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Can an environmentally sustainable construction be affordable?
Mendonça, Paulo; Vieira, ClaraThe development strategy based on unlimited economic growth has been increasing extraction and consumption of natural resources and is responsible for pollutant emissions and wastes, on such a way that we risk of rapidly depleting planet earth. And although there is an awareness on optimizing available economic resources and an effort to reduce the environmental impact of production, what is certain is that pol...
Road infrastructure resilience to climate change: a hydrological-based model fo...
Ramísio, Paulo J.; Vieira, Clara; Sousa, FernandoClimate change is increasing the incidence and severity of extreme weather events around the world, and flooding is a growing risk factor for road infrastructure drainage systems. Extreme events are becoming more frequent, more intense and of longer duration, and heavy precipitation is no exception, so flooding is also becoming more frequent and of greater magnitude. Hydrodynamic modelling of the hydrological p...
A hydrological-based model for the estimation of road drainage infrastructures ...
Ramísio, Paulo J.; Vieira, Clara; Sousa, FernandoFlood events are one of the greatest risk factors associated with road drainage infrastructures and climate change has been increasing the uncertainty around hydrological phenomena. Also, the large increase in population, and its concentration in dense urban centers, has promoted a significant increase in soil imperviousness, leading to a scenario where, for the same hyetograph, the resulting hydrograph shows a...
Strategies for green architecture: case studies in Portugal
Mendonça, Paulo; Daruari, Harish; Vieira, Clara; Rocha, AntonietaThe objective of this research focuses on defining appropriate strategies to accomplish green architecture fulfilling the contemporary expectations of lifestyle yet, maintaining the local identity. The construction systems of exterior walls and horizontal elements of housing buildings in Portugal are generally heavyweight. Although concrete and brick allow high thermal inertia and acoustic insulation, these mat...
Mapping pilgrims’ experience of walking the Saint James way through the lens of...
Vieira, Clara; Cunha, Jennifer; Nunes, Ana Rita; Ribeiro, Luísa Mota; Rosário, PedroThe Way of St. James is a very well-known and ancient pilgrimage, with various routes leading pilgrims to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where the remains of Saint James are buried. Over the last few years, the experience of the pilgrimage and the growing number of pilgrims walking the Saint James Way have been attracting researchers’ attention. However, studies attempting to understand the p...
Embodied carbon and economic cost analysis of a contemporary house design using...
Mendonça, Paulo; Vieira, ClaraThis paper presents a house design that uses adobe in the walls and wood in the roof, a mixed building system that vernacular houses in the region where it is located already use, however it presents a contemporary strategy based on less, more natural, reused, and local materials, implying also less transport. The environmental impact analysis of the Case Study was made considering the Embodied Carbon of the co...
A very rare cause of infantile spasms
Fonseca, Margarida Silva; Vieira, Clara; Chorão, Rui; Bandeira, Anabela; Carrilho, InêsPsychomotor development regression or delay associated with epilepsy represent a diagnostic challenge. The diagnostic approach should take into account age group, epileptic syndrome, physical and neurological data, and organ and/or system involvement. Herein is reported the case of a toddler for whom hair development, epileptic seizure evolution, and electroencephalographic findings were key for Menkes kinky ha...
A very rare cause of infantile spasms
Fonseca, Margarida Silva; Vieira, Clara; Chorão, Rui; Bandeira, Anabela; Carrilho, InêsPsychomotor development regression or delay associated with epilepsy represent a diagnostic challenge. The diagnostic approach should take into account age group, epileptic syndrome, physical and neurological data, and organ and/or system involvement. Herein is reported the case of a toddler for whom hair development, epileptic seizure evolution, and electroencephalographic findings were key for Menkes kinky ha...
Workers’ housing in Lisbon in the second half of the nineteenth century
Vieira, ClaraDuring the second half of the nineteenth century, the epidemics that plagued Lisbon and the installation of factories in the peripheral areas of the city attracting labor, led to the change in the way of inhabiting the capital. While the population of the middle and upper classes feared to be affected by diseases that attributed the lack of health conditions in poor neighborhoods, newcomers settled ...
“COVID-19 em Sarilhos”: respostas de intervenção na promoção de competências au...
Rosário, Pedro; Cunha, Jennifer; Pereira, Armanda; Guimarães, Ana; Vieira, Clara; Lopes, Dulce; Sousa, Patrícia[Excerto] A pandemia COVID-19 desarrumou as nossas vidas sem aviso prévio. A chegada repentina trouxe inúmeros desafios pessoais e sociais com impacto significativo na vida das pessoas e dos contextos. As medidas contra a propagação do vírus (e.g., o encerramento das escolas, teletrabalho) trouxeram mudanças significativas para a vida das famílias. Por exemplo, a noção de casa foi resignificada abruptamente. A ...