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A novel risk-based decision-making paradigm

This paper presents a novel rodent decision-making task that explores uncertainty, independently of expectation and predictability. Using a 5-hole operating box, adult male Wistar rats were given choices between a small certain (safe) food reward and a large uncertain (risk) food reward. We found that animals strongly preferred the safe option when it had a fixed position or was cued with a light in a random pl...

Monetary developments and expansionary fiscal consolidations : evidence from th...

Mestrado em Economia Monetária e Financeira ; This paper provides new insights about the existence of expansionary effects during fiscal consolidations in the Economic and Monetary Union, using annual panel data for 14 European Union countries over the period 1970-2012. Different measures for assessing fiscal consolidations based on the changes in the cyclically adjusted primary balance were calculated. A sim...

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Wiki as a tool for Microbiology teaching, learning and assessment

IntroductionEvidence suggests that cooperative learning and peer-assessment fosters students ability to work with others and may lead to better cognitive outcomes and higher achievement. This work aimed to assess the use of an online collaborative tool for the teaching/learning and assessment of Microbiology.Materials and methodsA total of 144 students were grouped and assigned to create wiki entries as well as...

Repeated dribbling ability in youth soccer : test properties, interrelationship...

The purpose of this study was to develop a repeated dribbling ability (RDA) test for young soccer players. Variability by age groups, association between repeated dribbling and repeated sprints (RSA), and reproducibility of RDA protocol were considered. The sample consisted of 58 young male soccer players (15.98±1.74 years) who were measured in RSA and RDA protocols within the following age groups and according...

Interface de utilizador para um Sistema Logístico de Gestão de Materiais em Amb...

; Os processos de gestão e controlo de fluxos de materiais são componentes cruciais da logística interna das empresas de produção industrial. Da eficácia e eficiência destes processos depende o bom funcionamento das linhas deprodução, a saudável gestão dos stocks e a diminuição doscustos de armazenamento. Estes objectivo...

Significados Scripto-Visuais nos Jornais e Implicações Didáticas

A partir da observação da primeira página impressa de jornais diários e semanários, disponíveis na Internet, procedeu-se à análise da relação texto-imagem como objeto de comunicação scripto-visual. No sentido de compreender melhor a importância desta, sob o ponto de vista didático, empreendeu-se um estudo explorat&o...

El campo ampliado de la ilustración en contemporaneidad. Breves consideraciones...

In this paper, we return once again to the definition of illustration, combining the contributions of visual arts and graphic design. Contributing to the discussion in an open and speculative. We analyze the subject based on the theory, but also on the observed practice in contemporary times. We cross references with the higher education lecturing in the master in Illustration and Animation at Instituto Politéc...

Projecto, montagem e teste de uma unidade modular de detecção de radiação Geige...

Esta dissertação apresenta o estudo e o projecto de uma fonte de alimentação para um detector de radiação Geiger-Muller. A fonte de alimentação tanto pode funcionar com a tensão da rede como pode ser integrada em sistemas de electrónica modular NIM de modo a ser facilmente integrada em qualquer tipo de laboratório. A fonte de alimentação inclui os seguintes módulos: 1) rectificador controlado; 2) conversor boo...

Mismatch negativity in childhood temporal lobe epilepsy: a proposed paradigm fo...

Background: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a neurological disorder that directly affects cortical areas responsible for auditory processing. The resulting abnormalities can be assessed using event-related potentials (ERP), which have high temporal resolution. However, little is known about TLE in terms of dysfunction of early sensory memory encoding or possible correlations between EEGs, linguistic deficits, a...