Gender norms in Portuguese college sudents' judgments in familial homicides: bad men and mad women

The gender of the offender has been proved to be an important factor in judicial sentencing. In this study, we analyze the judgments of College students regarding perpetrators of familial homicides to evaluate the presence of these gender norms and biases in the larger society. The sample included 303 college students (54.8% female) enrolled in several social sciences and engineering courses. Participants were asked to read 12 vignettes based on real crimes taken from Portuguese newspapers. Half were related to infanticide, and half were related to intimate partner homicide. The sex of the offender was orthogonally manipulated to the type of crime. The results show that gender had an important impact on sentences, with males being more harshly penalized by reasons of perversity and women less penalized by reason of mental disorders. In addition, filicide was more heavily penalized than was intimate partner homicide. The results also revealed a tendency toward a retributive conception of punishment. We discuss how gender norms in justice seem to be embedded in society as well as the need for intervention against the punitive tendency of this population.

A Felicidade quer ser tua Amiga: educar para os valores na Creche e no Jardim de Infância

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar

Avaliação do desempenho de fundos de investimento de obrigações: evidência para o mercado Brasileiro

Dissertação de mestrado em Finanças

Equity offerings, stock price crash risk, and the impact of securities regulation: international evidence

We examine whether earnings manipulation around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) is associated with an increase in the likelihood of a stock price crash post-issue and test whether the enactment of securities regulations attenuate the relation between SEOs and crash risk. Empirical evidence documents that managerial tendency to conceal bad news increases the likelihood of a stock price crash (Jin and Myers, 2006; Hutton, Marcus, and Tehranian, 2009). We test this hypothesis using a sample of firms from 29 EU countries that enacted the Market Abuse Directive (MAD). Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that equity issuers that engage in earnings management experience a significant increase in crash risk post-SEO relative to control groups of non-issuers; this effect is stronger for equity issuers with poor information environments. In addition, our findings show a significant decline in crash risk post-issue after the enactment of MAD that is stronger for firms that actively manage earnings. This decline in post-issue crash risk is more effective in countries with high ex-ante institutional quality and enforcement. These results suggest that the implementation of MAD helps to mitigate managers’ ability to manipulate earnings around SEOs.

Systematic design analysis and risk management on engineered nanoparticles occupational exposure

The production of nanotechnology-based products is increasing, along with the conscience of the possible harmful effects of some nanomaterials. The “safety-by-design” approaches are getting attention as helpful tools to develop safer products and production processes. The Systematic Design Analysis Approach could help to identify the solutions to control the workplace risks by defining the emission and exposure scenarios and the possible barriers to interrupt them. By applying this approach in a photocatalytic ceramic tiles development project it was possible to identify relevant nanoparticles emission scenarios and related barriers, and defining possible ways to reduce it.

The greener grass: da autorrepresentação em Alanis Morissette

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Literatura - Especialidade em Teoria da Literatura

A new empirical system for rock slope stability analysis in exploitation stage

An empirical system was developed to obtain a quality index for rock slopes in road infrastructures, named Slope Quality Index (SQI), and it was applied to a set of real slopes.The SQI is supported in nine factors affecting slope stability that contemplate the evaluation of different parameters. Consequently, each factor is classified by the degree of importance and influence by assigned weights. These weights were established through a statistical analysis of replies to a survey that was distributed to several experienced professionals in the field. The proposed SQI varies between1 and 5, corresponding to slopes in very good and very bad condition state, respectively. Besides the advantage linked to a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of slopes, theSQI also allows identifying the most critical factors on the slope stability, which is a fundamental issue for an efficient management of the slope network in the road infrastructure, namely in the planning of conservation and maintenance operations.

SQI – A quality assessment index for rock slopes

In this work, an empirical system was developed to obtain a quality index for rock slopes in road infrastructures, named Slope Quality Index (SQI), and it was applied to a set of real slopes. The SQI is supported in nine factors affecting slope stability that contemplate the evaluation of different parameters. Consequently, each factor is classified by degree of importance and influence by assigned weights. These weights were established through a statistical analysis of replies to a survey that was distributed to several experienced professionals in the field. The proposed SQI varies between 1 and 5, corresponding to slopes in very good and very bad condition state, respectively. Besides the advantage linked to a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of slopes, the SQI also allows identifying the most critical factors on the slope stability, which is a fundamental issue for an efficient management of the slope network in the road infrastructure, namely in the planning of conservation and maintenance operations.

Uma ontologia para os processos de negócio da Administração

O órgão coordenador da política arquivística portuguesa promoveu a constituição de uma Lista consolidada (LC) de processos de processos de negócio da Administração Pública (AP). Esta lista de natureza incremental e colaborativa foi desenvolvida a partir da identificação de uma macroestrutura representativa das funções exercidas pela AP, a Macroestrutura Funcional (MEF). Concretizado este produto e colocado à disposição da comunidade, na página oficial da Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (DGLAB), importa potenciar a sua aplicabilidade. Neste sentido, encontra-se em curso um projeto que envolve os autores, em contexto universitário, orientado para o desenvolvimento de um vocabulário formal, um modelo de dados que represente este conjunto de conceitos referentes aos processos de negócio e aos relacionamentos entre eles. Pretende-se que esta ontologia possa vir a ser disponibilizada em listas ou diretórios de ontologias com mecanismos de pesquisa (bibliotecas de ontologias) de modo a incrementar a sua utilização na websemântica, para além da sua utilização como esquema de classificação em sistemas eletrónicos de gestão de arquivos (SEGA), businesse intelligence systems e sistemas de gestão do conhecimento. Com esta comunicação pretende-se dar a conhecer à comunidade de profissionais um projeto de aplicação transversal para todas as entidades públicas e para as empresas com interesse na área.

Further results on the inverse along an element in semigroups and rings

In this paper, we introduce a new notion in a semigroup $S$ as an extension of Mary's inverse. Let $a,d\in S$. An element $a$ is called left (resp. right) invertible along $d$ if there exists $b\in S$ such that $bad=d$ (resp. $dab=b$) and $b\leq_\mathcal{L}d$ (resp. $b\leq_\mathcal{R}d$). An existence criterion of this type inverse is derived. Moreover, several characterizations of left (right) regularity, left (right) $\pi$-regularity and left (right) $*$-regularity are given in a semigroup. Further, another existence criterion of this type inverse is given by means of a left (right) invertibility of certain elements in a ring. Finally we study the (left, right) inverse along a product in a ring, and, as an application, Mary's inverse along a matrix is expressed.

Sistema inteligente para análise do posicionamento de árbitros de futebol

Dissertação de mestrado em Sistemas de Informação

Estudo numérico sobre o reforço de pilares de betão armado com cantoneiras e presilhas metálicas: análise paramétrica e modelo de cálculo

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

Aplicação da linha de equilíbrio no planeamento e controlo da construção

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

Modelling and verifying smell-free architectures with the Archery language

Architectural (bad) smells are design decisions found in software architectures that degrade the ability of systems to evolve. This paper presents an approach to verify that a software architecture is smellfree using the Archery architectural description language. The language provides a core for modelling software architectures and an extension for specifying constraints. The approach consists in precisely specifying architectural smells as constraints, and then verifying that software architectures do not satisfy any of them. The constraint language is based on a propositional modal logic with recursion that includes: a converse operator for relations among architectural concepts, graded modalities for describing the cardinality in such relations, and nominals referencing architectural elements. Four architectural smells illustrate the approach.

Programa de medidas do Plano de Gestão da Região Hidrográfica 2 (PGRH2): avaliação da bacia hidrográfica do Ave

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Geografia (área de especialização em Planeamento e Gestão do Território)