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Monograms, inscriptions, ornaments and representations of graphic elements were recurring features and constituents of the undergarments of the early twentieth century. This paper aims to present considerations about the visual communication found on this type of artifact between 1900 and 1930. To achieve such, three-dimensional pieces, catalogs and periodicals from the archive of the National Museum of the Costume, in Lisbon - Portugal, were analyzed. In this sense, from the three-dimensional sources, associated with textual and iconographic sources, this study sought to present the multiple forms and uses of visual communication in undergarments, such as types of inscription, location of representations and marks on the pieces, as well as to discuss questions symbolic and historical factors that determine the importance of these characteristics in the configuration of clothing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

REGIONAL INNOVATION PROPENSITY IN PORTUGAL: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON PATENT DATA. This paper analyses the regional distribution of patents in Portugal in the period 1980-2008 using information that was recently made available. Lisbon leads the national ranking by far. However, towards the end of the period under analysis, a few regions around Oporto have increased their share in the total number of patents. This has taken place alongside an increase in the total number of patent applications from 2000 onwards, after two decades in which that number remained basically stagnant in Portugal. The main protagonists of this recent increase have been universities and other academic institutions. The paper concludes by stressing that the lack of growth in patent applications by the business sector is a cause for concern, given the gap that still separates Portugal from the countries that top the international patent rankings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The moments or events of life when the individuals change home and the duration and conditions of their permanence in such homes contributes in a relevant manner, in the study of social change, to the analysis of the period, generations and age effects, fundamental to the life course perspective. In this paper, these relationships are explored through the life events - professional, domestic or disruptive - responsible for the process of changing home. This analysis is developed with the longitudinal dataset of the Project "Residential Trajectories and Metropolization: continuities and changes in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area" (ISCTE-IUL, Dinâmia-CET), funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and kindly made available for the purpose of this publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will present a draft of the labour relations in 1900 Portugal, discussing primarily the available sources and giving a main frame of the country situation and secondly presenting a detailed proposal about the labour relations in this period, using the sources discussed and the terminology of the project "Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500- 2000" and "Labour Relations in Portugal and the Lusophone World 1800-2000: continuity and change". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under what conditions can unexpectedness in the fieldwork become a way of anthropological knowing? How can we write about silence and the concealed? This paper explores unexpected situations that occurred during our fieldwork on several psychiatric hospital wards in the city. Due to their medical thinking most psychiatrists are suspicious of ethnographic data, mainly when they are the ones the anthropologist wants to study, serving as gatekeepers is a way to limit our access to their medical world. This becomes highly problematic since the ethnographer feels most of the time as having failed her fieldwork. But differently, our proposal is to understand fieldwork difficulties as a process of anthropological apprenticeship. In other words, difficulties in the fieldwork become paths to understand and to craft our knowledge of a shared world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTER-REGIONAL RELATIONS IN PORTUGAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE LISBON METROPOLITAN REGION. In this paper, we address the issue of territorial interdependencies in the case of Portugal. Given the lack of previous scientific work on inter-regional exchanges, the topic is approached from a broad perspective, by referring to the development synergies that can be found between the various regions. In particular, we discuss the specific relations that arise both from proximity and from regional similarities. Using data at the NUTS III level, we argue that, beyond the consolidation of a specific mode of development in the Lisbon metropolitan region, a sustainable articulation between demography and economy can hardly be found anywhere in the country. We conclude that the complex nature of inter-regional relations in Portugal calls for further methodological work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Where are the brotherhoods of the Patriarchate of Lisbon? Why are these brotherhoods located in such spaces? The present work answers to these two questions, being a pioneer attempt about the thematic, in Portugal. Through the empirical validation recurring to logit models, this paper identifies as determinants the human diversity of the spaces (parishes) and the related tradition, not confirming the hypothesis of the purchase power of the resident people. Therefore, it is confirmed that the resources constraint of this kind of social groups considers the cultural and the traditional richness as fundamental to the detriment of the exclusive budget restriction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]