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IJUP08 First Meeting of Young Researchers of U.Porto 20•22 Feb 2008 IJUP08 First Meeting of Young Researchers of U.Porto 20•22 Feb 2008 Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto RESUMOS / ABSTRACTS Nota Introdutória A Universidade do Porto inicia em 2008, sob o tema "Investigação Jovem na Universidade do Porto (IJUP)", uma série de encontros científicos destinados aos seus alunos (nacionais ou de Eramus) dos 1º e 2º ciclos. O IJUP é um encontro científico, de cariz anual, onde os alunos da U. Porto são convidados a apresentar trabalhos ou estudos por eles desenvolvidos ou em vias de serem desenvolvidos, enquanto estudantes do 1º ou 2º ciclos. São objectivos principais do IJUP fomentar a participação dos alunos da U. Porto em eventos de índole científica, permitir que os seus trabalhos sejam divulgados junto da comunidade científica da U. Porto e dos restantes alunos desta Universidade e incentivar a discussão interdisciplinar entre as diferentes vertentes de investigação que são desenvolvidas na U. Porto. A comissão organizadora do IJUP é composta por elementos de todas as unidades orgânicas da U. Porto e tem a coordenação do Vice-Reitor da U. Porto para ID&I. No IJUP08, a vertente interdisciplinar será reforçada e francamente enriquecida pela participação de várias instituições internacionais convidadas, como são o caso das universidades brasileiras: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) e norte americanas: The University of Texas at Austin e da Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Contando com uma enorme diversidade de áreas do conhecimento, o IJUP08 tem prevista a realização de duas sessões plenárias de comunicações orais interdisciplinares que têm como objectivos promover o contacto e a comunicação entre áreas tão diferentes como as ciências da saúde, a arquitectura, a psicologia, a engenharia, a economia, entre outras. Fazem também parte do programa do IJUP 08 várias sessões de comunicações orais que ocorrerão em paralelo e que estão agrupadas consoante a área científica em que se inserem, e ainda sessões de apresentação de posters em que se prevê, mais uma vez, a discussão interdisciplinar promovida por pequenas comissões de moderadores de diferentes áreas científicas. Os objectivos científicos, pedagógicos e de divulgação interdisciplinar, do IJUP08 serão consolidados pela realização de um workshop que pretende a divulgação de diversas oportunidades de financiamento disponibilizadas em Portugal e de um outro que permitirá o contacto dos jovens investigadores com investigadores seniores da U.Porto com carreira reconhecida, de diferentes áreas científicas e diferentes gerações. Pela afluência, diversidade e qualidade das participações, esperamos que o IJUP08 cumpra com sucesso todos os seus objectivos, motivando assim a comunidade académica à continuação e incentivo da Investigação Jovem. A Comissão Organizadora i Comissão Organizadora / Comité Científico Adrián Silva Dinis Cayolla Ribeiro Elisa Keating Filipe Abrantes Georgina Correia da Silva Gonçalo Furtado Helena Pereira Madureira Hugo Valente Jorge Gonçalves Jorge Teixeira José Rodrigues Lima Laura Oliveira Lígia Afonso Luís Miguel Palma Madeira Mª Paula Santos Manuela Aguiar Marcela Alves Segundo Maria José Oliveira Pedro Sousa Gomes Sofia Rodrigues Secretariado: Helena Oliveira Maria João Amaral ii Índice NOTA INTRODUTÓRIA ___________________________________________________I COMISSÃO ORGANIZADORA / COMITÉ CIENTÍFICO__________________________ II PROGRAMA GERAL_____________________________________________________ 1 INTERDISCIPLINARY ORAL SESSIONS - IOS1 _______________________________ 4 WHAT CAN A SIMULATION STUDY TELL US ABOUT THE RELEVANCE OF UTILITY AND WEALTH INDICATORS FOR DECISION MAKING CONCERNING PRODUCTION AND MARKET BEHAVIOUR_______________________________________________ 5 CONSTRUCTION OF A LEARNING UNIT IN A MOODLE PLATFORM: STUDYING MITOSIS USING FRUIT FLY AS A MODEL ___________________________________ 6 THE KARIMOJONG PEOPLE FROM UGANDA: A HISTORY ASSESSED THROUGH PATTERNS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA _____________________________________ 7 ANGIOGENESIS MODULATION BY CATECHIN _______________________________ 8 NOVEL FUNCTIONALISED TEXTILES THROUGH NANOSTRUCUTURED CARBON AND CLAY BASED MATERIALS (NANOTEXTUP) _____________________________ 9 ALFONSO X’S GENERAL ESTORIA AND THE PORTUGUESE CULTURE: AN EXAMPLE OF CONTINUITY BETWEEN MIDDLE AGES AND MODERNITY ________ 10 INTERDISCIPLINARY ORAL SESSIONS – IOS2______________________________ 11 ALTERNATIVE USER INTERFACES FOR GAME CONTROL____________________ 12 TRADITIONAL TIMBER CONSTRUCTION BUILDINGS: THE EXAMPLE OF THE PORTUGUESE CENTRAL LITTORAL PALHEIROS ___________________________ 13 TREATMENT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS WITH CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS: ON THE ROLE OF NICOTINIC AUTORECEPTORS CONTAINING Α3Β2 SUBUNITS ____ 14 MUSIC AND PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS________________________________ 15 AUTOMATIC EMOTION ASSESSMENT THROUGH BIOMETRIC INFORMATION ___ 16 DEVELOPMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TECHNIQUES FOR THE DETECTION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS IN MAIZE FOOD PRODUCTS ___________ 17 PERMEABILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE (HPC) CONTAINING VARYING CONCENTRATIONS OF HYCRETE TESTED AND COMPARED BY METHOD OF RAPID CHLORIDE PERMEABILITY TEST AND THE NON-STEADY-STATE MIGRATION TEST (NORDTEST METHOD NT BUILD 492)___ 18 MARIO PEDROSA E A SUA ATUAÇÃO CRÍTICA NA PRESIDÊNCIA DA ABCA _____ 19 PARALLEL ORAL SESSIONS I – POS.I.1 ___________________________________ 20 YEAST AS A NEW APPROACH TO STUDY THE REGULATION OF P53-DEPENDENT APOPTOSIS BY PROTEIN KINASE C DELTA________________________________ 21 ANTITUMOR AND ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITIES OF XANTHONIC DERIVATIVES, POTENTIAL INHIBITORS OF STEROID SULFATASE _________________________ 22 E-CADHERIN SILENCING: MORE THAN INACTIVATING MUTATIONS ___________ 23 SYNTHESIS AND DETERMINATION OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF XANTHONES _________________________________________________________ 24 DISSEMINATION OF BLATEM-52 AMONG ESCHERICHIA COLI AND KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE STRAINS IS CAUSED BY SPREAD OF PLASMIDS IN PORTUGAL __ 25 SYNERGISM BETWEEN ADENOSINE A2A AND TACHYKININ NK1 RECEPTORS FACILITATE [3H]-ACH RELEASE FROM MYENTERIC NEURONS _______________ 26 PARALLEL ORAL SESSIONS I – POS.I.2 ___________________________________ 27 THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY AS A HEGEMONIC META-OBJECT OF URBAN CENTRE RENEWAL POLICIES: THE CASE OF PORTO _______________________ 28 “MASSARELOS NETWORK”: SPACES AND TIMES OF INTER-INSTITUTIONAL ARTICULATION, IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN “EDUCATING PARISH” __________ 29 THE SPACE OF INTERVALS. THE INNER SPACES OF URBAN BLOCKS: SPACE, LANDSCAPE, CITY_____________________________________________________ 30 FORMS OF HOUSING AND WAYS OF LIVING IN PORTO’S CONTEMPORARY URBAN TERRITORY __________________________________________________________ 31 INTERACTIVE APPLICATION FOR SPATIAL COMMUNICATION AND REPRESENTATION ____________________________________________________ 32 ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL BENEFITS OF ASTRONOMY _____________________ 33 PARALLEL ORAL SESSIONS I – POS.I.3 ___________________________________ 34 ESTIMATION OF POSTMORTEM INTERVAL BASED ON THE DETERMINATION OF POTASSIUM IN VITREOUS HUMOR BY AN AUTOMATIC SYSTEM ______________ 35 THE DYNAMICAL STATE OF GALAXIES: FROM 2D TO 6D ____________________ 36 DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC MULTI-PUMPING FLOW SYSTEM FOR THE SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF TRIMIPRAMINE_______________ 37 ANTI-DE SITTER SPACE AND THE STABILITY OF SCALAR FIELD ______________ 38 ACCESSIBILITY AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION – NEW DIRECTIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR MOODLE “ESTALEIRO DA CIÊNCIA”_______________________ 39 QUANTUM VACUUM ENERGY IN GENERAL RELATIVITY (THE CASIMIR EFFECT) 40 PARALLEL ORAL SESSIONS II – POS.II.1 __________________________________ 41 MICROPLATE HIGH-THROUGHPUT METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINATION OF FOLIN-CIOCALTEU INDEX ______________________________________________ 42 DETECTION OF AUTHORIZED GENETICALLY MODIFIED MAIZE EVENTS: PARTICIPATION IN AN INTER-LABORATORIAL STUDY_______________________ 43 DETECTION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOYBEAN IN FOODSTUFFS: PARTICIPATION IN AN INTER-LABORATORIAL STUDY_______________________ 44 HPLC SEPARATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF CATECHINS IN GREEN TEA HOME PREPARED: COMPARISON WITH COMMERCIAL SOFT DRINKS _______________ 45 PRODUCT ENGINEERING – APPLICATION OF VANILLIN IN ALIMENTARY FOOD PASTE INDUSTRY _____________________________________________________ 46 DEVELOPMENT OF A COATING BARRIER FOR CORK STOPPERS FOR THEIR USE IN SPIRITUOUS DRINKS ________________________________________________ 47 PARALLEL ORAL SESSIONS II – POS.II.2 __________________________________ 48 THE ARCHITECT’S HOUSE ______________________________________________ 49 ORGANIC LIVING | WEEKEND HOUSE IN CASTELO DE PAIVA ________________ 50 FROM RCR EXPERIENCE TO A PROJECT OF A SMALL HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAIN _____________________________________________________________________ 51 CASA COMUM [COMMON/COLLECTIVE/COMMUNITARIAN HOUSE/HOME] ARCHITECTURES FOR AN INTERMEDIARY SPACE _________________________ 52 THE COURTYARD AND SIZA’S HOUSES___________________________________ 53 THE SILENCE AND THE SKY: SECLUSION AND ARCHITECTURE. FOUR COURTYARD-HOUSES _________________________________________________ 54 PARALLEL ORAL SESSIONS II – POS.II.3 __________________________________ 55 EFFECT OF METALS ON THE ATPREP1 PEPTIDASOME ACTIVITY _____________ 56 LIPOSOME-INCORPORATED ZANTHOXYLUM TINGOASSUIBA ESSENTIAL OIL: PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION_________________________________ 57 ANCHORING OF MACROCYCLE COMPOUNDS ONTO NANOSTRUCTURED CARBON MATERIALS FOR CATALYTIC
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