Writing skills at secondary level. Developing an English language writing syllabus - a case study

Trabalho de projecto apresentado para o cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de mestre em Didática do Inglês

A Methodology for Creating an Adapted Command Language for Driving an Intelligent Wheelchair

Intelligent wheelchairs (IW) are technologies that can increase the autonomy and independence of elderly people and patients suffering from some kind of disability. Nowadays the intelligent wheelchairs and the human-machine studies are very active research areas. This paper presents a methodology and a Data Analysis System (DAS) that provides an adapted command language to an user of the IW. This command language is a set of input sequences that can be created using inputs from an input device or a combination of the inputs available in a multimodal interface. The results show that there are statistical evidences to affirm that the mean of the evaluation of the DAS generated command language is higher than the mean of the evaluation of the command language recommended by the health specialist (p value = 0.002) with a sample of 11 cerebral palsy users. This work demonstrates that it is possible to adapt an intelligent wheelchair interface to the user even when the users present heterogeneous and severe physical constraints.

Tradução audiovisual

Esta dissertação de mestrado foi desenvolvida com o intuito de estudar a tradução audiovisual de spots publicitários. Mais especificamente, estudar a tradução audiovisual no contexto da implementação e aplicabilidade de uma campanha publicitária ou, neste caso, de diversos spots publicitários de uma dada empresa num público-alvo estrangeiro. Para esta dissertação, selecionei um corpus de spots publicitários do banco internacional HSBC. A tomada da decisão recaiu sobre a quantidade de filiais que o HSBC tem espalhadas pelo globo, e que estão inseridas em mercados cujas culturas predominantes se diferenciam grandemente entre umas e outras. Para aprofundar este tema, analisei os conceitos inerentes à tradução audiovisual, enveredei posteriormente, e de forma mais específica, pela análise dos conceitos intrínsecos à legendagem de spots publicitários, e, por fim, associei estes conceitos com as questões relativas à interculturalidade e à melhor forma de transmitir informações, sobre uma mesma entidade, a grupos culturais diferentes. Em seguida, legendei o corpus de spots publicitários do HSBC, selecionados para constar desta dissertação, salientando os principais momentos de reflexão: as barreiras tradutivas/culturais existentes, as soluções e a decisão final relativa à cada legenda criada. Legendei os spots publicitários do HSBC, como se estivessem destinados a um público-alvo de nacionalidade, cultura e língua portuguesa. Obtive um conjunto de oito spots publicitários legendados em português, e efetuei a respetiva análise do processo tradutivo. Apresentei elações retiradas durante a criação das legendas, sobre as quais caia o objetivo de as relacionar com os conceitos primeiramente abordados.

Oil, foreign aid and FDI flows: The missing link?

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

The impact of sizeof the firm and exchange rate in the export propensity of domestic and foreign owned firms in a developing country: A study of the Brazilian exporters

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

The impact of type of language and number of reasons on purchase intent

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

Analysable software language translations

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Informática

International News Reporting in the Multidimensional Network: The socio-demographics, professional culture and newswork of foreign correspondents working across Sub-Saharan Africa

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Media Digitais

Data-centric concurrency control on the java programming language

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Cape Verde’s foreign policy: an economic perspective

The virtuous cycle between development success and foreign policy in Cape Verde reflects a positive interaction between globalization and governance. Development success under globalization entails positive market perceptions regarding the orientation and predictability of policies as well as the accompanying institutional arrangements, thereby making foreign policy salient beyond the comparator group, or “aspirational”. Even if there is no universally applicable development model, an aspirational foreign policy can be built on positive rankings with respect to comparator groups. In Macedo and Pereira (2010), macrolevel policy and institutional combinations underpinning trade diversification and income convergence in West and Southern Africa are used to establish development success for Cape Verde and Mozambique respectively. Here, the narrative of long-term development helps identify the following drivers: moving towards a market economy; opening up to regional and global trade; increasing economic and political freedom; pursuing macroeconomic stability and financial reputation; ensuring policy continuity (especially in trade and industrial sectors) and focusing on human development (especially poverty reduction and education). Looking at GDP per capita and indicators of financial reputation and good governance of sub-regional peers is not sufficient to conclude that Cape Verde’s convergence will be sustained. Nevertheless, the positive interaction between trade and financial globalization, on the one hand, and democracy and good governance, on the other, have positive implications for the effectiveness of foreign policy across the region as well as in the Portuguese-speaking community.

Sentiment analysis on twitter for the portuguese language

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Drivers of China's foreign direct investment into Africa

We assess the determinants of Chinese direct investment in Africa compared with those of global FDI. We find that economic size and macroeconomic stability are positively correlated with Chinese and global FDI in Africa. Institutional variables, such as accountability and rule of law, are not significant in either case and the same can be said about FDI-aid complementarities. The presence of oil is a determinant of Chinese FDI but not of global FDI into Africa. Conversely, the openness of the economy is a determinant for global FDI but not of Chinese FDI, which appears to favour closed economies possibly due to industrial organizational concerns. While these differences accord with intuition, we find no evidence for the claim that Chinese FDI in Africa is related to non-economic governance in a specific way that differs from global practice. More refined governance indicators should be used to verify whether Chinese and global FDI into Africa remain indistinguishable on this score: we plan to do this in future research.

Management of Costa Vicentina as tourism destination for foreign surf practitioner and beginners

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

Child programming: an adequate domain specific language for programming specific robots

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

The Impact of Bilingualism on Acquiring Second Language Vocabulary: A Case Study

Trabalho de Projecto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtençao do grau de Mestre em Didáctica do Inglês,