Relatório de estágio na Viver Santarém, Desporto e Lazer, EM SA : implementação de um plano de comunicação

Este relatório refere-se a um relatório de estágio curricular do Mestrado em Marketing e Promoção Turística. Este estágio decorreu na Viver Santarém S.A. Teve início no dia 1 de setembro e terminou no dia 16 de maio, decorrendo no departamento de eventos e ações de formação. O foco deste relatório é um plano de comunicação aplicado à empresa em Viver Santarém, que procura corrigir uma falha estrutural da organização que é a ausência de estratégias de comunicação. Tem uma metodologia que aposta no marketing digital, mas com a sensibilidade de poder adaptar certas medidas mais inovadoras à realidade de uma empresa municipal. Para a elaboração do plano de comunicação, procedeu-se a uma análise interna e externa da organização, que está explícito neste documento, a análise contém as oportunidades e orientações que servirão de base na aplicação das medidas aplicadas, bem como caracterização da atividade.This report refers to a report of a curricular internship in the Master of Marketing and Tourism Promotion. This internship took place at Viver Santarém S.A. It began on the 1st of September and ended on the 16th of May, taking place in the department of events and training activities. The focus of this report is on a communication plan applied to the company in Viver Santarém, which seeks to correct a structural flaw in the organization which is the absence of communication strategies. It has a methodology that focuses on digital marketing, but with the sensitivity of being able to adapt certain more innovative measures to the reality of a municipal company. For the elaboration of the communication plan, there was an internal and external analysis of the organization, which is explicit in this document, the analysis has the opportunities and guidelines that will serve as a basis in the application of the applied measures, as well as a characterization of the activity

A Biografia no ensino da História

O presente Relatório da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada em Ensino de História para o 3.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e Ensino Secundário procura demonstrar a pertinência da utilização de Biografias no ensino em sala de aula, bem como verificar que a análise de percursos de vida de figuras da história pode constituir um potencial didático e pedagógico relevante. Neste sentido, levou-se a cabo um estudo através da utilização de Biografias nas aulas das turmas do 11º M e N, 11º H e 11º D da Escola Secundária Cacilhas-Tejo (Almada, Setúbal) durante o ano letivo 2021/2022. O estudo realizado pretende revelar a importância da Biografia na motivação dos alunos para a aprendizagem da disciplina de História A e de História da Cultura e das Artes. Procura ainda verificar se, ao serem apresentadas às turmas figuras destacadas da história ou pessoas comuns das épocas estudadas, os alunos conseguem aprofundar o seu conhecimento e obter um melhor entendimento não apenas das vivências, mas, também, dos processos históricos.This Report of the Supervised Teaching Practice in History Teaching for the 3rd Cycle of Basic and Secondary Education seeks to demonstrate the relevance of the use of biographies in classroom teaching, as well as to verify that the analysis of life paths of figures in history constitutes a relevant didactic and pedagogical potential. In this sense, a study was carried out through the use of biographies in the classes of 11th M and N, 11th H and 11th D of Cacilhas-Tejo Secondary School (Almada, Setúbal) during the 2021/2022 school year. The study revealed the importance of biography in motivating students to learn History A and History of Culture and Arts. It also showed that, by presenting to the class outstanding figures from history or common people from the studied periods, the students are able to deepen their knowledge and get a better understanding not only of the lives, but also of the historical processes

Operating systems for Internet of Things low-end devices: analysis and benchmarking

In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of wirelessly connected embedded devices rapidly became part of our daily lives. As a key tool for each Internet-enabled object, embedded operating systems (OSes) provide a set of services and abstractions which eases the development and speedups the deployment of IoT solutions at scale. This article starts by discussing the requirements of an IoT-enabled OS, taking into consideration the major concerns when developing solutions at the network edge, followed by a deep comparative analysis and benchmarking on Contiki-NG, RIOT, and Zephyr. Such OSes were considered as the best representative of their class considering the main key-points that best define an OS for resource-constrained IoT devices: low-power consumption, real-time capabilities, security awareness, interoperability, and connectivity. While evaluating each OS under different network conditions, the gathered results revealed distinct behaviors for each OS feature, mainly due to differences in kernel and network stack implementations.This work has been supported by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2019

Assessing the contribution of ECa and NDVI in the delineation of management zones in a vineyard

Precision fertilization implies the need to identify the variability of soil fertility, which is costly and time-consuming. Remotely measured data can be a solution. Using this strategy, a study was conducted, in a vineyard, to delineate different management zones using two indicators: apparent soil electrical conductivity (ECa) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). To understand the contribution of each indicator, three scenarios were used for zone definition: (1) using only NDVI, (2) only ECa, or (3) using a combination of the two. Then the differences in soil fertility between these zones were assessed using simple statistical methods. The results indicate that the most beneficial strategy is the combined use of the two indicators, as it allowed the definition of three distinct zones regarding important soil variables and crop nutrients, such as soil total nitrogen, Mg2+ cation, exchange acidity, and effective cation exchange capacity, and some relevant cation ratios. This strategy also allowed the identification of an ionic unbalance in the soil chemistry, due to an excess of Mg2+, that was harming crop health, as reported by NDVI. This also impacted ECa and NDVI relationship, which was negative in this study. Overall, the results demonstrate the advantages of using remotely sensed data, mainly more than one type of sensing data, and suggest a high potential for differential crop fertilization and soil management in the study areainfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Self-secured devices: high performance and secure I/O access in TrustZone-based systems

Arm TrustZone is a hardware technology that adds significant value to the ongoing security picture. TrustZone-based systems typically consolidate multiple environments into the same platform, requiring resources to be shared among them. Currently, hardware devices on TrustZone-enabled system-on-chip (SoC) solutions can only be configured as secure or non-secure, which means the dual-world concept of TrustZone is not spread to the inner logic of the devices. The traditional passthrough model dictates that both worlds cannot use the same device concurrently. Furthermore, existing shared device access methods have been proven to cause a negative impact on the overall system in terms of security and performance.This work introduces the concept of self-secured devices, a novel approach for shared device access in TrustZone-based architectures. This concept extends the TrustZone dual-world model to the device itself, providing a secure and non-secure logical interface in a single device instance. The solution was deployed and evaluated on the LTZVisor, an open-source and lightweight TrustZone-assisted hypervisor. The obtained results are encouraging, demonstrating that our solution requires only a few additional hardware resources when compared with the native device implementation, while providing a secure solution for device sharing.This work has been supported by FCT -Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020

Critical success factors of University-Industry R&D collaborations

University-industry R&D collaborations (UICs) play a vital role in stimulating open innovation that leads to new products, processes, and services that creates value for customers and broader societal impact. UICs, however, commonly fail to meet these stakeholders’ benefits. This study identifies thirty-four critical success factors (CSFs) for improving UIC success. The study includes a systematic literature review and a longitudinal UIC case study between Bosch Car Multimedia in Portugal and University of Minho, a multi-million Euro R&D collaboration from 2013 to 2021. The importance of the CSFs is discussed in the context of the UIC lifecycle. A survey among researchers and industry practitioners involved in R&D collaborative projects was completed to confirm the analysis of the empirical results. This paper provides UIC managers with CSFs, which, when addressed competently, can provide a basis for successful UIC projects and sustainable university-industry collaborationsThe authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020 and UIDP/00690/2020), SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021), ALGORITMI60 (UIDB/00319/2020) and CEMMPRE (UIDB/00285/2020).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Assessment of Hybrid Wind-Wave Energy Resource for the NW Coast of Iberian Peninsula in a Climate Change Context

Offshore renewable energy has a high potential for ensuring the successful implementation of the European decarbonization agenda planned for the near future. Hybrid wind-wave farms can reduce installation and maintenance costs, and increase the renewable energy availability of a location by compensating for the wind’s intermittent nature with good wave conditions. In addition, wave farms can provide protection to wind farms, and the combined wind/wave farm can provide coastal protection. This work aims to assess the future hybrid wind-wave energy resource for the northwest coast of Iberian Peninsula for the near future (2026–2045), under the RCP 8.5 greenhouse gas emission scenario. This assessment was accomplished by applying a Delphi classification method to define four categories, aiming to evaluate the richness (wind and wave energy availability, downtime), the variability (temporal variation), the environmental risk (extreme events), and cost parameters (water depth and distance to coast) of the wind and wave resources. The combined index (CI), which classifies the hybrid wind-wave resource, shows that most of the NW Iberian Peninsula presents good conditions (CI > 0.6) for exploiting energy from wind and wave resources simultaneously. Additionally, there are some particularly optimal areas (CI > 0.7), such as the region near Cape Roca, and the Galician coastThe first author of this work has been supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) through a doctoral grant (SFRH/BD/114919/2016). Thanks are also due to FCT/MCTES for the financial support to CESAM (UIDB/50017/2020+UIDP/50017/2020), through national funds. This work was partially supported by Xunta de Galicia under project ED431C 2017/64-GRC (Grupos de Referencia Competitiva) and by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain under the project “WELCOME ENE2016-75074-C2-1-R” funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This study is also part of the project “WECAnet: A pan-European network for Marine Renewable Energy” (CA17105), which received funding from the HORIZON2020 Framework Programme by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), a funding agency for research and innovation networksS

Portuguese wild grapevine genome re-sequencing (Vitis vinifera sylvestris)

Supplementary information is available for this paper at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76012-6.The first genome of Vitis vinifera vinifera (PN40024), published in 2007, boosted grapevine related studies. While this reference genome is a suitable tool for the overall studies in the field, it lacks the ability to unveil changes accumulated during V. v. vinifera domestication. The subspecies V. v. sylvestris preserves wild characteristics, making it a good material to provide insights into V. v. vinifera domestication. The difference in the reproductive strategy between both subspecies is one of the characteristics that set them apart. While V. v. vinifera flowers are hermaphrodite, V. v. sylvestris is mostly dioecious. In this paper, we compare the re-sequencing of the genomes from a male and a female individual of the wild sylvestris, against the reference vinifera genome (PN40024). Variant analysis reveals a low number but with high impact modifications in coding regions, essentially non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms and frame shifts caused by insertions and deletions. The sex-locus was manually inspected, and the results obtained are in line with the most recent works related with wild grapevine sex. In this paper we also describe for the first time RNA editing in transcripts of 14 genes in the sex-determining region, including VviYABBY and VviPLATZ.Tis work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) through the Research Center LEAF (UIDP/04129/2020). Authors JLCoito, MJNRamos, MRocheta, were funded by FCT fellowships SFRH/ BD/85824/2012 and CEECIND2017, SFRH/BD/110274/2015, SFRH/BPD/64905/2009, respectively

Development and evaluation of different electroactive poly(vinylidene fluoride) architectures for endothelial cell culture

Tissue engineering (TE) aims to develop structures that improve or even replace the biological functions of tissues and organs. Mechanical properties, physical-chemical characteristics, biocompatibility, and biological performance of the materials are essential factors for their applicability in TE. Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) is a thermoplastic polymer that exhibits good mechanical properties, high biocompatibility and excellent thermal properties. However, PVDF structuring, and the corresponding processing methods used for its preparation are known to significantly influence these characteristics. In this study, doctor blade, salt-leaching, and electrospinning processing methods were used to produce PVDF-based structures in the form of films, porous membranes, and fiber scaffolds, respectively. These PVDF scaffolds were subjected to a variety of characterizations and analyses, including physicochemical analysis, contact angle measurement, cytotoxicity assessment and cell proliferation. All prepared PVDF scaffolds are characterized by a mechanical response typical of ductile materials. PVDF films displayed mostly vibration modes for the a-phase, while the remaining PVDF samples were characterized by a higher content of electroactive beta-phase due the low temperature solvent evaporation during processing. No significant variations have been observed between the different PVDF membranes with respect to the melting transition. In addition, all analysed PVDF samples present a hydrophobic behavior. On the other hand, cytotoxicity assays confirm that cell viability is maintained independently of the architecture and processing method. Finally, all the PVDF samples promote human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) proliferation, being higher on the PVDF film and electrospun randomly-oriented membranes. These findings demonstrated the importance of PVDF topography on HUVEC behavior, which can be used for the design of vascular implants.This work has been partially funded by the Junta de Extremadura (Spain), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund, and the European Next Generation Funds (Grant Numbers PD18077, TA18023, and GR21201). The authors also thanks to Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for financial support under grants SFRH/BD/140698/2018 (RP), 2020.04163. CEECIND (CR). The also authors acknowledge funding by Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERFD) through the project PID 2019-106099RB-C43/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and from the Basque Government Industry Departments under the ELKARTEK program