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- Strategic responses of the family businesses in accommodation industry: lessons for overcoming crisesPublication . Crespo, Nuno Fernandes; Crespo, Cátia Fernandes; Calado, MariaPurpose – The purpose of this study is threefold: 1) to examine the relevance of specific strategic orientations for family businesses in the context of an intense crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic; 2) to investigate the role of a family adaptability in surviving the crisis; and 3) to assess how proactive strategic responses connected with marketing or retrenchment responses connected with reducing costs relate to the expected survival of the crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The method adopted is a quantitative research approach. The theoretical framework uses a partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for the data collected from an online survey of a sample of 544 family businesses in the accommodation industry. Findings – This paper makes three main findings. First, family businesses that invest in operational marketing actions as a strategic response to the crisis have a high expectation of surviving the crisis. Second, family businesses that reduce their operational and labor costs as a strategic response have a low expectation of surviving the crisis. Third, the family business’s adaptability is also fundamental to their expectation of survival. Originality/value – This is the first paper to identify the possible reactions of family businesses to the COVID-19 crisis. the authors show that there are proactive or retrenchment strategic responses, and the authors relate those responses to the expectancy of surviving the crisis. This is also the first study to examine the relevance of family adaptability as a measure of the resilience of family businesses and, therefore, as a determinant of the expectation of surviving the crisis.
- Self-Refereeing System in Ultimate during the Joint Junior Ultimate Championship in Three Different Divisions A Different Way to Promote Fair-Play?Publication . Amoroso, José Pedro; Coelho, Luís Pedro Inácio; Papp, Henrietta; Costa, Felipe; Christodoulides, Efstathios; Cools, Wouter; Erdosi, Zoltán; Moore Jr., James E.; Furtado, Guilherme EustáquioIn ultimate games governed by the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF), all competitors also take on the role of referee. The players discuss disputed calls with each other during the game, and then follow rules designed for these situations to determine how the play continues. The number one rule of the sport is to respect the spirit of the game (SOTG), which encourages competitive play while preserving mutual respect and minimizing the risk of injury. The use of SOTG in ultimate in the framework of self-arbitration as a moral practice aligns well with other tools of critical pedagogy. For this study, the SOTG scores of the WFDF Joint Junior Ultimate Championship (JJUC 2022) were analyzed. A total of 1009 players from 19 countries competed in 434 self-refereed games (29 national teams in the WJUC Under-20 (U20) tournament and 20 teams in the EYUC Under-17 (U17) tournament). All the scores from the individual criteria correlated well with the overall scores, but for the most part, they did not correlate with each other. Our experience with the scoring system has highlighted the importance of participants understanding the meaning of the results and how they may lead to a constructive reflection to improve exceptions, including scores representing fouls and rules knowledge. The findings provide important information for physical education teachers, coaches, and sport consultants and may be of use to design SOTG programs that could foster the experience of sportsmanship and to facilitate the ethical conduct of athletes in either recreative or in competitive contexts.
- Fractional gradient methods via ψ-Hilfer derivativePublication . Vieira, N.; Rodrigues, M. M.; Ferreira, M.Motivated by the increasing of practical applications in fractional calculus, we study the classical gradient method under the perspective of the ψ-Hilfer derivative. This allows us to cover in our study several definitions of fractional derivatives that are found in the literature. The convergence of the ψ-Hilfer continuous fractional gradient method is studied both for strongly and non-strongly convex cases. Using a series representation of the target function, we develop an algorithm for the ψ-Hilfer fractional order gradient method. The numerical method obtained by truncating higher-order terms was tested and analyzed using benchmark functions. Considering variable order differentiation and optimizing the step size, the ψ-Hilfer fractional gradient method shows better results in terms of speed and accuracy. Our results generalize previous works in the literature.
- The influence of storytelling on the consumer–brand relationship experiencePublication . Crespo, Cátia Fernandes; Ferreira, Alcina Gaspar; Cardoso, Ricardo MoitaThe main purpose of this research is to explore the strategic role of storytelling as a facilitator of the consumer–brand relationship experience through the creation of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural responses. The hypotheses are tested with a dataset of survey data from 323 Portuguese consumers using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Based on social identity theory, the findings show that storytelling improves consumers’ cognitive responses through consumer–brand identification and stimulates consumers’ emotional responses through brand affective involvement. Moreover, storytelling stimulates behavioural responses through purchase intention, via the mediating role of consumers’ cognitive and emotional responses. The results also show that storytelling generates stronger emotional than cognitive responses, but cognitive responses have stronger effects on behavioural responses. This research contributes to the literature on the strategic role of storytelling in brand management by demonstrating that storytelling is an effective way of improving the consumer–brand relationship experience.
- Afonso Lopes Vieira: do património paisagístico do Pinhal d’el-Rei à Casa do Distrito de LeiriaPublication . Nobre, CristinaPartindo da ideia pioneira de Raul Proença e do Guia de Portugal, Afonso Lopes Vieira [ALV] participa no 2.º volume, de 1927, com artigos sobre Alcobaça, o Pinhal de Leiria e S. Pedro de Moel, incluído e participante numa moderna promoção cultural e ambiental da região de turismo do distrito de Leiria. A partir dessa data, ALV intervém na maior parte dos eventos culturais destinados a dar a conhecer, fortalecer e proteger as particularidades patrimoniais e turísticas da zona territorial – por ele definida como o coração de Portugal. Este programa promocional acabaria por se consubstanciar na Casa do Distrito de Leiria, à qual presidiu entre 1938 e 1946, e cujas atividades tiveram o seu apogeu em 1943 com o I Congresso das Actividades do Distrito de Leiria. A presente comunicação procura dar conta do trajeto pioneiro deste escritor no reconhecimento das potencialidades patrimoniais e turísticas da região de Leiria, nomeadamente o Pinhal d’El-Rei ou Mata Nacional de Leiria, passando pelas suas intervenções na Casa do Distrito de Leiria, refletindo sobre o modo como foi aproveitado no Ano Europeu do Património Cultural, em 2018 (cf. https://www.cm-leiria.pt/cmleiria/uploads/writer_file/document/3075/PROGRAMAC_A_O_CULTURAL_CMLEIRIA_2018_low.pdf ).
- Nem menos, nem mais: leituras e escritas sustentáveisPublication . Nobre, CristinaPretende dar-se conta de dois percursos diferentes para enfrentar dificuldades específicas de cariz diverso: a de alunos identificados com o estatuto de Estudantes com Necessidades Educativas Especiais [ENEE] e a de futuros leitores cegos, a necessitarem da linguagem Braille. Inscreve-se, assim, nas temáticas de reforço da literacia tecnológica em indivíduos com necessidades específicas e sensibilização dos Educadores / Professores para a necessidade de recursos acessíveis e educação inclusiva. As observações e os casos tomados como objeto de análise referem-se às atividades letivas da Unidade Curricular [UC] de Literatura para a Infância, do 2.º ano do curso de Educação Básica, no semestre ímpar do ano letivo de 2022-23: não são mencionados nomes reais dos estudantes (ou outros intervenientes), para cumprir na íntegra as normas de proteção de identidade.
- Changes in Clinical Training for Nursing Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping ReviewPublication . Lobão, Catarina; Coelho, Adriana; Parola, Vitor; Neves, Hugo; Pereira Sousa, Joana; Gonçalves, Rui(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has cost social, economic, cultural, and educational life, distressing nursing training and practice. This study aimed to map the literature on changes in clinical training for nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2) Methods: A scoping review was conducted according to JBI methodology’s latest guidance. A set of relevant electronic databases and grey literature was searched to report results published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. (3) Results: A total of 12 studies were included in the study, addressing changes in clinical training in undergraduate nursing students due to COVID-19 pandemic activity, published between 2020 and 2022. (4) Conclusions: Nursing schools made an effort to replace traditional clinical training with several activities, primarily based on simulation or virtual activities. However, contact with others is essential, and simulation programs or scenarios cannot provide it.
- “Looking beyond Mental Health Stigma”: An Online Focus Group Study among Senior Undergraduate Nursing StudentsPublication . Valentim, Olga; Moutinho, Lídia; Laranjeira, Carlos; Querido, Ana; Tomás, Catarina; Longo, João; Carvalho, Daniel; Gomes, João; Morgado, Tânia; Correia, TâniaEvidence highlights the need for professionals to be aware of their stigmatizing attitudes and discriminatory practices in order to minimize the negative impact on the people they take care of. However, nursing students’ perceptions of these issues have been poorly studied. This study explores the perspective of senior undergraduate nursing students on mental health and the stigma around it, by considering a simulated case vignette of a person with a mental health problem. A descriptive qualitative approach was chosen and involved three online focus group discussions. The findings show various manifestations of stigma, both at an individual and collective level, which indicates that it is an obstacle to the wellbeing of people with mental illness. Individual manifestations of stigma concern its effect on the person with mental illness, while at the collective level they concern the family or society in general. Stigma is a multifactorial, multidimensional, and complex concept, in terms of identifying and fighting it. Thus, the strategies identified involve multiple approaches at the individual level, aimed at the patient and family, namely through education/training, communication, and relationship strategies. At the collective level, to intervene with the general population and specific groups, such as groups of young people, strategies suggested include education/training, use of the media, and contact with people with mental disorders as ways to fight stigma.
- Solutions for the commercialization challenges of Horizon Europe and earth observation consortia: co-creation, innovation, decision-making, tech-transfer, and sustainability actionsPublication . Lages, Luis Filipe; Catarino, Nuno; Gomes, Emanuel; Toh, Peter; Reis-Marques, Carlos; Mohr, Mario; Borde, Sebastian Max; Asgari, Omid; Figueiredo, Ronnie; Grosso, Nuno; Perez, David; Ponte, Ana; Lopes Teixeira, Sílvia; Van Der Schalie, Robin; Fantin, Daniele; Van Brusselen, Jo; Taravat, Alireza; Schmidt, GerdEuropean Community (EC) Horizon-funded projects and Earth Observation-based Consortia aim to create sustainable value for Space, Land, and Oceans. They typically focus on addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many of these projects (e.g. Commercialization and Innovation Actions) have an ambitious challenge to ensure that partners share core competencies to simultaneously achieve technological and commercial success and sustainability after the end of the EC funds. To achieve this ambitious challenge, Horizon projects must have a proper governance model and a systematized process that can manage the existing paradoxical tensions involving numerous European partners and their respective agendas and stakeholders. This article presents the VCW-Value Creation Wheel (Lages in J Bus Res 69: 4849–4855, 2016), as a framework that has its roots back in 1995 and has been used since 2015 in the context of numerous Space Business, Earth Observation, and European Community (EC) projects, to address complex problems and paradoxical tensions. In this article, we discuss six of these paradoxical tensions that large Horizon Consortia face in commercialization, namely when managing innovation ecosystems, co-creating, taking digitalization, decision-making, tech-transfer, and sustainability actions. We discuss and evaluate how alliance partners could find the optimal balance between (1) cooperation, competition, and coopetition perspectives; (2) financial, environmental, and social value creation; (3) tech-push and market-pull orientations; (4) global and local market solutions; (5) functionality driven and human-centered design (UX/UI); (6) centralized and decentralized online store approaches. We discuss these challenges within the case of the EC H2020 NextLand project answering the call for greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We analyze NextLand Online Store, and its Business and Innovation Ecosystem while considering the input of its different stakeholders, such as NextLand’s commercial team, service providers, users, advisors, EC referees, and internal and external stakeholders. Preliminary insights from a twin project in the field of Blue Economy (EC H2020 NextOcean), are also used to support our arguments. Partners, referees, and EC officers should address the tensions mentioned in this article during the referee and approval processes in the pre-grant and post-grant agreement stages. Moreover, we propose using the Value Creation Wheel (VCW) method and the VCW meta-framework as a systematized process that allows us to co-create and manage the innovation ecosystem while engaging all the stakeholders and presenting solutions to address these tensions. The article concludes with theoretical implications and limitations, managerial and public policy implications, and lessons for Horizon Europe, earth observation, remote sensing, and space business projects.
- A influência do exercício físico e da atividade física na qualidade de vida e bem-estar de pessoas com artrite reumatoidePublication . Ferreira, Cátia Alexandra Ribeiro; Amaro, Nuno Miguel Pires AlvesIntrodução: A artrite reumatoide é uma doença autoimune que se manifesta por surtos e provoca erosão articular, sinovite, distensão capsular e fraqueza ligamentar, causando limitações na execução de atividades simples, interferindo diretamente na qualidade de vida e bem-estar destas pessoas. Por isso, a promoção da qualidade de vida e bem-estar nestes doentes é fundamental sendo o exercício físico um método capaz de potenciar estes indicadores e melhorar o estado de saúde geral. Objetivo: Pretendeu-se analisar a importância e a influência que o exercício físico e a atividade física têm na qualidade de vida e bem-estar de pessoas com artrite reumatoide. Método: Trata-se de um estudo de revisão em que foram incluídos 18 artigos redigidos em inglês e publicados entre 2008 e 2022 nas bases de dados Pubmed, Web of Science e Sportdiscus. Foram selecionadas intervenções de exercício físico e atividade física, inquéritos sobre a prática de atividade física, estudo-caso e análises do perfil de atividade física de doentes com artrite reumatoide e, a qualidade metodológica foi medida através da checklist Downs & Black. Os participantes são indivíduos com idades compreendidas entre os 28 e os 63 anos com diagnóstico de artrite reumatoide. Resultados: A prática de exercício físico e atividade física são primordiais para a melhoria da qualidade de vida e bem-estar de doentes com artrite reumatoide, sem exacerbação da doença. Em particular os programas de exercício físico que combinam exercício aeróbio com exercício de resistência dos principais grupos musculares revelaram-se especialmente úteis. Conclusão: Verifica-se a existência de evidência científica que permite concluir acerca da importância de incluir no tratamento da artrite reumatoide o exercício físico, pois este promove a função geral na artrite reumatoide e sem efeitos prejudiciais na atividade da doença, parâmetros inflamatórios, dor, entre outros. Deve recomendar-se incluir na terapêutica quotidiana destes doentes a prática de exercício físico e de atividade física.