O desempenho empresarial no âmbito da análise dos factores explicativos da rendibilidade anormal anual das acções das empresas cotadas no mercado de capitais português

A relevância da informação existente no mercado de capitais na explicação da rendibilidade das acções das empresas é um dos temas actuais de estudo da literatura financeira. O debate sobre esta temática tem-se centrado na avaliação dos indicadores que se apresentam mais apropriados para explicar a rendibilidade das acções das empresas. Esta dissertação procura dar um contributo no sentido de enriquecer a evidência empírica acerca dos factores explicativos da rendibilidade apresentada pelas acções das empresas no mercado de capitais. Em particular, investiga-se o efeito de um conjunto de indicadores de desempenho empresarial, sectoriais, macroeconómicos e específicos ao mercado de capitais na explicação da rendibilidade anormal das acções da empresa no mercado de capitais português. Investiga-se ainda a possibilidade destes mesmos indicadores apresentarem uma explicação distinta na rendibilidade anormal das acções nas empresas que integram o índice bolsista PSI 20. Utilizando uma amostra de 54 empresas cotadas na Euronext Lisboa, os resultados estimados são obtidos através da aplicação do método GLS e da regressão por quantis. O período temporal sobre o qual versa o estudo encontra-se compreendido pelo ano de 2005 e pelo ano de 2009. Os resultados estimados sugerem que, na generalidade das empresas cotadas na Euronext Lisboa, existem variáveis estatisticamente significativas na explicação da rendibilidade anormal das acções das empresas em cada um dos quatro grandes grupos de variáveis independentes consideradas no estudo. Relativamente às empresas que integram o PSI 20, os resultados sugerem que, apesar de se manter o facto de existir variáveis estatisticamente significativas na explicação da rendibilidade anormal das acções das empresas nos quatro grandes grupos de variáveis, existem alterações na significância estatística de algumas variáveis, quando se compara com os resultados obtidos para a generalidade das empresas cotadas na praça financeira portuguesa. Quanto à estimação por quantis, pelos resultados obtidos, denota-se que apenas nas empresas com uma rendibilidade anormal mediana existem variáveis estatisticamente significativas nos quatro grandes grupos de variáveis. Contudo, nas empresas do PSI 20, apenas nas que apresentam uma rendibilidade anormal relativamente mais reduzida é que se encontram variáveis estatisticamente significativas nos quatro grandes grupos de variáveis consideradas.

Development of a library for clients of ONVIF video cameras: challenges and solutions

The interoperability of IP video equipment is a critical problem for surveillance systems and other video application developers. ONVIF is one of the two specifications addressing the standardization of networked devices interface, and it is based on SOAP. This paper addresses the development of an ONVIF library to develop clients of video cameras. We address the choice of a web services toolkit, and how to use the selected toolkit to develop a basic library. From that, we discuss the implementation of features that ...

Chronic stress disrupts neural coherence between cortico-limbic structures

Chronic stress impairs cognitive function, namely on tasks that rely on the integrity of cortico-limbic networks. To unravel the functional impact of progressive stress in cortico-limbic networks we measured neural activity and spectral coherences between the ventral hippocampus (vHIP) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in rats subjected to short term stress (STS) and chronic unpredictable stress (CUS). CUS exposure consistently disrupted the spectral coherence between both areas for a wide range of frequencies, whereas STS exposure failed to trigger such effect. The chronic stress-induced coherence decrease correlated inversely with the vHIP power spectrum, but not with the mPFC power spectrum, which supports the view that hippocampal dysfunction is the primary event after stress exposure. Importantly, we additionally show that the variations in vHIP-to-mPFC coherence and power spectrum in the vHIP correlated with stress-induced behavioral deficits in a spatial reference memory task. Altogether, these findings result in an innovative readout to measure, and follow, the functional events that underlie the stress-induced reference memory impairments.

Historical and conceptual landscape of the character

This paper was developed with the intention of broadly demonstrating the complexity of the area known recently as character development, as a creative process methods and implementation. It searches the understanding of the character itself, its place in the narrative and its reception by the reader or target audience. It is a multidisciplinary tool that faces a multitude of challenges from an increasingly demanding public and with specific goals in mind, and yet it also gives us valuable insight over how we interact with one another and the world around us, teaching us how to transfer such knowledge into fiction promoting empathic bonds between the reader and the characters. The human tendency to create is limitless and as old as mankind itself, we create, recreate and reinterpret and then populate such tales with believable characters from who we learn, and experience events and tales that shape our very lives.

La innovación de los procesos - diferenciación en los servicios turísticos

The innovation contributes to business success and increased competitive advantage, one of the concepts that has deserved more attention among researchers in the field of management. Innovation is not exclusive of tangible products or services and can naturally extend to the process itself, the organization or marketing. Although it is not easy to gather a universal concept for innovation, do not seem to be no doubt that its importance is such that allows the company to build on the foundations of this future development, regardless of past success. This work has as its central purpose the study of process innovation in the supply outlook for tourism, given its importance in achieving business success. The recognition of its value assumes it as a challenge, making it necessary to distinguish with product, marketing and organizational innovation, either in substance or in the organizational competencies. Will be presented in this work, a brief description (as well as evolution of the concept) as a way of contextualizing and, then, clarified the distinction between the concepts process innovation and innovation process. Search will bring together the key distinguishing features from the perspective of tourism as a means of achieving competitive advantage for business. We will also discuss implications for management and future studies.