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A scheduling optimization approach to reduce outpatient waiting times for speci...
Moura, Ana; Pinho, MicaelaBackground/Objectives: Long waiting times for outpatient care remain a global challenge for public health systems. In Portugal, the National Health Service (NHS) ensures universal access to medical treatment, aiming to promote equity in healthcare. However, persistent delays in outpatient speciality appointments hinder this objective. Methods: This study proposes a prioritization-scheduling approach that integr...
Unlocking circular potential: The influence of personality traits on university...
Lopes, João M.; Ferreira, João J.; Gomes, Sofia; Pinho, MicaelaConverting the paradigm of linear production into circular production is an enormous challenge whose implementation requires the intervention and collaboration of all the actors that make up the ecosystem. In this context, university students are privileged actors, as they may become future entrepreneurs responsible for promoting sustainable development. This research explores the effect of university students’...
Personality alchemy: The influence of personality traits on the circular entrep...
Lopes, João M.; Gomes, Sofia; Pinho, MicaelaObjective: The study explores the influence of Portuguese higher education students’ personality traits on their intentions to become circular entrepreneurs using their perceived circular behavioural control as a mediator. We considered internal locus control, proactive personality, perceived creativity and propensity to take risks as personality traits. Research Design & Methods: We used an online questionnair...
What inspires young Europeans to be agents of change through social entrepreneu...
Gomes, Sofia; Pinho, Micaela; Lopes, João M.By creating innovative solutions that help solve social problems, young social entrepreneurs constitute a driving force for sustainable development. However, previous research has given scant attention to these stakeholders. This paper aims to explore how social motivations to become self-employed, social entrepreneur image and the social impacts expected from a job can affect youth intention to create a social...
How do mental health and information sources influence younger tourism choices?...
Pinho, Micaela; Gomes, SofiaGeneration Z belongs to a new youth travel segment, which is already the one with the highest growth. They were exposed to internet technology from birth and grew up in a challenging economic, social, and environmental context, which may have shaped their tourist decisions. This study intends to investigate (i) the main motives to choose a tourist destination and the in-destination activities preferred by membe...
The European Union’s Potential in Mitigating Climate Change Caused by Tourism: ...
Pinho, Micaela; Leal, FátimaClimate change is now a global phenomenon with severe social and economic implications, including for tourism. Tourism is currently one of the most dynamic economic sectors in the world and one of the main ones responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time as it contributes to global warming, the tourism sector is also one of the primary victims of climate change. Strengthening climate change mitig...
The relationship between human values and support for distributive approaches i...
Miguel, Isabel; Pinho, MicaelaHuman values are a key component in understanding individuals’ choices. One such decision involves defining the criteria that should guide healthcare prioritization. The recent public health crisis (COVID-19) has underscored the insufficiency of healthcare resources in meeting growing demand. Preferences for allocating health resources are are deeply intertwined with ethical and moral judgments rooted in person...
An intelligent community-based system for healthcare prioritisation
Pinho, Micaela; Leal, FátimaHealthcare rationing is unavoidable in systems constrained by limited resources. While decisions about who should be treated are ethically complex, they must reflect not only efficiency concerns but also socially accepted values. This study aims to develop a multi-criteria decision-support system - Vital Priority System, that prioritise patients using a Random Forest algorithm trained on multiple rationing crit...
Football, economics, and environmental sustainability: The communicative power ...
Gouveia, Miguel; Pinho, MicaelaResumo apresentado no 4th International Congress On Finance, Economy And Sustainable Policies.
Synthetic Data Generation for Binary and Multi-Class Classification in the Heal...
Guerreiro, Camila; Leal, Fátima; Pinho, MicaelaThe growing demand for data-driven solutions in healthcare is often hindered by limited access to high-quality datasets due to privacy concerns, data imbalance, and regulatory constraints. Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising strategy to address these challenges by creating artificial yet statistically valid datasets that preserve the underlying patterns of real data without compromising patient...