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Plantations in São Tomé and Principe: Spatial layout and induced behaviours
Eloy, S.; Brito, R.In the 16th century, Portugal established in São Tomé and Principe one of the most productive plantation economies in the tropics based on slave labour and sugar intensive monoculture. Later, from the mid-19th century to 1975, large plantations called Roças were developed to produce coffee and cocoa for highly profitable export production. As a result, at the beginning of the 20th century, São Tomé and Principe...
Commensality constitutes communalism: Producing emergent bonds in experimental ...
Brito, R.; Waldzus, S.; Schubert, T. W.; Sekerdej, M.; Louceiro, A.; Simão, C.Relational models theory provides an alternative framework to study group and intergroup processes. One of four models people use to constitute groups is communal sharing (CS). Ethnographic and experimental evidence suggests that CS is produced by concrete and symbolic enactments of connections between bodies (cuddling, touching, synchronicity, commensality). We tested the effect of commensality on CS and ingro...
Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social th...
Hu, C. P.; Yin, J. X.; Lindenberg, S.; Dalğar, I.; Weissgerber, S. C.; Vergara, R. C.; Cairo, A. H.; Čolić, M. V.; Dursun, P.; Frankowska, N.; Hadi, R.In the Human Penguin Project (N = 1755), 15 research groups from 12 countries collected body temperature, demographic variables, social network indices, seven widely-used psychological scales and two newly developed questionnaires (the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1) and the Kama Muta Frequency Scale (KAMF)). They were collected to investigate the relationship between environm...
DES science portal: Creating science-ready catalogs
Fausti Neto, A.; da Costa, L. N.; Carnero, A.; Gschwend, J.; Ogando, R. L.C.; Sobreira, F.; Maia, M. A.G.; Santiago, B. X.; Rosenfeld, R. [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:21:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-07-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); National Science Foundation; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; We present a novel approach for creating science-ready catalogs through a software infrastructu...
Keeping in touch with context: non-verbal behavior as a manifestation of commun...
Sekerdej, M.; Simão, C.; Waldzus, S.; Brito, R.This research investigated the influence of observed touch on the perceptions of communality and dominance in dyadic interactions. We manipulated four key situational features of haptic behavior in two experiments: the initiation, reciprocity, the degree of formality of touch (Studies 1 and 2), and the context of the interaction (Study 2). The results showed that the default perception of touch, irrespective of...
The human penguin project: climate, social integration, and core body temperature
IJzerman, H.; Lindenberg, S.; Dalğa, I.; Weissgerber, S. C.; Vergara, R. C.; Cairo, A. H.; Čolić, M. V.; Dursun, P.; Frankowska, N.; Hadi, R.Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N = 1755) designed to test the principles from this theory, we used supervised machine learning to identify social and non-social factors that relate to core body temperature. This data-driven analysis found that complex social integration (CSI), defined as t...
The art gallery test: a preliminary comparison between traditional neuropsychol...
Gamito, P.; Oliveira, J.; Alghazzawi, D.; Fardoun, H.; Rosa, P.; Sousa, T.; Maia, I.; Morais, D.; Lopes, P.; Brito, R.Ecological validity should be the cornerstone of any assessment of cognitive functioning. For this purpose, we have developed a preliminary study to test the Art Gallery Test (AGT) as an alternative to traditional neuropsychological testing. The AGT involves three visual search subtests displayed in a virtual reality (VR) art gallery, designed to assess visual attention within an ecologically valid setting. To ...
Project Molines: Modelling floods in estuaries. From the hazard to the critical...
Freire, P.; Fortunato, A. B.; Rilo, Ana; Li., K; Costa, R.; Oliveira, A.; Jesus, G.; Gomes, J. L.; Rogeiro, J.; Pinto, P.; Cardoso, M. A.The final technical report of the project “MOLINES - Modelling floods in estuaries. From the hazard to the critical management” (ref. PTDC/AAG-MAA/2811/2012) is presented. The project was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and took place between 2013 and 2016. The MOLINES project aims at improving knowledge on estuarine margins inundatio...
On-line monitoring for improved wastewater system management: applications of U...
Brito, R.; Ribeiro, R.; Arriaga, T.; Leitão, C.; Lourenço, N.; Ferreira, F.; Pinheiro, H. M.The value of on-line UV/vis spectroscopy for wastewater quality monitoring in two different sewage management situations was confirmed. For decentralised wastewater treatment, spectral on-line monitoring of key quality parameters (COD, organic N) at the WWTP inlet was found to be possible, at two plants of different sizes and inflow characteristics. The produced data allowed the dynamic modelling of the treatme...
Normalização na gestão patrimonial de infraestruturas
Alegre, H.; Brito, R.; Neves, C.; Almeida, R.As normas ISO 55000:2014, ISO 55001:2014 e ISO 55002:2014 são destinadas a serem utilizadas para gerir ativos físicos em particular, podendo ser aplicadas também a outros tipos de ativos. Portugal participou ativamente na sua elaboração, tendo dado atenção particular à aplicabilidade das normas aos ativos que constituem infraestruturas públicas e que funcionam como sistemas em rede, como são os casos dos sistem...