2022
Autores
Monteiro, R; Giesteira, B; Boddington, A; Farinha, C;
Publicação
Springer Series in Design and Innovation
Abstract
This paper aims to undertake a closer examination of the design ecosystem model, considering it has recently emerged to justify and support the implementation of design policies within the systems failure theory. It does so by identifying and analyzing diverse perspectives and some of the gaps in the literature, and to propose adaptations in the model by looking at design capabilities as its substance, and as well to identify avenues for further research. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2022
Autores
Oberti, S; Correia, C; Fusco, T; Neichel, B; Guiraud, P;
Publicação
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Abstract
Context. Cutting-edge, ground-based astronomical instruments are fed by adaptive optics (AO) systems that are aimed at providing high performance down to the visible wavelength domain on 10 m class telescopes and in the near infrared for the first generation instruments of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). Both applications lead to a large ratio between the telescope diameter, D, and the coherence length or Fried parameter, r(0), that is D/r(0). As the parameter that defines the required number of degrees of freedom of the AO system, D/r(0) drives the requirement to reconstruct the incoming wavefront with ever-higher spatial resolution. In this context, super-resolution (SR) appears as a potential game changer. Indeed, SR promises to dramatically expand the range of spatial frequencies that can be reconstructed from a set of lower resolution measurements of the wavefront. Aims. As a technique that seeks to upscale the resolution of a set of measured signals, SR retrieves higher-frequency signal content by combining multiple lower resolution sampled data sets. It is well known both in the temporal and spatial domains and widely used in imaging to reduce aliasing and enhance the resolution of coarsely sampled images. This study applies the SR technique to the bidimensional wavefront reconstruction. In particular, we show how SR is intrinsically suited for tomographic multi-wavefront sensor (WFS) AO systems, revealing many of its advantages with minimal design effort. Methods. We provide a direct space and Fourier optics description of the wavefront sensing operation and we demonstrate how SR can be exploited through signal reconstruction, especially within the framework of periodic non-uniform sampling. We investigate both meta-uniform and non-uniform sampling schemes and we show that under some conditions, both sampling schemes enable a perfect reconstruction of band-limited signals. We also provide a SR bi-dimensional model for a Shack-Hartmann (SH) WFS, along with an analysis of the characteristics of the sensitivity function. We validated the SR concept with numerical simulations of representative multi-WFS SH AO systems. Finally, we explored the extension of the method to pyramid WFSs. Results. Our results show that combining several WFS samples in a SR framework grants access to a greater number of modes than the native one offered by a single WFS (despite the fixed sub-aperture size across samples). We show that the wavefront reconstruction achieved with four WFSs can be equivalent to a single WFS providing a sampling resolution that is twice greater (linear across the telescope aperture). We also show that the associated noise propagation is not degraded under SR. Finally, we show that the concept can be extended to the signal produced by single pyramid WFS, with its four re-imaged pupils serving as multiple non-redundant samples. Conclusions. We find that SR applied to wavefront sensing and reconstruction (WFR) offers a new parameter space to explore, as it decouples the size of the sub-aperture from the desired wavefront sampling resolution. By shifting away from outdated assumptions, new and more flexible, better-performing AO designs have now become possible.
2022
Autores
Costa, J;
Publicação
Research Anthology on Strategies for Maintaining Successful Family Firms
Abstract
Family businesses (FBs) are central to economies: In Portugal the impact of these structures reaches 2/3 of the GDP, 1/2 of the labour force, and 4/5 of the firms in operation, most of them being SMEs. These organisations play a central role in terms of job creation, local development, knowledge transfer, and territorial cohesion. Innovative activities are key factors for competitive economies; yet innovation increases risk exposure and FBs are conservative and risk adverse, resisting change, relying on internal factors rather than opening to the external environment, consequently postponing innovation and thus pledging their future. Their embedded culture reduces innovative propensity; still, the existence loyalty trust and informal networks enhance individual or collective innovation processes. Using a dataset of 110 FBs innovation and internationalization along with other structural characteristics are connected to their economic performance, shedding light on the determinants FB economic efficiency. Given their importance, made-to-measure policy schemes should be designed. © 2022 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.
2022
Autores
Dias, J; Santos, A;
Publicação
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN LEARNING, TEACHING AND EDUCATION, TECH-EDU 2022
Abstract
Currently, business organizations are struggling with the increasing demand for learning needs to address their knowledge gaps. They must have a structure that can reach all employees in terms of training and extract all the important data which is collected by Learning Management Systems during the instruction or learning process. This data will be of extreme importance for better business decisions. In this paper, it is presented a Systematic Literature Review with their respective phases duly explained and framed in the topic. It allowed us to understand the benefits, challenges, enablers, and inhibitors of the deployment and usage of a specified Teaching-Learning Analytics Framework. Finally, it is concluded, that the development of a reference model, could fulfill this gap in knowledge and help business organizations to allocate resources better and improve the decision-making process as well as an instructional and learning process. To achieve the final goal of this research, future work about the development of a Survey Research methodology will be started to fulfill this gap of knowledge.
2022
Autores
Geros, AF; Cruz, R; de Chaumont, F; Cardoso, JS; Aguiar, P;
Publicação
Abstract
2022
Autores
Marcos, Adérito; Pereira, Selma;
Publicação
2022 Third International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology (ARTeFACTo)
Abstract
A perspetiva pós-digital da contemporaneidade caracteriza-se por duas linhas fundamentais de pensamento que se entre cruzam e se complementam, ao assumir, por um lado, a inevitabilidade da onipresença da tecnologia computacional digital em todos os aspetos da vida, ou seja, a sua ubiquidade concreta; e por outro lado, constatar a emergência de uma nova materialidade ou rematerialização nas práticas de criação digital na arte e cultura, onde os materiais físicos tangíveis assumem um papel equiparado ao digital enquanto o expandem e o reposicionam em uma estética que se reveste de características próprias diferenciadoras. Neste artigo apresentamos uma reflexão critica sobre processos de rematerialização digital de um conjunto de três artefactos de arte têxtil, procurando convocar para o efeito as teorias do pós-digital, enquanto se propõe e discute uma instanciação definidora de uma estética têxtil pós-digital.;The post-digital perspective of contemporaneity is characterized by two fundamental lines of thought that
intersect and complement each other by assuming, on the one hand, the inevitability of the omnipresence of digital computer technology in all aspects of life, that is, its concrete ubiquity; and, on the other hand, by noting the emergence of new materiality or rematerialisation in the practices of digital creation in art and culture, where tangible physical materials assume an equal role to the digital while expanding and repositioning it in an aesthetic that is vested with its own distinctive characteristics. In this paper, we present a critical reflection on processes of digital rematerialisation of a set of three textile art artefacts, seeking to convoke for this purpose
the theories of the post-digital while proposing and discussing a defining instantiation of post-digital textile aesthetics.
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