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A script-cartoon narrative of bullying in children and adolescents
Peer bullying in schools has become a common topic of research. Following the pioneering work of Dan Olweus1 in Scandinavia, large-scale surveys were administered throughout Europe to gather a picture of the inci...
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Toward Collaborative Scheduling
The scheduling process, usually involve the evaluation and selection of one alternative between a set of them. These decisions are not trivial, considering that they usually involve multiple, and sometimes con...
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DESERTIFICATION, TERRITORY AND PEOPLE, A HOLISTIC APPROACH IN THE PORTUGUESE CONTEXT
The paper discusses some basic concepts relative to desertification processes that support a more holistic approach to the problems faced in the country. A concept where land is seen as a territory and where l...
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Collaboration and Adaptation in Scheduling
Scheduling is a multi-criteria decision problem in practice, where different schedulers may agree on key objectives but differ greatly on their relative importance in a particular situation. This kind of probl...
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Intelligent Hybrid Architecture for Tourism Services
This paper presents an artificial intelligence-based architecture to be used in various tourism services, namely the user modeling and recommender system components. Through the use of several machine learning...
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Scalable Intelligence and Adaptation in Scheduling DSS
The aim of this paper is to present an evolution of a Scheduling Decision Support System (SDSS) incorporating the concepts of Scalable Intelligence and Adaptation. The purpose of our work is to contribute for ...
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Shop** Center Tracking and Recommendation Systems
Shop** centers present a rich and heterogeneous environment, where IT systems can be implemented in order to support the needs of its actors. However, due to the environment complexity, several feasibility i...
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Some Evidences of the Impact of Environment’s Design Features in Routes Selection in Virtual Environments
This paper reports results from a research project investigating users’ navigation in a Virtual Environment (VE), using immersive Virtual Reality. The experiment was conducted to study the extent that certain ...
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Recommendation and Planning through Mobile Devices in Tourism Context
In this paper we present a mobile recommendation and planning system, named PSiS Mobile. It is designed to provide effective support during a tourist visit through context-aware information and recommendations...
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Lightweight User Modeling – A Case Study
In the context of previous publications, we propose a new lightweight UM process, intended to work as a tourism recommender system in a commercial environment. The new process tackles issues like cold start, g...
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Providing Location Everywhere
The ability to locate an individual is an essential part of many applications, specially the mobile ones. Obtaining this location in an open environment is relatively simple through GPS (Global Positioning Sys...
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Open AccessWorldwide survey of T2* cardiovascular magnetic resonance in Thalassaemia
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Low breeding success and sharp population decline at the largest known Falkland skua colony
The Falkland skua Stercorarius antarctica antarctica is a poorly known seabird. Demographic studies at the largest known colony of this taxon revealed a sharp population decline (47%) in just 5 years, between 200...
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Demographic parameters of black-browed albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris from the Falkland Islands
Black-browed albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris are currently classified as globally endangered. The most important populations of this species are believed to be declining due to, amongst other factors, unsust...
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Orientation System for People with Cognitive Disabilities
In health care there has been a growing interest and investment in new tools to have a constant monitoring of patients. The increasing of average life expectation and, consequently, the costs in health care du...
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Open AccessThe banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants
The sequencing and analysis of the banana genome is reported; these results inform plant phylogenetic relationships and genome evolution, and provide a resource for future genetic improvement of this important...
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A survey of the sedation practice of Portuguese palliative care teams
The purpose of this study is to study the practice of sedation by Portuguese palliative care teams.
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Server to Mobile Device Communication: A Case Study
Develop a client-server application for a mobile environment can bring many challenges because of the mobile devices limitations. So, in this paper is discussed what can be the more reliable way to exchange in...
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Ergonomics Aspects in Operators of the Electric Power Control and Operation Centers
The activity of the operator of the electrical power control centers is the prevention of incidents and errors that disrupt the operation of the electrical system. They have to do it by mobilizing knowledge an...
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Affect Recognition
This survey describes the advances in affect recognition from the first emotion theories and models to affective computer techniques used in affect detection. These techniques allow the recognition of human bo...
