http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2096 CEGI 2013-05-23T02:45:13Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/8412 Title: Análise espacial dos resultados eleitorais em Portugal – Aplicação do Geographically Weighted Regression Authors: Ferreira, Henriette da Conceição de Sousa Abstract: O presente trabalho aborda a temática dos estudos sobre a análise espacial dos resultados eleitorais em Portugal. Os resultados eleitorais quer ao nível das eleições legislativas quer das autárquicas exibem tendências geográficas onde a influência de vários factores parece ser evidente. A abordagem analítica dos resultados eleitorais de um país sugere que se tenham em conta variados efeitos contextuais, nomeadamente, as diferenças etárias nas diversas regiões, diferenças sócio-culturais da população, assim como o isolamento das populações. Torna-se, deste modo, importante ter em consideração as variações espaciais na modelação de fenómenos de cariz eleitoral. Este estudo questiona a existência de variações espaciais na relação entre os resultados eleitorais (eleições legislativas referentes ao ano de 2005) dos cinco principais partidos políticos Portugueses, (PSD, CDS, BE,PCP,PS) centrandose nas diferenças entre Municípios de Portugal Continental e apresenta, como principais objectivos: 1. Demonstrar a importância da utilização de técnicas estatísticas espaciais (Modelos Geographically Weighted Regression) como melhoria dos Modelos de Regressão tradicionais (OLS) na modelação de fenómenos baseados em resultados eleitorais. 2. Identificar tendências espaciais partidárias, ao nível dos municípios de Portugal Continental, relacionando, para cada partido, os resultados num determinado município e o total de votantes nesse mesmo município. 3. Reconhecer a importância da variação etária, do número de votos em branco e da constituição de cada município (relativamente ao número de freguesias que o compõem) como determinantes dos resultados eleitorais dos diferentes partidos políticos nas zonas geográficas em estudo. Description: Dissertação apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estatística e Gestão de Informação. 2010-11-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/3922 Title: A technological innovation plan for enterprises in the Azores Authors: Correia, Ana Maria R Abstract: The INOTEC-Empresa – the Technological Innovation Plan for Enterprises in the Autonomous Region of the Azores (RAA) - was developed in 2006-2007, at the request of the Regional Government, with the main aim of promoting innovation within small and medium enterprises. The methodological approach used in the development of the INOTEC – Empresa Plan was designed to obtain a comprehensive view of regional actors and included a document review, participation of the various actors through interviews, a collection of statements from RAA – Região Autónoma dos Açores – entrepreneurs, academics, public leaders and other key players, together with an analysis of their views and a survey of the innovation dynamics of the most relevant Azorean enterprises. The INOTEC-Empresa – the Technological Innovation Plan for Enterprises – comprises seven programmes aimed at promoting innovation in the Region. This paper focuses on the Programmes for Qualification of Human Resources and the Development of Scientific and Technological Capacities for Innovation. Some socio-economic data and the metrics selected to assess and benchmark the implementation of the Plan will als 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4054 Title: Virtual communities of practice: Investigating motivations and constraints in the processes of knowledge creation and transfer Authors: Correia, Ana Maria R; Paulos, Alice; Mesquita, Anabela Abstract: With accelerated market volatility, faster response times and increased globalization, business environments are going through a major transformation and firms have intensified their search for strategies which can give them competitive advantage. This requires that companies continuously innovate, to think of new ideas that can be transformed or implemented as products, processes or services, generating value for the firm. Innovative solutions and processes are usually developed by a group of people, working together. A grouping of people that share and create new knowledge can be considered as a Community of Practice (CoP). CoP’s are places which provide a sound basis for organizational learning and encourage knowledge creation and acquisition. Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP's) can perform a central role in promoting communication and collaboration between members who are dispersed in both time and space. Nevertheless, it is known that not all CoP's and VCoP's share the same levels of performance or produce the same results. This means that there are factors that enable or constrain the process of knowledge creation. With this in mind, we developed a case study in order to identify both the motivations and the constraints that members of an organization experience when taking part in the knowledge creating processes of VCoP's. Results show that organizational culture and professional and personal development play an important role in these processes. No interviewee referred to direct financial rewards as a motivation factor for participation in VCoPs. Most identified the difficulty in aligning objectives established by the management with justification for the time spent in the VCoP. The interviewees also said that technology is not a constrain Description: Paper presented at the ECKM09 - European Conference on Knowledge Management, 3- 4th, Sep., Università Degli Studi Di Padova, Vicenza, Italy. URL: http:// www.academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2009/eckm09-home.ht 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4051 Title: BIWiki: Using a business intelligence Wiki to form a virtual community of practice for portuguese master's students Authors: Neto, Miguel de Castro; Correia, Ana Maria R Abstract: Web 2.0 software in general and wikis in particular have been receiving growing attention as they constitute new and powerful tools, capable of supporting information sharing, creation of knowledge and a wide range of collaborative processes and learning activities. This paper introduces briefly some of the new opportunities made possible by Web 2.0 or the social Internet, focusing on those offered by the use of wikis as learning spaces. A wiki allows documents to be created, edited and shared on a group basis; it has a very easy and efficient markup language, using a simple Web browser. One of the most important characteristics of wiki technology is the ease with which pages are created and edited. The facility for wiki content to be edited by its users means that its pages and structure form a dynamic entity, in permanent evolution, where users can insert new ideas, supplement previously existing information and correct errors and typos in a document at any time, up to the agreed final version. This paper explores wikis as a collaborative learning and knowledge-building space and its potential for supporting Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoPs). In the academic years (2007/8 and 2008/9), students of the Business Intelligence module at the Master’s programme of studies on Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence at Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, have been actively involved in the creation of BIWiki – a wiki for Business Intelligence in the Portuguese language. Based on usage patterns and feedback from students participating in this experience, some conclusions are drawn regarding the potential of this technology to support the emergence of VCoPs; some provisional suggestions will be made regarding the use of wikis to support information sharing, knowledge creation and transfer and collaborative learning in Higher Ed Description: Paper presented at the 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2009), Università Degli Studi Di Padova, Vicenza, Italy, 3-4 Sep, 2009. URL: http://www.academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2009/eckm09-home.ht 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z