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PROJ/IPV/ID&I/013 • FZ – Farinha de zângão: Inovar no produto e na proteção da colmeia

2019, ano, Bruno Ferreira, competitivo, concluído, interno, José Luís Abrantes, linha investigação, nacional, Outros, Pedro Reis, viseu /
Principal Researcher:
Cristina Isabel Amaro da Costa
Duration: 2019 – 2022

Cised team members
Bruno Morgado Ferreira
Pedro Manuel Reis
José Luís Abrantes

Funding
CGD; PV

The production of insects has been playing an increasingly important role in obtaining alternative sources of protein for animal and human feeding. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognizes the use of insects as a sustainable alternative to animal production and recommends the use of insects as a source of nutrients for animals and humans since 2010. In Portugal, the insect production sector has been growing, and in addition to traditional beekeeping, there have been some initiatives to produce insects for animal and human consumption, using cricket or mealworm beetle.

Currently, bee and beekeeping survival depends critically on the proper management of the diseases that affect it, in particular varroosis, an endemic disease in Portugal that causes serious economic damage. Although in recent years this disease has been subject to official control, using chemical control methods, there are also natural protection methods that can be used and that present very satisfactory results, as is the case of the technique of drone brood removal. This technique consists in the placement of frames with molded wax with drone alveoli in the nest, preferred targets of the mite and its removal when the alveoli are operculated. Drone brood removed by this technique have so far no use, but can be harvested for food and constitute another source of income for the hive.

One way to harness the brood larvae will be through the production of flour with high protein content of animal origin, rich in fibers and micronutrients such as copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and zinc that can be used in the manufacture of bread, similar to what is already done with cricket or mealworm beetle.

Uma forma de aproveitamento das larvas de zângão será através da produção de farinha com elevado teor de proteína de origem animal, rica em fibras e micronutrientes como cobre, ferro, magnésio, manganês, fósforo e zinco que poderá ser utilizada no fabrico de pão, à semelhança do que já é feito com o grilo ou o tenébrio.

In addition to the technical factors that can jeopardize this innovation, both in the production of bee drones and in their processing and use, it is important to understand the behavior of consumers in relation to the consumption of insects and their products, and their willingness to pay, since in Portugal, this sector is almost non- existent and the consumption of insects for human consumption is not part of the Mediterranean diet.

The 'FZ – Drone Brood Flour: Innovative product and hive protection' project has the following objectives: (1) contribute to reducing the damage caused by varrosis and the use of veterinary pesticides; (2) harnessing and enhancing feeding grounds, increasing the yield of the beekeeping activity and providing a set of food products based on insect meal rich in animal protein; (3) study consumer behavior in relation to consumption of insects and derived products and to evaluate the benefits to the environment and public health by estimating their willingness to pay for these products.

PROJ/IPV/ID&I/025 • Da ludicidade do videojogo ao desenvolvimento comunicacional da criança com autismo

[CDS] Connected Digital Society, [DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, 2019, Ana Matos, ano, competitivo, concluído, interno, linha investigação, nacional, Rui Duarte, Valter Alves, viseu /
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.

PROJ/IPV/ID&I/012 • Comunicação e sustentabilidade ambiental: Práticas das cidades e comportamentos dos públicos

[CDS] Connected Digital Society, [SWACES] Social Web Applied to Culture, Economy and Society, <=21, 2019, ano, competitivo, concluído, interno, linha investigação, Luísa Augusto, nacional, Sara Santos, Suzanne Amaro, viseu /
Principal Researcher:
Luísa Paula Augusto
Duration: 2019 – 2022

Cised team members
Luísa Paula Augusto
Sara Santos
Suzanne Amaro

Funding
CGD; PV

The environmental responsibility has assumed a great dimension in the management and communication processes, being the object of growing concern of several entities from different sectors of activity. It is critical that organizations rethink their practices and behaviors in relation to protecting the environment. Municipalities and cities recognize the need for concern about the sustainability of cities in order to provide safe, healthy environments that do not endanger the future of citizens.

On the other hand, it is the citizens' duty to adopt more environmentally responsible behavior. The concern with sustainability and environmental responsibility, as well as the communication of the territories, of the cities, about the themes and initiatives of environmental responsibility and the green behavior of the consumers has aroused the interest of the academy, giving rise to a set of researches.

The present project aims to analyze if the cities / cities develop practices that drive sustainable behaviors and how they communicate them; realize what kind of benefits people recognize as stimulators of more sustainable behaviors in municipalities / cities and whether people already have sustainable behaviors. The aim is to analyze and compare three countries: Portugal, Czech Republic and Cape Verde and six realities: Viseu (a city with a medium population density and considered one of the best cities to live in), Lamego (second largest city in the district), Oliveira do Hospital (a city in the lower Vouga sub-region and the most sustainable in the country), Prague (European city, considered one of the 10 most sustainable cities in the world) and the municipalities of Ribeira Grande, Paul and Porto Novo, on the island of Santo Antão, in Cape Verde (municipalities with a project for sustainable development).

The project includes the development of studies through the analysis of the communication materials of cities / municipalities, interviews (to the municipalities and competent entities), questionnaires to the residents and tourists of the cities and municipalities under study.

PROJ/IPV/ID&I/018 • Avaliação Ambiental de Produtos Sustentáveis na Indústria Transformadora de Granitos (AAPSITG)

[DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, <=21, 2019, ano, competitivo, concluído, Elisabete Silva, interno, Isabel Brás, linha investigação, nacional, viseu /
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.

PROJ/IPV/ID&I/007 • Sistema Inteligente de Controlo de Planos Alimentares para o Desporto

[CDS] Connected Digital Society, 2019, ano, Carlos Cunha, concluído, interno, linha investigação, nacional, não competitivo, não financiado, Rui Duarte, Valter Alves, viseu /
Principal Researcher:
Carlos Cunha
Duration: 2019 – 2022

Cised team members
Rui Pedro Duarte
Valter Alves

Funding
CGD; PV

The recent growth in the pursuit of sporting activities, motivated by a widespread increase in the perception of the importance of maintaining physical fitness, campaigns specifically aimed at combating physical inactivity, and opportunities created by the revelation of lesser known modalities, brought forward fundamental questions such as the correct nutrition of the practitioners. Numerous institutions involved in the practice of physical activity, which have since flourished, have been integrating these concerns into their scope, including through nutritionists.

For a nutritionist, the elaboration and monitoring of a food plan in line with the needs of the individual present two critical problems: 1) obtaining biometric data, eating habits and energy consumption to create the food plan, and 2) monitoring and the dynamic adaptation of the food plan.

Sports nutrition is one of the most complex areas of nutrition, since it requires observation of a rather comprehensive set of metrics, encompassing the athlete's physical aspects, physical activity, and eating habits. The use of measuring devices for specific parameters of physical activity represents a common practice among athletes. The integration of data automatically collected by these devices with other data not directly observable, such as dietary habits and subjective metrics, is part of the complexity of creating a global register that can be used by the nutritionist during the development of the plan to feed. Also, at a stage after the preparation of the food plan, the need to adapt it may arise. For example, variations in temperature or physical intensity may involve quick changes in the energy or hydration needs of an individual. In such situations, the data collected by the devices could be used to dynamically adjust the plan and send alerts, informing the sportsman of the need to eat food or water at the right time.

The objectives of this project include the creation of (a) a Web application where the nutritionist can record and follow up on dietary plans and (b) a mobile app for sportspersons, which can collect data provided by smart devices or manually entered, and where they can plan and receive notifications. In scientific terms, the project includes the creation of innovative models for adapting food plans using machine learning algorithms and integration approaches, preprocessing and evaluation of data quality collected by external devices.

Application of Risks Scores in Acute Coronary Syndromes. How Does ProACS Hold Up Against Other Risks Scores?

Leave a Comment / [DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, 2019, Papers in Indexed Journals | Scopus and/or WoS, viseu /

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

Derivation and validation of the SLE Disease Activity Score (SLE-DAS): A new SLE continuous measure with high sensitivity for changes in disease activity

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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

Performance of SLEDAI-2K to detect a clinically meaningful change in SLE disease activity: a 36–month prospective cohort study of 334 patients

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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

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