Teatro de personagens: dissertação [em encenação]

Mestrado Teatro, especialização em encenação

Estudo dos desvios detectados pelas imagens portais no cancro da próstata em radioterapia conformacional (3DCRT)

Mestrado em Radioterapia

Projecto de verificação do comportamento térmico de um edifício de habitação: análise e comparação de resultados obtidos com recurso a duas ferramentas de cálculo

O trabalho de projecto desenvolvido tem por objectivo a análise dos resultados obtidos na verificação térmica de edifícios aquando da utilização de programas de cálculo automático. Para o efeito, foram escolhidos dois edifícios unifamiliares com características distintas, tentando que fossem abrangidas o máximo de situações diferentes. Neste projecto foram avaliados sobretudo dois aspectos: quantificação das áreas e desenvolvimentos dos elementos da envolvente dos edifícios em estudo e cálculo dos coeficientes de transmissão térmica superficial e linear dos elementos construtivos. Com base neste trabalho, pode-se promover uma melhoria dos programas de cálculo automático no mercado, de modo a assegurar uma maior qualidade dos projectos de edifícios e consequente reflexo na qualidade da construção civil futura. Por último, apresentam-se as conclusões e possibilidades de desenvolvimento de trabalhos futuros.

Using a prioritized medium access control protocol for incrementally obtaining an interpolation of sensor readings

This paper addresses sensor network applications which need to obtain an accurate image of physical phenomena and do so with a high sampling rate in both time and space. We present a fast and scalable approach for obtaining an approximate representation of all sensor readings at high sampling rate for quickly reacting to critical events in a physical environment. This approach is an improvement on previous work in that after the new approach has undergone a startup phase then the new approach can use a very small sampling period.

Multiprocessor real-time scheduling considering concurrency and urgency

It has been widely studied how to schedule real-time tasks on multiprocessor platforms. Several studies find optimal scheduling policies for implicit deadline task systems, but it is hard to understand how each policy utilizes the two important aspects of scheduling real-time tasks on multiprocessors:inter-job concurrency and job urgency. In this paper, we introduce a new scheduling policy that considers these two properties. We prove that the policy is optimal for the special case when the execution time of all tasks are equally one and deadlines are implicit, and observe that the policy is a new concept in that it is not an instance of Pfair or ERfair. It remains open to find a schedulability condition for general task systems under our scheduling policy.

Foresight methodologies to understand changes in the labour process. Experience from Portugal

The foresight and scenario building methods can be an interesting reference for social sciences, especially in terms of innovative methods for labour process analysis. A scenario – as a central concept for the prospective analysis – can be considered as a rich and detailed portrait of a plausible future world. It can be a useful tool for policy-makers to grasp problems clearly and comprehensively, and to better pinpoint challenges as well as opportunities in an overall framework. The features of the foresight methods are being used in some labour policy making experiences. Case studies developed in Portugal will be presented, and some conclusions will be drawn in order to organise a set of principles for foresight analysis applied to the European project WORKS on the work organisation re-structuring in the knowledge society, and on the work design methods for new management structures of virtual organisations.

Efficient middleware for database replication

Dissertação de Mestrado em Engenharia Informática

BITalino: a novel hardware framework for physiological computing

Physical computing has spun a true global revolution in the way in which the digital interfaces with the real world. From bicycle jackets with turn signal lights to twitter-controlled christmas trees, the Do-it-Yourself (DiY) hardware movement has been driving endless innovations and stimulating an age of creative engineering. This ongoing (r)evolution has been led by popular electronics platforms such as the Arduino, the Lilypad, or the Raspberry Pi, however, these are not designed taking into account the specific requirements of biosignal acquisition. To date, the physiological computing community has been severely lacking a parallel to that found in the DiY electronics realm, especially in what concerns suitable hardware frameworks. In this paper, we build on previous work developed within our group, focusing on an all-in-one, low-cost, and modular biosignal acquisition hardware platform, that makes it quicker and easier to build biomedical devices. We describe the main design considerations, experimental evaluation and circuit characterization results, together with the results from a usability study performed with volunteers from multiple target user groups, namely health sciences and electrical, biomedical, and computer engineering. Copyright © 2014 SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications. All rights reserved.

Type System for the ComponentJ Programming Language

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

Avaliação de ferramentas na furação de laminados compósitos

Drilling of polymeric matrix composite structures

Ser menina é gostar de cor-de-rosa: desocultar questões de género no jardim de infância

Relatório da Prática Profissional Supervisionada apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar

Significados de fração – um estudo numa turma de 3.º ano

Relatório de Estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Ensino do 1.º e do 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

Modelling an e-learning environment for learning programming languages

It is widely accepted that solving programming exercises is fundamental to learn how to program. Nevertheless, solving exercises is only effective if students receive an assessment on their work. An exercise solved wrong will consolidate a false belief, and without feedback many students will not be able to overcome their difficulties. However, creating, managing and accessing a large number of exercises, covering all the points in the curricula of a programming course, in classes with large number of students, can be a daunting task without the appropriated tools working in unison. This involves a diversity of tools, from the environments where programs are coded, to automatic program evaluators providing feedback on the attempts of students, passing through the authoring, management and sequencing of programming exercises as learning objects. We believe that the integration of these tools will have a great impact in acquiring programming skills. Our research objective is to manage and coordinate a network of eLearning systems where students can solve computer programming exercises. Networks of this kind include systems such as learning management systems (LMS), evaluation engines (EE), learning objects repositories (LOR) and exercise resolution environments (ERE). Our strategy to achieve the interoperability among these tools is based on a shared definition of programming exercise as a Learning Object (LO).

Análise energética, otimização e modernização dos sistemas de um grande edifício de serviços na ótica da melhoria da eficiência energética

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica Perfil Energia, Refrigeração e Climatização

O meio envolvente como um contributo para a ação pedagógica

Relatório da Prática Profissional Supervisionada Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar