Sapo Campus: what users really think about an institutionally supported PLE

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Quality of the Azores destination in the perspective of tourists

Tourism is a growing industry in the Autonomous Region of the Azores. However, little is known about how tourists evaluate this destination, something which certainly constitutes a shortcoming if one takes into consideration that this is a very competitive industry, with new destinations appearing every year and others increasing their market share. This paper focuses on the quality of the Azores destination in the perspective of tourists and, to an extent, has the goal of contributing to reduce this shortcoming. According to our findings, 74% of the tourists interviewed consider the global quality of the Azores destination to be very good or excellent, with the landscape, the climate/weather, the hospitality, the cleanliness and the security being the most highly-rated partial indicators. Additionally, a regression analysis indicates that the evaluation of the global quality of this destination varies according to the individual characteristics of tourists.N/

Merging traditional livelihood activities with new employment opportunities brought by ecotourism to Iona national park, Angola: rethinking social sustainability

Ecotourism activities and investment projects have been consistently increasing worldwide over the last few decades. In this process, ecotourism has contributed to fight poverty, to create local employment opportunities and to promote nature conservation. However, there are also plenty examples of nature-base tourism destinations where ecotourism principles have been distorted and negative impacts are on the rise. Therefore, studies that provide a deep understanding of the roots and consequences of those both positive and negative impacts are needed to achieve new higher tourism quality standards, to foster a sound local development and to promote an integrated and sustainable national growth. To obtain information useful to contribute specific recommendations aimed at linking tourism employers and job seekers, we have conducted a survey addressing locals’ demographic characteristics and their engagement in traditional livelihood activities. Data gathered from 202 respondents showed that in the largest villages traditional livelihood activities, excepting pastoralism, tend to have little expression while the same activities seem to play a key role in some small communities. Striking differences were found between nomadic or semi-nomadic people and people who have been assimilated into the western civilization and also have more sedentary life styles. Using this information and taking in consideration some new employment opportunities brought nature-based tourism to the Iona National Park, we have identified specific demographic profiles more suited for part-time and full-time jobs

Relatório final de estágio realizado na Escola Básica e Secundária de Carcavelos

Este relatório final tem como principal objetivo a análise e reflexão de todo o percurso realizado durante o estágio Pedagógico, no âmbito do Mestrado em Ensino da Educação Física nos Ensinos Básico e Secundário na Faculdade de Motricidade Humana. Deste modo, são apresentados os processos de aprendizagem realizados durante todo o percurso, designadamente a avaliação inicial, a conceção da intervenção, bem como algumas reflexões sobre as propostas e estratégias pedagógicas utilizadas, de acordo com as fragilidades e potencialidades dos alunos de uma turma de 8.º ano do 3.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico (CEB) e ainda a avaliação dos resultados dos alunos e do plano anual de turma. Assim, a principal finalidade formativa deste processo, é, de uma forma refletida e crítica, demonstrar todo o percurso realizado em todas as áreas de aprendizagem: Organização e Gestão do Ensino e da Aprendizagem (Área 1), Inovação e Investigação Pedagógica (Área 2), Participação na Escola (Área 3) e Relação com a Comunidade (Área 4).This final report has as a main objective the analysis and reflection of the whole course carried out during the Pedagogical stage, within the scope of the Masters in Teaching Physical Education in Basic and Secondary Education in the Faculty of Human Motricity. In this way, all the learning processes carried out during the whole course are presented, namely the initial evaluation, the design of the intervention, as well as some reflections on the pedagogical proposals and strategies used, according to the weaknesses and potentialities of the students of a class of the 8th year of the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education (CEB) and also the evaluation of the results of the students and of the annual plan. Thus, the main purpose of this process is, in a reflexive and critical way, to demonstrate the entire course in all areas of learning: Organization and Management of Teaching and Learning (Area 1), Innovation and Pedagogical Research (Area 2), Participation in the School (Area 3) and Relationship with the Community (Area 4)

The impact of structural capital on the firm Innovativeness, the Galician Northern Portugal automotive industries reality

The intellectual capital is increasingly considered a major issue on the management and organization research and a source of competitive advantage. Although there are different models and approaches that try to identify the effect of intellectual capital on firm performance, there’s, also a lack of evidence and consensus. Based on that evidence, this paper focuses on the influence of the structural capital on the product- process and management innovativeness of the firm. A global model including the variables used in the previous literature is used and we establishes hypotheses for testing this model and use statistic technique to estimate the parameters of the model in a sample. To do so, we use a survey from 68 firms working on the auto components sector, established in the Northern Spain and Northern Portugal. We found firstly, that innovativeness has two main dimensions, perfectly differentiated, the product-process innovation and the management innovation; secondly that the structural capital dimensions influences differently each type of innovation capacity (innovativeness). We also concluded that the structural capital of the automotive firms based on the euro region Galicia (Spain) Northern Portugal influences positive and directly the management innovativeness. These results highlight the importance of the structural capital as well as highlight the main dimensions that influence the innovativeness, and more broadly, the value of intellectual capital as a competitive advantage in contemporary time. Moreover, point out the different character of product-process and management innovativeness.

Uniaxial-deformation behavior of ice Ih as described by the TIP4P/Ice and mW water models

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we assess the uniaxial deformation response of ice Ih as described by two popular water models, namely, the all-atom TIP4P/Ice potential and the coarse-grained mW model. In particular, we investigate the response to both tensile and compressive uniaxial deformations along the [0001] and [01̄10] crystallographic directions for a series of different temperatures. We classify the respective failure mechanisms and assess their sensitivity to strain rate and cell size. While the TIP4P/Ice model fails by either brittle cleavage under tension at low temperatures or large-scale amorphization/melting, the mW potential behaves in a much more ductile manner, displaying numerous cases in which stress relief involves the nucleation and subsequent activity of lattice dislocations. Indeed, the fact that mW behaves in such a malleable manner even at strain rates that are substantially higher than those applied in typical experiments indicates that the mW description of ice Ih is excessively ductile. One possible contribution to this enhanced malleability is the absence of explicit protons in the mW model, disregarding the fundamental asymmetry of the hydrogen bond that plays an important role in the nucleation and motion of lattice dislocations in ice Ih.Fil: Santos Flórez, Pedro Antonio. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; BrasilFil: Ruestes, Carlos Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; ArgentinaFil: de Koning, Maurice. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Brasi

Quantum Neural Machine Learning: Theory and Experiments

Cloud-based access to quantum computers opens up the way for the empirical implementation of quantum artificial neural networks and for the future integration of quantum computation in different devices, using the cloud to access a quantum computer. The current work experimentally implements quantum artificial neural networks on IBM’s quantum computers, accessed via cloud. Examples are provided for the XOR Boolean function representation problem and decision under risk; in the last case, quantum object-oriented programming using IBM’s Qiskit Python library is employed to implement a form of quantum neural reinforcement learning applied to a classical decision under risk problem, showing how decision can be integrated into a quantum artificial intelligence system, where an artificial agent learns how to select an optimal action when facing a classical gamble. A final reflection is provided on quantum robotics and a future where robotic systems are connected to quantum computers via cloud, using quantum neural computation to learn to optimize tasks and act accordingly

Repensar a tecnologia em contextos educativos: o SAPO Campus no DeCA

Hoje em dia, as tecnologias oferecidas pelas instituições de ensino ainda se baseiam, na sua grande maioria, em práticas e rotinas que são principalmente centradas no professor ou na gestão do processo de ensino. O SAPO Campus procurar contribuir para transformar essa tradição, propondo uma plataforma integrada de serviços Web 2.0 que promove a abertura, a construção de comunidades de aprendizagem, a partilha de recursos e a colaboração entre os seus membros. Neste trabalho apresentamos alguns resultados obtidos a partir da utilização da nova plataforma SAPO Campus no Departamento de Comunicação e Arte (DeCA) da Universidade de Aveiro e apresentamos um possível modelo de expansão desta plataforma para toda a instituição.Nowadays, technologies offered by educational institutions are still based, mostly, on practices and routines that are mainly teacher-focused or academic management-focused. SAPO Campus tries to subvert this tradition by proposing an integrated platform of Web 2.0 services that promotes openness, the construction of communities, learning resources sharing and collaboration among the members of a learning community. In this paper we discuss some results obtained from the use of the new SAPO Campus platform in the Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro and put forward a potential institutional-wide expansion model for the platform.Aujourd’hui, les technologies fournies par les établissements d’enseignement sont basées, surtout, sur les pratiques et les routines qui sont principalement axées sur le professeur ou sur la gestion du processus de l’enseignement. SAPO Campus tente de renverser cette tradition en proposant une plateforme intégrée de services Web 2.0 qui supporte l’ouverture, la construction de communautés, le partage des ressources et la collaboration entre les membres d’une communauté d’apprentissage. Dans cet article, nous discutons des résultats obtenus par l’utilisation de la nouvelle plateforme SAPO Campus dans le Département de Communication et Art (DeCA) de l’Université d’Aveiro, et présentons un modèle d’expansion de cette plateforme pour toute l’Institution

Forecast of hotel overnights in the autonomous region of the Azores

This paper concentrates on the application of various time series methods in order to forecast the monthly overnights in Azorean hotels. The aim is to find out the degree to which the forecast of overnights segmented by country of origin, presents smaller errors when compared with the forecast of the total overnights in the Region. The appropriate forecasting method by a tourist’s country of origin, is also analyzed so that potential optimal combinations of separate forecasts can be found in order to forecast the total overnights in Azores