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Economic cooperation for mutual development
Murteira, MárioBefore the recent reinforcement inside the tensions inherent in the international capitalist system, the stabilization in the expansion of the basic products trade, the controle over the activity of multinational corporations, and the cooperation for the diffusion of scientific and technological progress used to be prevailing themes of the so-called worldly economic cooperation. However the practice of internat...
Believers and converted: the Republic in provinces (October 1910-May 1911)
Pulido Valente, VascoThe Portuguese Republican Party, that assumed the government after the fall of Monarchy, was a petty-bourgeois movement, the force of which was concentrated mainly in the two most important towns in the country. In order to be practicable, the Republic needed to find or build a larger support basis, either in the whole territory or among the working classes. In a previous article it was shown that the Provision...
On the demographic prospects in the southern Portugal: the fall of fertility: (...
Nazareth, Joaquim ManuelThe main variable of demographic dynamics - the relationship of which with the economic and social dynamics is complex but none the less fundamental for that - is the fertility of populations. Studying this variable, according to Coale's method, in the southern Portugal, one concludes that it is undergoing a fall movement, ascertainable after the beginning of this century. The effects of such a fall upon the ev...
The Portuguese emigrant worker in the capitalist industrial society
Serra , EduardoThe «gratification» the Portuguese emigrant gets through industrial work depends on his «adjustment» to the foreign industrial society; but this adjustment is difficult a priori, if not impossible, on account of this situation of marginality. After discussing the theoretical bases of the question, the author follows the social-professional itinerary of the Portuguese emigrant taking for a starting point the dat...
Education and capitalism: a certain political economy of recurrent education
Melo, AlbertoIn the beginning of the sixties the governments of the main capitalist countries considered the quick expansion of formal teaching as the basic factor for the economic growth and the social stabilization. The question was to use teaching in order to «adjust» the manpower to the «necessities of economy», that is to the new characteristics of enterprises and of the processus of capitalist acumulation. As such an ...
On the Algerian agrarian revolution
Bandarra, Álvaro; Jazra, NellyAfter giving a short account of the Algerian agriculture - remarking a socialist (or self-governed) sector, a private sector and a cooperative sector -, the authors analyse with a special attention the structures of the private sector, the main target for the agrarian revolution. Then they describe the ends aimed at by this revolution, underlying its two main aspects: the raise in the agricultural production le...
For the foundation of an Open University in Portugal
Grupo de Trabalho para o Estudo do Ensino Superior a DistânciaThis text is the final chapter, entitled «Synopsis and advice», of a report worked out by the Work Group for Studying the Higher Education at Distance. This Group has been constituted by the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Culture in order to establish an Open University in Portugal. These are the points dealt with: features, methodology and conditions of the efficiency of education at distance; the proble...
The role of religiosity and spiritual care in health and well-being
Mónico, LiseteReligion and other forms of spirituality are personal and social resources currently used by millions of people to deal with adversities and search for well-being and self-development. Despite the importance given to physical and mental health, research shows that spiritual care is a core component of human psyche, and social and spiritual well-being is a critical component of holistic care. If among people rel...
Chronic nimesulide use impairs exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy
Almeida, Ronaldo; Motta da Fonseca, Ayron; da Silva Santos, Jéssica; de Sousa Amorim, Letícia; Abrahão Strauch, MarceloNimesulide is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used for the treatment of pain and inflammation. This exploratory study evaluated whether nimesulide administration concomitant with resistance training (RT) was associated with differences in performance, the heart mass-to-body mass ratio, and ex vivo cardiac function. Male Wistar rats were allocated to three groups: CTRLL (control, n = 4), TR (8 wee...