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Azores tourism product perceptions : the Influence of the country of origin
This study focused on the Autonomous Region of the Azores (ARA), which has some features that are considered favorable to the development of tourism and to the interest in the tourism product. However, the region’s geographical dispersion, its high dependence on transportation and the seasonality of the industry constrain its development.
The present research aimed to assess tourists’ perception of certain costs (living, accommodation, plane ticket, and transportation to/from the airport), and whether these differ between tourists of different nationalities.
The findings show that tourists, both residents and non-residents, have the perception that the cost of living and of the plane ticket are high, while the cost of accommodation and of transportation to the airport is considered normal by most respondents.
We concluded that the models differ when applied to residents and non-residents. For non-residents, living in certain countries induces them to express differences in the perception of the costs studied, when compared to individuals that live in other countries.N/
¿…More ‘center’ tan ‘shopping’?
Shopping centers are one of the most striking elements of the contemporary European city, an indispensable place of consumption itself and, increasingly, one of the key places of daily life. For some theorists, these typologies are places where everything is accessible in a comfortable and secure way. For others, they are the epitome of advanced capitalism, in an era in which consumption pervades all dimensions of contemporary life. If notions such as center and periphery, public and private, or nonplace and place, are now challenged by the hybrid nature of these commercial typologies, that is precisely because the city itself has dramatically changed over the past years. In a context in which the shopping centers gradually accumulate the functions of prime sites of consumption and gravitational centers of the metropolitan condition, this article will explore how this commercial formula is progressively affirmed as both the shopping & center of the contemporary European city
Democracia e Políticas e Práticas de Cooperação Transfronteiriça- ação prospetiva no Contexto do Alentejo-Extremadura
A antevisão de situações futuras e o desenvolvimento de estratégias de planeamento partem do pressuposto de que o futuro é o resultado de interações presentes, mas intercaladas com tendências históricas, pelo que há que conhecer a morfologia da cooperação transfronteiriça, quer na sua conceção e legitimação política e institucional no contexto da União Europeia, quer na observação da racionalidade da interação dos indivíduos nas regiões transfronteiriças, compreendendo a dinâmica e a diversidade de lógicas de apropriação dos diversos atores
Harvesting Context and Mining Emotions Related to Olfactory Cultural Heritage
UIDB/00657/2020
UIDP/00657/2020This paper presents an Artificial Intelligence approach to mining context and emotions related to olfactory cultural heritage narratives, particularly to fairy tales. We provide an overview of the role of smell and emotions in literature, as well as highlight the importance of olfactory experience and emotions from psychology and linguistic perspectives. We introduce a methodology for extracting smells and emotions from text, as well as demonstrate the context-based visualizations related to smells and emotions implemented in a novel smell tracker tool. The evaluation is performed using a collection of fairy tales from Grimm and Andersen. We find out that fairy tales often connect smell with the emotional charge of situations. The experimental results show that we can detect smells and emotions in fairy tales with an F1 score of 91.62 and 79.2, respectively.publishersversionpublishe
Improving visual attractiveness to enhance city-river integration - a methodological approach for ongoing evaluation
The relationship between rivers and cities has evolved from a natural coexistence and
interdependence to a progressive relationship of segregation and disintegration. This article
uses a planning experiment to explore and discuss some concerns about visual attractiveness of
city–river landscapes in promoting spatial integration of cities and rivers. It presents a
methodological approach integrating expert opinions and public perception questionnaires. This is
a contribution to making operational an ongoing aesthetic assessment of different dimensions and
viewpoints at the city scale. This approach is illustrated with a case-study in the Lisbon
metropolitan area and its main assessment results are integrated in a city–river profile that can be
useful in ongoing evaluation processes of river landscapes and urban planning practice
Estrutura e tipologia de espaços de recreio escolar: intervenções de Arquitectura Paisagista ao nível do ensino pré-escolar e 1º ciclo
Dissertação de mest., Arquitectura Paisagista, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2010Verifica-se no espaço de recreio escolar, uma desatenção em termos de
espaço equipado, quando se observa o estado de conservação, inovação e
qualidade, indiciando a falta de planeamento. Neste sentido, o projecto de
Arquitectura Paisagista, necessita de se basear em conceitos e metodologias
relacionadas com as práticas educativas e o conceito de recreio, no sentido de
melhorar o conforto e a própria infra-estrutura formativa. Esta constatação
leva-nos à necessidade de uma intervenção mais activa, nos espaços de recreio
do Ensino Pré-escolar e 1º ciclo, nomeadamente no processo de funcionamento
da escola, adaptabilidade, concepção e desenvolvimento físico, emocional,
social e intelectual da criança. Com este propósito, começamos por enumerar
uma série de questões iniciais, por esboçar os objectivos a atingir com o
presente estudo e formular a hipótese que nos servirá de orientação.
A análise de todos os factores, nomeadamente: o contexto sócio-cultural;
a existência de bairros sociais nos perímetros anexos à escola; a multiplicidade
étnica; os factores associados à imigração; à presença de espaços públicos
envolventes ao recinto escolar; os aspectos institucionais; os factores de
estruturação dos espaços de recreio escolar e a própria evolução do sistema de
ensino e a arquitectura escolar, permitirão identificar as tipologias de espaço
de recreio escolar. Esta identificação facultará a concepção em harmonia com a
paisagem envolvente. Esta será a hipótese que tentaremos demonstrar e aplicar
ao nível do estudo de caso.
Também a necessidade de melhorar a qualidade de vida dos espaços de
recreio escolar, nas periferias urbanas degradadas e no meio rural, passa pelo
reconhecimento de ambas, permitindo uma maior interligação entre os
equipamentos lúdicos existentes em cada infra-estrutura de ensino e o espaço
envolvente
Desenvolvimento psicossocial e ansiedades nos jovens
Este estudo, baseado na perspectiva do desenvolvimento
psicossocial de Erikson, teve como principal
objectivo estudar a relação entre as diferentes tarefas
desenvolvimentais e a ansiedade nos jovens. Na presente
investigação foi utilizada uma amostra de 511
jovens portugueses, com idades compreendidas entre
os 17 e os 26 anos, que frequentavam diferentes cursos
universitários em estabelecimentos de ensino superior
da área metropolitana do Porto.
De modo geral, verifica-se que a uma resolução das
tarefas psicossociais de forma construtiva corresponde
uma menor tendência para a ansiedade.
Relativamente ao género, registam-se efeitos significativos
nos medos, pensamentos obsessivos e comportamentos
compulsivos e nos estádios do desenvolvimento
psicossocial. Verifica-se que o género feminino
assume médias mais elevadas na maior parte dos medos
e o género masculino nas características obsessivo-
compulsivas. O efeito do género nas diferentes tarefas
psicossociais só se mostra significativo para a confiança
vs. desconfiança em que as raparigas apresentam
médias mais baixas comparativamente aos rapazes
e médias mais elevadas na tarefa da indústria vs. inferioridade.This research, based on the Erikson’s psychosocial
development perspective, has as its fundamental goal
to study the relations between developmental psychosocial
tasks and anxiety in young people. In this study
we used a sample of 511 Portuguese young people, with
ages between 17 and 26 years, which attended several
higher education courses in the Porto area.
Globally, results show that a constructive resolution
of psychosocial tasks corresponds to a smaller tendency
for anxiety. Results also allow the understanding of
the specific contribution each stage has concerning the
development of different anxious structures.
As for gender, results indicate the presence of significant
effects for fears, obsessive thoughts and compulsive
behaviours, as well as for psychosocial developmental
stages.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Lifestyle Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Rural Areas: The Case of Tourism Entrepreneurs
Lifestyle entrepreneurs play an important role in innovation and sustainability in rural destinations. Their competitiveness depends largely on how they explore their link to the place and generate innovation. To analyze the relationship between the link to the place and innovation, this article uses survey data from a sample of 221 rural lifestyle entrepreneurs. Using PLS-SEM modeling, the results indicate that place familiarity and relational capital positively influence innovation. Furthermore, place familiarity reveals as an important factor for improving relational capital. In its turn, the degree of relational capital contributes positively to the small firm’s knowledge absorption. The results also reveal that, although there is no direct relation between knowledge absorption and innovation, relational capital mediates the relationship between place familiarity and innovation and that there is an indirect relationship between relational capital and innovation, through the mediating effect of knowledge absorption. These results provides important elements for rural tourism destination decision making on innovation and competitiveness
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