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Cangurus

“Cangurus'” is a company that runs kindergartens inside companies. The objective is to provide child care service for companies with knowledge workers. Given the lack of kindergartens in Lisbon it would solve two problems at the same time. Cangurus’ value of this project is the ability to split the costs between employer and employee and in this way provide the service at half the price. The potential market is...

Religious Communities and Ministers of Worship

The Religious Freedom Act, enacted by Law No. 16/2001 of 16 June, marked a pivotal moment in consolidating Portugal’s current legal framework on religion, grounded in a pluralistic and cooperative model of State-religion relations in accordance with the 1976 Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. Among its provisions, the regulation of religious communities and the status of their ministers of worship remain ...

Vocational training, educational attainment, and inequality

We evaluate the impact of vocational education and training (VET) in a setting with high dropout rates and socio-economic inequality in educational attainment. We estimate that the introduction of VET courses across public upper secondary schools in Portugal was associated with a 2.7 percentage points increase in on-time graduation rates (6% of the baseline rate). Our identification strategy exploits the stagge...

Elaboração, implementação e validação de recursos didáticos de Português como L...

Finite-state transducers in OCamlFLAT/OFLAT

This dissertation presents the design and implementation of finite state transducers (FSTs) within the OCamlFLAT/OFLAT application, a web-based educational tool for exploring concepts in computation theory developed at FCT NOVA. Finite state transduc- ers extend finite automata by associating output symbols with transitions, enabling the modeling of transformations from input to output strings. The current syst...

The influence of language and brand format on brand liking

The Language people speak influences their cognition and perception. Consequently, differences in the language of consumers can lead to disparities in consumer behaviour. Distinctions in the language of consumers also affect how consumers perceive brands and can influence their attitude towards brand names. Therefore, also grammatical differences between languages, like the capitalization of the initial letter ...

IMPROVING THE DIGITAL TWIN FOR A CAR BODY RESTORATION WORKSHOP

Classic car restoration is a specialized domain in which undocumented or poorly executed repairs can significantly depreciate the historical and market value of a vehicle. Restoration workflows often remain opaque and manually tracked, which poses challenges for both workshop staff and vehicle owners. While Digital Twins (DTs) offer significant potential for optimizing workshop management, the existing proof-of...

Estudo da influência do peso volúmico seco nas propriedades mecânicas de mistur...

A presente dissertação foi realizada com o intuito de alargar o conhecimento existente sobre a técnica de solo ligado com cimento, cada vez mais utilizada, especialmente na execução de pavimentos rodoviários. De modo a compreender o efeito que propriedades como a porosidade, a quantidade de cimento, ou o grau de compactação têm sobre o comportamento destas misturas, foram moldados provetes com o mesmo teor em á...

Conservação e caracterização de uma pintura de Menez: soluções para o tratament...

Esta dissertação centra-se na conservação e restauro de uma pintura inédita dos anos 60 da artista portuguesa Menez, encontrada juntamente com mais oito pinturas que perma- neceram enroladas incorretamente durante várias décadas em condições ambientais inade- quadas. A pintura é um óleo sobre tela que apresentava graves deformações planares, desta- camentos ativos, lacunas, clivagens e contaminação microbiológi...

Employment protection reforms

Employment protection legislation often varies with firm or establishment size and age, and many evaluations of EPL reforms exploit these thresholds. This paper develops a search-and-matching model with multi-establishment firms to disentangle direct effects from general-equilibrium spillovers. We combine the model with quasi-experimental evidence from a 2009 Portuguese reform that restricted fixedterm contract...