Under certain environmental and oceanographic conditions, macroalgae can overgrow and accumulate in massive quantities on beaches, causing serious ecological and economic impacts. To address this problem, a citizen science monitoring platform was created to determine the spatial and temporal distribution of macroalgae accumulations along the beaches of Algarve in southern Portugal, with the aim to assess the ex...
Vitamin K is a multifunctional micronutrient essential for human health, and deficiency has been linked to multiple pathological conditions. In this study, we aimed to develop and validate a new food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to estimate total vitamin K intake, over the course of a 30-day interval, in a Portuguese, Mediterranean-based, population. We conducted a prospective study in a non-random sample of 3...
The Management of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in an organizational context can enhance or limit the strategy towards business development. In this context, the alignment between the organization's management and governance and the ICT department is considered essential. Medium / large size organizations are faced with difficulties underlying greater complexity in the daily management of the...
A orientação à criação de maior valor percecionado e da proximidade com os seus clientes e mercados, tem conduzido as organizações a tornarem-se cada vez mais ágeis nas suas estruturas e processos de negócio, identificando áreas de ineficiência e de pouca eficácia em termos de criação de valor junto dos seus clientes (internos/externos) e mercados. O artigo tem por objetivo a apresentar um modelo de avaliação (...
O projeto transversal a várias unidades curriculares (UCs) constitui uma metodologia de ensino inovadora em qualquer sistema de ensino. O projeto mencionado neste trabalho consiste na construção de uma aplicação informática para organizações reais, indo além da dinâmica da sala de aula e exigindo a interação com o meio exterior. Este documento descreve o projeto transversal a quatro Unidades Curriculares do pri...
Adoption of business process improvement strategies are now a concern of most organisations. Organisations are still facing challenges and finding transient solutions to immediate problems. The misalignment between IT solutions and organisational aspects evolves across space and time showing discrepancies. Unfortunately, existing business process approaches are not according with continuous business process imp...
Business Process Management (BPM) encompasses the discovery, modelling, monitoring, analysis and improvement of business processes. Limitations of traditional BPM approaches in addressing changes in business requirements have resulted in a number of agile BPM approaches that seek to accelerate the redesign of business process models. Meta-models are a key BPM feature that reduce the ambiguity of business proces...
A utilização em sala de aula do motor de conhecimento computacional Wolfram|Alpha, desenvolvido pela Wolfram Research, permite uma abordagem interativa e dinâmica no ensino de conceitos e propriedades fundamentais nas áreas do Cálculo Diferencial e do Cálculo Integral, proporcionando um contexto de ensino-aprendizagem onde alunos e professores são igualmente convidados a contribuir. Sendo uma ferramenta de aces...
Background: Business Process Modelling (BPM) is one of the most important phases of information system design. Business Process (BP) meta-models allow capturing informational and behavioural aspects of business processes. Unfortunately, standard BP meta-modelling approaches focus just on process description, providing different BP models. It is not possible to compare and identify related daily practices in ord...
Current business process modeling methodologies offer little guidance regarding how to discover and maintain business process models aligned with their actual execution. We argue that business processes should emerge and evolve collaboratively within an organization. In this article we present a business process and practice authoring tool based on our vision for business process improvement. (C) 2016 The Autho...