Merosinopathy is a subtype of muscular dystrophy with recessive autosomal transmission, resulting from an α2-chain-laminin/merosin deficiency. It affects around 1-9/ 1 000 000 individuals. Classically, it is subdivided in two phenotypic categories: one that is more common and severe, known as congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A, and a lesser common form of mild presentation. Congenital muscular dystrophy type...
This text explores two life paths that crossed under the sign of rattlesnake root, a native plant commonly used by the Seneca in Virginia but only discovered and applied in European-origin medicine in the second half of the 18th century. John Tennent and João de Sequeira shared their European roots, the influence of boerhaavian medicine on their medicalpractice and the enthusiasm for the therapeutic properties ...
Da complexificação dos movimentos corporais surgem as habilidades básicas que de forma reiterada estão patentes nas crianças e se manifestam em diferentes contextos (Costa, 2016). Nos períodos de recreio ou em contexto curricular, caminhar, correr, saltar, puxar, empurrar, equilibrar, rolar, pendurar, balançar e girar constituem a base da Ginástica, na sua vertente “Artística”. Estes movimentos, de grande simpl...
Conciliando os conceitos e metodologias dos estudos da diáspora e dos estudos da memória, este artigo problematiza a noção de pátria dos ancestrais recordada e transmitida pelas gerações posteriores da diáspora sefardita ocidental, partindo de um caso em particular: as memórias familiares da elite sefardita norte-americana. Neste trabalho, serão analisados três textos que relatam as circunstâncias da partida de...
This paper analyses the unique reaction of the Jewish community of London against a sermon of auto-da-fé. The sermon preached by D. Diogo da Anunciação Justiniano on the 6th of September of 1705, in Lisbon, led the rabbi David Nieto to write a reply, which was printed after his death in 1728. The same text would generate another reply written by an anonymous Portuguese Jew. This paper will e...
Sports marketing is a dynamic subject area linking academic research, marketing practitioners and public policy planners. To provide an experience that meets or exceeds a spectator’s expectations, it is important to understand consumer behaviour (e.g., behavioural intentions) and the brand attachment in specific sports marketing contexts. The main purpose of this study is to analyse how brand attachment relates...
O futebol é um fenómeno de grande relevância em todo o mundo. O seu poder de influência é cada vez maior, o que o torna numa referência não só no setor social e cultural, mas também a nível económico ou turístico. O presente estudo tem como propósito apresentar uma reflexão em torno da relação entre o apego à marca (teoria do attachment) e o comportamento do consumidor (lealdade à marca, compromisso à marca, sa...
Livro de resumos do Colóquio Novas Fronteiras | Novas Culturas - O impacto económico da Expansão Portuguesa na Europa (séculos XV-XVII). Sob uma perspectiva económica, revista-se o processo da Expansão Portuguesa, sem descurar as suas raízes medievais, bem como as contribuições extra-europeias, numa abordagem plural e transdisciplinar.
Elected in 1723, Isaac de Sequeira Samuda (1681–1729) was the first Jewish Fellow of the Royal Society. He had arrived in London just a few years earlier, escaping from the Portuguese Inquisition. Despite his past, he had no difficulty in establishing links with his country's diplomatic representatives in London. A physician and adviser on scientific subjects, he became a conduit between the emerging world of P...