Organising interoperability information on highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments

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

Geospatial data harmonization from regional level to european level: a usa case in forest fire data

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

Neolithic transitions: can genetic data help us understand a major demographic event in human prehistory?

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biology

Analysable software language translations

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Informática

Avaliação e modificação do risco de queda em idosos com recurso à posturografia dinâmica computorizada

RESUMO: Os pontos de corte dos instrumentos de avaliação do equilíbrio são úteis na identificação de idosos ambulatórios na comunidade com elevado risco de queda ou de perda da mobilidade normal. O melhor ponto de corte da Escala CEEA para elevado risco de queda foi de 700 (pontuação total), com uma sensibilidade de 71,8% e uma especificidade de 73,7%. Para mulheres com idade entre 65 e 85 anos, o melhor ponto de corte da Escala CEEA para mobilidade normal foi de 800 (pontuação total), com uma sensibilidade de 70,1% e uma especificidade de 72,2%.--------------- ABSTRACT: Falls are one of the greatest health problems in the elderly, causing high mortality, morbidity, disability and premature institutionalization. The Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale evaluates balance in a broad set of activities. It was translated and adapted for several other languages and settings, including the Portugal-Portuguese “Escala CEEA”. This instrument lacks high risk of falling and normal mobility cut-off points.

A system’s approach to cache hierarchy-aware decomposition of data-parallel computations

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Utopia III or an Ambiguous Humanist Utopia for the Second Millenium

Portuguese literature does not have many examples of successful and renowned utopias, though the considerable amount of published utopias written in foreign languages and translated to Portuguese language being quite relevant. However, in the last quarter of the twentieth century, almost at the eve of the second millennium an important Portuguese utopia was published: Utopia III, written by Pina Martins (1998). This long novel is structured as being the sequel of More’s Utopia, presenting the history and actual status of the mother of all literary utopias. The question at the basis of the whole novel is, “What would More’s Utopia be like today?” The main goal of this text will be to presente a literary analysis of Utopia III, focusing on the humanist principles and their adaptation to contemporary society, the search for a harmonious relationship between city and nature, the defence of a Portuguese identity and the appeal to a humanist renewal.