Práticas de ensino supervisionadas do 1º e 2º ciclo do ensino básico: a prática de resolução de problemas na aquisição do conceito de comprimento e de perímetro no 3.º ano de escolaridade

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

Importance of program physical activity in quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients, six months after the intervention

Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system that affects more often young adults in the prime of his career and personal development, with no cure and unknown causes. The most common signs and symptoms are fatigue, muscle weakness, changes in sensation, ataxia, changes in balance, gait difficulties, memory difficulties, cognitive impairment and difficulties in problem solving MS is a relatively common neurological disorder in which various impairments and disabilities impact strongly on function and daily life activities. Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the implications of an Intervention Program of Physical Activity (IPPA) in quality of life in MS patients, six months after the intervention.

Occupational stress and coping resources in physiotherapists: a survey of physiotherapists in three general hospitals

Objectives - To identify occupational stressors and coping resources in a group of physiotherapists, and to analyse interactions between subjective levels of stress, efficacy in stress resolution and coping resources used by these professionals. Design - A sample of 55 physiotherapists working in three general hospitals in Portugal completed the Coping Resources Inventory for Stress, the Occupational Stressors Inventory and two subjective scales for stress and stress resolution. Main results - Most physiotherapists perceived that they were moderately stressed (19/55, 35%) or stressed (20/55, 36%) due to work, and reported that their efficacy in stress resolution was moderate (25/54, 46%) or efficient (23/54, 42%). Issues related to lack of professional autonomy, lack of organisation in the hierarchical command chain, lack of professional and social recognition, disorganisation in task distribution and interpersonal conflicts with superiors were identified as the main sources of stress. The most frequently used coping resources were social support, stress monitoring, physical health and structuring. Perceived efficacy in stress resolution was inversely related to perceived level of occupational stress (r = −0.61, P < 0.01). Significant correlations were found between several coping resources and the perceived level of stress and efficacy in stress resolution. Associations between problem solving, cognitive restructuring and stress monitoring and both low levels of perceived stress and high levels of perceived efficacy were particularly strong. Implications for practice - The importance of identifying stressors and coping resources related to physiotherapists’ occupational stress, and the need for the development of specific training programmes to cope with stress are supported.

Otimização do processo produtivo de extrusão de pisos na E06

O presente trabalho foi elaborado no âmbito da Dissertação Final de Mestrado do curso de Engenharia Mecânica – Gestão Industrial do Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. Este foi realizado numa empresa da indústria de pneus, a Continental Mabor S.A.. Nos dias atuais, a indústria esta cada vez mais competitiva, os custos e os prazos da entrega são cada vez mais reduzidos e a qualidade cada vez mais exigente, assim sendo, é imprescindível uma constante melhoria do sistema produtivo. Este fato fez com que o presente trabalho tivesse como principal objetivo determinar o estado atual e delinear um plano de melhoria para um equipamento (Extrusora de pisos nº6), recentemente instalado na fábrica mas oriundo de outra fábrica do grupo, recorrendo para tal ao Lean Manufacturing e a ferramentas que lhe estão associadas. Inicialmente realizou-se uma análise e diagnóstico ao processo de extrusão de pisos na Extrusora nº6, com o intuito de avaliar todas as suas ineficiências e ainda formular um plano de melhorias para a ineficiência de maior impacto no sistema produtivo. Esta análise foi realizada em diferentes turnos e diferentes equipas de trabalho de forma a se obter uma amostra mais representativa da realidade global. Após esta análise verificou-se que as principais ineficiências eram Setup, conformidade do material, dimensões e encravamentos, entre outros. Sendo que os Setup provocam um tempo de paragem de 101 minutos por turno, escolheu-se esta perturbação como o foco do plano de melhorias a realizar posteriormente. De forma a reduzir os tempos de mudança (Setup), o autor no presente trabalho utilizou ferramentas Lean Manufacturing, principalmente o SMED. Conjuntamente com o SMED ainda foram utilizadas outras ferramentas Lean Manufacturing tais como: 5S, Gestão Visual, Problem Solving e Normalização do Método de Trabalho. Após a implementação de todas estas ferramentas obteve-se uma redução de tempos de mudança de 43% com 1 operador e 71% com 2 operadores, ou seja, reduziu-se de 40,5 minutos gastos por turno para a mudança de fieira para 23,13 min e 11,79 min respetivamente, o que corresponde a um ganho monetário anual de 63.621€ ou 105.045€, respetivamente. Com este trabalho conclui-se que a utilização de ferramentas Lean Manufacturing contribuem para a redução dos desperdícios do processo produtivo. Por isso, espera-se que este estudo seja aplicado na Extrusora nº6 e nas restantes Extrusoras de pisos existentes na fábrica, e num futuro próximo que se realize estudos semelhantes em máquinas com diferentes funções.

A importância das tarefas realizadas em sala de aula no desenvolvimento da resolução criativa de problemas

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

AIRMON: análise automática de mensagens LTE

Mestrado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores - Área de Especialização de Telecomunicações

Integrated ecological-economic modelling and assessment aproach for coastal ecosystem management

Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences

Environmental Decision Support: a Multi-Agent Approach

The environmental management domain is vast and encompasses many identifiable activities: impact assessment, planning, project evaluation, etc. In particular, this paper focusses on the modelling of the project evaluation activity. The environmental decision support system under development aims to provide assistance to project developers in the selection of adequate locations, guaranteeing the compliance with the applicable regulations and the existing development plans as well as satisfying the specified project requirements. The inherent multidisciplinarity features of this activity lead to the adoption of the Multi-Agent paradigm, and, in particular, to the modelling of the involved agencies as a community of cooperative autonomous agents, where each agency contributes with its share of problem solving to the final system’s recommendation. To achieve this behaviour the many conclusions of the individual agencies have to be justifiably accommodated: not only they may differ, but can be interdependent, complementary, irreconcilable, or simply, independent. We propose different solutions (involving both local and global consistency) to support the adequate merge of the distinct perspectives that inevitably arise during this type of decision making.

Belief Revision in Multi-Agent Systems

The ability to respond sensibly to changing and conflicting beliefs is an integral part of intelligent agency. To this end, we outline the design and implementation of a Distributed Assumption-based Truth Maintenance System (DATMS) appropriate for controlling cooperative problem solving in a dynamic real world multi-agent community. Our DATMS works on the principle of local coherence which means that different agents can have different perspectives on the same fact provided that these stances are appropriately justified. The belief revision algorithm is presented, the meta-level code needed to ensure that all system-wide queries can be uniquely answered is described, and the DATMS’ implementation in a general purpose multi-agent shell is discussed.

Consistency and Context Management in a Multi Agent Belief Revision Testbed

Multi-agent architectures are well suited for complex inherently distributed problem solving domains. From the many challenging aspects that arise within this framework, a crucial one emerges: how to incorporate dynamic and conflicting agent beliefs? While the belief revision activity in a single agent scenario is concentrated on incorporating new information while preserving consistency, in a multi-agent system it also has to deal with possible conflicts between the agents perspectives. To provide an adequate framework, each agent, built as a combination of an assumption based belief revision system and a cooperation layer, was enriched with additional features: a distributed search control mechanism allowing dynamic context management, and a set of different distributed consistency methodologies. As a result, a Distributed Belief Revision Testbed (DiBeRT) was developed. This paper is a preliminary report presenting some of DiBeRT contributions: a concise representation of external beliefs; a simple and innovative methodology to achieve distributed context management; and a reduced inter-agent data exchange format.

A quest for the right word enhancing reflexivity and technology in terminology training

INTED2010, the 4th International Technology, Education and Development Conference was held in Valencia (Spain), on March 8, 9 and 10, 2010.

Intelligent decision support systems for collaboration in industrial plants

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Sistemas de Informação Industriais, Engenharia Electrotécnica, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

CDIO and the European Project Semester: a match for capstone projects?

The CDIO Initiative is an open innovative educational framework for engineering graduation degrees set in the context of Conceiving – Designing – Implementing – Operating real-world systems and products, which is embraced by a network of worldwide universities, the CDIO collaborators. A CDIO compliant engineering degree programme typically includes a capstone module on the final semester. Its purpose is to expose students to problems of a greater dimension and complexity than those faced throughout the degree programme as well as to put them in contact with the so-called real world, in opposition to the academic world. However, even in the CDIO context, there are barriers that separate engineering capstone students from the real world context of an engineering professional: (i) limited interaction with experts from diverse scientific areas; (ii) reduced cultural and scientific diversity within the teams; and (iii) lack of a project supportive framework to foster the complementary technical and non-technical skills required in an engineering professional. To address these shortcomings, we propose the adoption of the European Project Semester (EPS) framework, a one semester student centred international capstone programme offered by a group of European engineering schools (the EPS Providers) as part of their student exchange programme portfolio. The EPS package is organised around a central module – the EPS project – and a set of complementary supportive modules. Project proposals refer to open multidisciplinary real world problems and supervision becomes coaching. The students are organised in teams, grouping individuals from diverse academic backgrounds and nationalities, and each team is fully responsible for conducting its project. EPS complies with the CDIO directives on Design-Implement experiences and provides an integrated framework for undertaking capstone projects, which is focussed on multicultural and multidisciplinary teamwork, problem-solving, communication, creativity, leadership, entrepreneurship, ethical reasoning and global contextual analysis. As a result, we recommend the adoption of the EPS within CDIO capstone modules for the benefit of engineering students.

Matemática na hora do conto

Este artigo procura realçar que, através da conexão entre a literatura e a matemática, se podem criar situações em que as crianças abordem conceitos matemáticos de uma forma significativa permitindo que as habilidades matemáticas e as de linguagem se desenvolvam em conjunto. Uma das formas mais significativas de se construir conhecimento matemático é resolver problemas e desafios, tão comuns nos contos infantis. Apresentamos duas situações, que se enquadram nesta perspetiva pedagógica. Em ambas as situações foi usado um conto como ponto de partida para a construção de atividades matemáticas e tendo presente uma visão construtivista do ensino da matemática.

Database repairs with answer set programming

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática