duchamp & Sons, based, respectively, at LA MOCA (U.S.A.), MCA Australia, and Whitechapel Gallery (U.K.). They adjusted quickly to the new digital pace and devised creative communication and mediation strategies that allowed their collaborative work to continue online. For this research, I combined the analysis of the digital content they produced – websites, social media and podcasts – with interviews I did with the museum educators leading each program. The success of these projects is grounded on a shared trust between museums, educators, and participants.

Um índice de risco de incêndio foi aplicado às 972 freguesias da região Centro de Portugal Continental, integrando três dimensões: perigosidade, exposição e vulnerabilidade social. As freguesias do setor centro-sul apresentam níveis de risco mais elevados. Os padrões espaciais variam para cada dimensão; a vulnerabilidade mais elevada ocorre nas freguesias dos setores oriental e centro-sul, enquanto a perigosidade mais alta se localiza numa faixa N-S no setor central da região. As estratégias de redução de risco devem ser ajustadas de acordo com a relevância de cada dimensão.

Confessadamente um apaixonado pelo drama clássico, João Canijo adaptou ao grande ecrã versões da tragédia grega, todavia reformuladas e ambientadas à realidade portuguesa dos séculos XX e XXI. Canijo insere-se assim naquela que é já uma tradição cinematográfica que, desde pelo menos os anos 40 do século passado, tem levado ao grande ecrã o mito de Electra, adaptado de forma mais ou menos explícita, relativamente aos textos gregos de base. Electra deverá ser mesmo uma das personagens da cultura grega mais interpretadas e relidas na cinematografia, sendo João Canijo um dos autores que para esta forma moderna de reescrita do mito contribuiu. Este estudo analisa a sua proposta de leitura do mito de Electra.

Fortunately, artistic research has become more accepted by academia in recent years and the potential for a mutually beneficial relationship between art and science seems more promising than ever. Despite this, tensions and reluctance continue to exist that excessively hinder the development of interdisciplinary projects where Art is involved. In this paper we will try, in the first place, to analyze comparatively artistic research and scientific research in the light of four classic domains of the Philosophy of Science: language, mereology, method and truth; secondly, we will formulate two hypotheses about the reasons for the persistent disagreement between art and science, based on the separation between rationalism and empiricism and, on the possibility of encounter, based on the speculative use of reason, between the artistic and scientific research; two methodologically different views on the same concepts or metaphysical problems.

O Regime Republicano e a afirmação do município como resultante da descentralização e como local pedagógico. O caso de Viana do Castelo.

A Eficiência Energética surgiu não só devido à necessidade de reduzir as tendências de consumo, face à iminente escassez de recursos, mas também pelo facto do consumo abusivo desses mesmos recursos colocarem em causa a qualidade de vida das gerações futuras (Brundtland, 1987). Nas últimas duas décadas, começaram a ser desenvolvidas várias políticas e estratégias a fim de maximizar o uso energético e reduzir o impacto das atividades humanas no meio ambiente, a fim de obter o máximo potencial das fontes de energia disponíveis (Patterson, 1996). Simultaneamente, a escassez de água e as alterações climáticas originam uma certa preocupação. A promoção da Eficiência Hídrica nomeadamente através da prática de reutilização de água, revela a importância da integração das boas práticas de gestão da água no combate aos períodos de seca e de escassez de água, que tendem a ser cada vez mais frequentes e de maior intensidade (Teixeira, 2015). O presente trabalho tem como objetivo identificar um conjunto de indicadores de eficiência energética e hídrica utilizados a nível regional pelo ciclo programático de 2014-2020, permitindo assim, elaborar um diagnóstico prospetivo que focasse na análise dos níveis de utilização do recurso da Água e da Energia como também nos principais fatores de pressão no consumo de água e energia responsáveis pelas disparidades regionais, procurando identificar quais as estratégias implementadas e as medidas que foram adotadas por algumas das empresas que apresentam um envolvimento direto para com o problema da eficiência energética e no consumo de água na Região de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo. Para tal, realizou-se um inquérito às Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PME), de forma a identificar que medidas e estratégias de Eficiência Energética e Hídrica foram definidas para resolver esses mesmos problemas. Desta forma, foi possível concluir que o setor secundário e terciário implementou não só o maior número de sistemas de monitorização de consumo e de projetos relacionados com a eficiência energética e hídrica, como também foram os que mais promoveram o desenvolvimento e implementação de novas tecnologias e práticas de eficiência. Em relação às atividades do setor primário e secundário, estas foram as que mais realizaram auditorias energéticas, como também foram as que mais investiram na modernização e substituição dos seus equipamentos e processos produtivos por outros mais eficientes. Porém, e apesar de todas as medidas e políticas aplicadas para atenuar as disparidades intrarregionais, continuam a existir múltiplas adversidades como a forte dependência de recursos não renováveis, o défice de autoprodução energética e hídrica das empresas, os custos elevados face à instalação de equipamentos e mecanismos mais eficientes, e que ao qual faz-se questionar se o seguinte Ciclo Programático (2021-2027), terá a eficácia e capacidade de não só continuar com o processo de mitigação das adversidades ainda existentes, a fim de preparar o território para o paradigma das alterações climáticas.

O presente relatório de estágio aborda a questão do reuso adaptativo, no contexto do património arquitetónico, para fins turísticos, tendo como caso de estudo o programa REVIVE. Foi desenvolvido no Mestrado de Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território do Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do território (IGOT), sendo que o estágio foi realizado no Turismo de Portugal, integrado na equipa multidisciplinar de Projetos Transversais à Oferta Turística da Direção da Valorização da Oferta. É orientado por questões de origem operativa, direcionadas para o caso de estudo. Neste relatório pretende-se compreender quais são os atributos mais valorizados pelos investidores nos imóveis que têm sido colocados a concurso no programa REVIVE e quais são os critérios que orientam as suas opções de investimento. Para responder a este objetivo recorreu-se à análise de documentos fornecidos pelo Turismo de Portugal e realização de inquéritos aos investidores do programa REVIVE. Os resultados da investigação permitiram concluir que os investidores estão interessados no património histórico-arquitetónico do país e que estão abertos e disponíveis para colaborar em projetos de reuso adaptativo para fins turísticos. Foram considerados critérios relacionados com diversos aspetos, a localização, a acessibilidade e situação contextual, as características e as necessidades de investimento dos imóveis, e avaliada a importância destes para os investidores. Dos critérios avaliados, verificou-se que os investidores do programa REVIVE, no processo de tomada de decisão de investimento, valorizam uma combinação de critérios relativos a diferentes aspetos, sendo que o destaque de alguns dos critérios não implica que os restantes não são relevantes. A história dos imóveis, ou seja, o seu valor histórico, é um dos critérios mais valorizados pelos investidores, sendo que, pelas características dos imóveis incluídos do programa, está presente em todos os imóveis. A classificação dos imóveis é também valorizada, já que os investidores consideram esta uma vantagem para o investimento. As localizações dos imóveis no litoral e em localizações centrais são especialmente apreciadas pelos investidores, assim como a acessibilidade dos imóveis e a proximidade dos mesmos a transportes públicos. Observou-se ainda que os investidores consideram o critério do montante de investimento estimado para a recuperação do imóvel relevante no processo de tomada de decisão de investimento.

Recensão à obra de Maria João Rodrigues intitulada Avaliação da Informação Arquivística- Governos Civis, publicada pelas Edições Colibri em 2021.

This second volume includes the Lives of Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus, Pescenius Niger, Clodius Albinus, Caracala, Geta, Macrinus, Didadumnus and Heliogabalus. Thus, taking into account Pertinax’s accession to the imperial throne and Heliogabalus’ death, the volume covers the period of Rome’s history from 192 to 222 AD. If we take into account the birth of Pertinax (A.D. 122), the time covered by this set of lives is therefore about a century. The period covered by the lives gathered here coincides with that of the establishment of the Severan dinasty, which followed that of the Antonines, emperors that marked at various levels the Roman imperial apogee. Of all the biographies gathered in this volume, that of Heliogabalus should be, by the wealth of descriptions, the one that best corresponds to a certain contemporary - though not necessarily factual - imaginary of Ancient Rome: a civilisation marked by excess, exoticism, cruelty and perversion.