Mead is a traditional alcoholic drink derived from the fermentation of diluted honey in the presence of appropriate yeast. Its modern production, in general terms, involves the addition of nutrients to initial diluted honey, pasteurization, yeast inoculation, fermentation and removal of impurities. Undesirable events along the process have been reported; among them, we highlight: delayed or arrested fermentatio...
As motivações deste trabalho têm origem na necessidade permanente que a Escola Secundária D. Inês de Castro de Alcobaça sente em melhorar a sua eficácia nos processos escolares, tendo como meta principal a melhoria dos resultados escolares dos seus alunos. Na revisão de literatura apresentámos os fatores que têm sido identificados com poder explicativo e preditivo do desempenho académico, nomeadamente os fatore...
Serious games are starting to attain a higher role as tools for learning in various contexts, but in particular in areas such as education and training. Due to its characteristics, such as rules, behavior simulation and feedback to the player's actions, serious games provide a favorable learning environment where errors can occur without real life penalty and students get instant feedback from challenges. These...
Serious games are games where the entertainment aspect is not the most relevant motivation or objective. TimeMesh is an online, multi-language, multiplayer, collaborative and social game platform for sharing and acquiring knowledge of the history of European regions. As such it is a serious game with educational characteristics. This article evaluates the use of TimeMesh with students of 13 and 14 years-old. It...
With the advent of Web 2.0, new kinds of tools became available, which are not seen as novel anymore but are widely used. For instance, according to Eurostat data, in 2010 32% of individuals aged 16 to 74 used the Internet to post messages to social media sites or instant messaging tools, ranging from 17% in Romania to 46% in Sweden (Eurostat, 2012). Web 2.0 applications have been used in technology-enhanced l...
Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores ; Esta Tese enquadra-se na área de controlo e automação e tem como principal objectivo o desenvolvimento de um sistema de supervisão e controlo de processos dinâmicos com tolerância a falhas. É apresentada uma abordagem para a sua implementação em Controladores Lógicos Programáveis (PLC). Os processos considerados aprese...
Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécn