A comunicação do compromisso para com o desenvolvimento sustentável, das organizações portuguesas certificadas em qualidade, ambiente e segurança

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial (área de especialização em Qualidade, Segurança e Manutenção)

Numerical modeling and assessment of the thermal environment in an industrial premise of automotive components

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial

Social entrepreneurship: does institutional environment make a difference?

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the link between social entrepreneurs and institutional environment in Portugal. A quantitative approach is used in the study, and primary data were collected through an online survey. A questionnaire was emailed to, both, Portuguese Non-Governmental organizations and projects available on the Portuguese social stock exchange. In the analysis of the data were used descriptive statistics, factorial analysis and t-student tests to validate (or not) the research hypotheses. The results show that a favorable institutional environment has a low importance in the decision to develop social initiatives. This conclusion supports the idea that many social entrepreneurs can emerge even in developing regions where the institutional environment is weak. Therefore, social entrepreneurship could be an instrument of regional development and contribute to attenuate the social and economic differences among Portuguese regions.

Automatic eye blink detection using consumer web cameras

This research aims to advance blinking detection in the context of work activity. Rather than patients having to attend a clinic, blinking videos can be acquired in a work environment, and further automatically analyzed. Therefore, this paper presents a methodology to perform the automatic detection of eye blink using consumer videos acquired with low-cost web cameras. This methodology includes the detection of the face and eyes of the recorded person, and then it analyzes the low-level features of the eye region to create a quantitative vector. Finally, this vector is classified into one of the two categories considered —open and closed eyes— by using machine learning algorithms. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology was demonstrated since it provides unbiased results with classification errors under 5%

Automatização e otimização do escalonamento de pessoal hospitalar

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia de Sistemas

Design of mechatronic system for handling bedridden people

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Mecatrónica

External and internal dynamics in the EU's counter-terrorism policy: a political and legal analysis

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais

Hume e o problema moral

Tese de Doutoramento em Filosofia (área de especialização em Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea).

Resilience of concrete structures in the marine environment through microstructural innovation

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

Treating the entire person

[Excerpt] A critical case from a Portuguese hospital reveals how the ultimate healthcare customer, the patient, is a complete system, not a jumble of parts. (...) The lean production philosophy has made inroads into service sectors, including medical care in the United Kingdom and the United States. Unfortunately, numerous medical organizations in those two countries and the rest of the world treat patients like they are made up of parts, not as a whole system. This leads to disjointed handoffs, bottlenecks in information flow that delay treatment, and sending the patient back and forth from department to department. The following case in Portugal shows how most of the world’s health systems still suffer from functional silos and how waste is all over the place. In this case, the missing links in communication between doctors, nurses, auxiliary staff, the patient and her family led to the patient’s death. Adopting lean healthcare with its proven tools would be a solution to many of the problems described. When a patient dies in a hospital, the family often is told that the doctors did everything they could. Normally, that is the case, as healthcare providers – doctors, nurses, auxiliary staff, therapists – do their best with the system they have.

A morte em cuidados intensivos: uma reflexão fenomenológica sobre a experiência dos enfermeiros

Dissertação de mestrado em Enfermagem da Pessoa em Situação Crítica

O stalking no ordenamento jurídico português: considerações empírico-jurídicas

Dissertação de mestrado em Crime, Diferença e Desigualdade

Determinação da medida da pena privativa de liberdade: um olhar crítico a partir do direito anglo-saxónico

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências Jurídicas - Área de Ciências Jurídicas Públicas

Fase da instrução: quo vadis?: repensar o sentido da instrução no processo penal português

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito Judiciário (Direitos Processuais e Organização Judiciária)

A Prova por reconhecimento de pessoas produzida ex novo em sede de audiência de julgamento: fiabilidade e impacto na descoberta da verdade material

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito Judiciário (Direitos Processuais e Organização Judiciária)