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Achieving cost benefits in sustainable cooperative housing

The cooperative housing sector is directed at low and medium income residents who cannot afford to buy their homes in the regular private market. Due to social housing legislation, it is possible to build cooperative housing below regular market costs and use tax benefits, therefore providing affordable dwellings to their owners. Traditional cooperative housing used to provide less comfort and higher running co...

Challenges and benefits of building sustainable cooperative housing

This research has the goal of determining, comparing and substantiating the actual outcome of using sustainable practices, from a financial and environmental comfort point of view. The selected context was of interest due to the challenge of quality sustainable construction at controlled costs, meant for inhabitants of the Portuguese cooperative housing, due to its economical implications and especially its soc...

Water reuse for domestic consumption. A key element for environmental and econo...

In a context of increasing social awareness about resources conservation, residential water management is essential in ensuring environmental and economic sustainability. An adequate management is attained with integrated solutions, which simultaneously reduce potable water consumption at least in 25% and enable the storage of recovered water. The recovery and storage of underground water can be ensured with th...

Capview: computer-aided diagnosis for endoscopic capsule

Endoscopic capsule is a rather recent technique that is raising new challenges to biomedical engineers. On one hand, it results on a long clinical video (up to 8h) that needs to be reviewed to reach a diagnosis. On the other hand, the location of events in the gastrointestinal tract and its image characteristics, such as luminance, artefact presence, etc. makes its analysis complex and difficult its interpretat...

“Clica Já” – Educação Sexual em Meio Escolar

A educação sexual tem assumido nas últimas décadas uma importância acrescida, pela tomada de consciência de que é parte integrante do normal desenvolvimento dos jovens adolescentes. As várias instituições envolvidas, famílias, escolas e serviços de saúde, têm despertado para a necessidade de garantir que os jovens adquiram os conhecimentos adequados à adoção de comportamentos saudáveis e seguros. Muitas...

Em busca de novas oportunidades: a auto-eficácia na promoção da aprendizagem ao...

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