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

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

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

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