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A presente dissertação pretende refletir e analisar o corpo, enquanto elemento comum à Arquitetura e à Dança, mediante a forma como este interage e se relaciona com os espaços. Visa-se com este estudo estabelecer uma afinidade entre as duas artes, através de convergências concetuais e processuais, a fim de instituir uma ponte de ligação sólida que as relacione. Aliado a estas duas áreas insere-se a componente cenográfica, essencial nas performances de Dança e com uma linguagem e campo de estudo semelhante à Arquitetura. O papel do corpo apresenta-se enquanto elemento principal e imprescindível deste estudo, não só pela sua importância evidente na Dança, enquanto expressão física da própria arte, mas também por ser um componente essencial à Arquitetura pelo modo como os utentes experienciam e se apropriam dos espaç os. O movimento do corpo na Arquitetura reflete-se numa dualidade criada entre a liberdade do utente e o condicionamento do espaço imposto pelo arquiteto. Em contradição, na dança, o corpo apresenta-se como um conceito de carácter único, definindo-se através de um movimento poético, completamente intencional e previamente planeado. A fenomenologia é utilizada enquanto complemento nesta dissertação, contribuindo para um melhor esclarecimento da componente sensorial. The present dissertation aims to reflect on and analyze the body as a common element in Architecture and Dance, considering how it interacts and relates to spaces. The goal of this study is to establish an affinity between these two arts through conceptual and procedural convergences, in order to create a solid bridge that connects them. The scenic component is also included in these two areas, which is essential in Dance performances and shares a similar language and field of study with Architecture. The role of the body is presented as the main and indispensable element of this study, not only because of its evident importance in Dance as the physical expression of the art itself but also because it is an essential component in Architecture in terms of how users experience and appropriate s paces. The movement of the body in Architecture is reflected in a duality created between the user's freedom and the spatial constraints imposed by the architect. In contrast, in dance, the body is seen as a unique concept, defined through poetic movement that is completely intentional and previously planned. Phenomenology is employed as a complement in this dissertation, contributing to a better understanding of the sensory component.

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Calling for a “data revolution,” the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to promote progress in matters related to planet, people, prosperity, peace, and partnerships (the “5Ps”) by mobilizing an all-encompassing datafying system that heavily relies on quantification. As such, the SDGs serve as a unique window that showcases the most up-to-date materials, methods, and forms of expertise in datafying practices, while also incentivizing local and national appropriation, with all the difficulties this entails. The article looks at the policy dynamics around SDG localization and the role of participatory methodologies, especially citizen-generated data, in Brazil’s engagement with the agenda. We depart from interviews conducted with various actors involved with SDG implementation, including civil society and public servants, and from engagement with the work conducted by one NGO specialized in citizen-generated data in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro. Two important findings are highlighted: Localizing strategies, i.e., those that aim to take subnational contexts into account in the achievement of the SDGs, have been used to promote an agenda on rights and, in addition, there has been a strong focus on local narratives as central aspects of communicating scientific data, where progress on the SDGs is but one vehicle in the struggle against statistical invisibility and political exclusion. These findings lead us to argue for a politics of care that can change how we do global public policy.

Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la siguiente URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09645284211039523 This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Montero Navarro, S., Del Rio Medina, S., Martín Botella Rico, J., Isabel Rocha Ortiz, M., & Teresa Pérez Gracia, M. (2022). Analysis and comparison of pain pressure threshold and active cervical range of motion after superficial and deep dry needling techniques of the upper trapezius muscle. Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, vol. 40, i. 1 (feb.), pp. 13?23, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1177/09645284211039523 Este es el post-print del siguiente artículo: Montero Navarro, S., Del Rio Medina, S., Martín Botella Rico, J., Isabel Rocha Ortiz, M., & Teresa Pérez Gracia, M. (2022). Analysis and comparison of pain pressure threshold and active cervical range of motion after superficial and deep dry needling techniques of the upper trapezius muscle. Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, vol. 40, n. 1 (feb.), pp. 13?23, que se ha publicado de forma definitiva en https://doi.org/10.1177/09645284211039523 Objectives: To evaluate the changes in pain pressure threshold (PPT) and active cervical range of motion (ACROM) after the application of superficial dry needling (DN) or deep DN in myofascial trigger point (MTrP) 1 of the upper trapezius versus a simulated DN technique in the gastrocnemius muscle (control group). Design: Double-blind, randomized controlled trial with 7-day follow-up. Participants: Asymptomatic volunteers (n = 180; 76 men, 104 women) with a latent MTrP 1 in the upper trapezius were randomly divided into three groups: G1, receiving superficial DN in the upper trapezius; G2, receiving deep DN in the upper trapezius; and G3, control group, receiving simulated DN technique in the gastrocnemius muscle. Main outcome measures: While sitting in a chair, each subject underwent measurements of PPT and ACROM (ipsilateral and contralateral side flexion and rotation, flexion and extension) preintervention, (immediately) postintervention, and at 24 h, 72 h and 7 days. Results: Superficial and deep DN produced an increase in PPT at 7 days with respect to preintervention levels. Furthermore, superficial and deep DN produced a decrease in cervical flexion at 24 h and an increase in ipsilateral rotation until 72 h, increasing to 7 days in the case of deep DN. On the contrary, superficial DN produced an increase in ipsilateral and contralateral side flexion after intervention, unlike deep DN that produced a decrease at 24 h. Furthermore, superficial DN produced an increase in contralateral rotation at 24 h and deep DN decreased extension at 72 h. Conclusion: A single intervention of superficial or deep DN did not produce statistically significant changes in PPT or goniometry measurements.

O conjunto de práticas urbanas ao longo dos tempos e a pressão ambiental que se interpõe sobre novas exigências ecológicas às cidades, tem vindo a traçar uma transição socio ecológica1 que se têm expressado cada vez mais no plano urbano e na sociedade. Estas transformações têm colocado discursos cada vez mais emergentes na ordem diária, no modo como os espaços ecológicos podem ser oportunos elementos para pensar estas transições para as cidades do futuro, exprimindo signos de identidade territorial em dispositivos socio espaciais. A presente dissertação propõe um projeto de investigação que poderá, eventualmente, ser organizado para contribuir para a construção de uma rede - de um conjunto de ligações ou interligações entre investigações correlacionadas - formada por uma componente teórica e prática. É procurada uma metodologia que consiga obter a dupla condição de reconhecer e atuar num caso concreto, para entender os fenómenos e os factos urbanos de modo a interpretá-los, como também poderá ter um desempenho favorável no projeto de investigação com a capacidade de se constituir, eventualmente, como uma metodologia de intervenção. É uma rede de investigação composta de interesses interdisciplinares que correlacionam o estudo com outras disciplinas como a agronomia, as ciências da natureza, a psicologia do comportamento e perceção humana, eventualmente âmbitos disciplinares híbridos relacionados com a história, entre outros. Procura-se construir um projeto de reconhecimento e ação da leitura dos sistemas urbanos e territoriais, nomeadamente na forma como se exploram ferramentas gráficas e aproximações metodológicas que procuram envolver o pensamento sobre os factos ambientais como importantes elementos de significado e coesão urbana e social, pertinentes na integração dos discursos de ordem atual. Desta forma, num "estudo-piloto" que caminha a cidade como meio de intervenção, utilizamos registos pertinentes que se ligam desde a abstração do plano até à experiência urbana real do indivíduo. Assim, selecionamos uma cidade-laboratório, um caso de estudo, onde instrumentalizamos alguns conhecimentos adquiridos nas leituras críticas dos capítulos teóricos, estabelecendo relações com um caso concreto, experimentando uma aproximação a uma metodologia operativa. É a partir de um entendimento interdisciplinar que trabalhamos a condição relacional do estudo, desde o entendimento dos sistemas complexos das redes territoriais, até à largura do passeio, explorando as expressões fundamentais do território às diferentes escalas enquanto construções de sistemas de significados. É a partir da experiência urbana real do indivíduo que ensaiamos uma dada qualidade ambiental, entendendo uma estratégia de valorização e reconhecimento do território. The set of urban practices over time and the environmental pressure that is interposed on new ecological demands to the cities, has been tracing a socio ecological transition2 which has been increasingly expressed in the urban planning and in society. These transformations have put more and more emerging discourses in the daily order, on how ecological spaces can be opportune elements to think these transitions to the cities of the future, expressing signs of territorial identity in socio-spatial devices. This dissertation proposes a research project that can eventually be organized to contribute to the construction of a network - a set of links or interconnections between correlated researches - formed by a theoretical and a practical component. It is sought a methodology that can obtain the double condition of recognizing and acting in a concrete case, to understand the urban phenomena and facts in order to interpret them, as well as it could have a favorable performance in the research project with the capacity to constitute itself, eventually, as methodology of intervention. It is a research network composed of interdisciplinary interests that correlate the study with other disciplines, such as agronomy, natural sciences, psychology of human behavior and perception, and eventually hybrid disciplinary fields related to history, among others. The aim is to build a project that recognizes and acts on the reading of urban and territorial systems, namely in the way that graphic tools and methodological approaches are explored in order to engage the thinking about environmental facts as important elements of meaning to urban and social cohesion, relevant in the integration of current order discourses. In this way, in a "pilot study" made through walking the city as a means of intervention, we use pertinent records that connect the abstraction of the plan to the actual urban experience of the individual. Thus, we selected a laboratory-city, a case study, where we instrumentalized some knowledge acquired in the critical readings of the theoretical chapters, establishing relations with a concrete case, experimenting an approach to an operative methodology. It is from an interdisciplinary understanding that we work the relational condition of the study, from the understanding of the complex systems of territorial networks, to the width of the sidewalk, exploring the fundamental expressions of the territory at different scales as constructions of systems of meanings. It is from the real urban experience of the individual that we rehearse a given environmental quality, understanding a strategy of valorization and recognition of the territory.

[EN] Escherichia coli O157 (E. coli O157) is responsible for outbreaks of high morbidity in food-borne infections. The development of sensitive, reliable, and selective detection systems is of great importance in food safety. In this work, two high fundamental frequency (HFF) piezoelectric genosensors (100 and 150 MHz) were designed and validated for the rfbE gene detection, which encodes O-antigen in E. coli O157. HFF resonators offer improved sensitivity, small sample volumes, and the possibility of integration into lab-on-a-chip devices, but their sensing capabilities have not yet been fully explored. This HFF-QCM genosensor uses the method of physisorption based on the union between the streptavidin and the biotin to immobilize the genetic bioreceptor on the surface and detect its hybridization with the target sequence. Parameters such as molecular coating, specificity, and variability were tested to enhance its performance. Although both genosensors evaluated are able to determine the target, the 100 MHz device has a higher response to the analyte than the 150 MHz platform. This is the first step in the development of an HFF-QCM genosensor that may be used as a trial test of E. coli O157 in large batches of samples., This work was supported by the EIA University and the National University of Colombia under internal call in 2016.

Breast cancer is the most frequent malignant disease among women, being responsible for a considerable percentage of fatalities and comorbidities every year. Despite advances in early detection and therapy, evidence shows that breast cancer survivors are at increased risk of developing other chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases. Autonomic dysfunction is an emerging, but poorly understood topic that has been suggested as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in breast cancer patients. It clinically manifests through persistently elevated heart rates and abnormal heart rate variability, even before any signs of cardiovascular dysfunction appear. Since changes in the left ventricular ejection fraction only manifest when myocardial injury has already occurred, it has been hypothesized that autonomic dysfunction can constitute an early biomarker of cardiovascular impairment in breast cancer patients. This review focuses on the direct and indirect effects of cancer and its treatment on the autonomic nervous system in breast cancer patients. We highlight the mechanisms potentially involved in cancer and antineoplastic therapy-related autonomic imbalance and review the potential strategies to prevent and/or attenuate autonomic dysfunction. There are gaps in the current knowledge; more research in this area is needed to identify the relevance of autonomic dysfunction and define beneficial interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease in breast cancer patients.