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- Serra da Estrela : an approach to the territory, its potential and future for the winter tourism industryPublication . Garcia, Raul RessanoThis paper aims to explore the territory of “Serra da Estrela”, in the North of Portugal, bearing in mind some studies previously undertaken about tourism in the area, mainly focusing on snow tourism. Being snow tourism essentially connected with sports tourism the approach and methodology followed in this article is a sport related one. The literature review which was undergone raised some questions to which answers were sometimes hard to find. Nevertheless, after analyzing some published surveys and getting acquainted with the region, the article provides answers or leads to matters such as: temperature related issues, artificial snow production, renewal of infrastructures, and others. The aim of this article is to initiate a first approach to the territory, get to know its main problems and analyse some proposals to solve some of the latter as suggested by some of the analysed case studies. Personal experience from 35 years of practical experience in winter sports is also provided.
- Accounting software for students - An efficient toolPublication . Garcia, Raul RessanoThe aim of this paper is to demonstrate how technology in the classroom can be a useful tool for both students and teachers as far as accounting is concerned. Having in mind my students’ needs I designed an accounting software which allows students to work quickly and more efficiently. With this software students introduce the movements and the software provides the daily journal record, account statements and balance sheets. By doing this, the students can introduce their entries and automatically view the consequences in the account maps of the movements they have just introduced. The software was planned from the beginning to be used for educational purposes only and, as such, it is not subjected to any obligations imposed by law. It was made to run over Access from Microsoft making this software accessible to almost everyone. The software was built using a recursive relationship between a table and itself which assures the sums of the higher level results are presented in lower levels accounts. This way students can make one account entry and immediately see the results in daily journal records, account statements and balance sheets. The outcome is a valid and reliable software. A simple, accurate, straightforward and user-friendly tool which provides immediate feedback to students’ daily launches.
- O pão nas festividades tradicionais: a Páscoa e as festas em honra do Espírito SantoPublication . MOREIRA, RaquelO pão marca presença quotidiana na mesa, seja como complemento da refeição, seja como ingrediente (tantas vezes central) em diversos pratos, característicos sobretudo do Sul do país. Mas o pão é também um alimento espiritual à sua relevância em termos nutricionais, corresponde um importante significado simbólico-religioso, que se manisfesta quer na eucaristia, quer ao nível da cultura popular. Nesse sentido, o pão é venerado em diversas festividades, através de rituais que testemunharam a sua forte dimensão de sacralidade. De entre elas, pelo papel conferido ao pão, a Páscoa e as Festas em Honra do Espírito Santo assumem um carácter particular no contexto das festividades tradicionais portuguesas. O tema desta comunicação incide essencialmente na análise desse papel, articulando-o com a importância do pão enquanto alimento propriamente dito. Nesse sentido, a primeira parte do texto diz respeito a esta última vertente, apresentando-se uma breve caracterização das diferentes formas de consumo associadas ao pão. Na segunda parte do texto é desenvolvida a abordagem da dimensão da sacralidade do pão, referindo-se diversos aspectos reveladores dessa mesma sacralidade, e analisando-se em particular as festividades acima referidas.
- Memoria y patrimonio alimentario: la importancia de los saberes empiricosPublication . MOREIRA, RaquelEsta comunicación constituye una reflexión sobre el papel del patrimonio alimentario local, que se basa en saberes de naturaleza predominantemente empírica, en el ámbito de procesos más vastos de valorización cultural como recurso de modelos de desarrollo de pequeños territorios. En concreto, la reflexión que ahora se presenta se basa en la observación realizada en Portugal, en dos territorios distintos: uno de planicie, localizado en el Alentejo, en el sur del país; otro de montaña, localizado en la Beira Baixa, en el centro/norte interior. El texto está estructurado en tres partes: la primera trata de la emergencia de la valorización del patrimonio alimentario local; la segunda, del análisis de su relación con el desarrollo local, a partir de los dos territorios referidos; finalmente, la tercera y última parte, trata de la necesidad de estudiar las formas de transmisión y estructuración de los saberes alimentarios y culinarios, como uno de los ejes de pesquisa para profundizar la problemática enunciada, presentando algunas de las características de estos tipos de procesos.