This chapter addresses the profession of research management and administration (RMA) in Portugal. It starts with a brief outline of the national research and innovation (R&I) ecosystem that contextualises the development of the profession. The RMA community is characterised and the expectations for the future of the RMA profession are summarised using data collected through a national online survey. It is posi...
This paper results from on-going reflection within the practitioners group Plataforma de Interface à Ciência (Platform of Professionals at the Interface of Science), an informal nationwide network in Portugal that brings together professionals involved in a large scope of activities related to research management, knowledge transfer and science communication. Due to the wide scope of functions and profiles of t...
This work has the pedagogical objective of showing the value of some signal processing techniques for the determination of the transient regime of circuits composed by transmission lines. The analysis method begins with the sinusoidal steady-state response determination, an approach usually followed in any undergraduate guided wave propagation course. Then, the general time domain transient regime is derived by...