Towards a GIS-T database design and implementation for public transit planning: the case study of Dar-Es-salaam metropolitan city, Tanzania.

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

Business model: What should be the strategy used by Smart Galp to implement and potentiate its value proposition in the Portuguese market?

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

Business model analysis of Mobitto: How to solve the chicken and egg problem of a multi-sided platform?

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

Improvement of Lipton’s business model through wholesalers and traditional supermarkets channel

Field Lab in Entrepreneurial Innovative Ventures

Business continuity management at Banif: Defining and selecting recovery strategies

This project aims to delineate recovery strategies for a Portuguese Bank, as a way to increase its preparedness towards unexpected disruptive events, thus avoiding an operational crisis escalation. For this purpose, Business Continuity material was studied, a risk assessment performed, a business impact analysis executed and new strategic framework for selecting strategies adopted. In the end, a set of recovery strategies were chosen that better represented the Bank’s appetite for risk, and recommendations given for future improvements.

The First WORKS Conference on Transformation of Work in a Global Knowledge Economy

The relationship between the changes of the global economy and individual working conditions formed the background of the first WORKS conference “The transformation of work in a global knowledge economy: towards a conceptual framework”, held in Chania, Greece from 21st – 22nd September, 2006 and attended by around 50 European researchers. Experts from academia and trade unions from all over the world were invited to give insights into their field of research, contributing to one of the main topics of the conference: (i) globalisation and organisational restructuring, (ii) workers’ organisation, the quality of working life and the gender dimension and (iii) global experiences and recommendations.

Fundamentos teóricos e objectivos estratégicos de uma unidade de ética em saúde pública : caso de estudo : o gabinete de ética e responsabilidade da Direcção-Geral da Saúde

RESUMO - Este trabalho de projecto visa responder à questão de saber como gerir uma unidade de ética num serviço público central de saúde pública, “de forma racional e informada”, definindo os seus objectivos estratégicos (Baranger, citando Drucker, 1990) utilizando como caso de estudo o Gabinete de Assuntos Jurídicos, Ética e Responsabilidade, adiante designado por Gabinete, da Direcção‐Geral da Saúde. Para o efeito, fez‐se, em primeiro lugar, uma abordagem teórica descritiva das bases filosóficas da ética realçando a sua aplicação prática na determinação das características dos sistemas de saúde. Em seguida, analisa‐se a utilização do conceito de ética no âmbito da Saúde Pública, no contexto da bioética, verificando‐se elementos distintivos que parecem justificar a autonomização do conceito de ‘Ética em Saúde Pública’. Para tal, foram consultadas as principais fontes de princípios éticos em saúde, tais como a Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem, a Declaração de Helsínquia, bem como a Constituição da República Portuguesa e os Códigos Deontológicos das profissões de saúde. Nesta fase do trabalho é pesquisada, nas perspectivas nacional e internacional, a existência de unidades de ética, congéneres ou de âmbito similar, bem como respectivas áreas e níveis de intervenção, tendo‐se nesse sentido auscultado as entidades idóneas dos Estados‐Membros da União Europeia. Na segunda parte do trabalho de projecto, desenvolveu‐se o planeamento estratégico através da aplicação da metodologia balanced scorecard, apresentando‐se uma proposta de objectivos estratégicos e iniciativas a serem desenvolvidas pelo gabinete de ética sub judice, para um horizonte temporal fixado em três anos. Da utilização desta metodologia resultaram doze objectivos estratégicos, dos quais se destacam: ‘fomentar a discussão ética’; ‘promover a igualdade dos utentes do SNS’; e ‘identificar prioridades de actuação’. Entre as iniciativas a desenvolver salienta‐se o desenho de um questionário, a aplicar às comissões de ética do sistema de saúde com o objectivo de identificar prioridades de actuação do Gabinete. O trabalho finaliza‐se com as conclusões, recomendações e linhas de investigação que se considera deverem ser desenvolvidas, num futuro próximo, para o aprofundamento da matéria alvo deste estudo. ------------------ABSTRACT - This research‐project aims to answer the question of how to manage a unit of ethics within the directorate‐general of public health in a "rational and informed” way, defining their strategic goals (Baranger, quoting Drucker, 1990) using as case study the Office of Legal Affairs, Ethics and Responsibility, hereinafter referred as the Office, of the Directorate‐General of Health. For this purpose, the first part of the study, includes a framework description of the main philosophical basis of ethics, emphasizing that its practical application determines the characteristics of health systems; the use of the concept of ethics of Public Health in the context of bioethics was analyzed, and distinctive elements were found that seem to justify the autonomy of the concept of 'Ethics of Public Health'. The main sources of this part were the fundamental ethical principles in health, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Helsinki Declaration, and also the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and the Codes of Ethics of the health professions. At this stage of the study a description is also made, at both a national and international perspective, on the existence of similar units of ethics or with similar scope, and their areas and levels of intervention. For the international dimension the appropriate bodies of the Member States the European Union were consulted. In the second part of the research‐project, a strategic planning for the Office was designed, using the balanced scorecard methodology, and a proposal of the strategic objectives and initiatives to be developed within a time schedule of three years are presented. The use of this method resulted in twelve strategic objectives, among which we note the following: 'to promote the ethical discussion'; 'to promote equality of users of the NHS'; and ‘to identify priorities for action’. The design of a questionnaire to be answered by the ethics committees for health of the Portuguese health system, in order to identify priorities for the Office’s activities is also presented in the study. The work ends with the conclusions and recommendations, as well as a suggestion of lines for future research to further investigate the subject of this study.

Integrating wind generation in the distribution network

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Energias Renováveis – Conversão Eléctrica e Utilização Sustentáveis

Internationalization strategy: HOLOS Mobile - Angola

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

TechFrame's internationalization plan: Next stop UK

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

Acredita Portugal: How to improve the implementation rate of entrepreneurial projects?

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

Internationalization Plan - How can UniPlaces improve its customer acquisition strategy in the London market?

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

Hydrogen permeation in parabolic trough receivers

The continued economic and population development puts additional pressure on the already scarce energetic sources. Thus there is a growing urge to adopt a sustainable plan able to meet the present and future energetic demands. Since the last two decades, solar trough technology has been demonstrating to be a reliable alternative to fossil fuels. Currently, the trough industry seeks, by optimizing energy conversion, to drive the cost of electricity down and therefore to place itself as main player in the next energetic age. One of the issues that lately have gained considerable relevance came from the observation of significant heat losses in a large number of receiver modules. These heat losses were attributed to slow permeation of traces of hydrogen gas through the steel tube wall into the vacuum annulus. The presence of hydrogen gas in the absorber tube results from the decomposition of heat transfer fluid due to the long-term exposure to 400°C. The permeated hydrogen acts as heat conduction mean leading to a decrease in the receivers performance and thus its lifetime. In order to prevent hydrogen accumulation, it has been common practice to incorporate hydrogen getters in the vacuum annulus of the receivers. Nevertheless these materials are not only expensive but their gas absorbing capacity can be insufficient to assure the required level of vacuum for the receivers to function. In this work the building of a permeation measurement device, vulnerabilities detected in the construction process and its overcome are described. Furthermore an experimental procedure was optimized and the obtained permeability results, of different samples were evaluated. The data was compared to measurements performed by an external entity. The reliability of the comparative data was also addressed. In the end conclusions on the permeability results for the different samples characteristics, feasibility of the measurement device are drawn and recommendations on future line of work were made.

Indicadores de qualidade na emergência médica pré-hospitalar : painel operacional para o INEM, I.P.

RESUMO - A Emergência Médica Pré-Hospitalar é uma parte importante na cadeia de cuidados de saúde, quer pela gravidade das situações a que atende, quer por funcionar como gatekeeper. O estudo é dedicado a instrumentos de medição e em simultâneo a medições de qualidade como processo de melhoria contínua da qualidade na EMPH. Existem projetos a nível internacional para implementação de painéis de indicadores, alguns atribuem significativa relevância aos processos assistenciais. O European Emergency Data Project (EDD) foi selecionado para servir como painel de indicadores a explorar neste trabalho. Porque a nível científico está bem desenhado, as definições e variáveis estão bem explicitadas e interessa ao INEM, I.P. utilizar um painel que lhe permita um benchmarking. Criou-se um dashboard para os indicadores selecionados e com ele analisaram-se os dados para aferir a qualidade do SEM. Não foi possível, pela sua inexistência, coletar dados para dois dos indicadores propostos. Foram apresentadas propostas de melhoria no sistema de captação de dados do INEM, I.P. para que a instituição possa monitorizar periodicamente os indicadores selecionados. A existência de dados e a sua fiabilidade para utilizar na medição por indicadores é algo que se explorou neste trabalho de campo, e as fraquezas encontradas foram matéria para oportunidades, recomendações, e caminho para discussão e o fortalecimento da instituição.

The effectiveness of the “Processo Especial de Revitalização” as an instrument of corporate restructuring in the context of the current economic crisis

This work project intends to evaluate the effectiveness of the Portuguese Government’s strategy to promote the orderly deleveraging of the corporate sector in the context of the current economic crisis. The recommendations of the Troika and the commitments assumed under the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Government in 2011 required the creation of formal processes to avoid disorderly deleveraging. Conclusions and recommendations were drawn based on past experiences of large-scale corporate restructuring strategies in other countries and on the analysis of financial and statistical data on companies applying for “Programa Especial de Revitalização”.