Academic literature on the topic 'Poets, Azorean'

This paper describes the SWAMS ALERT system; a forecast and warning system based on the assessment of risks associated with navigation and moored ships in port areas. This system is based on HIDRALERTA, a previously developed system for overtopping and flooding in coastal and port areas. The basic idea is to use 72-hour sea waves’ forecasts and simulate their effect on ships, either in port approach maneuvers or when they are moored inside.This modular system consists of four modules: I – Sea waves characteristics; II - Navigation and mooring in port areas; III - Risk assessment and IV - Warning System. The system is implemented on a fully interactive user-friendly web platform.The system prototype was tested in the Azorean island of Terceira. A generic container ship and a specific berth in the container terminal of the Praia da Vitória port were chosen, as well as a generic mooring layout with six mooring cables and two fenders. This test case illustrates some of the system’s capabilities, namely its ability to forecast, not only wave characteristics on the specific site of the moored vessel, but also forces on mooring lines and fenders and the risk of pre-set thresholds being surpassed.

Privateering was a common enterprise in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the waters between the Azores, the Canary Islands and the Iberian Peninsula. Within this ‘oceanic triangle’, both Salé, on the Moroccan coast, and the Canary Islands, in the domains of the Spanish Crown, played an important role. Although privateers from Salé and the Canary Islands evolved in different ways, they were intricately linked through their proximity to one another. This article explores the relationships between the two and the impact of privateering on their respective ports.

This article presents a comparative analysis of the port systems of the Portuguese and British Empires in the Atlantic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is based on the study of four insular ports under the sovereignty of these two imperial polities: Angra in the Azores, Funchal in Madeira, Bridgetown in Barbados, and Port Royal in Jamaica. The aim of the analysis is to compare the main factors that led to the choice of these sites as key places in the structure of the respective Portuguese and British imperial models, how they developed to satisfy trade needs and their most significant problems, as well as the extent to which the development of these colonies conformed to what was ‘expected’ of each imperial project, taking into account the geographical, economic and social factors of the respective port cities. The methodological approach to the study of these Atlantic insular ports brings together data from landscape archaeology, nautical and underwater archaeology, together with historical documentation and cartography.

It has been argued that Antonio Machado was a late-comer to the so-called Generation of ‘98 and that, with his Campos de Castilla of 1912, he belatedly joined the general chorus for reform of his contemporary writers (Azorín, Baroja, etc.) and began to voice concerns with the backwardness of Castilian rural life and ‘the problem of Spain’ already broached earlier by the so-called Generation of ’98. In effect, Campos de Castilla continues much of the style of his earlier work with added realism. Only three poems of the forty-six of the first edition have explicit reference to a concern for Spain’s decline. With detailed reference to the poems, this article argues that the assertion that Machado was involved in the so-called reformist programme of the Generation of ‘98 needs to be called into question and that Machado in the Soria period was less than the reformist critics have claimed him to be.

Dissertação de Mestrado, Gestão de Empresas (MBA), 22 de maio de 2020.
O turismo tem sido um dos grandes motores da economia portuguesa, no geral, e em particular o turismo de cruzeiros tem ganho particular destaque. O turismo de cruzeiro é uma forma de capitalizar a posição geoestratégica de Portugal e de aumentar as receitas do turismo em momentos off peak. A indústria de cruzeiros teve a sua origem em meados da década de 60 e tem registado um crescimento constante ao longo dos anos. Este crescimento é motivado pela atratividade do produto e pela acessibilidade a diversas franjas da população. Para os Açores, explorar o turismo de cruzeiros reveste-se da maior importância, uma vez que, é uma forma de atrair turistas numa primeira visita à região e é também uma importante fonte de receitas. O objetivo deste estudo passa por avaliar as expetativas dos turistas de cruzeiro antes de chegarem aos Açores e confrontá-las com a realidade encontrada. Esta dissertação procura encontrar o que motiva o passageiro de cruzeiro a visitar os Açores, assim como perceber se as suas expetativas foram ou não ultrapassadas. Além disso, procura também compreender em que medida a realidade encontrada motiva a uma segunda visita mais prolongada, e quantas pessoas, em média, um passageiro de cruzeiro irá influenciar a uma visita aos Açores. Para tal, realizou-se um inquérito aos passageiros de cruzeiro que passaram no Porto de Ponta Delgada durante os primeiros meses de 2019. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que, por um lado a sua passagem é fruto da rota do navio e não a sua primeira escolha. Além disso, constatou-se que a experiência é muito positiva e indica que poderão voltar quer a bordo de outro cruzeiro quer como turista convencional. Este trabalho poderá servir de base para uma análise mais aprofundada de como tornar os Açores um destino mais atrativo a uma segunda revisita.
ABSTRACT: Tourism has been one of the great motors of Portuguese economy. Cruise tourism it’s a way to capitalize on the geostrategic position of Portugal and increase tourism revenues at off peak season. Since cruise tourism begins, in early 60’s, the industry has grown steadily over the years. This growth is motivated by the attractiveness of the product and the accessibility to diverse fringes of the population. For the Azores, exploring cruise tourism exploring cruise tourism is of the utmost importance since it is a way of attracting tourists on a first visit to the region and is also an important source of income. The aim of this research is evaluating the expectations of cruisers before arriving in the Azores and confront them with the reality they found in the region. Thus, this study seeks to find what motivates cruisers to cruise in the first place and to visit Azores, as well as to assess if their expectations have been exceed or not and of they will recommend Azores as destination to their peers. In the first part of this work a literature review was carried out with the purpose of framing the theme. In the second part a survey was carried out applied to the cruisers to check if their expectations agreed with the reality found. In the end, it is intended to prepare a list of recommendations with the aim of bringing reality closer to expectations. The results suggest that, on the one hand, their passage is the result of the ship's route and not their first choice. In addition, it has been found that the experience is very positive and indicates that they may return either on board another cruise or as a conventional tourist. This research could serve as a basis for further analysis of how to make the Azores a more attractive destination for a second revisit.

The reshaping of the Mediterranean in the wake of the Black Death was a slow process. In addition to political changes within the Mediterranean, notably the expansion of Ottoman power, events taking place beyond the Straits of Gibraltar would, in the long term, greatly transform the life of those who lived on its shores and in its islands. The opening of the Atlantic had already begun in the decade before plague arrived, with voyages down the coast of Africa to the Canary Islands, and it continued with the discovery and settlement of Madeira and the Azores by the Portuguese in the early fifteenth century. As sugar plantations developed on Madeira, it became possible to supply Flanders and other parts of northern Europe directly from the Atlantic with one of the costly products that had previously been obtained within the Mediterranean. By 1482, with the establishment of a Portuguese fortress at São Jorge da Mina (‘the Mine’) in West Africa, not far north of the Equator, gold was beginning to reach Europe without being channelled across the Sahara and through the Muslim ports of the Maghrib; the opening of this Guinea trade compensated for disappointment at the failure of Ceuta to pay for its upkeep. The Atlantic also became a source of slaves for Mediterranean masters: Canary Islanders, Berbers from the opposite shores of Africa and, increasingly, black slaves carried north from the Mine. Many of these eventually reached Valencia, Majorca and other Mediterranean ports, after passing through Lisbon. Then, with Columbus’s entry into the Caribbean islands in October 1492, Castile also acquired a source of precious metal that was ruthlessly exploited by imposing heavy taxes in gold on the Indians, even though they were supposedly free subjects of the Crown. The Genoese, despite their unpopularity in Spain, installed themselves in Seville and, with royal approval, ran the trans-Atlantic trading operations. At the same time, they turned their hands to finance. Turkish pressure on the Genoese possessions in the eastern Mediterranean increased, and so the Genoese allied themselves more insistently with Spain, the power that seemed best able to stand up to the Turks.