2021
Authors
Pinheiro, P; Daniel, A; Moreira, A;
Publication
VOLUNTAS
Abstract
Market orientation has been presented as an important predictor of business performance, and it is presumed to contribute to long-term success in both profit-oriented and non-profit enterprises. Similarly, entrepreneurial orientation is a concept that has been widely applied to business firms but has not been empirically tested in social enterprises. Moreover, the literature does not present a widely accepted and tested conceptual model relating entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and performance, in the realm of social enterprises. In order to fill this gap, this research assesses how these strategic orientations affect social and economic performance in the setting of social enterprises. Structural equation modeling was used as a means to analyze the hypothesized relationships. After testing the model on a sample of 805 Portuguese social enterprises, the findings show that both social entrepreneurship and market orientations significantly impact social performance. The results also indicate that market orientation mediates the effect of social entrepreneurship orientation on the performance of social enterprises.
2021
Authors
Teixeira, AR; Rodrigues, I; Gomes, A; Abreu, P; Rodríguez Bermúdez, G;
Publication
AUGMENTED COGNITION, AC 2021
Abstract
2021
Authors
Aguiar, P; Cunha, A; Bakon, M; Ruiz Armenteros, AM; Sousa, JJ;
Publication
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES 2020 (CENTERIS/PROJMAN/HCIST 2020)
Abstract
Multi-temporal InSAR (MT-InSAR) techniques proved to be very effective for deformation monitoring. However, decorrelation and other noise sources, can be limiting factors in MT-InSAR. The obtained observations (PS - Persistent scatterers) are usually very demanding from a computational perspective, as they can reach hundreds of thousands of observations. To simplify and speed up the classification process, in this study we present an approach based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) classification models, for the detection of MT-InSAR outlying observations. For each PS, the corresponding MT-InSAR parameters, its neighbouring scatterers parameters and its relative position are considered. Tests in two independent PS datasets, covering the regions of Bratislava city and the suburbs of Prievidza, Slovakia, were performed. The results showed that such models are robust and reduced computation time method for the evaluation of MT-InSAR outlying observations. However, the applicability of these models is limited by the deformation pattern in which such models were trained. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
2021
Authors
Monteiro, CS; Raposo, M; Ribeiro, PA; Silva, SO; Frazao, O;
Publication
SENSORS
Abstract
A Fabry-Perot acoustic sensor based on a graphene oxide membrane was developed with the aim to achieve a faster and simpler fabrication procedure when compared to similar graphene-based acoustic sensors. In addition, the proposed sensor was fabricated using methods that reduce chemical hazards and environmental impacts. The developed sensor, with an optical cavity of around 246 mu m, showed a constant reflected signal amplitude of 6.8 +/- 0.1 dB for 100 nm wavelength range. The sensor attained a wideband operation range between 20 and 100 kHz, with a maximum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 32.7 dB at 25 kHz. The stability and sensitivity to temperatures up to 90 degrees C was also studied. Moreover, the proposed sensor offers the possibility to be applied as a wideband microphone or to be applied in more complex systems for structural analysis or imaging.
2021
Authors
Rego, N; Pereira, HS; Crispim, J;
Publication
JMIR HUMAN FACTORS
Abstract
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most challenging diseases in the 21st century and is the sixth leading cause of death. Telemedicine has increasingly been implemented in the care of patients with DM. Although teleconsultations at home have shown to be more effective for inducing HbA(1c) reduction than other telemedicine options, before the 2019 coronavirus disease crisis, their use had been lagging behind. Studies on physicians' or patients' perceptions about telemedicine have been performed independently of each other, and very few have focused on teleconsultations. In a time of great pressure for health systems and when an important portion of health care has to be assured at a distance, obtaining insights about teleconsultations at home from the stakeholders directly involved in the health care interaction is particularly important. Objective: The perceptions of patients and physicians about their intentions to use home synchronous teleconsultations for DM care are examined to identify drivers and barriers inherent to programs that involve home teleconsultations. Methods: Two identical questionnaires integrating the technology acceptance model and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology and assessing the confidence in information and communication technology use of patients and physicians were developed. Responses by patients (n=75) and physicians (n=68) were analyzed using canonical correlation analysis. Results: Associations between predictor constructs (performance, effort, social influence, facilitating conditions, and attitude) and intention to use yielded significant functions, with a canonical R-2 of 0.95 (for physicians) and 0.98 (patients). The main identified barriers to patient intention to use were the expected effort to explain the medical problem, and privacy and confidentiality issues. The major drivers were the facilitation of contact with the physician, which is beneficial to patient disease management and treatment, time savings, and reciprocity concerning physicians' willingness to perform teleconsultations. Responses from physicians revealed an association between intention to use and the expected performance of home teleconsultations. The major barrier to intention to use expressed in physicians' answers was doubts concerning the quality of patient examination. The major drivers were time savings, productivity increases, improvements in patient's health and patient management, National Health System costs reduction, and reciprocity relative to patients' willingness to engage in teleconsultations. Conclusions: To promote the use of home teleconsultations for DM, decision makers should improve patients' health literacy so the physician-patient communication is more effective; explore information and communication technology developments to reduce current limitations of non-face-to-face examinations; ensure patient privacy and data confidentiality; and demonstrate the capabilities of home teleconsultations to physicians.
2021
Authors
Neves, F; Machado, N; Vilaça, R; Pereira, J;
Publication
51ST ANNUAL IEEE/IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (DSN 2021)
Abstract
Logs are still the primary resource for debugging distributed systems executions. Complexity and heterogeneity of modern distributed systems, however, make log analysis extremely challenging. First, due to the sheer amount of messages, in which the execution paths of distinct system components appear interleaved. Second, due to unsynchronized physical clocks, simply ordering the log messages by timestamp does not suffice to obtain a causal trace of the execution. To address these issues, we present Horus, a system that enables the refinement of distributed system logs in a causally-consistent and scalable fashion. Horus leverages kernel-level probing to capture events for tracking causality between application-level logs from multiple sources. The events are then encoded as a directed acyclic graph and stored in a graph database, thus allowing the use of rich query languages to reason about runtime behavior. Our case study with TrainTicket, a ticket booking application with 40+ microservices, shows that Horus surpasses current widely-adopted log analysis systems in pinpointing the root cause of anomalies in distributed executions. Also, we show that Horus builds a causally-consistent log of a distributed execution with much higher performance (up to 3 orders of magnitude) and scalability than prior state-of-the-art solutions. Finally, we show that Horus' approach to query causality is up to 30 times faster than graph database built-in traversal algorithms.
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