Estágio Curricular na Empresa Steelgreen S.A.

O presente relatório visa documentar a aplicação das competências adquiridas academicamente em ambiente empresarial, sob a forma de estágio curricular que decorreu na Steelgreen, S.A., que surgiu de uma parceria entre o Grupo Domingos Da Silva Teixeira (DST) e Ferlito – Ferros do Litoral, S.A.. O tema predominante deste documento será o aço, uma vez que a empresa se dedica ao corte e moldagem de armaduras. Inicialmente, será efetuada uma breve apresentação da empresa, descrevendo a sua metodologia de trabalho, pormenorizando-se todos os procedimentos executados desde a receção da matéria-prima até à sua expedição. O estágio curricular decorreu principalmente no âmbito do Departamento de Produção. Assim, neste documento enquadrar-se-á a principal atividade a cargo deste: a produção industrial. Serão explicados todos os procedimentos executados durante o processo de conceção das encomendas. A comercialização do aço requer que uma série de requisitos legais sejam cumpridos. Um capítulo deste documento será dedicado ao enquadramento desta matéria-prima na legislação em vigor. Para finalizar, serão descritos todos os trabalhos solicitados no decorrer do estágio curricular, expondo todos os procedimentos executados para atingir o objetivo proposto.

Ocupação da orla costeira, sua morfologia e riscos inerentes. Caso de Estudo Caminha-Espinho

Neste relatório é descrito o estágio curricular efetuado na Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente – Administração da Região Hidrográfica do Norte, na Divisão de Recursos Hídricos do Litoral no âmbito da unidade curricular de Dissertação/Projeto/Estágio do Mestrado em Engenharia Civil – ramo de Infraestruturas do Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. Durante o estágio pretendeu-se estudar a ocupação e ordenamento da orla costeira Caminha-Espinho, estudar fenómenos de erosão/acreção de sedimentos, bem como analisar riscos a ela inerentes. Foram desenvolvidos três trabalhos distintos. No primeiro, identificaram-se e caracterizaram-se as ocupações em Domínio Público Marítimo. De seguida, pretendeu-se quantificar balanços sedimentares desta orla, utilizando como referência dados dos anos 2001 e 2011. Por fim, abordaram-se os riscos associados à orla costeira, soluções implementadas e intervenções efetuadas pela APA sobre algumas zonas de risco. Cada trabalho levou à produção de um anexo respetivo que apresenta com maior detalhe os resultados obtidos.

Multipath inter-domain policy routing

Dissertação submetida para a obtenção do grau de Doutor em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Inteligência emocional como competência na formação do futuro gestor de saúde de instituições de saúde : proposta de uma unidade curricular

RESUMO - Introdução: A formação de um gestor neste século é um verdadeiro desafio, pois apesar das instituições de ensino superior formarem profissionais com capacidade para actuar na área da Gestão da Saúde, é difícil afirmar que tal formação seja suficiente para produzir os grandes gestores exigidos actualmente para orientarem Instituições de Saúde modernas. Assim, muitos são os estudos que têm mostrado que os gestores de saúde mais eficazes se assemelham num requisito crucial: a Inteligência Emocional (IE). Objectivos: Perceber a importância do ensino das competências emocionais nos Cursos de Mestrado em Gestão da Saúde; analisar de forma descritiva/analítica e crítica o módulo opcional de Emoção, Liderança e Coaching na Gestão da Saúde leccionado no Mestrado em Gestão da Saúde na Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública; e por fim construir uma proposta de Unidade Curricular de Inteligência Emocional. Metodologia: Realizou-se uma revisão da literatura que permitiu desenvolver e adquirir conhecimentos, conceitos e teorias na área da IE. De seguida, procedeu-se a uma análise descritiva/analítica e crítica do módulo opcional de Emoção, Liderança e Coaching na Gestão em Saúde leccionado no Mestrado em Gestão da Saúde na Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, com base na revisão de literatura anteriormente efectuada; e por fim tentou-se construir uma proposta de Unidade Curricular de Inteligência Emocional a ser leccionada a futuros gestores de saúde. Conclusões: Este trabalho tem como principal intuito por um lado, mostrar através da vária literatura consultada que a Inteligência Emocional é uma competência essencial a ser desenvolvida pelos gestores em saúde de hoje em dia, pois as competências que a englobam fazem toda a diferença na organização, tornando os funcionários mais motivados, seguros e comprometidos com o que fazem; por outro lado foi um trabalho que permitiu reunir dados e ampliar as ideias sobre Inteligência Emocional. Da análise efectuada do módulo leccionado no Mestrado em Gestão de Saúde na Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, o que se pode concluir é que a carga horária assim como o peso do módulo que é opcional, é pouco significativo (tendo uma percentagem apenas de 3,33% dos ECTS (Sistema Europeu de créditos curriculares que significa European Credit Transfer System) e de acordo com os dados disponibilizados pela colega Mestre Joana Areias no IV Curso de Mestrado em Gestão da Saúde, apenas 36,6% dos alunos frequentaram este módulo, o que revela que ainda nem todos os futuros gestores de saúde estão dispertos para a importância do desenvolvimento da Inteligência Emocional como competência essencial nas suas práticas.

Child programming: an adequate domain specific language for programming specific robots

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Semantic enrichment of knowledge sources supported by domain ontologies

This thesis introduces a novel conceptual framework to support the creation of knowledge representations based on enriched Semantic Vectors, using the classical vector space model approach extended with ontological support. One of the primary research challenges addressed here relates to the process of formalization and representation of document contents, where most existing approaches are limited and only take into account the explicit, word-based information in the document. This research explores how traditional knowledge representations can be enriched through incorporation of implicit information derived from the complex relationships (semantic associations) modelled by domain ontologies with the addition of information presented in documents. The relevant achievements pursued by this thesis are the following: (i) conceptualization of a model that enables the semantic enrichment of knowledge sources supported by domain experts; (ii) development of a method for extending the traditional vector space, using domain ontologies; (iii) development of a method to support ontology learning, based on the discovery of new ontological relations expressed in non-structured information sources; (iv) development of a process to evaluate the semantic enrichment; (v) implementation of a proof-of-concept, named SENSE (Semantic Enrichment kNowledge SourcEs), which enables to validate the ideas established under the scope of this thesis; (vi) publication of several scientific articles and the support to 4 master dissertations carried out by the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from FCT/UNL. It is worth mentioning that the work developed under the semantic referential covered by this thesis has reused relevant achievements within the scope of research European projects, in order to address approaches which are considered scientifically sound and coherent and avoid “reinventing the wheel”.

A domain specific language for domotic systems

To cope with modernity, the interesting of having a fully automated house has been increasing over the years, as technology evolves and as our lives become more stressful and overloaded. An automation system provides a way to simplify some daily tasks, allowing us to have more spare time to perform activities where we are really needed. There are some systems in this domain that try to implement these characteristics, but this kind of technology is at its early stages of evolution being that it is still far away of empowering the user with the desired control over a habitation. The reason is that the mentioned systems miss some important features such as adaptability, extension and evolution. These systems, developed from a bottom-up approach, are often tailored for programmers and domain experts, discarding most of the times the end users that remain with unfinished interfaces or products that they have difficulty to control. Moreover, complex behaviors are avoided, since they are extremely difficult to implement mostly due to the necessity of handling priorities, conflicts and device calibration. Besides, these solutions are only reachable at very high costs, yet they still have the limitation of being difficult to configure by non-technical people once in runtime operation. As a result, it is necessary to create a tool that allows the execution of several automated actions, with an interface that is easy to use but at the same time supports all the main features of this domain. It is also desirable that this tool is independent of the hardware so it can be reused, thus a Model Driven Development approach (MDD) is the ideal option, as it is a method that follows those principles. Since the automation domain has some very specific concepts, the use of models should be combined with a Domain Specific Language (DSL). With these two methods, it is possible to create a solution that is adapted to the end users, but also to domain experts and programmers due to the several levels of abstraction that can be added to diminish the complexity of use. The aim of this thesis is to design a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that uses the Model Driven Development approach (MDD), with the purpose of supporting Home Automation (HA) concepts. In this implementation, the development of simple and complex scenarios should be supported and will be one of the most important concerns. This DSL should also support other significant features in this domain, such as the ability to schedule tasks, which is something that is limited in the current existing solutions.

Framework for the semantic alignment of enterprise’s domain knowledge

Nowadays, the consumption of goods and services on the Internet are increasing in a constant motion. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) mostly from the traditional industry sectors are usually make business in weak and fragile market sectors, where customized products and services prevail. To survive and compete in the actual markets they have to readjust their business strategies by creating new manufacturing processes and establishing new business networks through new technological approaches. In order to compete with big enterprises, these partnerships aim the sharing of resources, knowledge and strategies to boost the sector’s business consolidation through the creation of dynamic manufacturing networks. To facilitate such demand, it is proposed the development of a centralized information system, which allows enterprises to select and create dynamic manufacturing networks that would have the capability to monitor all the manufacturing process, including the assembly, packaging and distribution phases. Even the networking partners that come from the same area have multi and heterogeneous representations of the same knowledge, denoting their own view of the domain. Thus, different conceptual, semantic, and consequently, diverse lexically knowledge representations may occur in the network, causing non-transparent sharing of information and interoperability inconsistencies. The creation of a framework supported by a tool that in a flexible way would enable the identification, classification and resolution of such semantic heterogeneities is required. This tool will support the network in the semantic mapping establishments, to facilitate the various enterprises information systems integration.

Relatório de estágio curricular no Julgado de Paz de Lisboa

This project is the result of a four months internship at the “Julgado de Paz de Lisboa” between September and December of 2014. The internship was a necessary requirement for completing the Master’s degree in Law. In the first section we describe all the work developed during the internship and expose the main topic of the thesis. The second section describes the structure of the “Julgados de Paz” as well as its competences and its procedures. We also highlight the main differences between the “Julgados de Paz” and the “Tribunais Judiciais”. In the third section we describe the figure of the lawyer taking a historical perspective as well the most relevant principles for the topic of the thesis. The fourth section analyses the present legislation both at the “Julgados de Paz” as well as the “Tribunais Judiciais” it what respects mandatories of the requirement of a lawyer. In the final section we present our conclusions and our proposals for solving the existing anomalies that arise from the present regime.

Relatório de estágio curricular realizado na Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

The experience of an internship is always considered an experience that should be enriching, a first contact with the employment world. The intention is to build a bridge between the theory and practice - applying what has been learnt throughout the course. Therefore, it was started a new learning phase that seeks to take advantage and obtain experiences useful for a professional life based in efficiency and efficacy. The curricular internship was carried out within the Masters in Public Law and held by Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FDUNL)(Law School Of University New Of Lisbon) in the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (CML) (Lisbon's Town Hall), in the Departamento de Política de Solos e Valorização Patrimonial (DPSVP) (Soil Politics and Patrimonial Valuation Department) of the Direção Municipal de Planeamento, Reabilitação e Gestão Urbanística (Municipal Direction of Planning, Rehabilitation and Urban Management) between September and December 2013. Throughout this internship, several activities within the DPSVP were developed. In an early stage, there was a presentation of the organic structure of Lisbon's Town Hall, and the Department where I was going to do the internship, and its competencies. Therefore I acquired key concepts and researched jurisprudence and legislation needed to the analysis and understanding of the activities done in the internship. In a second stage, it was done the analysis and understanding of the division into lots administrative procedures, as well as the solving of the problems occurred throughout that analysis. Besides that, there was the need to help preparing some procedural acts to be applied regarding the Department competencies, namely within the alienation, procurement, encumbrance and rental of immovable assets owned by the Municipality of Lisbon.

Production and diagnostic application of recombinant domain III of West Nile envelope protein in Brazil

INTRODUCTION: West Nile virus (WNV) is a flavivirus with a natural cycle involving mosquitoes and birds. Over the last 11 years, WNV has spread throughout the Americas with the imminent risk of its introduction in Brazil. METHODS: Envelope protein domain III of WNV (rDIII) was bacterially expressed and purified. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with WNV rDIII antigen was standardized against mouse immune fluids (MIAFs) of different flavivirus. RESULTS: WNV rDIII reacted strongly with St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) MIAF but not with other flaviviruses. CONCLUSIONS: This antigen may be a potentially useful tool for serologic diagnosis and may contribute in future epidemiological surveillance of WNV infections in Brazil.

Relatório de estágio curricular:

The main purpose of this report is to inform about the work developed throughout the curricular training period, which took place in the Legal Department of The Portuguese Football Federation. Firstly, and in general terms, issues such as the evolution of football in Portugal and Sports Federations will be dealt with in this study. In addition, a characterization of the welcoming entity will be done as well, focusing not only on its legal context, but also on its organic structure and operating dynamics. Also, the work developed during the training period will be made known, namely the activities undertaken as part of the project. Besides all the above-mentioned, a study has been carried out essentially on the Regional District Football Associations, in what concerns the statutes of the various associations ( object of study ), including the statutes of FPF- since the main goal of this work is to understand whether the various District and Regional Football Associations, as regular partners of the Portuguese Football Federation, do or do not comply with the Duty of Statutory Adjustment imposed by it, regarding the amendment to the Sports Federation legal regime.