Football players’ decision-making behaviours near the scoring target (finishing situations) emerge from the evolving spatiotemporal information directly perceived in the game’s landscape. In finishing situations, the ball carrier’s decision-making about shooting or passing is not an individual decision-making process, but a collective decision that is guided by players’ perceptions of match affordances. To sust...
Football performance behaviour relies on the individual and collective perceptual attunement to the opportunities for action (affordances) available in a given competitive environment. Such perception–action coupling is constrained by players’ spatial dominance. Aiming to understand the influence of team formation and players’ roles in their dynamic interaction (interpersonal linkages), Voronoi diagrams were us...
O principal propósito deste artigo é apresentar e discutir algumas das ideias mais relevantes da extensa e intensa obra de John Goodlad (1920-2014) no que se refere a questões relacionadas com a renovação e a melhoria da educação, das escolas e da sociedade democrática e social. Através da leitura e da consulta de alguns dos seus textos reconhecidamente mais influentes, foi possível, por um lado, produzir uma b...
This paper presents the most relevant aspects of a research project conducted between 2017 and 2018 whose primary purpose was to understand better what has changed in the Portuguese school system that may have contributed to the improved performance of Portuguese students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The method used, qualitative in nature, was designed to collect data in each of...
This paper presents evidence for the prehistoric occupation of Cabeço de Caria Talaia, Sabugal (Portugal). Despite the poor preservation of the structures and its artefacts, the archaeological intervention conducted in 2008 and 2009 allowed to define its inhabitance at an advanced phase between the Middle Bronze Age and the beginning of the Late Bronze Age. Furthermore, a significant set of ceramics allowed to ...
In mobile network deployments of growing size, the optimum and fast planning of radio resources are a key task. Cloud services enable efficient and scalable implementation of procedures and algorithms. In this paper, a proof of concept implementation of a cloud-based network planning work pattern using Amazon Web Services (AWS) is presented, containing new and efficient radio resource planning algorithms for 3G...
Esta pesquisa investigou as políticas de formação inicial de professores articuladas às políticas de avaliação de curso implementadas em Portugal e no Brasil nas últimas décadas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritivo-analítica de abordagem qualitativa cuja fonte de dados envolveu revisão de literatura, pesquisa documental e entrevistas com professores pesquisadores da área. Os resultados revelaram que a formação ...
O Projeto de Monitorização, Acompanhamento e Investigação em Avaliação Pedagógica (Projeto MAIA) é um projeto de formação contínua de professores que se iniciou em setembro de 2019, para melhorar práticas de avaliação e ensino e as aprendizagens dos alunos. Após cerca de cinco meses, em plena pandemia, foi possível dar continuidade ao projeto. Apesar da pandemia e das dificuldades que criou, os resultados evide...
In the Brazilian Amazon, two monospecific genera, the Harpy Eagle and Crested Eagle have low densities and are classified by IUCN as Near Threatened due to habitat loss, deforestation, habitat degradation and hunting. In this study, we evaluate occurrence of these large raptors using the environmental surveys database from Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant. Integrating the dataset from two methods, we plotte...
The demand for ubiquitous telecommunications services forces operators to have a special concern about signal quality and the coverage area they offer to their customers. This was usually checked by using suitable propagation models for Single Input Single Output (SISO) systems, which are no longer the case for new and future mobile generations, such as 5G and beyond. To guarantee good signal quality coverage, ...