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Focusing on social behaviors: Improving the perceived warmth of sharks in an aq...
Neves, Joao; Giger, Jean-Christophe; Alves, Vasco; Soares, NunoSharks are commonly depicted as intentionally dangerous predators and are considered a threat by the general public, limiting support for and success of global shark conservation. Following the SCM framework, this study aimed at testing the effect of information on the social lives of sharks alone or paired with circumstantial humor on the participants’ perceived warmth of sharks before visiting an aquarium. Th...
Towards a greener endoscopy: considerations on the strategies to improve sustai...
Neves, Joao; Roseira, Joana; Cunha, Miguel F.; Pellino, Gianluca; Sampietro, Gianluca M.; Rodríguez de Santiago, EnriqueClimate crisis is dramatically changing life on earth. Environmental sustainability and waste management are rapidly gaining centrality in quality improvement strategies of healthcare, especially in procedure- dominant fields such as gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy. Therefore, healthcare interventions and endoscopic procedures must be evaluated through the ‘triple bottom line’ of financial, social, and...
Applying the stereotype content model (SCM) and BIAS map to understand attitudi...
Neves, Joao; Pestana, José; Giger, Jean-ChristopheSharks are at increasing risk of extinction. Being a key factor in maintaining the balance of marine life in the ocean, as well as regulating the variety and abundance of the species below them in the food chain, their depletion is threatening the whole marine ecological system. Aside from the fisheries industry regulation, public opinion plays a fundamental role in any conservation effort. However, unlike othe...
Soft Biometrics: Globally Coherent Solutions for Hair Segmentation and Style Re...
Proença, H.; Neves, JoaoMarkov Random Fields (MRFs) are a populartool in many computer vision problems and faithfully modela broad range of local dependencies. However, rooted in theHammersley-Clifford theorem, they face serious difficulties inenforcing the global coherence of the solutions without using toohigh order cliques that reduce the computational effectiveness ofthe inference phase. Having this problem in mind, we describea m...