Low power low voltage quadrature RC oscillators for modern RF receivers

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Estratégia de dinamização da comunicação interna num operador de cabo em ambiente virtual

Relatório de Estágio apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Novos Media e Práticas Web.

Estudo de avaliação e quantificação de parâmetros associados à rigidez em patologias do tecido hepático com recurso à aplicação Virtual Touch

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

China's space program : a new tool for PRC "soft power" in international relations?

When China launched an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon in January 2007 to destroy one of its inactive weather satellites, most reactions from academics and U.S. space experts focused on a potential military “space race” between the United States and China. Overlooked, however, is China’s growing role as global competitor on the non-military side of space. China’s space program goes far beyond military counterspace applications and manifests manned space aspirations, including lunar exploration. Its pursuit of both commercial and scientific international space ventures constitutes a small, yet growing, percentage of the global space launch and related satellite service industry. It also highlights China’s willingness to cooperate with nations far away from Asia for political and strategic purposes. These partnerships may constitute a challenge to the United States and enhance China’s “soft power” among key American allies and even in some regions traditionally dominated by U.S. influence (e.g., Latin America and Africa). Thus, an appropriate U.S. response may not lie in a “hard power” counterspace effort but instead in a revival of U.S. space outreach of the past, as well as implementation of more business-friendly export control policies.

O serviço de referência - do tradicional ao virtual: o caso da Biblioteca do tribunal de Contas

Relatório de Estágio apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Informação e da Documentação

Knowledge Society and Geography: A Theoretical Approach

The transition process between information and knowledge is faster and so the inputs that influence social and political practises. The dissemination of information is now determinant in terms of territorial competitiveness and both public and private sector take large benefits when the data-information- knowledge value chain repeats itself trough space and time. Mankind depends nowadays on the creation and diffusion of good and reliable information. Speed is also important and the greater the speed, the faster the opportunities for global markets. Information must be an input for knowledge and obviously for decision. So, the power of information is unquestionable. This paper focuses on concepts like information, knowledge and other, more geographical and tries to explain how territories change from real to virtual. Knowledge society appears on an evolutional context in which information dissemination is wider and technological potential overwrites traditional notions of Geography. To understand the mutations over the territories, the causes and the consequences emerges the Geography of the Knowledge Society, a new discipline inside Geography with a special concern about modern society and socio-economical developing models.

Sovereignty and power relations in the thought of Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham a comparison.

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BIWiki - Using a Business Intelligence Wiki to Form a Virtual Community of Practice for Portuguese Master's Students

Web 2.0 software in general and wikis in particular have been receiving growing attention as they constitute new and powerful tools, capable of supporting information sharing, creation of knowledge and a wide range of collaborative processes and learning activities. This paper introduces briefly some of the new opportunities made possible by Web 2.0 or the social Internet, focusing on those offered by the use of wikis as learning spaces. A wiki allows documents to be created, edited and shared on a group basis; it has a very easy and efficient markup language, using a simple Web browser. One of the most important characteristics of wiki technology is the ease with which pages are created and edited. The facility for wiki content to be edited by its users means that its pages and structure form a dynamic entity, in permanent evolution, where users can insert new ideas, supplement previously existing information and correct errors and typos in a document at any time, up to the agreed final version. This paper explores wikis as a collaborative learning and knowledge-building space and its potential for supporting Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoPs). In the academic years (2007/8 and 2008/9), students of the Business Intelligence module at the Master's programme of studies on Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence at Instituto Superior de Estatistica e Gestao de Informacao of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, have been actively involved in the creation of BIWiki - a wiki for Business Intelligence in the Portuguese language. Based on usage patterns and feedback from students participating in this experience, some conclusions are drawn regarding the potential of this technology to support the emergence of VCoPs; some provisional suggestions will be made regarding the use of wikis to support information sharing, knowledge creation and transfer and collaborative learning in Higher Education.

Comunidade virtual

Este trabalho visa fazer uma introdução ao mundo das comunicações on-line. Nele é feita uma introdução à cultura das comunicações, aos conceitos sobre modems, redes de correio electrónico, serviços on-line e Bulletin Board Systems (BBS’s). Apresentam-se dois casos ilustrativos da realidade portuguesa: O Videotex – (serviço on-line) A Ar*LEX – Rede electrónica Parlamentar (BBS temática) Em relação ao mundo das comunicações on-line, é definido este conceito, a ideia da comunidade virtual, custos associados e possibilidades. Relativamente à cultura do ciberespaço, referem-se os conceitos próprios, a atitude exigível ao utilizador, os direitos e deveres.

Lugar, espaço e geografia. Do real ao virtual na sociedade do conhecimento

A informação é um elemento preponderante para a tomada de decisões e quanto mais informação houver, mais ponderada será. SHANNON e WEAVER (1948:379-423) definem informação como "... aquilo que reduz a incerteza...", o que é discutível, já que inúmeras questões se poderão levantar, aumentando as incertezas em relação a outros pontos. BELL (1979:168) definiu informação como "... processamento de dados no seu sentido mais lato...", uma forma mais simples de explicar um conceito que se rodeia de inúmeros significados. Para MASON et ai. (1995:35), o Homem tem que existir para que haja informação, pois ela representa a forma através "... da qual uma mente consegue influenciar outra..."; em parte esta interpretação tem a ver com percepção e com o raciocínio humano. DAVIS e OHLSON (1985:200) definiram-na como "... dados de tal forma coligidos e processados, que se tomam úteis a um receptor, sendo valiosos para a análise de acções ou tomada de decisões..."; estes autores atribuem à informação um valor acrescentado, pois só a consideram como tal, se o seu uso beneficiar o saber e a decisão.

Design of switched-capacitor filters using low gain amplifiers

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Design and implementation of 3D buildings integration for a Webgl-Based Virtual Globe: a case study of Valencian Cadastre and Fide Building Mode

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Sensor Data Visualization in Virtual Globe

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Interoperability on low power devices

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Virtual Campus for the University of Jaume I, Castelló, Spain: 3D Modelling of the Campus Buildings using CityEngine

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.