Economia da cibercultura: A exclusão digital (Digital Divide)

Exclusão Digital (Digital Divide): Estatísticas da desigualdade; The Global Digital Divide; The Exploding Internet 2008; Uso da Internet em 2013. Nuvem semântica dos Media Sociais. Natureza qualitativa da exclusão. Exclusão de poder. Economia política da cibercultura. Classes e ciberpoder. Conetados e não-conetados.

Aggregating community resources of care and assistance services for the elderly population

Changes in population age structure are a major concern and represent a priority in the agendas and policies of the developed world, which are demanding for renewed models of social and healthcare as well as assistance services to the elderly population. Studies indicate that as far as possible these types of services should desirably be provided at the user’s home, and that ICT-based solutions can have tremendous impact on the delivery of new services. This paper highlight and discusses some of the main results of a project undertaken in a Portuguese Municipality that demonstrates the potential contribution of an e-Marketplace of care and assistance services to the well-being of elderly people. Studies undertaken allowed identifying the main services that should be provided by such e-Marketplace (termed GuiMarket), the relevance that the population grant to this platform and, conversely, the fact that the Digital Divide phenomena influences the potential utilization of this project (and alike projects). The findings support that there is a strong relation between age and qualifications, and between access to ICT and the intended use of GuiMarket.

Construção de um manual de codificação e interpretação de memórias autobiográficas

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Psicologia

Use of a polyphasic approach including MALDI-TOF MS for identification of Aspergillus section Flavi strains isolated from food commodities in Brazil

Brazil is one the largest producers and exporters of food commodities in the world. The evaluation of fungi capable of spoilage and the production mycotoxins in these commodities is an important issue that can be of help in bioeconomic development. The present work aimed to identify fungi of the genus Aspergillus section Flavi isolated from different food commodities in Brazil. Thirty-five fungal isolates belonging to the section Flavi were identified and characterised. Different classic phenotypic and genotypic methodologies were used, as well as a novel approach based on proteomic profiles produced by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). Type or reference strains for each taxonomic group were included in this study. Three isolates that presented discordant identification patterns were further analysed using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and calmodulin gene sequences. The data obtained from the phenotypic and spectral analyses divide the isolates into three groups, corresponding to taxa closely related to Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus parasiticus, and Aspergillus tamarii. Final polyphasic fungal identification was achieved by joining data from molecular analyses, classical morphology, and biochemical and proteomic profiles generated by MALDI-TOF MS.

Corpo e pós-corpo: Etnias, género, sexualidades e feminismo

Lisa Nakamura: cybertypes. Racialização da Internet: Pós-colonialismo: Edward Said e Homi Bhabha; Resistência ao colonialismo pós-colonial; Fundamentalismo democrático versus opinião pública em sociedades fundamentalistas. Género e sexualidades: Acesso à rede; Inovação tecnológica no feminino; Representações do género; Digital divide e género; Mulheres mais ativas nas redes sociais digitais; Mulheres nos media sociais: razões; Homens lideram blogues; Feminismo no ciberespaço; Projeto1: Mulheres e fundamentalismos; Género e tipos de utilizadores.

Máquina-ferramenta CNC para gravação: desenvolvimento de protótipo de baixo-custo

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Mecatrónica

Processo de intervenção no espaço urbano de Braga: Espaço coletivo como novo estrato de relações

Dissertação de mestrado - Área de especialização Arquitetura Cidade e Território

Document-based databases: estudo comparativo no âmbito das bases de dados NoSql

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

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

Repensar a gestão de crises em redes sociais: o caso do voo MH370

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Publicidade e Relações Públicas)

Fatores de motivação ou desmotivação para a prática do desporto escolar

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ensino da Educação Física no Ensino Básico e Secundário

As fontes jornalísticas na era digital: relações e encenação

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Informação e Jornalismo)

Tapping the wealth of microbial data in high-throughput metabolic model reconstruction

Genome-scale metabolic models are valuable tools in the metabolic engineering process, based on the ability of these models to integrate diverse sources of data to produce global predictions of organism behavior. At the most basic level, these models require only a genome sequence to construct, and once built, they may be used to predict essential genes, culture conditions, pathway utilization, and the modifications required to enhance a desired organism behavior. In this chapter, we address two key challenges associated with the reconstruction of metabolic models: (a) leveraging existing knowledge of microbiology, biochemistry, and available omics data to produce the best possible model; and (b) applying available tools and data to automate the reconstruction process. We consider these challenges as we progress through the model reconstruction process, beginning with genome assembly, and culminating in the integration of constraints to capture the impact of transcriptional regulation. We divide the reconstruction process into ten distinct steps: (1) genome assembly from sequenced reads; (2) automated structural and functional annotation; (3) phylogenetic tree-based curation of genome annotations; (4) assembly and standardization of biochemistry database; (5) genome-scale metabolic reconstruction; (6) generation of core metabolic model; (7) generation of biomass composition reaction; (8) completion of draft metabolic model; (9) curation of metabolic model; and (10) integration of regulatory constraints. Each of these ten steps is documented in detail.