Hox genes control the specification of global vertebral domains

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de doutor em Biologia pelo Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Descifrando la reestructuración técnica del profesional de la información con las argumentaciones de la economía global

This paper addresses the issue of restructuring the information professional in the global economy. This restructuring is justified by a tripartite explanation: the redesign understood as innovation and disciplinary change, the reorganization of institutions conditioned by the development of information technology and economic deflation interpreted as eliminating jobs. To understand this restructuring scenario multigenerational work contexts information services are also addressed. These work contexts represent a search for understanding and to overcome common referential differences, by baby boomer practitioners and digital natives. The issue of tension and challenge between the specific technical skills and flexibility to adapt to ever-changing organizations is another topic for reflection and serves to point out new paths for the restructuring of the information professional.

Global restructuring and its effects on occupations: towards a new division of labor?

The following contribution considers whether global restructuring creates new forms of the division of labor. On the basis of empirical data from a comparative project in 14 European countries, the author supports the hypothesis that in addition to the ongoing process of the internationalization of work, there are ‘hidden’ effects at the local level. From the perspective of three occupational clusters, dynamics can be observed which have differing impacts on the occupational groups. Thus, there is a simultaneous process of restructuring and redefining skills, labor processes and the working organization which forms the daily reality of working men and women.

The impact of global forces on the individual: empirical evidence from the German clothing industry

Starting from theoretical perspectives on globalisation, the following article analyses how current working conditions are affected by globalisation processes. For this purpose, recent developments in the German clothing sector are traced back to the power of economic globalisation processes. Characterising the German clothing sector as pioneer in economic globalisation, we use empirical findings to illustrate how current processes of globalisation influence the work place: At organisational level, corporate strategies aim at rationalisation, standardisation and flexibilisation of work in order to response to the economic pressure of global markets. At individual level these strategies, in turn, speed up working processes and intensify working processes for the employees. Although these developments form strong trends, we conclude that the local embeddedness of companies is still of high importance with regard to organisational and individual consequences of globalisation.

Bridging environmental conflicts with social metabolism : forestry expansion and socioeconomic change

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências do Ambiente, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Modelo de iluminação global por radiação (radiosidade)

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, para a obtenção Engenharia Informática

A evolução da população ao longo do séculoXIX. Uma perspectiva global

pp. 245-284

Global and Partitioned Multiprocessor Fixed Priority Scheduling with Deferred Pre-emption

This article introduces schedulability analysis for global fixed priority scheduling with deferred preemption (gFPDS) for homogeneous multiprocessor systems. gFPDS is a superset of global fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling (gFPPS) and global fixed priority non-pre-emptive scheduling (gFPNS). We show how schedulability can be improved using gFPDS via appropriate choice of priority assignment and final non-pre-emptive region lengths, and provide algorithms which optimize schedulability in this way. Via an experimental evaluation we compare the performance of multiprocessor scheduling using global approaches: gFPDS, gFPPS, and gFPNS, and also partitioned approaches employing FPDS, FPPS, and FPNS on each processor.

Pseudo Phase Plane and Fractional Calculus Modelling of Western Global Economic Downturn

This paper applies Pseudo Phase Plane (PPP) and Fractional Calculus (FC) mathematical tools for modeling world economies. A challenging global rivalry among the largest international economies began in the early 1970s, when the post-war prosperity declined. It went on, up to now. If some worrying threatens may exist actually in terms of possible ambitious military aggression, invasion, or hegemony, countries’ PPP relative positions can tell something on the current global peaceful equilibrium. A global political downturn of the USA on global hegemony in favor of Asian partners is possible, but can still be not accomplished in the next decades. If the 1973 oil chock has represented the beginning of a long-run recession, the PPP analysis of the last four decades (1972–2012) does not conclude for other partners’ global dominance (Russian, Brazil, Japan, and Germany) in reaching high degrees of similarity with the most developed world countries. The synergies of the proposed mathematical tools lead to a better understanding of the dynamics underlying world economies and point towards the estimation of future states based on the memory of each time series.

An Exact Schedulability Test for Global FP Using State Space Pruning

Presented at 23rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2015). 4 to 6, Nov, 2015, Main Track. Lille, France.

Europa - política comum de segurança e defesa ou potência civil? o contributo do processo europeu para a “governança” global

Tese de Doutoramento em Relações Internacionais

Competências transversais dos recém-diplomados do ensino superior no mercado global

O mercado de trabalho está a mudar rapidamente e de muitas formas, nomeadamente, a revolução das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, a globalização, a flexibilização e as alterações da estrutura do trabalho, que conduzem a uma crescente imprevisibilidade e à necessidade de lidar com este contexto de incerteza. Estas mudanças, inevitavelmente, têm implicações no conjunto de competências necessárias para que os trabalhadores sejam capazes de funcionar adequadamente num mercado global cada vez mais competitivo e em constante mutação. Desta forma, nos dias de hoje, o mercado de trabalho requer mais do que conhecimentos teóricos e técnicos, reclama por um conjunto de competências transversais que servirão de suporte e ligação entre o conhecimento técnico e a prática profissional. É neste cenário que emergem as competências transversais que cada vez mais assumem uma importância maior. O objetivo deste estudo consiste em identificar as competências transversais requeridas aos recém-diplomados do ensino superior no mercado global. Inicialmente, analisa-se o conceito de competência transversal, apresentando algumas definições e assinalando as suas características comuns, destacando ainda a variedade de designações utilizadas para as nomear. No âmbito do estudo foi realizada revisão da literatura nacional e internacional sobre as competências transversais nos diplomados, quer na perspetiva dos próprios diplomados, quer dos empregadores. Através da análise de conteúdo, foram identificadas as competências transversais mais valorizadas por continente e, a partir da análise das mesmas, definiram-se as competências transversais exigidas no mercado global. Finalmente são discutidas as implicações teóricas e empíricas das conclusões deste trabalho.

A influência da manutenção industrial no índice global de eficiência (OEE)

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Internacionalização de uma born global

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado ao Instituto de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Internacionalização e Empreendedorismo, sob orientação da Professora Doutora Maria Clara Dias Pinto Ribeiro Esta versão não contém as críticas e sugestões dos elementos do júri.