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Low-Cost Multi-Frequency Eddy Current Coating Thickness Measurement System
Santos, Ana C.; Barrancos, André; Rosado, Luís S.; Janeiro, Fernando M.A low-cost coating thickness gauge based on Eddy Current Testing (ECT) is reported in this paper. This measurement system employs a Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS) to generate pure sinusoidal stimulus applied to a measurement coil whose impedance varies with the measured coating thickness. The coil current and voltage are digitally acquired using an ARM Cortex M4F microcontroller where sine-fitting digital sig...
Financialized Housing and Socioterritorial Inequalities: A Comparative Study of...
Ribeiro, Raquel; Santos, Ana C.Mortgage credit marks housing provision in Portugal since the beginning of the 1990s, becoming an important mechanism of reproduction of social and territorial inequalities. Based on data from the Census of 2011, this article analyzes the relationship between forms of housing provision and socioterritorial heterogeneity in the Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon and Porto. The article concludes that financialization o...
Work conditions and financial difficulties in post-crisis Europe: Utility versu...
Lopes, Helena; Lagoa, Sérgio; Santos, Ana C.This article critically examines the relation between work and utility and challenges the mainstream economic view of well-being as a hedonic state for which work is a less pleasurable trade-off. It proposes a conception of work as a potential source of eudaimonic well-being, providing meaning and contributing to human flourishing and self-realisation. Based on micro-level data, the article shows the relevance ...
Semi-peripheral Financialisation and Social Reproduction: The Case of Portugal
Santos, Ana C.; Rodrigues, João; Teles, NunoPortugal, a semi-peripheral country within the world economy, has followed financialisation processes similar to and distinct from those of core countries. This article reflects on the factors that have shaped social reproduction in Portugal by examining the differentiated ways through which finance has interacted with the provision of housing, pensions and water and their variegated impacts. Based on these thr...
A financeirização das famílias e a desigualdade socio-económica e territorial e...
Ribeiro, Raquel; Santos, Ana C.Este artigo analisa a financeirização das famílias portuguesas de uma perspetiva socioeconómica e territorial. Fá-lo apresentando e discutindo os resultados do inquérito FESSUD – Finança e Bem-Estar em quatro partes. Primeiro, caracteriza a relação das famílias portuguesas com a finança. Segundo, examina os determinantes socioeconómicos e territoriais daquela relação. Terceiro, investiga o acesso desigual à fin...
Financialisation of pensions in semi-peripheral Portugal
Rodrigues, João; Santos, Ana C.; Teles, NunoThis article aims at contributing to the literature on the financialisation of pensions in Europe by examining the transformations occurring in semi-peripheral Portugal. The Portuguese case accounts for the variegated nature of financialisation in general, and of pension provision in particular, throughout Europe. While the country followed similar processes to those of core European Union (EU) countries, leadi...
Financialisation and work in the EU: Inequality, debt and labour market segment...
Santos, Ana C.; Lopes, Cláudia A.; Betzelt, SigridThis article examines the link between financialisation and work in five EU countries representative of different types of financial system and welfare regime: Sweden, Germany, the UK, Portugal and Poland. This is done by way of a cross-country comparative exercise that analyses micro-level survey data on household income, debt, and working conditions. Notwithstanding some differences across the countries, livi...
A roadmap for island biology : 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The T...
Patiño, Jairo; Whittaker, Robert J.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Ah-Peng, Claudine; Araújo, Miguel B.; Ávila, Sérgio P.AIMS The 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review and identify key research foci that could advance island biology. Here, we take a collaborative horizon-scanning approach to identify 50 fundamental questions for the continued development of the field. LOCATION: Worldwide. METHODS: We ada...
Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015
Fine, Ben; Johnston, Deborah; Santos, Ana C.; Van Waeyenberge, ElisaThe World Development Report 2015: Mind Society and Behaviour (World Bank, 2015), seeks a redesign of development policy on the basis of insights emerging from behavioural economics. This article offers a critical assessment of the Report across four dimensions. First, it situates the Report within the broader and evolving knowledge role of the Bank. Second, it locates the Report in the context of the evolution...
Cultivating the self-reliant and responsible individual: the material culture o...
Santos, Ana C.This paper analyses the promotion of financial education by many national and international organisations around the world. Drawing on the material culture of financialisation, financial education policy is perceived as part of a broader neoliberal project to extend commodification and (re)construct social and economic reproduction in ways favourable to the financial sector. It argues that, while numerous contr...