Promoting linkages between university and enterprises: the case of the Algarve region

Innovation has assumed an increased importance in Regional Development theories. This communication hopes to contribute to the understanding of the Algarve Regional Innovation Systems, a peripheral region in the National and European framework, where an economic growth is supported by Tourism, which leaves it out of the group of poorest regions when the GDPpc indicator is taken in account. A synthesis of the recent Regional Innovation Strategies for the Algarve is presented including the previous experiences of Ettirse and INOVAlgarve. From this late programme emerged CRIA – Regional Centre for Innovation of the Algarve, focused in the promotion, transfer and commercial approach to technology and knowledge in the academy, consolidating the linkages University-Enterprise. This paper tries to understand the actions carried on by this organism and its role in the development of the region.Innovation; Triple Helix, Regional Innovation Strategies, Technology-Transfer

Training the Behaviour Preferences on Context Changes

Personalized ambient intelligent systems should meet changes in user’s needs, which evolve over time. Our objective is to create an adaptive system that learns the user behaviour preferences. We propose *BAM – * Behaviour Adaptation Mechanism, a neural-network based control system that is trained, supervised by user’s (affective) feedback in real-time. The system deduces the preferred behaviour, based on the detection of affective state’s valence (negative, neutral and positive) from facial features analysis. The neural network is retrained periodically with the updated training set, obtained from the interpretation of the user’s reaction to the system’s decisions. We investigated how many training examples, rendered from user’s behaviour, are required in order to train the neural network so that it reaches an accuracy of at least 75%. We present the evolution of behaviour preference learning parameters when the number of context elements increases

A biblioteca escolar e a organização de repositórios digitais: perspetivas teóricas

O presente trabalho apresenta algumas perspetivas teóricas quanto ao papel dos repositórios digitais de recursos educativos no ensino. Começa por fazer uma análise dos desafios que se colocam à escola e à biblioteca escolar no campo da literacia da informação, na gestão pedagógica de conteúdos e na criação de bibliotecas digitais. São abordados os fundamentos e principais características dos repositórios de recursos educativos e é ponderada a possibilidade da sua implementação na escola, em articulação com a biblioteca, como estratégia para promoção da partilha e reutilização de recursos educativos digitais e sua integração nos processos de ensino e aprendizagem. É apresentado, em linhas gerais, um projeto de investigação-ação numa escola básica e secundária.This paper presents some theoretical perspectives on the role of digital repositories for managing learning resources in education. It begins by analyzing the challenges facing the school and the school library in the field of information literacy, in the management of educational content and the creation of digital libraries. We address the fundamentals and main characteristics of the educational repositories and is considered the possibility of its implementation in school, in conjunction with the library, as a strategy for promoting the sharing and reuse of digital educational resources and their integration in the teaching and learning processes. It is shown, in general, an action research project in primary and secondary schools

Promoting linkages between university and enterprises: the case of the Algarve region

Innovation has assumed an increased importance in Regional Development theories. This communication hopes to contribute to the understanding of the Algarve Regional Innovation Systems, a peripheral region in the National and European framework, where an economic growth is supported by Tourism, which leaves it out of the group of poorest regions when the GDPpc indicator is taken in account. A synthesis of the recent Regional Innovation Strategies for the Algarve is presented including the previous experiences of Ettirse and INOVAlgarve. From this late programme emerged CRIA – Regional Centre for Innovation of the Algarve, focused in the promotion, transfer and commercial approach to technology and knowledge in the academy, consolidating the linkages University-Enterprise. This paper tries to understand the actions carried on by this organism and its role in the development of the region

Promoting linkages between university and enterprises: the case of the Algarve region

Innovation has assumed an increased importance in Regional Development theories. This communication hopes to contribute to the understanding of the Algarve Regional Innovation Systems, a peripheral region in the National and European framework, where an economic growth is supported by Tourism, which leaves it out of the group of poorest regions when the GDPpc indicator is taken in account. A synthesis of the recent Regional Innovation Strategies for the Algarve is presented including the previous experiences of Ettirse and INOVAlgarve. From this late programme emerged CRIA – Regional Centre for Innovation of the Algarve, focused in the promotion, transfer and commercial approach to technology and knowledge in the academy, consolidating the linkages University-Enterprise. This paper tries to understand the actions carried on by this organism and its role in the development of the region

A Video Streaming Application Using Mobile Media Application Programming Interface

Recently, the development of mobile phone technology is growing rapidly. These developments led to the emerging of a multimedia mobile phone that supports Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). However, the use of WLAN technology on mobile phones to access the streaming video is very rarely employed, while the current S60 Symbian operating system as a multimedia mobile phone is very reliable in handling a video. This study presents the making of a video streaming application in mobile phone via a WLAN connection using JSR 135 technology or the Mobile Media API (MMAPI). MMAPI is used to control the process of video streaming and its features. The application uses the two protocols; RTSP and HTTP. Experiment results show that the use of MMAPI on Symbian 60 based mobile phones to do video streaming is feasible and has a good reliability as 0% packet loss on connection. In addition, the times required to play multimedia files are not affected by the size of video streaming files

World heritage digital library in Portugal: the convent of the order of Christ and the castle of the order of the temple

Creating a Digital Library for the Convent of Christ and for the Templar Castle will gather a vast digital resources with information related to these monuments themselves, and related to themes within them (e.g. Templars, Discoveries) and to similar ones in Portugal and abroad. These resources displayed online in the website of the Convent of Christ can be available through the Europeana. The main objective of the Europeana is to display 2 to 5 million items from different museums and archives by 2010, and our main goal is to contribute significantly to that amount of items. Also with items coming from the other world heritage monasteries classified by Unesco in Portugal. Those contents may be not only architecture plans, manuscripts or photographs, but also publications of different origins today unknown or in dispersed owners. This project promotes better culture understanding, innovation, research and development, tolerance and a new awareness of the common European heritage by having it new and online