Th. 3e cycle--Sci. des religions--Paris 4, 1986.

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André Soares (Braga, 1720-1769) foi um criador de obras de arquitetura, talha, ferro, desenho e cartografia. A sua grande capacidade financeira permitiu-lhe não precisar de trabalhar. Como era corrente na época, as suas obras dividem-se por duas correntes artísticas: o rococó e o tardobarroco. O rococó chegou a Braga pela mão do arcebispo D. José de Bragança (1741-1756). André Soares beneficiou do seu apoio ao ser escolhido para desenhar o novo Paço Arquiepiscopal, em que oscilou entre o gosto joanino e os novos valores do rococó. Rapidamente, porém, mudou para o novo estilo, de que são exemplos a nova fachada da Capela de Santa Maria Madalena da Falperra e o Palácio do Raio. Mas também fez muito rapidamente uma nova inflexão decisiva: as obras de arquitectura passaram a ter um desenho que se revê num tardobarroco desornamentado e as de talha mantiveram-se num rococó vibrante, ideias que manteve até ao final da sua vida. A sua obra está espalhada um pouco por todo o Norte de Portugal: Braga, Viana do Castelo, Ponte de Lima, Arcos de Valdevez, Vila Verde, Esposende, Guimarães e Vila Nova de Gaia (esta perdida).

Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Civil. Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Engenharia.. 2010

Tese de mestrado. Design Industrial. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2009

This study evaluates some possible agricultural household responses to changes in output prices due to Portugal's entry into the EC. The patterns of interest were, continuing expansion in farming, continuing part-time farming and leaving farming. Farm accounts were used to model different farm types and evaluate their farm returns. Simulations were performed, using different technologies, levels of family labor availability, and land area. The results show that part-time farming is a viable alternative in the northwest region and that there are strong economic incentives for traditional farms to specialize and adopt more modern technologies. The dairy system exhibits the highest returns. Traditional farms that do not have some available fixed family labor will face pressures to leave farming; but since family labor with low opportunity cost is more available on the small traditional farms, farm size is not expected to expand rapidly because leaving farming is not likely in a great way. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)

Estágio realizado na Administração da Região Hidrográfica do Norte, I. P. - e orientado pelo seu Presidente António Guerreiro de Brito / Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia do Ambiente (Área de Especialização de Projeto). Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2012

Bénéficiant d'une relative prospérité, la province de Braga, dans le nord-ouest du Portugal, qu'on appelle traditionnellement le Minho, a vu fleurir, dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, un nombre assez considérable et relativement homogène d'œuvres d'art fortement inspirées par l'ornementation rocaille parisienne et augsbourgeoise mais d'une indéniable originalité et d'une remarquable qualité. Loin de l'image d'un art collectif, anonyme et traditionnel, ce «rococo minhote» tire sa vitalité d'individualités créatrices qui peuvent s'exprimer dans la continuité, grâce, d'une part, à la virtuosité de tailleurs de pierre et de sculpteurs sur bois sachant donner vie à leurs projets d'architecture et de retables les plus difficiles, et, d'autre part, à la rivalité de quelques commanditaires soucieux d'actualité et de qualité esthétiques encouragés à l'ostentation par la présence successive de deux archevêques de sang royal à la tête de la province. Aux figures déjà connues mais reconsidérées de l'amateur André Soares (1720-1769) et du moine sculpteur Frère José Vilaça (1731-1809), viennent se joindre, plus ou moins hypothétiquement, celles du père António Soares da Silva (1716-1770), du jeune Carlos Amarante (1748-1815), plus connu pour sa très classique église du Bom Jesus, du sculpteur António da Cunha Correia Vale et d'un anonyme «maître de Labruja», parmi d'autres artistes plus ou moins obscurs ou actifs. / In the second half of the Eighteenth Century, numerous works of art of outstanding quality and of great originality have been created in the province of Braga, traditionally known as Minho, in the North-West of Portugal. Influenced by Rococo prints and books from Paris and Augsburg, their creators could refine continuously their design thanks to the virtuosity of stone and wood carvers who were able to give life to their most difficult projects and thanks to the rivalry of some patrons who were interested by novelty and quality in art, encouraged by the religious rulers of the province, two Archbishops that were sons of successive Kings. The leading figures, André Soares (1720-1769) and the monk sculptor Brother José Vilaça, have been known since long time, but are reconsidered, and new figures emerge: Father António Soares da Silva (1716-1770), the elder brother of André; the young Carlos Amarante (1748-1815), better known for his classical Bom Jesus church; the sculptor António da Cunha Correia Vale; and an anonymous '"Master of Labruja", between more or less obscurs craftsmen and more or Jess actives artists.

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An investigation was undertaken to better understand the hydrogeologic framework of the Rio Cobre and Rio Minho-Milk river basins, Jamaica, West Indies. A quasi three-dimensional finite-difference groundwater flow model was used to conceptualize flow conditions and establish a hydrogeologic budget of the region. The Rio Cobre and Rio Minho-Milk river basins lie on the Clarendon Block, an area with a complex geologic history. The geologic history includes: 1) the intrusion of calc-alkaline granites, 2) morphotectonic sedimentation, 3) three episodes of deformation by transpressional and transcurrent tectonics, 4) the deposition of a highly permeable, Tertiary carbonate platform, and 5) the development of near surface karst oriented with the major NNW-SSE fault trend in the basins. Since deposition, compression, faulting, and solution have modified the distribution and thickness of carbonate rocks impacting the ground-water flow of the region. The most notable features are the older NNW-SSE trend dip-slip faults and the younger E-W trend strike-slip faults, notably the South Coast Fault (SCF) formed during the Laramide Orogeny. The White Limestone aquifer is the principal aquifer of the Rio Cobre and Rio Minho-Milk river basins in the parishes of St. Catherine, Clarendon, and partly in Manchester. It is characterized by intercalated sequences of permeable rubbly and micritic carbonate rocks. The age of the rocks range from Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to Recent. The permeability of the South Coast fault and the high hydraulic conductivity value associated with the Tertiary carbonate platform (480 m/d) in the Lower Rio Minho-Milk River basin control the gradient of the potentiometric surface and ground water flow in that region The agreement between the measured and the simulated hydraulic heads obtained for this steady-state model suggests that the values assigned to the hydraulic properties that characterize the ground-water flow of the White Limestone aquifer are reasonable. Recharge to the area occurs as net recharge in addition to upland subsurface inflow across the general head boundary in the northern part of the study area. Comparisons of calculated and observed values of head indicate that simulated groundwater flow field generally agree with field conditions. Several simplifying assumptions were made for the conceptualization and simulation of flow in the basins: 1) during the 1998 water year, ground-water in the basins was considered at steady-state, 2) pumping does not significantly affect the level of hydraulic heads; therefore pumping wells are not simulated, 3) Net recharge from precipitation varies spatially, 4) karstification and aquifer heterogeneity impact on the distribution of hydraulic conductivity, 5) Darcy's law is applicable to flow through the fractures and solutions openings in a karst region, 6) flow in the White Limestone aquifer occurs in the uppermost 650 m and vertical flow is assumed to be controlled by intervening units, 7) evaporation was not explicitly simulated in the model. Recharge rates were considered as "net recharge," and 8) submarine discharge occurs from the aquifer along the coast where aquifers are hydraulically connected to the sea. Ground-water flow in the basins was conceptualized as a quasi three-dimensional flow system in which two model layers were used. The model boundaries selected to represent natural hydrologic boundaries include (1) a no-flow along the western and eastern boundaries, (2) a constant head boundary along the freshwater/saltwater interface; (3) a general head boundary along the northern boundary; and (4) a horizontal-flow barrier boundary along the South Coast Fault; and (5) river leakage boundaries along major rivers draining the coastal basins. The simulated region is an area of 2,550 square kilometers, two-thirds of which is hilly and the remainder, irrigated plains with small swamps draining the area. The model consists of over 337,500 cells and employed a regular grid spacing of 200m x 160m. The model was designed and calibrated to steady-state conditions from data observed/estimated during water year 1998. The Water Resources Authority of Jamaica (WRAJ) will use the results of the modeling study as a predictive tool for long-term management and monitoring of water resources in the region. The model was calibrated using a manual trial-and-error adjustment of parameters. Hydraulic conductivity values in both model layers, hydraulic conductivity at the general-head boundary, and streambed conductance were adjusted during successive simulations until computed head values approximated field conditions. The computed potentiometric surface is an adequate or reasonable match on a regional scale, with the general horizontal hydraulic gradient oriented with the main fault trend NNW-SSE in both basins. Sensitivity tests of the calibrated model were conducted on net recharge, hydraulic conductivity, hydraulic conductivity assigned along the general-head boundary, and streambed vertical conductance to determine if differences between simulated and observed values were similar to the range of uncertainty in the values of input data and boundary conditions. Based on the results obtained from the sensitivity analysis, it is apparent that the model is extremely sensitive to changes in horizontal hydraulic conductivity and recharge in the form of precipitation. The model is least sensitive to streambed vertical hydraulic conductivity. / Master of Science