Academic literature on the topic 'Portugal – 2018-2019'

This paper presents partial results of a survey on the profile of Geographical Indication Lace Embroidery Associations in northeastern Brazil and Portugal. Geographical Indications value and protect traditional products linked to a particular locality, while making positive contributions to the local economy. Handicraft production associations in Brazil, which have obtained the geographical indication seal, add many artisans who derive their families' livelihoods almost exclusively by selling the products. In Portugal the process is different and the certification is individual for the artisan and the pieces. This study aimed to characterize the profile of the members of the Renda Irlandesa, Renda Renascença e Bordado Filpe associations in northeastern Brazil with Geographical Indication seal and the lace of Tibaldinho, Bilro and Lenço dos Namorados in Portugal. The work started with bibliographic research that preceded the field research and Doctoral Sandwich in Portugal. In the bibliographic research were used articles, theses, dissertations available in the online bases of CAPES periods. The Sandwich Doctorate was conducted between November 2018 and March 2019 and the field research in Brazil was conducted from May to June 2019, and data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire.

Este texto discute modos possíveis de habitar o meio rural do interior de Portugal, com enfoque empírico numa freguesia rural onde foi realizada etnografia, com visitas pontuais, de modo extensivo, em 2004, 2016, 2018, 2019 e, de modo intensivo, em 2020. Localizada no distrito de Castelo Branco, concelho de Proença-a-Nova, a Mó é uma aldeia quase desabitada (4 residentes permanentes em 2019, 3 residentes em 2020). Argumentamos que, durante a emergência pandémica de 2020, habitar a aldeia em análise significa um aumento no valor social dado à natureza pela maioria dos residentes.


 
 
 O ano de 2020 ficará marcado na memória mundial como o ano da pandemia de Covid-19. Embora a doença tenha eclodido na China no final de 2019, a sua propagação foi posterior e veio colocar em causa a sociedade globalizada, com efeitos sociais, políticos e económicos graves, mas ainda a serem determinados em toda a sua extensão. Na cobertura do surto o jornalismo, em crise há algu- mas décadas (Zelizer, 2004; 2009; 2015; 2017), reassumiu um papel central e ad- quiriu um novo vigor, viajando por múltiplos dispositivos e écrans (Deuze, 2019). Em Portugal, num cenário de isolamento, predominantemente familiar, a televisão emergiu como elo social (Wolton, 1994), confirmando que continua ser o médium dominante (ERC, 2016, 2019; OBERCOM, 2018; Statista, 2019). Neste contexto, a nossa homenagem a Nelson Traquina tem como objetivo apresentar, comen- tar e discutir a sua contribuição para o estudo do jornalismo em Portugal a partir da análise da cobertura jornalística televisiva da crise pandémica. Com este fim, recuperámos estudos teóricos sobre as Teorias da Notícia e os estudos empíri- cos sobre o HIV/SIDA realizados pelo autor (por exemplo, Traquina, 1993; 2002; 2004; 2010; Traquina e al., 2001). Elegemos um corpus de análise empírico, com- preendido por blocos de jornais televisivos dos canais generalistas RTP1, SIC e TVI. Utilizamos uma metodologia fundada na construção de uma base de dados em File Maker Pro inspirada nos trabalhos de Traquina sobre o HIV/SIDA. Os re- sultados obtidos, ainda que com caráter exploratório, permitem a discussão das teorias da notícia enquanto construção (Traquina, 1993) e o papel das rotinas na produção da informação televisiva.
 
 

Abstract This special issue brings together a collection of case studies that examine the making of speakerhood as experienced by migrants in Spain and Portugal. It focuses on moments in the life course of speakers as they navigate across transnational contexts where they face various linguistic demands. This involves being confronted with the norms, requirements and the values that define who is considered to be a speaker of the “language” or “languages” of the receiving community and being assessed in accordance with a given measure, that is, a canon of speakerhood in a particular community. The findings reveal the complexity of linguistic appropriation and the fundamental inclusive and exclusive nature of the making of a speaker in a world characterized by ambivalent historicities and uncertain investment outcome. The special issue allows critical questioning of notions such as nativeness and new speakerness through a theoretical and political engagement with speakerhood, and to interrogate what it means for whom to navigate linguistically and socially in receiving societies where personhood remains solidly attached to speakerhood.

Large forest fires have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries. It is now crucial to continue the effort to feed the several layers of prediction models and understand how wildfire spreads in order to develop modern preventative and mitigation methods. The present study evaluates the performance of Sentinel 5-P TROPOMI for the monitoring of carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4) during extreme fire events in Portugal, focusing on the Monchique (2018) and Vila de Rei/Mação (2019) wildfires, which devastated 27,154 ha and 9249 ha, respectively. The spatial distribution and trend of CO and CH4 prior to, during, and following the fire event were accessed and linked with in situ data in a qualitative and quantitative exploration. Large CO plumes were observed with CO columns exceeding 4.5 × 1018 and 6 × 1018 molecules/cm2 on 21 July 2019, and 7 August 2018, respectively. CO distribution profiles after consecutive digital processing steps showed the ability to follow CO fluctuations according to the fire spread. Furthermore, statistically significant differences were found between CO emissions inside and outside the burning area in both fire events. Finally, the CO2 estimated through CO column data presented an emission of 7.6 × 1019 molecules/cm2 for the uppermost emission day on 7 August 2018. Although CH4 monitoring is still unwavering to draw exact conclusions, the CO patterns during extreme fire events show promising and consistent data when compared with in situ data.

Abstract The Senior Universities (US) in Portugal are socio-educational organisations, of non-formal education, officially recognised by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers nº 76/2016. According to the National Network of Senior Universities (RUTIS), there were 330 US in Portugal with a total of 45,000 senior students in 2019. Since the beginning of the US, computer education has been one of the most sought after topics for seniors. In 2018, 62% of students attended a course related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This teaching has gone through three phases in the US that we will present. In the study carried out by the author to 1,016 senior students from all over the country, it was possible to conclude that the frequency of the US contributed a great deal to diminish digital illiteracy and that it is in the older and less literate public that these contributors are more visible. It was also possible to realise that most US students have smartphones and laptops and understand the evolution that the use of computers has had in the US.

This study documents the first known record of the lantana plume moth Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864) in Greece. The moth was observed in four localities from April 2018 to November 2019, and four individuals were collected and deposited in the Zoological Museum of the University of Athens (ZMUA). All specimens were identified as L. pusillidactylus, an alien species in Europe, that has been recently introduced in Spain, Italy (Sicily), Portugal, and Malta. The possible pathways of its introduction, as well as potential ecological implications, are discussed.

O estudo se propõe discutir sobre as condições de trabalho e relações de gênero dos bibliotecários no Brasil e em Portugal. Os estudos de gênero contribuem para desvendar e retirar da invisibilidade a presença das mulheres nas esferas públicas e privadas. Permite compreender como as relações de gênero perpassam o mundo social e político, como interfere nasprofissões, nos salários e nos cargos de representação e poder. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida no Brasil e em Portugal em 2018-2019. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo envolvendo 109 bibliotecários brasileiros e portugueses. Os dados demonstram que a profissão de bibliotecária no Brasil e em Portugal ainda é predominantemente feminina, embora perceba-se que oshomens começam a se interessar pela profissão no Brasil. Em Portugal a profissão vem sendo gradativamente substituída pela de cientista da informação, porém percebe-se que as mulheres também se constituem maioria neste campo de saber. Os resultados apontam que o gênero é compreendido como categoria que explica as relações desiguais na profissão bibliotecária, mas há ainda um número significativo de bibliotecários (41%) brasileiros e 32% portugueses que afirmam não perceber diferenças entre o ser homem e ser mulher na profissão, contraditoriamente reconhecem que as mulheres enfrentam mais dificuldades para conciliar a vida doméstica, com a vida profissional neste campo de atuação, especialmente quando são mães.

The influence of the alcohol industry, also known as “corporate political activity” (CPA), is documented as one of the main barriers in implementing effective alcohol control policies. In Portugal, despite an alcohol consumption above the European average, alcohol control does not feature in the current National Health Plan. The present research aimed to identify and describe the CPA of the alcohol industry in Portugal. Publicly-available data published between January 2018 and April 2019 was extracted from the main websites and social media accounts of alcohol industry trade associations, charities funded by the industry, government, and media. A “Policy Dystopia” framework, used to describe the CPA strategies of the tobacco industry, was adapted and used to perform a qualitative thematic analysis. Both instrumental and discursive strategies were found. The industry works in partnership with health authorities, belonging to the national task force responsible for planning alcohol control policies. Additionally, it emphasizes the role alcohol plays in Portuguese culture as a way to disregard evidence on control policies from other countries. This paper presents the first description of CPA by the alcohol industry in Portugal and provides evidence for the adoption of stricter control policies in the country.

Electricity production through renewable energy sources, such as wind energy, is dependent on the variability of weather conditions. Thus, this work aimed to assess the wind resource available and the wind energy potential (WEP) during recent December months (the three years 2017, 2018, 2019). These winters were characterized by the occurrence of high-impact storms. To understand the effect of the strong winds associated with the passage of the storms during these months, we used 10 m wind components (10-m U and V wind components). The fields were extracted at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC (6-hourly data) for the 2017, 2018, and 2019 December months over a geographical sector that covers the Iberian Peninsula (IP) region (35° N–45° N; 10° W–4° E) and compared to climatological values for the 1981–2010 period. The obtained results showed an increase of wind intensity of up to 1.2 m·s−1 in IP during December 2017 and 2019 and a decrease of 1.2 m·s−1 in December 2018 when compared with the respective climatology for the 1981–2010 period. This increase corresponded to an increase in the corresponding WEP. Therefore, our results agreed with the values of the wind energy produced during the analyzed months for the two countries, Portugal and Spain. Finally, it is notable that the highest values of wind energy production occurred on the days of the storms’ passage through the IP.

Orientação: Paulo Jorge Rodrigues Cunha ; co-orientação: Alexandre Manuel Correia da Silva<br>A preparação desportiva dos jovens é hoje considerada uma das principais razões de futuros êxitos ou abandonos extemporâneos da prática desportiva, consoante os responsáveis pela intervenção nessa área de prática fomentem, ou não, uma especialização precoce (Araújo, 2009). A realização deste relatório teve lugar durante o estágio em futebol, na equipa de Infantis A - sub-13 - do Sporting Clube de Portugal, durante a época desportiva 2018/2019. O estágio teve um grau de desafio muito grande, no que à prática diz respeito, pois foi realizado enquanto Treinador Adjunto Principal da equipa, o que implicava ser Treinador Principal na competição. A equipa esteve inserida em diversas competições, nomeadamente no campeonato distrital C1 sub-14 da Associação de Futebol de Lisboa, e em vários torneios nacionais e internacionais. O modelo de jogo da equipa assentou em grandes princípios ofensivos como o controlo do jogo em posse de bola, e defensivos como a recuperação rápida da posse da mesma. Para cada princípio existiram vários subprincípios que conferiram uma modelação do jogo da equipa comum a todos. O modelo de treino foi pensado segundo a abordagem baseada nos constrangimentos, onde as informações do contexto suportam as ações dos atletas (Davids et al., 2004; Davids et al., 2005). O treino foi dividido em mesociclos, pensados num processo cíclico de aprendizagem, desenvolvimento, consolidação e avaliação. Foram realizados seis mesociclos, onde o foco foi sobretudo em métodos específicos de preparação, sobretudo em contexto de jogo. O estágio permitiu vivenciar diversas experiências em treino e competição, seja enquanto treinador adjunto, seja como treinador principal, que permitiram uma reflexão sobre a atenção despendida a cada atleta e as oportunidades dadas a cada um, que deverá ser ponto de partida para ações a tomar em épocas seguintes. Foi realizado um estudo com revisão bibliográfica para perceber o efeito da idade relativa na equipa onde foi realizado este estágio. Crianças da mesma idade cronológica apresentam diferentes níveis cognitivos, físicos e emocionais (Malina, 1994). Para além disto, um jogador que tenha nascido em Janeiro, terá outro tipo de experiência de prática do que outro nascido em Dezembro, que jogue no mesmo escalão (Helsen, Winckel & Williams, 2005). Os resultados demonstraram que foram recrutados para a equipa mais jogadores de primeiro semestre e que estes disputaram mais jogos pela equipa A, em comparação com os jogadores de segundo semestre. A maioria dos jogadores do segundo semestre foram dispensados do clube no final da época.<br>The sports preparation of youngsters is considered nowadays one of the main reasons for future success or extemporaneous dropout in the sports practice, depending if who is responsible for the intervention in this area of practice foment, or not, an early specialization (Araújo, 2009). The realization of this report took place during the football internship, at the Sporting Clube de Portugal under-13 team, in the 2018/2019 season. This internship had a high level of challenge when it comes to practice, due to being carried out as the first assistant coach, which implied being a head coach in the competition. The team played various competitions such as the district championship C1 U-14 from the Lisbon Football Association, and diverse national and international tournaments. The game model was based on offensive big principles as the control of the game by possession, and defensive big principles as the quick recovery of the ball possession. For each principle there were various sub-principles that gave a modulation of the game common to everyone. The training model was adjusted to the Constraint Based Approach, where the athletes actions are supported by the information of the environment (Davids et al., 2004; Davids et al., 2005). The training was divided in mesocycles that were built in a cyclic process of learning, development, consolidation and evaluation. Six mesocycles where performed, which the focus was on specific preparation training mediums, mostly on game context. The internship allowed to experience several experiences in training and competition, either as assistant coach or as head coach, which allowed a reflection on the attention that is given to each athlete and the opportunities conceded to each one, that should be starting points for actions to take in following seasons. A study was made with literature review to realize the real age effect problem on the team where the internship was done. Children with the same chronologic age show different cognitive, physical and emotional levels (Malina, 1994). Furthermore, a player who was born in January will have different experience than another born in December that plays in the same age group (Helsen, Winckel & Williams, 2005). The results show that were recruited more players from the first semester to the team and that they played more often in the A team, in comparison with the players from the second semester. Most of the players that were born in the second semester were cut loose from the club in the end of the season.

O tema geral desta dissertação é a influência da comunicação na implementação das políticas públicas. Devido à impossibilidade de realizar, neste momento, uma análise global e generalizada deste tema, foi escolhido um "case study" específico que permita analisar de forma objectiva o papel que a comunicação teve na implementação de uma política. A política pública escolhida foi a política de prevenção de incêndios florestais em Portugal, durante os anos de 2018 e 2019. Para verificar o papel da comunicação na implementação da mesma, foi primeiramente necessário demonstrar, segundo vários autores, o papel que a comunicação pode ter em vários processos - caso seja eficiente. Após identificar os critérios que podem ser utilizados para determinar essa eficiência, verifiquei se a comunicação que acompanhou a implementação desta política os cumpria. Posteriormente à recolha e análise dos dados, foi possível concluir que a comunicação desta política cumpriu os critérios de eficiência definidos por vários autores, ainda que não na totalidade. Nesse sentido, apesar de não se poder associar diretamente os resultados positivos da implementação da política à sua estratégia de comunicação, é possível afirmar que esta poderá ter tido alguma influência nos mesmos.<br>The general topic of this dissertation is the influence of communication in the implementation of public policies. Due to the impossibility, at this time, of performing a generalized analysis of the topic, I chose a specific case study which allowed me to objectively analyze the role that communication had in the implementation of a policy. The chosen policy was the forest fire prevention policy in Portugal, in the years of 2018 and 2019. In order to verify the role of communication in the implementation phase, it was first necessary to demonstrate how, according to various authors, communication may have a significant role in many processes - as long as it is performed efficiently. After identifying the criteria which can be used to determine that efficiency, I verified if the communication of this policy had met them. After collecting and analyzing the data, I reached the conclusion that this policy's communication indeed met the defined efficiency criteria, albeit not entirely. Therefore, despite it not being possible to directly associate the positive results of the policy's implementation with its communication strategy, it is possible to state that it may have had some influence in this success.

O presente trabalho é uma proposta de edição crítica de Autópsia, peça inédita de João Silva, cuja apresentação em palco foi reprovada em 1967 pelo Secretariado Nacional de Informação do Estado Novo. Esta proposta pretende também estabelecer ligações textuais com Masoch, outra peça do mesmo autor, através de uma análise sinóptica dos dactiloscritos e das evidências do processo de reescrita. João Silva foi o fundador do Grupo de Teatro Terapêutico do Hospital Júlio de Matos, actual Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa.<br>The present work is an critical edition of Autópsia [Autopsy], an unpublished play by João Silva, which was forbidden by the Estado Novo regime in 1967. This edition takes into account the two typescripts of the play and aims to establish textual links with Masoch – another play by same author – through a synoptic analysis of both texts and the evidence of a rewriting process. João Silva was the founder of the Therapeutical Theatre Group at Júlio de Matos Hospital, a pyschiatric hospital in Lisbon.

ICHSMT’21 is the fifth version of the International Congress of Health Sciences and Medical Technologies. The congress attended the success of regrouping a multidisciplinary community working with the challenge to add a relevant increment to the medical innovation and findings. The congress is a successor of four successful versions established respectively in 2016 (at Tlemcen University Algeria), 2017 (at Mariott Hotel Tlemcen Algeria), 2018 (at CERIST Algiers Algeria), and 2019 (at Zianides Hotel Tlemcen Algeria). After several delay and for the first time, an online edition was established due to critical situation of worldwide pandemic, which make the end of millions of peoples life. The congress is held between 27 and 29 June 2021, only online but the organization was at Tlemcen. The congress at that edition attracted researchers from several nations and specialties naming: Algeria, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark, Malaysia, China, Portugal, Bulgaria, Pakistan, France, Morocco, Tunisia, Brazil, United Kingdom, Egypt, India, Poland Iraq, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The congress author’s affiliations were from several departments such as medicine, biology, physics, chemical sciences, computer science, environment, pharmacy, dentary surgery, electrical and electronic engineering, and mechanical engineering. The content was selected via strong criteria applied by the members of program committee. We received 63 submissions, which were reviewed by 2-3 reviewers, and we accepted 59, the rate of acceptance was 80.95%. Only some abstracts are selected for publication in this book.

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The original idea was to examine how the damaging roots of nationalism have been corroding political systems around the world, and creating dangerous obstacles for necessary international cooperation. Since I (Bruce E. Johansen) has written profusely about climate change (global warming, a.k.a. infrared forcing), I suggested a concerted effort in that direction. This is a worldwide existential threat that affects every living thing on Earth. It often compounds upon itself, so delays in reducing emissions of fossil fuels are shortening the amount of time remaining to eliminate the use of fossil fuels to preserve a livable planet. Nationalism often impedes solutions to this problem (among many others), as nations place their singular needs above the common good. Our initial proposal got around, and abstracts on many subjects arrived. Within a few weeks, we had enough good material for a 100,000-word book. The book then fattened to two moderate volumes and then to four two very hefty tomes. We tried several different titles as good submissions swelled. We also discovered that our best contributors were experts in their fields, which ranged the world. We settled on three stand-alone books:” 1/ nationalism and racial justice. Our first volume grew as the growth of Black Lives Matter following the brutal killing of George Floyd ignited protests over police brutality and other issues during 2020, following the police assassination of Floyd in Minneapolis. It is estimated that more people took part in protests of police brutality during the summer of 2020 than any other series of marches in United States history. This includes upheavals during the 1960s over racial issues and against the war in Southeast Asia (notably Vietnam). We choose a volume on racism because it is one of nationalism’s main motive forces. This volume provides a worldwide array of work on nationalism’s growth in various countries, usually by authors residing in them, or in the United States with ethnic ties to the nation being examined, often recent immigrants to the United States from them. Our roster of contributors comprises a small United Nations of insightful, well-written research and commentary from Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, China, India, South Africa, France, Portugal, Estonia, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the United States. Volume 2 (this one) describes and analyzes nationalism, by country, around the world, except for the United States; and 3/material directly related to President Donald Trump, and the United States. The first volume is under consideration at the Texas A &amp; M University Press. The other two are under contract to Nova Science Publishers (which includes social sciences). These three volumes may be used individually or as a set. Environmental material is taken up in appropriate places in each of the three books. * * * * * What became the United States of America has been strongly nationalist since the English of present-day Massachusetts and Jamestown first hit North America’s eastern shores. The country propelled itself across North America with the self-serving ideology of “manifest destiny” for four centuries before Donald Trump came along. Anyone who believes that a Trumpian affection for deportation of “illegals” is a new thing ought to take a look at immigration and deportation statistics in Adam Goodman’s The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Deporting Immigrants (Princeton University Press, 2020). Between 1920 and 2018, the United States deported 56.3 million people, compared with 51.7 million who were granted legal immigration status during the same dates. Nearly nine of ten deportees were Mexican (Nolan, 2020, 83). This kind of nationalism, has become an assassin of democracy as well as an impediment to solving global problems. Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times (2019:A-25): that “In their 2018 book, How Democracies Die, the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt documented how this process has played out in many countries, from Vladimir Putin’s Russia, to Recep Erdogan’s Turkey, to Viktor Orban’s Hungary. Add to these India’s Narendra Modi, China’s Xi Jinping, and the United States’ Donald Trump, among others. Bit by bit, the guardrails of democracy have been torn down, as institutions meant to serve the public became tools of ruling parties and self-serving ideologies, weaponized to punish and intimidate opposition parties’ opponents. On paper, these countries are still democracies; in practice, they have become one-party regimes….And it’s happening here [the United States] as we speak. If you are not worried about the future of American democracy, you aren’t paying attention” (Krugmam, 2019, A-25). We are reminded continuously that the late Carl Sagan, one of our most insightful scientific public intellectuals, had an interesting theory about highly developed civilizations. Given the number of stars and planets that must exist in the vast reaches of the universe, he said, there must be other highly developed and organized forms of life. Distance may keep us from making physical contact, but Sagan said that another reason we may never be on speaking terms with another intelligent race is (judging from our own example) could be their penchant for destroying themselves in relatively short order after reaching technological complexity. This book’s chapters, introduction, and conclusion examine the worldwide rise of partisan nationalism and the damage it has wrought on the worldwide pursuit of solutions for issues requiring worldwide scope, such scientific co-operation public health and others, mixing analysis of both. We use both historical description and analysis. This analysis concludes with a description of why we must avoid the isolating nature of nationalism that isolates people and encourages separation if we are to deal with issues of world-wide concern, and to maintain a sustainable, survivable Earth, placing the dominant political movement of our time against the Earth’s existential crises. Our contributors, all experts in their fields, each have assumed responsibility for a country, or two if they are related. This work entwines themes of worldwide concern with the political growth of nationalism because leaders with such a worldview are disinclined to co-operate internationally at a time when nations must find ways to solve common problems, such as the climate crisis. Inability to cooperate at this stage may doom everyone, eventually, to an overheated, stormy future plagued by droughts and deluges portending shortages of food and other essential commodities, meanwhile destroying large coastal urban areas because of rising sea levels. Future historians may look back at our time and wonder why as well as how our world succumbed to isolating nationalism at a time when time was so short for cooperative intervention which is crucial for survival of a sustainable earth. Pride in language and culture is salubrious to individuals’ sense of history and identity. Excess nationalism that prevents international co-operation on harmful worldwide maladies is quite another. As Pope Francis has pointed out: For all of our connectivity due to expansion of social media, ability to communicate can breed contempt as well as mutual trust. “For all our hyper-connectivity,” said Francis, “We witnessed a fragmentation that made it more difficult to resolve problems that affect us all” (Horowitz, 2020, A-12). The pope’s encyclical, titled “Brothers All,” also said: “The forces of myopic, extremist, resentful, and aggressive nationalism are on the rise.” The pope’s document also advocates support for migrants, as well as resistance to nationalist and tribal populism. Francis broadened his critique to the role of market capitalism, as well as nationalism has failed the peoples of the world when they need co-operation and solidarity in the face of the world-wide corona virus pandemic. Humankind needs to unite into “a new sense of the human family [Fratelli Tutti, “Brothers All”], that rejects war at all costs” (Pope, 2020, 6-A). Our journey takes us first to Russia, with the able eye and honed expertise of Richard D. Anderson, Jr. who teaches as UCLA and publishes on the subject of his chapter: “Putin, Russian identity, and Russia’s conduct at home and abroad.” Readers should find Dr. Anderson’s analysis fascinating because Vladimir Putin, the singular leader of Russian foreign and domestic policy these days (and perhaps for the rest of his life, given how malleable Russia’s Constitution has become) may be a short man physically, but has high ambitions. One of these involves restoring the old Russian (and Soviet) empire, which would involve re-subjugating a number of nations that broke off as the old order dissolved about 30 years ago. President (shall we say czar?) Putin also has international ambitions, notably by destabilizing the United States, where election meddling has become a specialty. The sight of Putin and U.S. president Donald Trump, two very rich men (Putin $70-$200 billion; Trump $2.5 billion), nuzzling in friendship would probably set Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin spinning in their graves. The road of history can take some unanticipated twists and turns. Consider Poland, from which we have an expert native analysis in chapter 2, Bartosz Hlebowicz, who is a Polish anthropologist and journalist. His piece is titled “Lawless and Unjust: How to Quickly Make Your Own Country a Puppet State Run by a Group of Hoodlums – the Hopeless Case of Poland (2015–2020).” When I visited Poland to teach and lecture twice between 2006 and 2008, most people seemed to be walking on air induced by freedom to conduct their own affairs to an unusual degree for a state usually squeezed between nationalists in Germany and Russia. What did the Poles then do in a couple of decades? Read Hlebowicz’ chapter and decide. It certainly isn’t soft-bellied liberalism. In Chapter 3, with Bruce E. Johansen, we visit China’s western provinces, the lands of Tibet as well as the Uighurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang region, who would most assuredly resent being characterized as being possessed by the Chinese of the Han to the east. As a student of Native American history, I had never before thought of the Tibetans and Uighurs as Native peoples struggling against the Independence-minded peoples of a land that is called an adjunct of China on most of our maps. The random act of sitting next to a young woman on an Air India flight out of Hyderabad, bound for New Delhi taught me that the Tibetans had something to share with the Lakota, the Iroquois, and hundreds of other Native American states and nations in North America. Active resistance to Chinese rule lasted into the mid-nineteenth century, and continues today in a subversive manner, even in song, as I learned in 2018 when I acted as a foreign adjudicator on a Ph.D. dissertation by a Tibetan student at the University of Madras (in what is now in a city called Chennai), in southwestern India on resistance in song during Tibet’s recent history. Tibet is one of very few places on Earth where a young dissident can get shot to death for singing a song that troubles China’s Quest for Lebensraum. The situation in Xinjiang region, where close to a million Muslims have been interned in “reeducation” camps surrounded with brick walls and barbed wire. They sing, too. Come with us and hear the music. Back to Europe now, in Chapter 4, to Portugal and Spain, we find a break in the general pattern of nationalism. Portugal has been more progressive governmentally than most. Spain varies from a liberal majority to military coups, a pattern which has been exported to Latin America. A situation such as this can make use of the term “populism” problematic, because general usage in our time usually ties the word into a right-wing connotative straightjacket. “Populism” can be used to describe progressive (left-wing) insurgencies as well. José Pinto, who is native to Portugal and also researches and writes in Spanish as well as English, in “Populism in Portugal and Spain: a Real Neighbourhood?” provides insight into these historical paradoxes. Hungary shares some historical inclinations with Poland (above). Both emerged from Soviet dominance in an air of developing freedom and multicultural diversity after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. Then, gradually at first, right wing-forces began to tighten up, stripping structures supporting popular freedom, from the courts, mass media, and other institutions. In Chapter 5, Bernard Tamas, in “From Youth Movement to Right-Liberal Wing Authoritarianism: The Rise of Fidesz and the Decline of Hungarian Democracy” puts the renewed growth of political and social repression into a context of worldwide nationalism. Tamas, an associate professor of political science at Valdosta State University, has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Fulbright scholar at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His books include From Dissident to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary (2007). Bear in mind that not everyone shares Orbán’s vision of what will make this nation great, again. On graffiti-covered walls in Budapest, Runes (traditional Hungarian script) has been found that read “Orbán is a motherfucker” (Mikanowski, 2019, 58). Also in Europe, in Chapter 6, Professor Ronan Le Coadic, of the University of Rennes, Rennes, France, in “Is There a Revival of French Nationalism?” Stating this title in the form of a question is quite appropriate because France’s nationalistic shift has built and ebbed several times during the last few decades. For a time after 2000, it came close to assuming the role of a substantial minority, only to ebb after that. In 2017, the candidate of the National Front reached the second round of the French presidential election. This was the second time this nationalist party reached the second round of the presidential election in the history of the Fifth Republic. In 2002, however, Jean-Marie Le Pen had only obtained 17.79% of the votes, while fifteen years later his daughter, Marine Le Pen, almost doubled her father's record, reaching 33.90% of the votes cast. Moreover, in the 2019 European elections, re-named Rassemblement National obtained the largest number of votes of all French political formations and can therefore boast of being "the leading party in France.” The brutality of oppressive nationalism may be expressed in personal relationships, such as child abuse. While Indonesia and Aotearoa [the Maoris’ name for New Zealand] hold very different ranks in the United Nations Human Development Programme assessments, where Indonesia is classified as a medium development country and Aotearoa New Zealand as a very high development country. In Chapter 7, “Domestic Violence Against Women in Indonesia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Making Sense of Differences and Similarities” co-authors, in Chapter 8, Mandy Morgan and Dr. Elli N. Hayati, from New Zealand and Indonesia respectively, found that despite their socio-economic differences, one in three women in each country experience physical or sexual intimate partner violence over their lifetime. In this chapter ther authors aim to deepen understandings of domestic violence through discussion of the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of theit countries to address domestic violence alongside studies of women’s attitudes to gender norms and experiences of intimate partner violence. One of the most surprising and upsetting scholarly journeys that a North American student may take involves Adolf Hitler’s comments on oppression of American Indians and Blacks as he imagined the construction of the Nazi state, a genesis of nationalism that is all but unknown in the United States of America, traced in this volume (Chapter 8) by co-editor Johansen. Beginning in Mein Kampf, during the 1920s, Hitler explicitly used the westward expansion of the United States across North America as a model and justification for Nazi conquest and anticipated colonization by Germans of what the Nazis called the “wild East” – the Slavic nations of Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, and Russia, most of which were under control of the Soviet Union. The Volga River (in Russia) was styled by Hitler as the Germans’ Mississippi, and covered wagons were readied for the German “manifest destiny” of imprisoning, eradicating, and replacing peoples the Nazis deemed inferior, all with direct references to events in North America during the previous century. At the same time, with no sense of contradiction, the Nazis partook of a long-standing German romanticism of Native Americans. One of Goebbels’ less propitious schemes was to confer honorary Aryan status on Native American tribes, in the hope that they would rise up against their oppressors. U.S. racial attitudes were “evidence [to the Nazis] that America was evolving in the right direction, despite its specious rhetoric about equality.” Ming Xie, originally from Beijing, in the People’s Republic of China, in Chapter 9, “News Coverage and Public Perceptions of the Social Credit System in China,” writes that The State Council of China in 2014 announced “that a nationwide social credit system would be established” in China. “Under this system, individuals, private companies, social organizations, and governmental agencies are assigned a score which will be calculated based on their trustworthiness and daily actions such as transaction history, professional conduct, obedience to law, corruption, tax evasion, and academic plagiarism.” The “nationalism” in this case is that of the state over the individual. China has 1.4 billion people; this system takes their measure for the purpose of state control. Once fully operational, control will be more subtle. People who are subject to it, through modern technology (most often smart phones) will prompt many people to self-censor. Orwell, modernized, might write: “Your smart phone is watching you.” Ming Xie holds two Ph.Ds, one in Public Administration from University of Nebraska at Omaha and another in Cultural Anthropology from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, where she also worked for more than 10 years at a national think tank in the same institution. While there she summarized news from non-Chinese sources for senior members of the Chinese Communist Party. Ming is presently an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, West Texas A&amp;M University. In Chapter 10, analyzing native peoples and nationhood, Barbara Alice Mann, Professor of Honours at the University of Toledo, in “Divide, et Impera: The Self-Genocide Game” details ways in which European-American invaders deprive the conquered of their sense of nationhood as part of a subjugation system that amounts to genocide, rubbing out their languages and cultures -- and ultimately forcing the native peoples to assimilate on their own, for survival in a culture that is foreign to them. Mann is one of Native American Studies’ most acute critics of conquests’ contradictions, and an author who retrieves Native history with a powerful sense of voice and purpose, having authored roughly a dozen books and numerous book chapters, among many other works, who has traveled around the world lecturing and publishing on many subjects. Nalanda Roy and S. Mae Pedron in Chapter 11, “Understanding the Face of Humanity: The Rohingya Genocide.” describe one of the largest forced migrations in the history of the human race, the removal of 700,000 to 800,000 Muslims from Buddhist Myanmar to Bangladesh, which itself is already one of the most crowded and impoverished nations on Earth. With about 150 million people packed into an area the size of Nebraska and Iowa (population less than a tenth that of Bangladesh, a country that is losing land steadily to rising sea levels and erosion of the Ganges river delta. The Rohingyas’ refugee camp has been squeezed onto a gigantic, eroding, muddy slope that contains nearly no vegetation. However, Bangladesh is majority Muslim, so while the Rohingya may starve, they won’t be shot to death by marauding armies. Both authors of this exquisite (and excruciating) account teach at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, Georgia, Roy as an associate professor of International Studies and Asian politics, and Pedron as a graduate student; Roy originally hails from very eastern India, close to both Myanmar and Bangladesh, so he has special insight into the context of one of the most brutal genocides of our time, or any other. This is our case describing the problems that nationalism has and will pose for the sustainability of the Earth as our little blue-and-green orb becomes more crowded over time. The old ways, in which national arguments often end in devastating wars, are obsolete, given that the Earth and all the people, plants, and other animals that it sustains are faced with the existential threat of a climate crisis that within two centuries, more or less, will flood large parts of coastal cities, and endanger many species of plants and animals. To survive, we must listen to the Earth, and observe her travails, because they are increasingly our own.

Abstract Governments and higher education institutions see internationalization of higher education as one of the main factors that influence their strategic endeavors in the years to come. When looking at the national level, the drivers of internationalization are linked to economic and geo-political positioning, cultural influences, as well as international competitiveness for knowledge and human capital. Party politics, foreign affairs, economy and immigration policies also play a big role in shaping country level approaches. For universities, prestige factors, disciplinary or constitutive groups’ interests and financial imperatives predominantly drive internationalization policies. In this context, the paper will look at national and institutional strategic pursuits in the field of internationalization of higher education, in the case of two countries geographically (and perhaps economically) positioned at Europe’s periphery: Romania and Portugal. The choice of these two countries relies on their recent transition from totalitarian regimes to democracies, coupled with similar trends of massification and underfunding of the higher education sector. The conclusion will include policy lessons for decision-makers, especially with a view on whether well-established global models of internationalization of higher education are fit for purpose for transitioning countries. The author’s work for this article was supported by the scholarship for a post-doctoral research fellowship, provided by the New Europe College (NEC), during the 2018–2019 academic year.

The work presented here summarizes the results of the archaeological intervention carried out between October 2018 and April 2019, within the Recovery and Restoration Project of the Recreatório Paroquial Penafidelense (parish and municipality of Penafiel, district of Porto), located in the primitive nucleus of the place Arrifana de Sousa, in the old parish of S. Martinho de Moazares, today in the heart of the Historic of the city of Penafiel. The building is a particular patrimonial interest due to the varied set of functions that were assigned to it between the 14th century (?) and today: hostel/hospital, chapel, headquarters of the Irmandade da Misericórdia and theater.

In May 2018, the need to replace an old wall, located at Rua Marquês de Pombal / Largo do Espírito Santo, in Bucelas, in the municipality of Loures, exposed the remains of an ancient cemetery that motivated an archaeological intervention, that run until December 2019. The archaeological excavations allowed the identification of a necropolis context, composed by 157 primary and secondary inhumations, two ossuaries (1 and 2) containing, respectively, 101 and 262 individuals, and bone reductions, distributed by a wide chronology (15th to 19th centuries). Under the necropolis layers, it was identified the remains of a Roman occupation dating back to the 1st and the 2nd centuries AD, consisting of simple mural structures, belonging to three sub-quadrangular compartments.

Hotel sustainability has become a focal point for companies all around the world with a dual focus on attracting customers to their business and capitalizing from sustainability measures and practices. Such sustainability initiatives allow for increasing economic efficiency and reducing energetic and environmental impacts. Based on the triple bottom line, social sustainability is also key to promote and implement efficient corporate social responsibility practices. This study reports on a survey carried out to address the customers perceptions regarding the influence of sustainability on their choice of hotel. This survey was conducted in Oporto city (Portugal) to domestic and foreign tourists in 2018/2019 with a valid sample size of more than 370 respondents. This research concludes that, even though customers show to be sensitive to social, environmental, and economic aspects, these issues do not exhibit a significant influence on their hotel selection based only on sustainability claims.

The general objective of this article is to analyze the impacts of a gamified resource created (Accountingame) as learning tools to teach the curricular unit of Accounting. Theory of Planned Behaviour was used to investigate social factors such as Social Influence, Recognition and Reciprocal Benefits, which are predictors of Attitude to use this kind of game like a learning accounting tool. The relevance of this study is due to the lack of empirical studies that analyze the application, viability, and effectiveness of gamified resources in the teaching areas of knowledge, such as Accounting. The game was used by students of Accounting (n = 816) for the first time in the scope of Higher Education in Portugal in the academic year 2018/2019. Results of this research suggest the importance of these resources to increase Attitude, Continued Use Intention and Intention to Word of Mouth related to Games Based Learning as an effective method of support for the learning process of accounting students. We believe that this study can be a contributor to researchers in this area to understand why the study of Accounting is genuinely challenging for students. This research will be enabling managers of Higher Education Institutions, professors and other educational agents to decide on the best strategies to use in order to increase student involvement in Accounting learning.

The general objective of this article is to analyze the impacts of a gamified resource created (Accountingame) as learning tools to teach the curricular unit of Accounting. Theory of Planned Behaviour was used to investigate social factors such as Social Influence, Recognition and Reciprocal Benefits, which are predictors of Attitude to use this kind of game like a learning accounting tool. The relevance of this study is due to the lack of empirical studies that analyze the application, viability, and effectiveness of gamified resources in the teaching areas of knowledge, such as Accounting. The game was used by students of Accounting (n = 816) for the first time in the scope of Higher Education in Portugal in the academic year 2018/2019. Results of this research suggest the importance of these resources to increase Attitude, Continued Use Intention and Intention to Word of Mouth related to Games Based Learning as an effective method of support for the learning process of accounting students. We believe that this study can be a contributor to researchers in this area to understand why the study of Accounting is genuinely challenging for students. This research will be enabling managers of Higher Education Institutions, professors and other educational agents to decide on the best strategies to use in order to increase student involvement in Accounting learning.

O trabalho que agora se submete à apreciação é o resultado de uma parceria com a Fundação Caixa CA de Bragança, Portugal, iniciada em outubro de 2017 e concluída em junho de 2018. Essa parceria teve como finalidades educar para a inclusão, através da leitura de potencial receção infantil com alunos 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico a frequentar os 3.º e 4.º anos de escolaridade, fora do ambiente proporcionado pela sala de aulas, sem, no entanto, sair do contexto escolar; aprender a brincar com as palavras sem que as ideias de construção e desafio se perdessem; pôr à prova a capacidade de interpretação de cada aluno em trabalho de grupo; englobar e incluir diferentes ideias e formas de trabalho entre os alunos participantes sem olhar a raças, cores, credos, línguas, questões cognitivas ou meios financeiros, visto que a língua é de todos e todos devem ter os mesmos direitos na hora de enriquecer a sua literacia. O projeto de promoção da leitura e da escrita denominado “Cozinha (com) as tuas Palavras” abrangeu seis agrupamentos de escolas pertencentes aos distritos de Bragança e Vila Real num total de novecentos alunos. Após a leitura do conto infantojuvenil Maggy, a Fada, os alunos foram divididos em equipas constituídas, não só por crianças da escola frequentada, mas também por crianças oriundas de outras escolas do 1.º Ciclo localizadas no meio rural daqueles distritos. As equipas realizaram provas em que as palavras foram o mote para os desafios propostos em ambiente culinário. Depois de uma fase de apuramento, chegaram à fase final uma equipa do 3.º ano e outra do 4.º ano de escolaridade a representar cada um dos Agrupamentos de Escolas que aceitou integrar o projeto.