The Risk Management Index, RMI, brings together a group of indicators that measure risk management performance and effectiveness. These indicators reflect the organizational, development, capacity and institutional actions taken to reduce vulnerability and losses, to prepare for crisis and to recover efficiently from disasters. This index was designed to assess risk management “performance”. It...

Serious Games rely on interactive systems to provide an efficient communication medium between the tutor and the user. Designing and implementing such medium is a multi-disciplinary task that aims at an environment that engages the user in a learning activity. User engagement is significantly related to the users’ sense of immersion or his willingness to accept the reality proposed by a game en...

1 Department of Chemistry, Mathematics Unit, ISEL-High Institute of Engineering of Lisbon, rua Conselheiro Emı́dio Navarro 1, 1959-007 Lisbon, Portugal 2 Research Centre in Mathematics and Applications (CIMA), University of Evora, rua Romão Ramalho 59, 7000-671 Evora, Portugal 3 Department of Mathematics, Centre of Mathematical Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems, Instituto Superior Técnico...

1 Professor, University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, Universiteti, Kosovo; 2 Researcher, LNEC, Portugal; cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and University of Azores, Faculty of Agrarian and Environmental Sciences, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal; 3 Researcher, CEF Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, P...

Ricardo Loura, Álvaro J. Almeida, Paulo S. André, Armando N. Pinto, Paulo Mateus and Nikola Paunković1,2,∗ SQIG – Instituto de Telecomunicações, IST-TU Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal Department of Mathematics, IST, Technical University of Lisbon, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Avei...

S. M. Oliveira Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056 Lisbon, Portugal and MedicalConsult, SA, Campo Grande, 56-88A, 1700-093 Lisbon, Portugal N. J. Teixeira Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056 Lisbon, Portugal and Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Institu...

Vasco Herédia1,2, Miguel Ramalho1,3, Sérgio Duarte4, Rafael O.P. de Campos1, Mateus Hernandez1, Nuno Jalles Tavares5 and Richard C. Semelka1 1Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 2Department of Radiology, Hospital Espírito Santo, Évora, 3Department of Radiology, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Lisbon, 4Department of Radiology, Hospital da Luz, Lisbon, 5Cas...

In March 2000, the European Council in Lisbon set out a ten-year strategy to make the EU the world's most dynamic and competitive economy. One of the main priority areas in the Lisbon strategy or Lisbon agenda (as it is sometimes known) is to increase investments in knowledge, research, and education, both by governments and by enterprises. Increasing such investment has remained one of the mos...