Corporate strategy development: International distance model for the Brazilian 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

Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Axiomatic Design (ICAD 2014)

ICAD2014, Campus de Caparica, Portugal

International meeting: new diagnostic tests are urgently needed to treat patients with Chagas disease

Trypanosoma cruzi infection is often not detected early on or actively diagnosed, partly because most infected individuals are either asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic. Moreover, in most places, neither blood banks nor healthcare units offer diagnostic confirmation or treatment access. By the time patients present clinical manifestations of advanced chronic Chagas disease, specific treatment with current drugs usually has limited effectiveness. Better-quality serological assays are urgently needed, especially rapid diagnostic tests for diagnosis patients in both acute and chronic phases, as well as for confirming that a parasitological cure has been achieved. Some new antigen combinations look promising and it is important to assess which ones are potentially the best, together with their requirements in terms of investigation and development. In August 2007, a group of specialized researchers and healthcare professionals met to discuss the state of Chagas infection diagnosis and to build a consensus for a plan of action to develop efficient, affordable, accessible and easy-to-use diagnostic tests for Chagas disease. This technical report presents the conclusions from that meeting.

Indexing and active fund management: International evidence

Author's pre-print

Flexible multivariate GARCH modeling with an application to international stock markets

This paper offers a new approach to estimating time-varying covariance matrices in the framework of the diagonal-vech version of the multivariate GARCH(1,1) model. Our method is numerically feasible for large-scale problems, produces positive semidefinite conditional covariance matrices, and does not impose unrealistic a priori restrictions. We provide an empirical application in the context of international stock markets, comparing the nev^ estimator with a number of existing ones.

Firms survival and international trade: The impact of exports and imports

Double Degree. A Work Project presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics and Maastricht University.

O uso da força no Direito Internacional = Use of force in Public International Law

Versão online da Revista Brasileira de Estudos Políticos, Belo Horizonte, nº 107, pp. 149-200, jul./dez.2013

Performance analysis of an SRI screen based on employment quality in high and low capital industries: International evidence

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

Internationalization strategy for MyHelpster.com with a focus on international market selection

International Market Selection is an important step towards a successful internationalization strategy. This is no different for startup companies like MyHelpster. This work project was intended to help MyHelpster with their internationalization process by completing the IMS portion of it. The IMS process presented in this paper lead to the conclusion that MyHelpster’s next market for expansion should be the USA. In order to find as much success as possible the author suggests being patient and only expanding when the company has the necessary capital, experience and credibility. Both primary and secondary data were used to compile the qualitative and quantitative analyses.

Vila Galé: International expansion to Mozambique

The purpose of this project is to understand the outcomes of the implementation of 4 star city hotel from the Vila Galé brand in Maputo, Mozambique, and the conditions under which such project would be financially worthy. Both the tourism market in Mozambique and the Vila Galé Hotels company were studied, aligned with a projection of the operational results. The conclusions allow to infer that this is a project aligned with the overall company strategy and that the sector’s growth prospects in Mozambique would allow to achieve positive results that encourage Vila Galé to invest.

International market selection of Carrefour

Carrefour has been internationalizing into many countries and would like to continue growing. This study focuses on the potential future international market selection of Car-refour, comparing countries from the EU and South America, in a quantitative and qual-itative analysis. The purpose of the project is to help Carrefour to find the right market and the right mode to entry. Through semi-structured interviews and a literature research we found out that Sweden has the highest potential to entry with a Venture (Marketing), followed by Austria

WEB TV. Uma proposta na área das ciências da comunicação

Este relatório descreve as fases essenciais do desenvolvimento de uma proposta para uma Web TV num contexto universitário e sugere um modelo multimédia baseado num princípio de folksonomia. Este projecto pretende ser uma mais valia na forma como o trabalho académico é divulgado e partilhado e visa ser um instrumento que dá visibilidade ao trabalho desenvolvido numa instituição académica, dinamiza a relação entre alunos e professores e torna possível a publicação dos mesmos para o publico em geral. Foi desenvolvido a pensar nas especificidades do Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação (DCC) da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL), sobretudo ao nível dos conteúdos de media produzidos nos ateliers e cadeiras práticas. Modelo que pode ser aplicado a outras instituições em contextos idênticos. A Web TV representa, no universo dos média, um conjunto muito alargado de aplicações que abrange a publicidade, o divertimento, o jornalismo e o ensino entre outras. O ensino é provavelmente a área em que a Web TV mais pode contribuir como meio privilegiado de divulgação e partilha de informação tanto dentro como fora de uma instituição universitária. Com a Web TV podem ser apresentados e criados os mais diversos conteúdos, como, por exemplo: conferências, aulas, documentários, teses e/ou qualquer outro conteúdo de texto ou multimédia que seja de natureza científica. As competências da Web 2.0, aplicadas na Web TV que proponho, conferem-lhe características únicas para a promoção e divulgação do conhecimento científico, revestindo assim este projecto de especial importância.

Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a tool for analysis of the effect of physical therapy on spasticity in HAM/TSP patients

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to evaluate spasticity in human T-lymphotropic virus type 1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) patients before and after physical therapy using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). METHODS: Nine subjects underwent physical therapy. Spasticity was evaluated using the Modified Ashworth Scale. The obtained scores were converted into ICF body functions scores. RESULTS: The majority of subjects had a high degree of spasticity in the quadriceps muscles. According to the ICF codes, the spasticity decreased after 20 sessions of physical therapy. CONCLUSIONS: The ICF was effective in evaluating spasticity in HAM/TSP patients.

Lisbon Street Art & Urban Creativity. 2014 International Conference

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