Services innovation and economic performance: An analysis at the firm

In this paper we estimate a model linking innovation effort and economic performance, along the lines of the Mairesse and Mohnen (2003) model. We examine this relationship in the context of services sectors instead of Research and Development intensive manufacturing sectors. Much effort has already been made to explore the innovation-performance relationship for manufacturing sectors but it is still much understudied for services, particularly for Portugal. In this paper we aim to take a step in fulfilling this gap. We use new firm level data for ten services sectors from the Second Community Innovation Survey of Portugal, to estimate the model.

Design and implementation of a behaviorally typed programming system for web services

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática.

Orchestration of heterogeneous middleware services and its application to a comand and control platform

MSC Dissertation in Computer Engineering

Economies of scale and scope in the provision of diagnostic techniques and therapeutic services in Portuguese hospitals

This paper analyses the provision of auxiliary clinical services that are typically carried out within the hospital. We estimate a exible cost function for the three most important (cost- wise) diagnostic techniques and therapeutic services in Portuguese hospitals: Clinical Pathology, Medical Imaging and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Our objective in carrying out this estimation is the evaluation of economies of scale and scope in the provision of these services. For all services, we nd evidence of ray economies of scale and some evidence of economies of scope. These results have important policy implications and can be related to the ongoing discussion of where and how should hospitals provide these services.

Location-Based services - A crescente importância da localização

Dissertação apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estatística e Gestão de Informação

Web services recovery mechanisms

Dissertação de Mestrado em Engenharia Informática

Service-oriented mobility of java code in web services-based architectures

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Development of web services to help risk management of construction projects

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

Factores individuais que condicionam a Saúde : um estudo caso-controlo

RESUMO - O presente projecto enquadra-se no paradigma salutogénico e visa apurar alguns dos factores que determinam que algumas pessoas se apresentem mais saudáveis que a população em geral. Foi seleccionado um estudo, quantitativo, analítico tipo caso-controlo (1 caso para 3 controlos), em que os casos são constituídos por indivíduos integrando a Função Pública que se encontram acima do percentil 95 de assiduidade ao trabalho nos últimos dois anos e com uma auto-percepção de Saúde classificada como muito boa, os controlos são indivíduos que não obedecem à definição de caso. Os indivíduos serão emparelhados por idade, género, estado civil, carreira, categoria profissional e unidade funcional que integram. A assiduidade será calculada com recurso aos certificados de incapacidade temporária entregues nos respectivos serviços. Os factores a estudar são os mais citados na literatura como factores salutogénicos ou factores de protecção, são eles: - Sentido de Coerência de Antonowsky - Locus de controlo - Auto conceito -Auto Eficácia - Aptidão física nas três vertentes clássicas: Capacidade aeróbia, Composição corporal, Aptidão muscular. Todos estes factores serão estudados com recurso a questionários auto preenchidos devidamente testados e validados para o português de Portugal sendo a aptidão física apurada com recurso á bateria de testes "Fitness Gram" adoptada para Portugal pelo Instituto do Desporto de Portugal e pelo Ministério da Educação. Os resultados serão apurados com recurso ao software de análise epidemiológica EPIDAT. 3.1. ---------------- ABSTRACT - The present project follows the salutogénic paradigm and intends to identify some of the factors that determine why some people are healthier than the general population. It was selected a quantitative, analytic, case-control study type (1 case to 3 controls), in which the cases are constituted by individuals who are integrated in Public Services and find themselves above 95 percentile of assiduity in work in the last two years, and with a self-perception of Health classified as very good, the controls are individuals who don’t obey to the case definition. The individuals will be matched by age, gender, civil state, career, professional category and Functional Unity in the Health services. The assiduity will be calculated with the help of temporary incapacity certificates delivered in the respective services. The currently studying factors are the most cited in literature, like salutogenic factors or protection factors, are those: - Antonowsky’s Sense of Coherence - Locus Control - Self-concept - Self-Efficacy - The three classic strands of Physical Fitness: Aerobic Capacity, Corporal Composition, Muscular Fitness. All these factors will be studied with the resource of properly tested and validated self-filled questionnaires for Portugal Portuguese (language), with the Physical Fitness being determined with the resource of “Fitness Gram” test battery, adopted for Portugal by the Portuguese Sports Institute and the Education Ministry. The results will be determined with the resource of the epidemiologic analysis software EPIDAT. 3.1.

Proactive services ecosystem framework

Dissertation presented to obtain the degree of Doctor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, specialization on Collaborative Enterprise Networks

Translation encoding for OGC services

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

Parallelization of web processing services on cloud computing: A case study of Geostatistical Methods

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

Spatio-temporal analyses of the relationship between armed conflict and climate change in the eastern Africa

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

Estimating demand for primary health care services

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics