Ciência, Cultura, Teorias, Práticas, Objetos, Sentidos, Valores

Este artigo reflete, e corporiza ele mesmo, uma intersecção: entre ciência e cultura; entre experiência, experimentação, sentidos, sentido e significado; entre a pluralidade de argumentos sustentadores da expressão motriz e matriz ‘culturas experimentais’. Sustentando a necessidade de se transcender uma abordagem essencialista de ‘cultura’ ede transgredir delimitações dos conceitos ‘experiência’ e ‘experimentação’, os autores recorrem à ideia de ‘paisagem’ para designar a quebra dos dualismos teoria-prática e ação-pensamento. Isto dita o repensar das fronteiras entre linguagens disciplinares, em direção a uma ‘ecologia conceptual’que contribua para perspetivas mais amplas e integradoras dos campos educativo, profissional e científico-artístico-cultural.This article reflects, and embodies itself, an intersection: between science and culture; between experience, experimentation, senses, sense and meaning; between the pluralityof arguments that may support the motive andmatricialexpr ession‘experimental cultures’. Sustaining the need to transcend an essencialistic approach to ‘culture’ and to transgressdelimitationsof the concepts ‘experience’ and ‘experimentation’, theauthors resort to the ideaof ‘landscape’ to name the fracture of the dualisms theory-practice and action-though. This leads to rethinking the borders between disciplinary languages, towards a ‘conceptual ecology’that contributes to wider and integrated perspectives of the educational, professional and scientific-artistic-cultural fields

De processos interorganizacionais CBPEL para processos BPEL

A Common Business Process Execution Language (CBPEL) é uma nova especificação para a descrição de processos interorganizacionais descritos de forma global e única, e baseados em Web Services. A grande vantagem da utilização de uma descrição global e única consiste na possibilidade da geração automática dos processos das organizações participantes. Essa automatização tem por principal objectivo a redução do risco da concepção de processos interorganizacionais inconsistentes. Contudo até este momento não existe nenhum trabalho que apresente uma metodologia para a geração automática dos processos participantes. Este trabalho visa precisamente preencher essa lacuna promovendo uma reflexão sobre essa transformação, e apresentando um conjunto de regras para a sua automatização. A linguagem escolhida como destinatário da transformação foi a Business Process Execution Language (CBPEL) uma vez que é a linguagem base da linguagem CBPEL.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

An OGC/SOS conformant client to manage geospatial data on the GRID

This paper describes a Sensor Observation Service (SOS) client developed to integrate dynamic geospatial data from meteorological sensors, on a grid-based risk management decision support system. The present work is part of the CROSS-Fire project, which uses forest fires as the main case study and the FireStation application to simulate fire spread. The meteorological data is accessed through the SOS standard from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), using the Observations and Measurements (O&M) standard encoding format. Since the SOS standard was not designed to directly access sensors, we developed an interface application to load the SOS database with observations from a Vantis Weather Station (WS). To integrate the SOS meteorological data into the FireStation, the developed SOS client was embedded on a Web Processing Service (WPS) algorithm. This algorithm was designed to be functional and fully compliant with SOS, SensorML, and O&M standards from OGC. With minor modifications to the developed SOS database interface, the SOS client works with any WS. This client supports spatial and temporal filters, including the integration of dynamic data from satellites into FireStation, as described.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT

A platform to support civil protection applications on the GRID

The CROSS-Fire is a Portuguese NGI funded project focus-ing on the development of a grid-based risk management decision support system for the Civil Protection (CP), using forest fires as the main case study. The project defines a general approach for the development of a CP application by defining an architecture that integrates three main layers: the CROSS-Fire Platform and two external infrastructures: a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and the GRID. The CROSS-Fire Platform is defined and implemented as a set of WPS algorithms dealing with most of the functionalities of its three components: Business Logic, Grid Services and Geospatial services. The present work stresses the relevance of standards adoption: OGC-WS WCS/WFS/WMS/WPS, to exploit/enable geospatial services for data access processing, and OGC-SWE SOS to address other CP data sources, such as meteorological station networks (MSN) or satellites. The adoption of a Web Services (WS) approach allows integrating easily with existing systems typically based on WS technologies. We also present CFS, a grid user interface SDI based client, compliant with OGC and EU INSPIRE directives which allows decision makers to access the spatial data infrastructure, to launch simulations on the grid and visualize the fire propagation simulations.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT

CROSS-Fire : a risk management decision support system on the Grid

The CROSS-Fire project aims to develop a grid-based risk management decision support system for the Civil Protection (CP) authorities, using forest fires as the main case study and FireStation as a standalone CAD application to simulate the fire spread over complex topography. CROSS-Fire approach is based in an architecture that includes: information models, encodings, and metadata that represent the scientific knowledge associated to FireStation execution models and standards to enable the discovery and access of Web services, data repository, sensor networks and data processing facilities. To achieve the desired integration of information and services we use: i) EGEE to provide raw technological capability provision, including data management and storage, access to meta-data data bases and high-performance computing and ii) a Geospatial Information Infrastructure based on OCG-WS and SWE Web services to provide the access and management of remote geospatial data and virtualized sensor networks. This article, stresses the relevance of standards adoption of OGC-WS by describing the work that is been done to provide G-FireStation with: i) a standard-based SDI layer, based on Geoserver to exploit/enable geospatial services for data access/processing and ii) a 52N’s implementation of a OGC-SWE compatible layer, to address sensors CP data sources, such as meteorological stations data and satellite images and iii) the development of G-FireStation graphical user interface to access the platform facilities. The core of the CROSS-Fire Platform is a WPS 52North OGC standard layer divided into three interoperable components, respectively, the CROSS-Fire Business Logic, the Grid Services and Geospatial Services. WPS serves as an interface to a wide range of distributed computing resources provides the mechanism to access the grid facilities for processing and data management and including all the algorithms, calculation, or model that operates on spatially referenced data, also mediating all the communication with the portal and other GUI clients. The G-FireStation user interface that is currently under development is an open-source desktop with GIS and CAD capabilities that exploits an SDI client complying with OGC-WS and EU INSPIRE directives. It provides facilities to locate and access the spatial data infrastructure and to visualize the fire propagation, based on the native facilities of gvSig, it was also extended to support a OGC WPS client that mediate all the interactions with the core WPS service layer.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT

Assessing the hospital survey of patient safety culture. A review of the assumptions, methods and data analysis protocol

Patient safety theme is becoming one of the most discussed theme in healthcare facilities, mainly at hospitals. The main aim of this paper was to present a review of the structure Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture model (HSOPSC) and analyze in a brief summary of the main researches that were developed recently using this survey model to explain the patient safety culture dimensions. This instrument was created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and became a survey commonly used in the United States of America and increasingly used internationally, with or without adaptations

Os inventários de recursos hídricos subterrâneos como suporte de políticas de ordenamento do território

A Diretiva 2000/60/CE, o Decreto-Lei n.º 208/2008 e o Decreto-Lei130/2012 visam a salvaguarda e proteção dos recursos hídricos subterrâneos,tendo por base a sua preservação, conservação e gestão eficiente.Através de uma abordagem hidrogeomorfológica, apresentam-se osresultados de um inventário de recursos hídricos subterrâneos, nabacia intermédia do Rio Uíma (Santa Maria da Feira) e na baciada Ribeira de Sá e uma secção do Rio Sardoura (Castelo de Paiva).O desenvolvimento de uma ficha de inventário foi essencial na colheitade dados, permitindo a localização e interpretação da distribuiçãodas 416 nascentes identificadas nas duas áreas de estudo.Finalmente, a metodologia aplicada, tanto em campo como em gabineterevelou a importância da inventariação e conhecimento dos recursoshídricos subterrâneos a nível municipal como contributo para a melhoriado ordenamento do território, seja na definição de políticas municipaisrelativas aos recursos hídricos subterrâneos como em situações de escassezna disponibilidade de água para abastecimento ou para a irrigação.The Directive 2000/60/EC, the Portuguese Decree-Law nº 208/2008,and the Portuguese Decree-Law nº 130/2012, intend to safeguard andprotect groundwater resources, based on their preservation, conservationand efficient management. Through a hidrogeomorphologicalapproach, we present the results of a groundwater resources inventoryin the middle basin of the Uíma River (Santa Maria da Feira) and inthe basin of the Sá River, and a section of Sardoura River (Castelode Paiva). The development of an inventory form was essential tointerpret the distribution and location of 416 springs identified onthe two study areas.Finally, the methodology applied both in the field and in the officerevealed the importance of inventory and knowledge of groundwaterresources at a municipal level in order to contribute to the improvementof spatial planning in case of municipal policies for groundwaterresources or crisis related with droughts

Streamlining Literature Reviews Using an Automatic and Flexible Data Gathering and Classification Platform

Literature reviews are a crucial but time-consuming and complex task in scientific research. As such, interest in automating this process using machine learning techniques has increased over the last few years. In this paper, we present a method of streamlining the process of writing literature reviews by automating several aspects of the process using Maestro v2023, an automatic and flexible data gathering and classification platform. Maestro v2023 is a revamped version of the original Maestro platform, designed to be modular and configurable, allowing users in an organization to create search contexts that automatically gather and classify data for them. We analyze the work related to literature review automation and suggest how Maestro can contribute to this field, demonstrating how the system was utilized in order to streamline our own literature review process, as well aid us in formulating the abstract and extracting relevant keywords to this paper