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2022

From smart technologies to value cocreation and customer engagement with smart energy services

Authors
Goncalves, L; Patricio, L;

Publication
ENERGY POLICY

Abstract
Smart grids enable large-scale integration of low-carbon energy sources and energy efficiency. However, changing customer energy consumption behavior has been a challenge, requiring the development of services that change the way customers relate with energy to increase energy efficiency and savings in households. To this end, this qualitative study in the Portuguese energy market offers a nuanced understanding of how customer cocreate value with smart energy services, identifying three different customer value cocreation practice styles and respective engagement behaviors). Study findings reveal that while AHEM (Advanced Home Energy Management) and MEM (Mobility Energy Management) customers are willing to play autonomous roles in managing the energy consumption and production, HFEC (Hassle Free Home Energy Consumption) customers may be open to adopt smart energy services without spending time and effort in using these services. The study offers relevant implications for policy makers and ESCOs (energy service companies). Although much attention has been paid to advanced customers, a nuanced approach may enable ESCOs to reach disengaged customers, by offering tailored services that are suited to their hassle free value cocreation practice styles. Policy makers may also explore tailored, and service focused incentives to push the adoption of smart service solutions in large-scale.

2022

EUNIVERSAL'S SMART GRID SOLUTIONS FOR THE COORDINATED OPERATION & PLANNING OF MV AND LV NETWORKS WITH HIGH EV INTEGRATION

Authors
Sampaio G.; Gouveia C.; Bessa R.; Villar J.; Retorta F.; Carvalho L.; Merckx C.; Benothman F.; Promel F.; Panteli M.; Mourão R.L.; Louro M.; Águas A.; Marques P.;

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IET Conference Proceedings

Abstract
EUniversal project aims to facilitate the use of flexibility services and interlink distribution system's active management with electricity markets. Implementing market-based flexibility services implies a change in distribution network monitoring and control towards a more predictive approach. However, integrating cost-effective monitoring and control tools for the LV network is still quite challenging. Within the project, a set of operation and planning tools have been developed for a coordinated quantification and activation of flexibility in HV, MV and LV distribution networks. The paper presents the tools developed for the Portuguese pilot and shows preliminary results obtained when considering network operation scenarios characterized by large scale integration of DER and EV.

2022

From bone to breast cancer : a journey of unanswered questions and unexplored opportunities

Authors
Reis, Joana; Silva, Susana;

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Abstract

2022

Annotating Arguments in a Corpus of Opinion Articles

Authors
Rocha, G; Trigo, L; Cardoso, HL; Sousa-Silva, R; Carvalho, P; Martins, B; Won, M;

Publication
LREC 2022: THIRTEEN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION

Abstract
Interest in argument mining has resulted in an increasing number of argument annotated corpora. However, most focus on English texts with explicit argumentative discourse markers, such as persuasive essays or legal documents. Conversely, we report on the first extensive and consolidated Portuguese argument annotation project focused on opinion articles. We briefly describe the annotation guidelines based on a multi-layered process and analyze the manual annotations produced, highlighting the main challenges of this textual genre. We then conduct a comprehensive inter-annotator agreement analysis, including argumentative discourse units, their classes and relations, and resulting graphs. This analysis reveals that each of these aspects tackles very different kinds of challenges. We observe differences in annotator profiles, motivating our aim of producing a non-aggregated corpus containing the insights of every annotator. We note that the interpretation and identification of token-level arguments is challenging; nevertheless, tasks that focus on higher-level components of the argument structure can obtain considerable agreement. We lay down perspectives on corpus usage, exploiting its multi-faceted nature.

2022

Spectroscopic detection of pigments in tissues: correlation with tissue aging and cancer development

Authors
Oliveira, LM; Goncalves, TM; Botelho, AR; Martins, IS; Silva, HF; Carneiro, I; Carvalho, S; Henrique, R; Tuchin, VV;

Publication
2022 International Conference Laser Optics, ICLO 2022 - Proceedingss

Abstract
The direct calculation of the absorption coefficient spectra of various tissues from spectral measurements allowed to retrieve the contents of melanin and lipofuscin. In the rabbit brain cortex, 1.8 times higher melanin content is explained by the neuron degeneration process. Similar melanin and lipofuscin contents were found in the rabbit pancreas as a result of the tissue aging process. The conversion of 83 % of the melanin in the human normal kidney into lipofuscin in the cancer kidney indicates that lipofuscin can be considered a kidney cancer marker in humans. © 2022 IEEE.

2022

DISCOVERIES AT PARCÃO – A CIBRICIDADE COMO POTÊNCIA PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DO PENSAMENTO COMPUTACIONAL NA EDUCAÇÃO OnLIFE

Authors
Menezes, J; Schlemmer, E; Thum, AB; Hohendorff, RV;

Publication
O HABITAR DO ENSINAR E DO APRENDER: Desafios para/na/da Educação OnLIFE

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