Oil spill Hazard maps

Release of the Atlantic Oil spill Hazard map Portal for dissemination. This is the reviewed version of deliverable 8.4. This document is not a technical report but a paper version of the oil spill hazard map portal (https://glamor.sincem.unibo.it), since the actual deliverable was the website release

Portuguese Adaptation of Students Engagement in Schools International Scale (SESIS)

The importance of student’s engagement has been recently pointed out in research. However, there has been a lack of engagement assessment instrument, pertaining psychometric qualities. Objective: This paper presents the Portuguese adaptation of the “Student’s Engagement in School International Scale” (SESIS), drawn up from a12 countries international study (Lam et al., 2012; Lam et al., in press). Method: Psychometric properties of this scale were examined with data from 685 students from different grades (6th, 7th, 9th and 10th), from both sexes, and different regions of the country. Results: Factorial analysis of the results, with varimax rotation, lead to three different factors which explain 50.88% of the variance. The scale integrates the original 33 items, and cognitive, affective and behavioural dimensions. For the external validity study, the relationship between student’s engagement in school results and other school variables — academic performance, self-concept — was considered, and significant relations were observed, as expected. Conclusion: The data presented highlights the qualities of SESIS, as well as its usefulness for research purposes. Suggestion: It is suggested the investigation of the extension of SESIS’s three-dimensionality, in future studiesKeywords: Innovation, technology, research projects, etc. [Arial 10-point, justified alignment]

Oil spill hazard bulletin

Dissemination Method: Web Product weblink: https://glamor.sincem.unibo.it The MSFD, the new Directive on Safety of offshore oil and gas operations (2013) and the European Maritime Safety Agency require robust tools for oil spill hazard mapping, from accidental to operational. In this activity WP7 and Marine Core Service products were coupled to Medslik-II oil spill model in order to produce, on request, an Oil Spill Hazard Bulletin based upon the hazard mapping data generated earlier in the project. This report contains background information and some examples of oil spill hazard bulletins for target Atlantic areas. The web-GIS Portal GLAMOR developed for Task 8.4 “Oil spill hazard mapping and disaster risk reduction best practices” is used to create the information content in the requested bulletins. Please note: bulletins are only produced on a request basis

Oil spill Hazard maps

This report contains the description of the methodology to produce coastal oil spill hazard mapping for the Atlantic Ocean coastlines and the description of the Web Portal used to disseminate the informatio

Utilização do mapa de rede no Rendimento Social de Inserção: construção de um guião de entrevista e desenho de um programa de formação específico para técnicos de intervenção social e comunitária

O suporte social funciona como amortecedor do stress e contribui para o bem-estar dos indivíduos (Ornelas, 2008). A sua avaliação no contexto do Rendimento Social de Inserção [RSI] passa, maioritariamente, pela aplicação do Mapa de Rede (Sluzki, 1998). Contudo, a existência de uma rede social não significa a existência efectiva de apoio (Guadalupe, 2009). Assim, o presente trabalho, focou-se em dois objectivos: construir um guião de entrevista (denominado de ECMR) como instrumento complementar ao Mapa de Rede que permita avaliar o funcionamento da rede social na intervenção directa com famílias RSI; desenhar um programa de formação específico para dotar os técnicos de intervenção social e comunitária de conhecimentos e competências para a aplicação exacta da ECMR, a fim de possibilitar a planificação adequada das acções interventivas com as famílias. Efectuou-se o pré-teste do instrumento, tendo os dados sido recolhidos junto de quatro famílias beneficiárias de RSI, com diferentes tipologias familiares, mantendo os seus elementos idades compreendidas entre os 10 e os 61 anos. Os resultados deram origem a um quadro de referência para a análise diagnóstica do mapa de rede e ECMR e a um programa de formação específico para técnicos de intervenção social e comunitária, no âmbito do diagnóstico do suporte social com base no instrumento criado. Conclui-se, assim, que uma avaliação inicial consistente e a implementação de acções de intervenção sustentadas são um meio directo para se alcançar a autodeterminação e autonomia das famílias.Social support works as a stress buffer and contributes to the well being of individuals (Ornelas, 2008). It’s evaluation in the Social Integration Income [RSI] context is, mostly, the application of the Network Map (Sluzki, 1998). However, the existence of a social network does not necessarily mean the effective existence of support (Guadalupe, 2009). Hence, this present work, was focused in two aims: the construction of an interview guide (named ECMR) as a complementary instrument of the Network Map, which allows the evaluation of the social network operation in the direct intervention with RSI families; to design a specific formation programme to endow social and communitary intervention technicians with the knowledge and ability for the exact application of ECMR, with the objective of making the adequate planning of interventive actions with families possible. The instrument pre-test was performed. The data was collected from four beneficiaries RSI families, with different family typology, maintaining their age ranging from 10 to 61 years. From the results a reference table for the diagnosis analyse of the Network Map and ECMR was created. And based in the instrument a specific formation programme for social and communitary intervention technicians was prepared in the scope of diagnosis of the social support. It is therefore concluded, that a consistent initial evaluation and the implementation of sustained actions of intervention are a direct method to attain the self-determination and autonomy of families

Prescription of rhythmic patterns for legged locomotion

As the engine behind many life phenomena, motor information generated by the central nervous system (CNS) plays a critical role in the activities of all animals. In this work, a novel, macroscopic and model-independent approach is presented for creating different patterns of coupled neural oscillations observed in biological central pattern generators (CPG) during the control of legged locomotion. Based on a simple distributed state machine, which consists of two nodes sharing pre-defined number of resources, the concept of oscillatory building blocks (OBBs) is summarised for the production of elaborated rhythmic patterns. Various types of OBBs can be designed to construct a motion joint of one degree-of-freedom (DOF) with adjustable oscillatory frequencies and duty cycles. An OBBs network can thus be potentially built to generate a full range of locomotion patterns of a legged animal with controlled transitions between different rhythmic patterns. It is shown that gait pattern transition can be achieved by simply changing a single parameter of an OBB module. Essentially this simple mechanism allows for the consolidation of a methodology for the construction of artificial CPG architectures behaving as an asymmetric Hopfield neural network. Moreover, the proposed CPG model introduced here is amenable to analogue and/or digital circuit integration