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Elenice Almeida Carregosa,Sandra Lúcia da Cunha e Silva,José Pedro Kunhavalik
Diante da intensificação dos processos de degradação dos ecossistemas naturais e de suas consequências socioambientais e culturais, a criação e a manutenção de unidades de conservação vêm se constituindo como importantes estratégias para a proteção da bi...
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Lígia Conceição, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Bart van Arem and José Pedro Tavares
Once trusted, automated vehicles (AVs) will gradually appear in urban areas. Such a transition is an opportunity in transport planning to control undesired impacts and possibly mitigate congestion at a time when both conventional vehicles (CVs) and AVs c...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Pedro Gabriel Almeida, Luís Ferreira Gomes and Victor Cavaleiro
The risk of aquifer contamination is determined by the interaction between the pollutant load and the vulnerability of an aquifer. Owing to the decomposition of bodies and degradation of artefacts, cemeteries may have a negative impact on groundwater qua...
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Vanja Fontenele Nunes, Manuel Pedro Fernandes Graça, Imen Hammami, Ana Fabíola Leite Almeida and Francisco Nivaldo Aguiar Freire
Electrophoretic deposition is a straightforward, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective technique for depositing and synthesizing nanomaterials, particularly nanofilms of semiconductors. Key parameters in electrophoresis include deposition time and...
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Kleber de Almeida Gonçalves, Daniela Silva Santurio, Delfim Soares, Pedro Alves Costa and Luís Godinho
The use of boundary elements in the analysis of exterior acoustic problems poses challenges at specific frequencies, since fictitious eigenfrequencies may arise at the internal resonances of cavities, leading to inaccurate results or even unstable behavi...
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Pedro Almeida, Vitor Carvalho and Alberto Simões
Reinforcement Learning is one of the many machine learning paradigms. With no labelled data, it is concerned with balancing the exploration and exploitation of an environment with one or more agents present in it. Recently, many breakthroughs have been m...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Paulo Carvalho, Pedro Almeida and Victor Cavaleiro
Deposition of corpses in the ground is the most common burial practice, which can allow interactions between polluting compounds and the soil, groundwater, and surface water, which may afterwards lead to negative environmental impacts and risks to public...
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Ana Colim, Débora Pereira, Pedro Lima, André Cardoso, Rui Almeida, Duarte Fernandes, Sacha Mould and Pedro Arezes
The main contribution of the current study is to provide a user-centered design of a handle for a novel inspection device with ergonomic requirements obtained from a thorough scientific study.
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Sara Dias, António Tadeu, João Almeida, Pedro Humbert, Julieta António, Jorge de Brito and Pedro Pinhão
With a circular economy in the spotlight, wood waste has emerged as an important secondary raw material. Bearing this in mind, a comprehensive experimental study was carried out to evaluate the feasibility of using concrete compositions containing wood c...
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Ana Filipa Silva, Bárbara Horta e Costa, José Lino Costa, Esmeralda Pereira, João Pedro Marques, João J. Castro, Pedro G. Lino, Ana Candeias-Mendes, Pedro Pousão-Ferreira, Inês Sousa, Luís Bentes, Jorge M. S. Gonçalves, Pedro Raposo de Almeida and Bernardo Ruivo Quintella
No-take areas are key instruments to promote the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), particularly concerning the protection of endangered species such as the dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus). However, despite the establishment of no-tak...
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