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Marketing motivations influencing food choice in 16 countries: segmentation and cluster analysis

Henriques, C., Matos, A., Malva, M., Bartkienė, E., Djekić, I., Tarcea, M., Sarić, M. M., Černelič-Bizjak, M., Dolar, V., EL-Kenawy, A., Ferreira, V., Klava, D., Korzeniowska, M., Vittadini, E., Leal, M., Frez-Muñoz, L., Papageorgiou, M., Szűcs, V., Correia, P. M., Guiné, R. P. (2022).
Marketing motivations influencing food choice in 16 countries: segmentation and cluster analysis.
Insights into Regional Development, 4(1), 10-25.
https://doi.org/10.9770/IRD.2022.4.1(1)

The Fisherman’s Route – Project of sustainability and pedagogical practices

Carvalho, M., Martins, S., Santos, E., Carvalho, A. B. (2022).
The Fisherman’s Route – Project of sustainability and pedagogical practices.
Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management, 7(4), 18085.
https://doi.org/10.55267/iadt.07.12536

Legislação nacional comunitária, livres de ser quem somos

Carvalho, A. B. (2022).
Legislação nacional comunitária, livres de ser quem somos.
In Uma visão interdisciplinar sobre a transexualidade no séc XXI. Coimbra, Portugal: HUMUS, Snob Livraria e Editora.
Retrieved from https://www.livrariasnob.pt/product/uma-visao-interdisciplinar-sobre-a-transexualidade-no-seculo-xxi

The new social world of communication digital transformation during the pandemic time

Carvalho, A. B. (2022).
The new social world of communication digital transformation during the pandemic time.
In The Social World after COVID19. Reino Unido: Cambridge.
Retrieved from https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9108-0

PIDI/CISeD/2021/003 • BioVALOR – Ecoponto Florestal: Valorização Integrada da Biomassa e digitalização da sua gestão

Principal Researcher:
Isabel Paula Lopes Brás
Duration: 2021 – 2023

Cised team members
Elisabete Silva
Sérgio Lopes
Paulo Pinho
Filipe Caldeira
Edmundo Marques
José Vicente Ferreira

In the current scenario of climate change and an ageing population in rural areas, forest fires have increasingly caused economic, environmental and social impacts in these areas. The solution that has the best acceptance, is the correct management of forest fuels, including its energy and material use. On the other hand, the reports produced annually reflect the great relevance of fire use practices for the destruction of exceeding materials that cause rural fires. There are some ongoing scientific projects that provide for the decentralized valorization of agroforestry biomass produced within communities, but there is a great lack of information about its characteristics, both qualitatively and quantitatively (variation of the type and volume deposited throughout the year). In this way and to computerize the whole process, it is proposed the introduction of digital technology, namely with the use of IoT sensors and applications for the web. Through data collection, processing and analysis, it will be possible to measure several variables, generate reports and later optimize processes.

In the municipality of Viseu there is a network of forest ecopoints that allow residents to deposit agroforestry waste, avoiding the need to burn them and potentially cause fires. Due to their character of innovation, interest and utility, these structures have opened several lines of scientific research with a view to the design of second generation forest ecopoints that can be disseminated throughout the Portuguese territory.
Thus, the BioValor project has as activities: (1) the physical-chemical characterization of biomass that is deposited throughout the year in the forest ecopoint targeted for study and the creation of a network of IoT sensors for data collection and development of digital communication platforms between the entities involved; (2) the assessment of the potential for the recovery of the material of this biomass in composting and mulching processes, both using digital monitoring for control and monitoring, complementary to analytical control; (3) the analysis of the possibilities of energy recovery with local use; (4) the life cycle evaluation of the options under study, accounting for the different regional inputs; and (5) the definition of good practices for the design and operation of forest ecopoints with a view to optimizing their operation and mitigating the risk of forest fire.

It is considered that this project, in addition to improve the design of forest ecopoints, using digital thecnhologies (such as: drone for recording images and video, communication platforms and network of sensors monitoring operating conditions), will promote their reproduction by other Portuguese municipalities and other countries. Thus, it is important that there is an effort in the dissemination of its results and an association with key entities in this process, such as the Municipality of Viseu, the Parish Councils, the Biomass Center for Energy, the Biomass Center, among others.

It is expected that the BioValor project will contribute decisively, not only to solving the challenges posed by rural fires, but also to the valorization of rural areas, creating wealth and jobs. Fundamentally, that its results are an important contribution to the definition of public policies.

PIDI/CISeD/2021/002 • Combinações de relações bancárias e detentores do seu capital, custos de financiamento, performance e estrutura de capital das empresas

Principal Researcher:
Pedro Manuel Nogueira Reis
António Pedro Soares Pinto

Duration: 2021 – 2023

A revisão da literatura identifica o efeito do poder de mercado do sistema bancário nos custos de financiamento da empresa (Wang et al., 2020; Abubakr & Esposito, 2012; Han et al., 2015), na estrutura de capital das pequenas empresas (Degryse et al., 2012), da inclusão financeira – acesso adequado, atempado e a custos reduzidos a um conjunto de produtos e serviços financeiros regulados, aumentando o bem-estar financeiro (Banco de Portugal, 2017) – e no desempenho da empresa (Chauvet & Jacolin, 2017). Contudo, pelo que seja do nosso conhecimento, ainda não foi realizado qualquer estudo que avalie o impacto das possíveis combinações das relações com as diversas instituições bancárias, bem como com as características dos seus detentores de capital, com as quais as empresas estabelecem relações, na sua atividade. O estudo incide sobre Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PME´s), que representam cerca de 99,9% do tecido empresarial português em 2019 (PORDATA, 2021) e 99,9% do tecido empresarial espanhol em janeiro de 2020 (MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIA, COMERCIO Y TURISMO, 2021), constituindo este o grande impulso e motivação para a realização desta investigação. Para além, das características da carteira de credores de financiamento remunerado, o estudo contempla diferentes variáveis de controlo, tais como, a idade das empresas, o número de empregados, total de ativos, localização da empresa, quantidade de bancos de relação da empresa, entre outras características que se tornem relevantes para a análise.

OBJETIVOS
Este estudo procura avaliar de que forma as características das principais instituições bancárias que concedem crédito à empresa e, as relações de combinação entre elas, condicionam a estrutura de capital, os custos de financiamento e o desempenho das empresas, nomeadamente, nas de menor dimensão. Para além deste objetivo, também as características dos detentores de capital que controlam as instituições financeiras com as quais as empresas estabelecem relação será propósito de análise, no que respeita à sua influência na atividade financeira e operacional da empresa.
O universo da amostra em análise, será constituído por PME’s ibéricas, recolhido na base de dados SABI – Bureau Van Dijk, com recurso à análise de dados seccionados. Pretende-se também, aferir a prevalência, ou não, de diferenças significativas no comportamento das empresas portuguesas e espanholas.
Os dados serão analisados recorrendo a técnicas de inferência estatística como testes de hipóteses paramétricos e não paramétricos, regressão multivariada com recurso a equações simultâneas, modelando pelo estimador de 2 ou 3 estágios dos mínimos quadrados, procurando dar resposta às questões em investigação.

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PIDI/CISeD/2021/001 • Industrial Augmented Reality (IAR)

Principal Researcher:
José Silva
Duration: 2021 – 2023

Cised team members
Olga Contente
Serafim Oliveira
Daniel Gaspar

The constant changes in the contextual environment and the continuous globalization cause changes in the market, which push the companies to look for new technologies to increase productivity and profitability. In addition, customer requirements force companies to make their production systems more flexible, efficient and competitive.

It is due to these changes that the need arises to implement interconnected systems, integrated into an industrial IoT platform (IIoT - Industrial Internet of Things), supported by the connection of equipment and production systems so that companies can create networks along the value chain and thus control and command processes independently and in real-time.

The implementation in organizations of intelligent and interconnected ecosystems allows making decisions in a decentralized way. However, it is necessary to provide tools to assist in decision-making, monitoring operations, and reducing errors by the operator.
This project aims to respond to this challenge with the application of solutions developed in augmented reality (AR) in an industrial environment.

The integration of AR in a production system allows to reduce production errors and increase the efficiency of product development since there is constant monitoring during the performance of tasks.

This project is based on three fundamental objectives.
One of the objectives of this project is the implementation of solutions developed in AR, in various industrial applications, namely, in carrying out maintenance interventions (inspection with remote support or access to instructions in virtual windows), in guiding employees through procedures, either be it the first time or a recurring task, using holographic step-by-step instructions and issuing alerts to users with the details necessary for the execution of operations.
The other objective is the integration of the AR system with an existing IIoT platform, which will allow obtaining and viewing in real-time the desired information for each equipment, such as the operating temperature, energy consumption, or the condition of the components. that integrate the equipment.
It is also the objective of this project to develop the best visualization solution taking into account the particularities of each application so that the interaction with the projections is fluid and with reduced latency.
Digital objects, from industrial equipment, will be developed using programming algorithms and spatial digitization for referencing the anchoring points of the real space where these objects are immersed.

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