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- The power of creativity in nurturing sustainable developmentPublication . Triães, Ricardo; Nogueira, Andreia; Chasqueira, ÂniaThis paper explores the perspective that, in working towards a truly sustainable preservation of the past, conservators need to engage with uncomfortable changes to allow the intentional and deliberate introduction of artistic creativity into conservation. It aims to set out certain examples of creative practices that are nurturing sustainability within conservation and that provide the evidence and justification for launching creative conservation within conservation theory and ethics to create a new conservation ecology. This new approach correspondingly reflects recent theoretical developments within the broader field of heritage studies. However, conservation professionals tend to be conservative and are reticent to allow artistic creativity to guide their conservation activities in an explicit and intentional manner.
- Plagiarism Detection in Algorithms - a Case Study using AlgorithmiPublication . Manso, António; Marques, C. G.; Santos, Paulo; Alencar, VitorLearning to program is crucial in computer science degree programmes. For students to gain this skill, they need to practise a lot, since programming is a difficult and complex process and practice improves it. The courses "Algorithmics" and "Introduction to programming" have therefore become almost insurmountable barriers with high failure rates. To overcome these barriers, researchers have sought to find new ways of teaching. For their part, students have looked for ways to succeed with less effort by repeatedly resorting to plagiarism. The need for classes to be taught remotely due to the pandemic has further aggravated this problem. To fight it, we created the Algorithmi tool and equipped it with a plagiarism detection module. This tool promotes stand-alone study by allowing self-correction of the exercises whilst validating authorship. This paper presents a case study on the application of the plagiarism module to the exercise resolutions submitted by the students in their personal repository. Through the analysis of the results obtained we can conclude that there was a high rate of plagiarism. The current version of the tool needs to be extended with new features, not only to become more accurate, but above all to prevent plagiarism from happening.
- Insignia - A Monitoring and Enhancement Model for Portuguese Historical Military HeritagePublication . Mateus, Lígia; Marques, C. G.; Pires da Silva, Cláudia; Dionísio, Marta; Rego, Carla; Pinto Coelho, JoãoThe INSIGNIA project aims to develop an enhancement model for Portuguese historical military heritage, applied to the Military Tourism Route (RTM) – a tourism product developed by the Portuguese Military Tourism Association (ATMPT), in partnership with Portuguese municipalities and several public and private entities. The RTM is composed of a set of thematic routes associated to events in Portugal's military history and aggregates a set of resources, services, and a digital repository platform of existing historical and military heritage in Portugal, equipped with dynamic programming in constant updating. The purpose of INSIGNIA is to safeguard, promote, and enhance national historical and military heritage, contributing to the affirmation of military tourism in Portugal and promoting the qualification of its agents, facilities, and the territories themselves. Therefore, an action-research methodology will be used, based on document analysis, inquiry, and observation as techniques for collecting information. The methodological plan includes the implementation of five actions aimed at monitoring and optimising the product in the territory. So far, the preliminary results of the literature review tell us about the existing projects and the launch of the RTM digital platform tells us the number of entries and preferences among the routes presented. INSIGNIA began in 2021 and will continue until 2023.
- Festab - The Patrimonialization and Touristification Process of the Trays Festival in TomarPublication . Pires da Silva, Cláudia; Pinto Coelho, João; Camponês, André; Marques, C. G.; Dionísio, MartaThe manifestations of the Intangible Cultural Heritage are an integral part of daily life, internalized in the individuals and groups that traditionally preserve them according to their own ways of enhancing and safeguarding. According to the participatory perspective, defended by the UNESCO Convention (2003), the importance given to the temporal and evolutionary complexity of cultural manifestations considers: the dynamic dimension of the past - the historical value and the fact that the manifestation “is transmitted generationally” - while it also enhances the contemporary nature of the event, i.e the fact that the heritage “is alive”. This approach, promoted with greater impact from the 1980s onwards, defends a holistic and democratic procedure in the definition of what is cultural heritage. In turn, the heritage touristification process, as a resource to these assets and manifestations by the tourism activity to transform them into consumable products and experiences, is an unquestionable and borderless reality that naturally reached the Trays Festival in Tomar. The Trays Festival, which takes place in the city of Tomar every four years and receives about half a million visitors in a city with about 20 thousand inhabitants, presents a unique model in the framework of the so-called Festivities in Honour of the Divine Spirit. The distinctive elements that attest to this specificity are related to the format of the offers, the Trays, which represent the payment of promises to the Divine, constituting one of its central symbolic aspects. Assuming the historical and conceptual framework of the patrimonializaon process of the Trays Festival as the main objective of the study, documentary analysis and participant observation were used for data collection. This article also aims to contribute to enhancing the role of intangible cultural heritage in society. This study results from the development of the first milestone contemplated in the project “The Trays Festival, the Cultural Heritage and the Community” (FesTab).
- Activating Templar Heritage: Tourism, Narrative Strategies and Information TechnologiesPublication . Marques, C. G.; Sol, Hermínia; Pedro, João P.; Mateus, Lígia; Pestana, Hélder; Pinto Coelho, João; Silva, ManuelaWhile fairly established in several western countries, military tourism is still in a grey area in Portugal. In order to bolster the notion that this concept can be a major contributor to tourism activation, an Information System is being developed with the Templar Order as basis. This project is a direct result of the work of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Portugal), the Templars Route European Federation and Tomar’s local government. It uses the Rapid Application Development methodology and resorts mostly to a client-server web application, using web standards such as HTML, CSS and JS, and it’s operated by the PHP program language and SGBD Mysql for data persistence. The IS fills a void as far as military tourism heritage platforms are concerned. It’s user friendly design and architecture make for a pleasant research experience while the inclusion of more updated and historical narratives along with storytelling strategies increase its appeal among a non-academic audience. The recent COVID-19 outbreak brought about the need to adapt the original model to an ever-increasing virtual culture trend.
- Smart Monitoring of Constructed Wetlands to Improve Efficiency and Water QualityPublication . Pinho, Henrique; Barros, Manuel; Teixeira, André; Oliveira, Luís; Matos, Pedro; Ferreira, Carlos; Mateus, DinaThe Smart monitoring of constructed wetlands to improve efficiency and water quality (SmarterCW) project aims to monitor biological wastewater treatment processes by gathering continuous data from remote water and environmental sensors. The acquired data can be processed and analyzed through data science tools to understand better the complex and coupled phenomena underneath wastewater treatment and monitor and optimize the system performance. The results will improve the efficiency and control of nature-based wastewater treatment technologies. The methodology comprises the following tasks and activities: Implementation of a set of electrochemical sensors in the input and output flow streams of pilot-scale constructed wetlands; Acquisition of water quality parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, temperature, and ionic compounds; Acquisition of environmental parameters, such as temperature and humidity; Application of data analysis tools to design and optimize conceptual models to correlate pollutants removal with operative parameters in green technologies for wastewater treatment. This methodology was applied to a patent-protected pilot-scale modular constructed wetland in which filling media consists of a mixture of solid waste. A high-level IoT communication layer structure complements the system to support remote real-time water and environmental monitoring, system performance, and data dissemination.
- The Use of Digital Technologies to Develop Girls' Creativity: Paths and Practices in Greece, Lithuania, Portugal, and SloveniaPublication . Marques, C. G.; Manso, António; Grineviciute, Laura; Danieliene, RenataThe presence (or lack thereof) of women in STEM and ICT has become a key issue for the industry and for policy makers, as complex and nuanced questions of gender are brought to the centerstage of public discussion. As part of this effort, this research aims to shine a light on the factors that keep girls and young women from pursuing careers in the field of ICT and provide tools and orientations to tackle these issues. A two-fold analysis was conducted, with interviews with experts in the sector, in the format of four round-table discussions, and an analysis of 30 case studies of projects/initiatives across four countries: Lithuania, Greece, Slovenia and Portugal. The collected insights point to the persistence of gendered stereotypes, as well as prevailing misconceptions on the nature of ICT work. Furthermore, it points to the importance of teachers and educators, as well as the visibility of female role models in the industry. The investment in concrete and creative pursuits in ICT also appears as a defining factor to spark the interest of girls in the field.
- Dodging Nostalgia: filming and dealing with facts in industrial heritage sitesPublication . Sol, Hermínia; Luz, JoãoDocumentary film is commonly seen and defined has a genre with social engagement ambitions. In fact, many directors and critics view it as a form of social history by giving central roles to individuals or communities that tend to be rendered invisible or voiceless by mainstream media. This perspective gains relevance when one considers films which deal with labour relations in manufacturing plants which, often, expose forms of psychological violence inflicted by those in power positions towards the underprivileged. Filmmakers such as Luc Decaster, Michael Moore as well as Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, to mention but a few, have all worked on film narratives that explore the process of deindustrialization in their countries of origin. While exposing the complexity and disturbing effects of the dismantling of an industrial order, the adopted stance is one that refuses to glorify the outgoing paradigm. Inspired by the work of the aforementioned directors, the authors of this paper have ceased the opportunity to work on a film about the extinction of a paper producing industrial node in Tomar (Portugal) and on the repercussions for the region. During the course of filming, however, they felt the need to produce a theoretical reflection on the negotiating process adopted to reach a balance between the perspectives of elements of former managerial and technical staff. With that in mind, this proposal aims at sharing their musings as well as the difficulties found during the research and shooting periods to distance themselves from an industrial sublime nostalgic narrative that effaces the complexity of class conflicts, along with the violence of manually assembled work, by focusing on the grandeur of the buildings and of the machinery. Special emphasis will be placed on the difficulties of dodging a nostalgic industrial sublime narrative. Firstly, because this narrative is still very much ingrained in a prevailing industrial heritage protection discursive trend and, secondly, because it was a narrative shared by white and blue collar-workers alike. Hence, the sanitizing and violent features of the dominant nostalgic discourse will be analyzed by resorting to a work still in progress.
- A statistical contribution on film tourism. A case studyPublication . Sol, Hermínia; Grilo, Luis Miguel; Pinto Coelho, JoãoThe evaluation of the impact that the images perceived by the spectators have in the destination choices they make as tourists is a growing research field, not only in Tourism and Marketing Management but also among the Behavioural Sciences. Based on a questionnaire previously developed on a Film Tourism sub-project, with qualitative variables in nominal and ordinal scale, a survey was conducted during a number of film screenings hosted by Tomar’s (a medium-sized city in Portugal) Film Society. After the characterization of the random sample with the sociodemographic variables, the nonparametric test Pearson chi-square was applied to test the null hypothesis of independence between the variable “Gender” and the variables “Have you ever visited a place by influence of a film?” or “Destination-dream by strong influence of a film”. Given that the null hypothesis is not rejected, there is no statistical evidence to consider a dependence/relationship between these variables. Other finding is statistically significant Spearman correlations between some variables, such as “Education level” and “The average number of activities of Film Tourism”.
- Contribution of Constructed Wetlands for Reclaimed Water Production: A ReviewPublication . Pinho, Henrique J. O.; Mateus, D. M. R.Freshwater scarcity is a growing threat to sustainable development, which can be mitigated by adequate management of water resources. Agriculture and related activities consist in the main use of freshwater, but several other human activities present relevant contributions. Because most of the water uses imply the generation of resultant wastewater, the production and use of reclaimed water by appropriate technologies can be part of the solution to that issue. Considering that the use of constructed wetlands (CWs) can be a relevant contribution to the production of reclaimed water, as an eco-friendly alternative to costly advanced water treatment technologies, this work is a review of the last decade of literature on the use of CWs to produce reclaimed water. The results point to a usual focus on the production of reclaimed water for agriculture or urban spaces irrigation. In order to potentiate a broader application of CWs, some directions of future research and use of this green technology are proposed.