Translation encoding for OGC services

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

User friendly knowledge acquisition system for medical devices actuation

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

Geospatial data harmonization from regional level to european level: a usa case in forest fire data

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

Eros platónico e amore dantesco

Tese de Doutoramento em Filosofia

Integrated data model and DSL modifications

Companies are increasingly more and more dependent on distributed web-based software systems to support their businesses. This increases the need to maintain and extend software systems with up-to-date new features. Thus, the development process to introduce new features usually needs to be swift and agile, and the supporting software evolution process needs to be safe, fast, and efficient. However, this is usually a difficult and challenging task for a developer due to the lack of support offered by programming environments, frameworks, and database management systems. Changes needed at the code level, database model, and the actual data contained in the database must be planned and developed together and executed in a synchronized way. Even under a careful development discipline, the impact of changing an application data model is hard to predict. The lifetime of an application comprises changes and updates designed and tested using data, which is usually far from the real, production, data. So, coding DDL and DML SQL scripts to update database schema and data, is the usual (and hard) approach taken by developers. Such manual approach is error prone and disconnected from the real data in production, because developers may not know the exact impact of their changes. This work aims to improve the maintenance process in the context of Agile Platform by Outsystems. Our goal is to design and implement new data-model evolution features that ensure a safe support for change and a sound migration process. Our solution includes impact analysis mechanisms targeting the data model and the data itself. This provides, to developers, a safe, simple, and guided evolution process.

Populismo in Portogallo? Dall'Estrema Destra a Madeira

Dall'inizio della crisi economica del 2008 il populismo ha assunto una dimensione europea presentandosi in contesti fino ad allora considerati insospettabili come il Regno Unito. Questa diffusione non ha toccato però la Terra Lusitana. Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di riflettere sulle cause che determinano l'immunità al populismo del Portogallo. Dopo una rassegna generale con i principali contributi sull'argomento abbiamo individuato nella letteratura le variabili in grado di spiegare il successo e l'insuccesso dei fenomeni di populismo. Invece di applicarle direttamente al solo caso portoghese abbiamo preferito testarle su quattro nazioni europee caratterizzate dalla presenza del populismo e soggette ad una crisi economico-politica: Spagna, Francia, Italia, Grecia. Il risultato di questa comparazione ci ha portato a scartare tutte le variabili tranne quella della Leadership permettendoci di proporre l'ipotesi che il mancato successo populista in Portogallo derivi dall'assenza di imprenditori politici capaci di sfruttare la struttura di opportunità apertasi con la crisi economico-politica. Abbiamo testato questa nostra ipotesi andando ad analizzare due dei casi di populismo riscontrabili: Alberto João Jardim, governatore di Madeira, ed il Partido Nacional Renovador, partito ascrivibile alla destra radicale populista. Entrambi i casi da noi analizzati sembrano dimostrare la nostra teoria.

Visual and verbal processing effects on human memory

In this study in the field of Consumer Behavior, brand name memory of consumers with regard to verbal and visual incongruent and congruent information such as memory structure of brands was tested. Hence, four experimental groups with different constellations of verbal and visual congruity and incongruity were created to compare their brand name memory performance. The experiment was conducted in several classes with 128 students, each group with 32 participants. It was found that brands, which are presented in a congruent or moderately incongruent relation to their brand schema, result in a better brand recall than their incongruent counterparts. A difference between visual congruity and moderately incongruity could not be confirmed. In contrast to visual incongruent information, verbal incongruent information does not result in a worse brand recall performance.

Comuns: An Open-Data Provider, Explorer and Analytic Toolbox Based on FOSS

Contém resumo

Portugal (1928-1968) : Um Filme de J. Leitão de Barros

Apoio financeiro da FCT e do FSE no âmbito do III Quadro Comunitário de Apoio

Avaliação dos esquemas iniciais desadaptativos: estudo psicométrico em alcoolistas

OBJETIVO: Este estudo objetiva apresentar as propriedades psicométricas do Questionário de Esquemas de Young - forma reduzida (YSQ-S2). MÉTODO: Foi realizado um estudo quantitativo, transversal, comparando um grupo clínico de alcoolistas com um grupo não clínico. Os resultados foram analisados com o alfa de Cronbach, o teste t de Student e a Análise Discriminante. A amostra da pesquisa foi constituída por 107 sujeitos, sendo 51 alcoolistas e 56 de uma amostra populacional do grupo de não alcoolistas. RESULTADOS: Foram encontradas diferenças estatisticamente significativas nas cinco áreas e nos 15 esquemas avaliados pelo questionário YSQ-S2 quando comparados os grupos clínico e não clínico. CONCLUSÃO: Foi observado que o YSQ-S2 é um instrumento capaz de detectar diferenças entre populações clínicas e não clínicas, sendo um importante recurso para uma avaliação mais profunda do funcionamento da personalidade do paciente.

Princípios da boa administração, eficiência e economicidade

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito Administrativo

Comentario ao esquema de classificação das Salmonellas de Kauffmann-White

The classification of salmonellae in accordance with the Kauffmann-White schema accepted by the presents various inconveniences and difficulties to application. Among these is the necessity of preparing, dosing and preserving a considerable number of specific sera whose validity as is well known, is limited. The criterion of Kauffmann’s classification is exclusively, for it abandoned cultural tests, leaving therefore only a unilateral criterion. By following it one might include Chromobacterium typhi-flavum in the Salmonella genus as well as other bacteria which differ completely from the Salmonella, as long as they are antigenically related. On the other hand, the chart approximates or separates in the different groups of antigen O species or types of salmonellae which are biologically close or almost indistinguishable. The chart has given rise to an excessive number of species and lypes of salmonellae which from 44 in the chart approved by the in 1934 rose ro 60 in Bergey’s Manual and everything leads one to believe that the end is not yet for every day new lypes or species are found. And perforce this must be so for new antigenic factors have been found which give rise to new structural combinations. Applying the formula of combinations (formule) to the factors already known, there are probable possibilities of having 260 different antigenic combinations in group A, or 3260 lypes or species if all the flagellate antigens of the other groups should be found, in it combined 2 and 2. Futher applying the formula of combinations to the other groups there would be possibility of so many combinations that the number of salmonellae would exceed the number of known bacterian species or perhaps the number of those existing on earth. Undoubledly Kauffmann-White’s chart is an improvement, but the bacterian analysis made with it was exaggerated and exceeded the limit of the present possibilities of the realities of life. It revealed interesting aspects of the somatic complexity of bacteria but seems untenable because of its use in pratical sense.

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria I: one year clinical isolates identification in Tertiary Hospital Aids Reference Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in pre highly active antiretroviral therapy era

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) isolates at University Hospital, Reference Center for Aids in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during one year. We used standard biochemical tests for species identification and IS1245 PCR amplification was applied as a Mycobacterium avium specific identification marker. Four hundred and four specimens from 233 patients yielded acid-fast bacilli growth. M. tuberculosis was identified in 85% of the patients and NTM in 15%. NTM disseminated infection was a common event correlated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients and only in HIV negative patients the source of NTM was non sterile site. M. avium complex (MAC) was biochemically identified in 57.8% (49/83) of NTM isolates, most of them from sterile sites (75.5%), and in 94% (46/49) the IS 1245 marker specific for M. avium was present. Twenty NTM strains showed a MAC biochemical pattern with the exception of a urease-positive (99% of MAC are urease-negative), however IS1245 was detected in 96% of the strains leading to their identification as M. avium. In this group differences in NTM source was not significant. The second most frequently isolated NTM was identified as M. scrofulaceum (7.2%), followed by M. terrae (3.6%), M. gordonae (2.4%), M. chelonae (1.2%), M. fortuitum (1.2%) and one strain which could not be identified. All were IS1245 negative except for one strain identified as M. scrofulaceum. It is interesting to note that non-sterile sites were the major source of these isolates (92.8%). Our finding indicated that M. avium is still the major atypical species among in the MAC isolates recovered from Brazilian Aids patients without highty active antiretroviral therapy schema. Some discrepancies were seen between the identification methods and further investigations must be done to better characterize NTM isolates using other phenotypic and genotypic methods.

Web semántica: RDF y SGBD que lo soportan

En aquest treball es fa una breu introducció a la web semàntica i el seu estat actual. S'analitzen els llenguatges que hi ha a la base del munt de recomanacions del World Wide Web Consortium (XML, XML Schema, RDF i RDF Schema) i s'examinen diferents sistemes de gestió de bases de dades que donen suport a les metadades, que són la base de la web semàntica.

BD:XML natives per a documents MPEG-7

Aquest projecte avalua diferents BD:XML natives per a desar i recuperar documents XML basats en l'estàndard MPEG-7. Es tracta d'un estàndard que proposa un llenguatge per descriure el contingut (metadades) de documents multimèdia, és a dir, àudio i vídeo. El seu format de representació és XML i es basa en un esquema ja predefinit (XMLSchema d'MPEG-7).