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Open AccessSocial Stories for Promoting Social Communication with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using a Humanoid Robot: Step-by-Step Study
Technological tools are being used in support sessions with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), producing a high level of encouragement and engagement in these individuals. A four-step study comprisi...
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Develo** a Customizable Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton: Initial Outcomes and Challenges
The work presented describes the initial endeavor in creating a soft robotic hand exoskeleton. This robotic hand exoskeleton aids hand function recovery post-illness or injury, making it a possible alternative...
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Decoding the Effect of Descriptive Statistics on Informed Decision-Making
Understanding the influence of descriptive statistics, especially their graphical representation, on informed decision-making is the focus of this study. The study comprehensively explores the relationship bet...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Team-Based Learning to Enhance Student’ Competencies in a Fluid Mechanics Module
To graduate students with the necessary qualities, competencies and understanding needed in professional life, Higher Education Institutions should do more than only teach content in a traditional way. Team-Ba...
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Is Critical Thinking a Skill or a Way to Develop Skills? An Overview in Engineering Education
One of the most highly valued skills for higher education in Engineering is the development of critical thinking. Critical thinking skills have great importance in cultivating personal and professional compete...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Meteorological Time Series: An Exploratory Statistical and Critical Analysis
Increasingly, reduction of water availability has been a reality, and population growth, pollution, and climate change have contributed to exacerbating this problem. Dry periods, which occur when precipitation...
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Downstream Applications: How is Safety Targeted?
Based on a systematic literature review, this study aims to survey applications regarding how the concept of “downstream” is used. Taking as a starting point the research question: “Based on scientific literat...
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Risk Analysis and Risk Measures Applied to the Furniture Industry
In this work we show how concepts and methods from actuarial risk theory can be applied to risk analysis in industry. Risk analysis consists in identifying, quantifying and classifying or ordering risks. In th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understand the Importance of Garments’ Identification and Combination to Blind People
Throughout our lives, we are very dependent on the ability to see the “world”. Everyday our eyes capture images that enable us to describe our ideas, our tastes and influence our identity. How we dress up is ...
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Risk Assessment in Industry Using Expected Utility: An Application to Accidents’ Risk Analysis
Expected utility theory can be relevant for decision-making under risk, when different preferences should be taken into account. The goal of this paper is to present a quantitative risk analysis methodology, d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Engineering Student Attitude Towards New Technologies Employed in Active Teaching
This work aims at evidencing the higher education students’ perceptions regarding the use of some existing tools and technology for learning in education and how they use in their own learning, based on a syst...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Your Turn to Learn – Flipped Classroom in Automation Courses
Flipped Classroom approach was implemented in an Automation course with around 100 students. Videos focused on GRAFCET topics were given to students prior to class and problem-based challenges were solved in c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evidence of the Use of Fuzzy Techniques in Occupational Safety
Risk assessment (RA) and Risk management (RM) are compulsory valuable tools for hel** companies to set strategies in order to achieve goals through informed decision-making. The techniques for RA can be sele...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Safety Training and Occupational Accidents – Is There a Link?
Worldwide, 270 million occupational accidents occur, and 160 million occupational diseases are reported, each year. Moreover, hundreds of millions of work days are lost every year as a result of poor working c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lean Production in a High Fashion Garment Company: Challenges and Solutions
This paper describes the results of a Lean project developed in a high fashion garment manufacturer company. In this case, the project intended to promote Lean Thinking on the company by starting implementing ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Project Management Practices at Portuguese Startups
Nowadays, due to the continuous changes in technology and markets, companies need to use the best project management practices to effectively manage their projects. The use of these practices however will not ...
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Analyzing and Classifying Risks: A Case-Study in the Furniture Industry
In this work we propose a methodology which permits the risk analysis and classification of occupational accidents in industrial settings. Data used in this study corresponds to accidents that occurred in the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Perspectives of Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education: An Exploratory Study
Entrepreneurship relevance is recognized and the governments investments are visible through the startup programs volume that have been arising all over the world. Universities can promote the entrepreneurial ...
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Serious Game for Teaching Statistics in Higher Education: Storyboard Design
Serious games can be used as a way to transmit knowledge to the users/students, playing the role of a pedagogical tool in their learning process. Following this idea, a serious game on Statistics is developed ...
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Capturing the Ups and Downs of Accidents’ Figures – The Portuguese Case Study
Nowadays, the need to obey the Portuguese legislation compels the employer to establish a safety management structure within the company that mirrors the legal-binding prevention general principles, patent in ...
