Pereira, J. L. S., Figueiredo, V., Pinto, A. F. M. A., Silva, Maria E. F., Brás, I., Perdigão, A., Wessel, D. F. (2020).
Effects of biochar and clinoptilolite on composition and gaseous emissions during the storage of separated liquid fraction of pig slurry.
Applied Sciences, 10(16), 5652.
DOI: 10.3390/app10165652
Costa, S. A., Reis, P. M. N., Pinto, A. P. S. (2020).
Subjective/Behavioural factors influence the PSI 20 and IBEX 35.
International Journal of Financial Research, 11(5), 13-27.
Doi: 10.5430/ijfr.v11n5p13
Duration: 2020 – 2023
Cised team members
António Figueiredo
Carlos Pereira
Edmundo Marques
Elisabete Silva
Olga Contente
Serafim Oliveira
Duration: 2020 – 2022
Cised team members
Ana Matos
Carlos Quental
Funding
CENTRO2020; PORTUGAL2020; Fundos Europeus Estruturais e de Investimento
Promote the sustainability and quality of employment and support labor mobility. Providing employment-friendly growth support through the development of endogenous potential as an integral part of a territorial strategy for specific areas, including the conversion of declining industrial regions and the development of certain natural and cultural resources and their accessibility.
Principal Researcher:
Valter Alves
Duration: 2019 – 2022
Cised team members
Valter Alves
Rui Pedro Duarte
Frederico Fonseca
Ana Cristina Bico Matos
Funding
CGD; PV
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects sensory processing, conditioning development of communication skills, and social interaction. Still, there are few digital tools explicitly aiming at the study this hindrance. It is well known that children with ASD are fond of technologies and videogames in particular. The predictable and constant behaviour of technological components, the visual appeal, and the challenges are often highly appreciated. Besides, videogames typically allow users to play alone, which is adequate to the profile of such an audience. The use of videogames by autistics has shown to be relevant, and studies are evidencing a correlation with superior cognitive development. Even so, existing solutions that were specifically developed for this audience have assumedly pedagogical goals, which systematically compromises their ludic dimension. In contrast, the present proposal focuses on pure playfulness and is designed to provide an advantage to players who adopt specific strategies that rely on communicating with other users. Also instrumental to the project, different scenarios are designed so that researchers can observe and collect scientific data, aiming at better understanding the related disturbances. To begin with, such scenarios support the analysis of the influence of physical proximity between the players, their prior level of familiarity, and their relative communicational abilities. Secondly, researchers will study the impact of repeating the experience, both in terms of in-game performance and regarding a possible contribution to the relationship between participants and, eventually, with third parties. It is also an objective to verify how the use of immersive virtual reality systems can impact the results in different scenarios.
The development of the videogame will resort to agile methodologies, which will allow for an incremental production, supported by recurrent tests and consistently validated according to the intended objectives. The partners in this project grant that a considerable number of users will be available both during the videogame development process and the experiments, which is highly relevant for the scientific representativeness of the observations and results.
Principal Researcher:
Maria Elisabete Silva
Duration: 2019 – 2022
Cised team members
Maria Elisabete Silva
Isabel Brás
José Vicente
Idalina Domingos
Funding
CGD; PV
The industry associated to construction sector have an important environmental impact, mainly associated with exhaustion of natural resources and waste production. Is a fact that mineral and others material will have an announced end in the nature in a near future. One industry related with this sector is the worktop production for integral part of kitchen and bathrooms furniture that uses minerals as raw materials. Thus, the development of sustainable products related with this production is necessary and very important for minimize environmental impact. Product sustainability (PS) looks at how products can provide economic benefits to companies while at the same time providing environmental and social benefits to society in general. The PS aims at balancing the contributions of products to the triple benefit (economy, society and environment), thereby creating multiple and shared values for different stakeholders. A general definition of a PS could be: a product designed, manufactured, used and disposed of according to criteria of economic, environmental and social efficiency, which maximize net benefits across generations by minimize the impact during the life cycle. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the most important analytical tools to provide the scientific background for engineering solutions to sustainability, both during the design phase (eco-design) and during life cycle management. By applying LCA it is possible to optimize the aspects from the extraction of raw materials to the final disposal of waste materials. The application of LCA, not only meets consumer demands for environmentally friendly products, but also increase the productivity and competitiveness of the sustainable products. In summary, it can be stated that the application of LCA is fundamental to sustainability and improvement the sustainable products in the worktop industrial activities. This sector will be the focus of the present study and it will be done the LCA of a new worktop product, produced with wastes from traditional worktop production and compare to the traditional product. In attempting to certificate it sustainability it will be done the environmental product declaration. This product may be considered as an Eco-Product once it incorporates of wastes or subproducts in its composition. The 4 main phases of LCA methodology will be implemented, such as the goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment and interpretation for this new material comparing with the product traditionally produced in the collaborative factories.
Duration: 2019 – 2022
Cised team members
Rui Duarte
Valter Alves
Gil, J., Abreu, L., Antunes, H., Gonçalves, M. L., Pires, M. I., Santos, L., Henriques, C., et al. (2019).
Application of Risks Scores in Acute Coronary Syndromes. How Does ProACS Hold Up Against Other Risks Scores?.
Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20190109
Jesus, D., Matos, A., Henriques, C., Zen, M., Larosa, M., Laccarino, L., Silva, J., Doria, A., Sousa, I. (2019).
Derivation and validation of the SLE Disease Activity Score (SLE-DAS): A new SLE continuous measure with high sensitivity for changes in disease activity.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 78(3), 365-371.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214502
Jesus, D., Rodrigues, M., Matos, A., Henriques, C., Silva, J. A., Sousa, I. (2019).
Performance of SLEDAI-2K to detect a clinically meaningful change in SLE disease activity: a 36–month prospective cohort study of 334 patients.
Lupus, 28(5), 607-612.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961203319836717
