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- A música ao serviço da religiãoPublication . Duque, Eduardo; Valente, JoelEste artigo estuda a relação que a música estabelece com o crente. Através da realização de 30 entrevistas a residentes no Concelho de Moimenta da Beira procurou-se perceber até que ponto a música ajuda a chegar até Deus. As conclusões mostram que a música dá um grande suporte à religião, já que ajuda o indivíduo, com mais ou menos fé, a encontrar o seu equilíbrio, seja pela via da contemplação, através do reconhecimento da grandeza e beleza de Deus, seja pela dimensão comunitária, tornando as celebrações mais vivas e agradáveis e, neste contexto, é também ela um instrumento funcional que unifica e dá sentido ao indivíduo e à própria comunidade
- How do young people respond to conflict? A comparative study of Argentinean and Portuguese college studentsPublication . Silva, Ana Maria; Brandoni, Florencia; Duque, EduardoQuestions relating to sociability, relationships concerning conflicts and behaviours of indiscipline and violence among young people have turned out to be of particular importance. Various studies exist about the sociability of young people (e.g. Machado Pais, 1990; Margulis & Urresti, 1998; Cangilini, 2004). Nevertheless, studies focused on sociability and behavior in the face of socially learned conflicts in the context of inter-personal relationships are still very scarce. The investigation carried out falls within the area of Co-operative Conflict Resolution (CCR) - a field of knowledge and practices that emerged in the 1980s (Ury & Fisher, 1991; Aréchaga, Brandoni & Finkelstein, 2004). The work that we present shows the results of a study undertaken with young people attending the first year of university education in public and private universities in Argentina and Portugal. This investigation, which was of an exploratory nature, had two general objectives: i) to analyse the ways of approaching conflicts by young people (aged 18 to 31 years); and ii) to understand the present day social dynamics that characterise these young people. The descriptive analysis of the data, which was obtained from the responses to a questionnaire with open and closed questions completed by around 700 young university students, revealed some differences concerning the behaviour adopted towards conflicts by these young Argentineans and young Portuguese.
- Enrollment time as a requirement for biometric hand recognition systemsPublication . Carvalho, João; Sá, Vítor J.; Magalhães, Sérgio Tenreiro de; Santos, HenriqueBiometric systems are increasingly being used as a means for authentication to provide system security in modern technologies. The performance of a biometric system depends on the accuracy, the processing speed, the template size, and the time necessary for enrollment. While much research has focused on the first three factors, enrollment time has not received as much attention. In this work, we present the findings of our research focused upon studying user’s behavior when enrolling in a biometric system. Specifically, we collected information about the user’s availability for enrollment in respect to the hand recognition systems (e.g., hand geometry, palm geometry or any other requiring positioning the hand on an optical scanner). A sample of 19 participants, chosen randomly apart their age, gender, profession and nationality, were used as test subjects in an experiment to study the patience of users enrolling in a biometric hand recognition system.
- O curriculum DeGóis : um e-Portefólio científicoPublication . Tenreiro De Magalhaes, Sérgio; Santos, Leonel; Amaral, LuísA plataforma DeGóis, plataforma nacional de ciência e tecnologia, é uma estrutura sistémica que permite ao utilizador uma gestão eficiente da informação constante no seu Curriculum Vitae (CV). Devido aos esforços no sentido de assegurar a interoperabilidade com outros sistemas e a integração com os repositórios digitais, o CV transformou-se naturalmente num portal para a descrição dos trabalhos efectuados e daí para os próprios trabalhos. Assim, o DeGóis representa também uma plataforma de e-portefólios científicos e, portanto, este artigo apresenta a sua arquitectura e os seus princípios, por forma a demonstrar que, pela sua natureza, o currículo de actividade científica tal como ele é implementado nesta plataforma, incluindo não só uma listagem do histórico do investigador mas também ligações às próprias produções científicas e técnicas disponíveis numa rede de partilha de conhecimento, é um e-Portefólio, já que se enquadra no conceito aceite pelo consórcio EIfEL (European Institute for E-Learning) ao representar uma colecção autêntica e diversa de indicadores de parte do conhecimento e capacidades adquiridos ao longo do tempo pelo investigador e sobre os quais houve reflexão de uma comunidade (graças ao peer review e aos processos de partilha de conhecimento científico) destinando-se à consulta pelo próprio, pela comunidade de utilizadores que partilhem os mesmos interesses científicos e pelas empresas.
- The People’s Republic of China: the emerging cyberpowerPublication . Tenreiro De Magalhaes, Sérgio; Rios, Maria José; Santos, Leonel; Jahankhani, HamidThe People’s Republic of China (PRC) has a long tradition on military strategy. In the end of the 20 th century this was one of the first nations to prepare itself for the new emerging concept of war that includes the combat in cyberspace, both with the intention to obtain privileged information (espionage), to reduce the enemy attack and/or military capability or even to create casualties. This paper presents an overview on the known facts on this issue, concluding on an urgent need to improve the security technologies and policies of the digital systems used by the governments, namely in what concerns to authentication processes and the need for occidental countries to prepare personnel with knowledge on the culture, on the language and on the thought of the PRC, so that they can be ready for the next steps of this (re)emerging nation.
- Comunicação neotribal em plataformas digitais: a tribo Transe e a Fluoresta ZambujalPublication . Simão, Emília; Tenreiro De Magalhaes, Sérgio; Silva, Armando
- Evaluation of the Armed Forces Websites of the European CountriesPublication . Pedro, Cunha; Parcídio, Gonçalves; Sá, Vítor J.; Magalhães, Sérgio Tenreiro de; Miguel, PimentaThe armed forces are a critical component of the national security strategy of several European countries. Despite the peace that has succeeded the cold war, several armies, in peacetime, have elements recruited with promises of individual opportunities. The countries have two forms of recruitment of their troops: by volunteering or by mandatory incorporation. Following the trends of the modern world, interconnected in a network, it becomes essential to the institutions to mark their presence on the Internet. The Armed Forces in their various branches are no exception; there are numerous sites with relevant information, being used as a channel for dissemination and fundraising. Since young people represent a large share of the population using the Internet, and this is the target population for recruitment, it becomes mandatory to use the internet as a communication channel between them. It was carried out a qualitative study of all sites of European armed forces, and their branches, in order to assess their quality and differences. The approach focused on the evaluation of sites for their ability to inform, update, quantity and quality of content, service availability, use and visual attractiveness, and ease of communication. The study has also tried to verify if the countries with volunteer incorporation were producing websites with higher levels of quality, reflecting the need to invest in order to recruit. On the other hand, countries with compulsive incorporation could have lower investments in their websites, once the satisfaction of the need for staff is guarantied. We considered 38 countries, with an initial usability study where data about the characteristics considered important for proper construction of a website as well as for a good and easy relationship with the user of this type of site were collected. This research defined the parameters to evaluate the sites and groups were created with the parameters of the different areas of analysis of those sites. The evaluation shows that there are differences in quality of sites for each of the countries evaluated in terms of graphics, usability and content, and that where there is a greater difference between the countries is on the number of existing sites by country. It is clear that there are countries that invest strategically in this area while others do not. It was also clear that there is a difference between Eastern and Western Europe in the quality and investment made in the sites of their armed forces. Dividing the countries by their incorporation system, the differences are smaller, both in terms of number of sites for the military, either as to the average assessment of each scheme. In countries where the incorporation is mandatory, investment in independent sites for each branch has not been neglected for a considerable part of the countries, a little more than half. But it is in countries where recruitment is made on a voluntary basis that there are more sites for the different branches, which may indicate an existing competitiveness for staff recruitment.
- The Georgia’s CyberwarPublication . Rios, Maria José; Tenreiro De Magalhaes, Sérgio; Santos, Leonel; Jahankhani, HamidThe evolution of the technology and the changes in the organization and control of the critical infrastructures of the nations are creating a new combat front. The case studied in this paper refers to the attack to the information systems of the Georgian organizations that occurred at the same time as the conventional military operation executed by the Russian army in the South Ossetia in August 2008. The data collected and presented in this paper showed the existence of a poorly organized network, related to Russian criminal organizations, raising the possibility of this case being an instance of the Maoist concept of the “People’s war”. This paper will also show that, despite the unsophisticated resources used in the attacks and to promote them, the damages in the selected targets were considerable.
- El patrimonio como fuente de desarrollo sostenible en las regiones del interior norte de PortugalPublication . Duque, EduardoEl Patrimonio puede ser visto como base potenciadora del desarrollo rural, fomentando el desarrollo de diferentes actividades que agregan valor a los recursos locales, fortalecen una historia local y revitalizan una identidad cultural rica y promisora. Es por eso que creemos que es crucial mirar a estos espacios y pensar en formulas eficaces de supervivencia y de adaptabilidad al mundo moderno, siendo necesario tener en cuenta un espacio micro, como es el caso del municipio de Vieira do Minho, lugar que sirvió para nuestro caso de estudio, e identificar los embarazos o beneficios que este podrá tener hacia el desarrollo sostenible.
- Capital social como instrumento de desenvolvimento sustentávelPublication . Duque, EduardoNas últimas décadas, tem-se assistido a uma crescente preocupação pelo desenvolvimento socialmente justo e sustentável, daí que as políticas de desenvolvimento que se têm delineado têm implícita uma preocupação de maior equidade e justiça, aprendendo do passado para assim projetar o futuro. Ora quem aprecia o horizonte, sem menosprezar o seu espólio e memória, vive o momento presente empenhado em viabilizar o porvir. Esta atitude implica uma postura comprometida dos cidadãos com o social. É desta forma comprometida, empreendedora e corresponsável que se compreende o capital social como meio de desenvolvimento sustentável. Com este estudo procura-se perceber até que ponto o capital social é um dos fatores determinantes do desenvolvimento sustentável. Indaga-se, para isso, os indicadores que melhor medem o capital social. De uma forma mais específica, procura-se compreender até que ponto a sociedade portuguesa tem estimulado o capital social como recurso fundamental para o seu desenvolvimento. Esta questão é ilustrada a partir do inquérito do European Values Survey e, de uma forma longitudinal, analisa-se os comportamentos dos portugueses entre 1990 e 2008. Os resultados mostram que os portugueses não estão ainda sensibilizados para a problemática do desenvolvimento sustentável, revelam posturas muito fechadas, pouco ou nada preocupadas com a construção de uma sociedade mais ativa e comprometida com o bem comum.