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Environmental and Genotypical Influences on Triticale Grain Quality in Northeast of Portugal
The effect of environmental conditions on the nutritional values of six triticale genotypes was studied by testing at five stations located in the Vila Real and Bragança districts.
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Article
Extremal indices, geometric ergodicity of Markov chains, and MCMC
We investigate the connections between extremal indices on the one hand and stability of Markov chains on the other hand. Both theories relate to the tail behaviour of stochastic processes, and we find a close...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Seamless Mobility Scenario for IP over WiMAX
WiMAX is a broadband wireless access technology facing the challenges of 3G and beyond communication systems. As frequency licensing is becoming commercially available throughout the world, it is still unclear...
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Mobility Management Architecture for WiMAX Networks
Although WiMAX, based on the IEEE 802.16 family of standards, has emerged as one of the major candidates for next generation networks, it is also clear that in the near future, the combination of several techn...
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Erratum to: Extremal indices, geometric ergodicity of Markov chains, and MCMC
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Chapter and Conference Paper
UEF: Ubiquity Evaluation Framework
Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) systems rely on heterogeneous technologies to enable the anytime-anywhere communication paradigm. Despite the momentum that UbiComp systems have, most new proposals are typically...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing Path Selection in Multihomed Nodes
Path selection in multihomed nodes can be enhanced by optimization techniques that consider multiple criteria. With NP-Hard problems, MADM techniques have the flexibility of including any number of benefits or...
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Resource and Power Management in Mobile Computing Systems
Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) systems rely on heterogeneous technologies and diverse protocols to enable the Anywhere, Anything, Anytime paradigm. Besides networking, the typical definition of a UbiComp syste...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a High Performance DNSaaS Deployment
The existence of the Domain Name Service (DNS) is a vital service for the Internet, being much more than a simple translation mechanism, allowing more high-profiled functionalities such as load-balancing or en...
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Designing and Deploying Meaningful Auditory Alarms for Control Systems
In the old days, spacecraft alarming notifications to operators were directed, upon arrival to ground, to one of those needle printers. Trained operators could tell, from the length and rhythm of the printer n...
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Rosetta/BepiColombo Mission Planning System: From Mission to Infrastructure
Mission planning involves the processing of requested operations by multiple stakeholders taking into consideration aspects such as the mission planning rules, operational constraints and on-board resources av...
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The Abbreviated Dysregulation Inventory: Dimensionality and Psychometric Properties in Portuguese Adolescents
Psychological dysregulation is a complex and multidimensional construct encompassing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions. Research on psychological dysregulation emphasizes its importance in relati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Approach on Place Attachment, Involvement and Behavioural Intentions in Iberian Marketing Contexts: The Case of Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion: An Abstract
This study aims at gaining a deeper understanding of customer profiling and behaviour in Iberian marketing and cross-border tourism destinations, in specific the case of Galicia-North of Portugal Euroregion. T...
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Combat to Abandonment and Mistreatment of Animals: A Case Study Applied to the Public Security Police (Portugal)
Social marketing is based on the adaptation of the contemporary commercial marketing theory and practice as a means of guiding and aiding social change campaigns. In this context, animals are abandoned and mis...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Differentiation and Market Loyalty: An Approach to Cultural Tourism in Northern Portugal
Considering the current dynamics of cultural touring and the growing importance of branding, the present study aims to understand the importance of cultural marketing in customer relationship management and cu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experiential Marketing as Leverage for Growth of Creative Tourism: A Co-creative Process
Tourism has been playing a very important role as a factor of regional and local development, through the cultural consumption of tourists. Creative tourism emerges from a new paradigm of cultural tourism, whe...
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The Theory of Attachment in Contexts of Public and Social Marketing: Study of the Program “Portugal Sou Eu”
The brand has an identifying function since it allows to differentiate the products and/or services existing in the market, through a name, term, sign, and symbol, or a combination of all these elements. The i...
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Article
Diclofenac shifts the role of root glutamine synthetase and glutamate dehydrogenase for maintaining nitrogen assimilation and proline production at the expense of shoot carbon reserves in Solanum lycopersicum L
The continuous increase of the human population worldwide has led to an increase of pharmaceuticals’ consumption, such as diclofenac (DCF), a widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), that is n...
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Open AccessBurnout among Portuguese healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
During COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) have had high workload and have been exposed to multiple psychosocial stressors. The aim of this study was to evaluate HCWs in terms of the relative contribu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Movie Tourism and Attracting New Tourists in the Post-pandemic Period: A Niche Marketing Perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be a huge public health problem with an impact on companies and consumers at the national and international levels. Measures were implemented in Portugal in response to COVI...
