In international literature review, inpatient suicide is recognized as a risk for health care professionals in general, with the particularity of those who work on a mental health hospital have this probability much increased. In mental health facilities, design has significant implications on how health care professionals provide care and how patients respond to treatment. For this study, the main objectives a...
There is a wide diversity of concepts related to complexity. What the Santa Fe Institute (USA) calls "systemic" corresponds to what Morin (Morin, 2006) calls "complex". Mariotti (2000) outlines the need for a unified terminology. When understanding complexity, it can be perceived as a fabric (what is woven together) of heterogeneous inseparably associated constituents (.) (Morin, 2006). According to different a...
For over a century, Porto's Avenida da Ponte has been the subject of more than four dozen unexecuted urban projects, drafted by nationally and internationally renowned architects. The present thesis investigates the visible and invisible vestiges of these proposals and structures a comprehension of the reasons behind their forms as its central focus. The research develops an interpretive matrix, supported by th...
The widespread adoption of GenAI tools in 2022 posed new challenges to writing education at the secondary level, particularly regarding the preservation of students' agency, authorship, and engagement with the writing process. This phenomenological, exploratory, mixed-methods study aims to understand how students in grades 7 to 12 perceive the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in composing, and to analyse how...