Identification des motivations pour le jeu vidéo: Revue des typologies des joueurs

Les jeux vidéo, bien que souvent associés au divertissement, sont de plus en plus utilisés à des fins pratiques en raison de leurs aptitudes à soutenir la motivation intrinsèque des joueurs. Afin de bien répondre aux préférences des joueurs, il devient important de comprendre quels facteurs permettent de soutenir ce type de motivation. Malgré la vaste littérature sur le sujet, aucune étude n’a avancé un modèle des motivations pour les jeux vidéo accepté de façon unanime. D’une part, plusieurs modèles fréquemment recensés dans les écrits ne sont supportés par aucune étude empirique. D’une autre part, les modèles ayant reçu un appui empirique sont souvent spécifiques à un type de jeu, ou divergent les uns des autres en raison d’une interprétation restreinte des analyses factorielles. Par conséquent, la présente étude cherche à proposer un modèle des motivations pour les jeux vidéo unifiant les différents modèles présents dans les écrits. Un questionnaire portant sur les comportements et les préférences des joueurs a été développé afin de tester la validité d’un modèle théorique récent des motivations pour les jeux vidéo et d’explorer les motivations des joueurs dans la population générale. Cent cinquante-six participants (41 Femmes; Mage = 25.95) ont complétés le questionnaire dans le cadre d’une expérience portant sur les jeux vidéo ou en ligne. Une analyse factorielle confirmatoire n’a pas permis de confirmer la structure du modèle théorique étudié. Plutôt, une analyse en composantes principales exploratoire a révélé la présence de sept composantes. Enfin, sept facteurs récurrents à travers les modèles supportés empiriquement ont été identifiés : la socialisation, la compétition, l’accomplissement, l’immersion, l’échappement, l’autonomie, et l’auto-actualisation. Ce modèle propose une base sur laquelle les études futures pourront bâtir, ainsi qu’un modèle préliminaire pouvant contribuer au développement de jeux favorisant la motivation intrinsèque des joueurs.

Dark Tourism: Concepts, Typologies and Sites

Dark Tourism, understood as the type of tourism that involves a visit to real or recreated places associated with death, suffering, misfortune, or the seemingly macabre, is not a new concept, even from a touristic point of view. In fact, places of war, disasters, death and atrocities always fascinated humans and are subject to visits. People have long been drawn, purposefully or otherwise, towards sites, attractions or events linked in one way or another with death, suffering, violence or disaster. The concept of dark tourism has been designed and studied for the last years and many are the destinations around the world where it has been implemented, playing an important role in both a country’s economy and its image. However, there is a gap in literature about this specific type of tourism. The main goal of this paper is to present a literature review about this new tourism product where the thrill seeking is the main motivation. Specifically, it’s our intent to present some Dark Tourism definitions, history and evolution, as well as, to introduce its typologies and identify the most important dark tourist sites all over the world.

Typologies and spatialization of agricultural production systems in Rondônia, Brazil: linking land use, socioeconomics and territorial configuration.

The current Amazon landscape consists of heterogeneous mosaics formed by interactions between the original forest and productive activities. Recognizing and quantifying the characteristics of these landscapes is essential for understanding agricultural production chains, assessing the impact of policies, and in planning future actions. Our main objective was to construct the regionalization of agricultural production for Rondônia State (Brazilian Amazon) at the municipal level. We adopted a decision tree approach, using land use maps derived from remote sensing data (PRODES and TerraClass) combined with socioeconomic data. The decision trees allowed us to allocate municipalities to one of five agricultural production systems: (i) coexistence of livestock production and intensive agriculture; (ii) semi-intensive beef and milk production; (iii) semi-intensive beef production; (iv) intensive beef and milk production, and; (v) intensive beef production. These production systems are, respectively, linked to mechanized agriculture (i), traditional cattle farming with low management, with (ii) or without (iii) a significant presence of dairy farming, and to more intensive livestock farming with (iv) or without (v) a significant presence of dairy farming. The municipalities and associated production systems were then characterized using a wide variety of quantitative metrics grouped into four dimensions: (i) agricultural production; (ii) economics; (iii) territorial configuration, and; (iv) social characteristics. We found that production systems linked to mechanized agriculture predominate in the south of the state, while intensive farming is mainly found in the center of the state. Semi-intensive livestock farming is mainly located close to the southwest frontier and in the north of the state, where human occupation of the territory is not fully consolidated. This distributional pattern reflects the origins of the agricultural production system of Rondônia. Moreover, the characterization of the production systems provides insights into the pattern of occupation of the Amazon and the socioeconomic consequences of continuing agricultural expansion.

Ornato e despojamento no mundo fabril

O artigo investiga algumas das tendências da arquitetura gerada por fábricas - galpões industriais, moradias, igrejas, escolas, clubes etc. -, erguida no Brasil entre as duas últimas décadas do século XIX e as primeiras do XX. Apoia-se em amplo inventário, como base para um esforço de análise que se propõe a identificar os temas e usos predominantes dos ornatos aplicados a construções geradas por fábricas, as referências historicistas mobilizadas e eventuais rupturas de signos arquitetônicos tipológicos, e, no limite, a abolição de ornatos e dos referidos signos. Assim, de um lado, trata da penetração da linguagem eclética nessas construções, investigando o repertório formal utilizado em diferentes tipologias. De outro, trata da simultânea difusão de uma estética tipicamente fabril, fundamentada em noções de economia, eficiência, utilidade e funcionalidade. Mostra como tais noções se expressam ora em uma simplificação ou ausência de ornatos, ora no uso de ornatos cujos temas remetem ao mundo das máquinas; às vezes, no distanciamento ou abandono de signos arquitetônicos tipológicos consagrados; ou, ainda, no emprego de materiais produzidos industrialmente e que se difundiram a partir, sobretudo, da arquitetura de fábricas.

A numerical model for the description of the nonlinear behaviour of multi-leaf masonry walls

A nonlinear finite element model was developed to simulate the nonlinear response of three-leaf masonry specimens, which were subjected to laboratory tests with the aim of investigating the mechanical behaviour of multiple-leaf stone masonry walls up to failure. The specimens consisted of two external leaves made of stone bricks and mortar joints, and an internal leaf in mortar and stone aggregate. Different loading conditions, typologies of the collar joints, and stone types were taken into account. The constitutive law implemented in the model is characterized by a damage tensor, which allows the damage-induced anisotropy accompanying the cracking process to be described. To follow the post-peak behaviour of the specimens with sufficient accuracy it was necessary to make the damage model non-local, to avoid mesh-dependency effects related to the strain-softening behaviour of the material. Comparisons between the predicted and measured failure loads are quite satisfactory in most of the studied cases. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Towards a validation of multiple features in the assessment of emotions

This study extends previous attempts to assess emotion with single adjective descriptors, by examining semantic as well as cognitive, motivational, and intensity features of emotions. The focus was on seven negative emotions common to several emotion typologies: anger, fear, sadness, shame, pity, jealousy, and contempt. For each of these emotions, seven items were generated corresponding to cognitive appraisal about the self, cognitive appraisal about the environment, action tendency, action fantasy, synonym, antonym, and intensity range of the emotion, respectively. A pilot study established that 48 of the 49 items were linked predominantly to the specific emotions as predicted. The main data set comprising 700 subjects' ratings of relatedness between items and emotions was subjected to a series of factor analyses, which revealed that 44 of the 49 items loaded on the emotion constructs as predicted. A final factor analysis of these items uncovered seven factors accounting for 39% of the variance. These emergent factors corresponded to the hypothesized emotion constructs, with the exception of anger and fear, which were somewhat confounded. These findings lay the groundwork for the construction of an instrument to assess emotions multicomponentially.

Metodologias de avalia????o de programas e projetos sociais: an??lise de resultados e de impacto

O trabalho versa sobre as metodologias de avalia????o de programas e projetos sociais, enfatizando modalidades avalistas espec??ficas, as an??lises de resultados e impacto. Ap??s o exame de conceitos b??sicos e tipologias de avalia????o consagradas pela literatura, faz-se alguns coment??rios sobre os modelos tradicionais de avalia????o.

Fundos de investimento imobiliário

Mestrado em Contabilidade e Gestão das Instituições Financeiras

Cluster Analysis of Business Data

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Hierarchical cluster analysis of groups of individuals : application to business data

3rd SMTDA Conference Proceedings, 11-14 June 2014, Lisbon Portugal.

Potencialidades e utilização do espaço recreio: um estudo desenvolvido em escolas do 1.º ciclo do ensino básico

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Educação - Área de Especialização em Didática das Ciências

A fraude no Fundo Social Europeu

Mestrado em Auditoria

Communication protocol for the rempli project

The overall goal of the REMPLI project is to design and implement a communication infrastructure for distributed data acquisition and remote control operations using the power grid as the communication medium. The primary target application is remote meter reading with high time resolution, where the meters can be energy, heat, gas, or water meters. The users of the system (e.g. utility companies) will benefit from the REMPLI system by gaining more detailed information about how energy is consumed by the end-users. In this context, the power-line communication (PLC) is deployed to cover the distance between utility company’s Private Network and the end user. This document specifies a protocol for real-time PLC, in the framework of the REMPLI project. It mainly comprises the Network Layer and Data Link Layer. The protocol was designed having into consideration the specific aspects of the network: different network typologies (star, tree, ring, multiple paths), dynamic changes in network topology (due to network maintenance, hazards, etc.), communication lines strongly affected by noise.

Via Balastrada versus via não balastrada

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil, na Área de Especialização de Vias de Comunicação e Transportes

Seismic vulnerability: From building evaluation to a typology generalization

Outlining the best strategies for seismic risk mitigation requires that both benefits and costs of retrofitting are known in advance. The assessment of the vulnerability of building typologies is a first step of a more extensive effort, concerning the analysis of the viability of seismic risk mitigation and taking into account retrofitting costs. The methodology adopted to obtain the seismic vulnerability of some classes of residential buildings existing in mainland Portugal is presented. This methodology is based on a structural analysis of individual buildings belonging to the same typology. An application example is presented to illustrate the methodology. Fragility curves of “boxed” building typology are also presented and broken down into three height classes: low rise, medium-rise and high-rise. These curves are based on average capacity spectra derived from several individual buildings belonging to the same typology.