Browsing by Issue Date, starting with "2021-04-27"
Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
Results Per Page
Sort Options
- As cegadas, um teatro de raíz comunitáriaPublication . Frazão, Bruno Alexandre Marcos; Bezelga, Isabel; Wengorovius, RitaPretende-se com esta dissertação perpetuar a tradição carnavalesca das cegadas em Setúbal e lançar o repto para que as mesmas sejam reativadas e novamente incluídas nos festejos carnavalescos da cidade. Outro aspeto que se pretende demonstrar com este estudo é o cariz de Teatro Comunitário que as cegadas apresentam e a forma como as pessoas se reviam e vivenciavam as histórias hilariantes representadas nas cegadas. A importância das cegadas vista como cultura popular e a sua passagem de geração em geração, a tradição oral, a sua comparação com a revista à portuguesa, com as canções de escárnio e maldizer e a sua ligação ao Fado complementam e contextualizam a presente investigação.
- Core Predictors of Debt Specialization: A New Insight to Optimal Capital StructurePublication . Khan, Kanwal Iqbal; Qadeer, Faisal; Mata, Mário Nuno; Neto, José Chavaglia; Sabir, Qurat Ul An; Martins, Jessica Nunes; Filipe, J.A.Debt structure composition is an essential topic of discussion for the management of capital structure decisions. Researchers made extensive efforts to understand the criteria for selecting debts, specifically, to know about the reasons for debt specialization, concealed in identifying its predictors. This question is essential not only for establishing the field of debt structure but also for the financial managers to design corporate financial strategy in a way that leads to attaining an optimal debt structure. Sophisticated financial modeling is applied to identify the core predictors of debt specialization, influencing the strategic choices of optimal debt structure to address this issue. Data were collected from 419 non-financial companies listed at the Karachi Stock Exchange from 2009 to 2015. This study has validated debt specialization by showing that short-term debts maintain their position over the years and remain the most popular type of loan among Pakistani firms. Further, it provides a comprehensive view of the cross-sectional differences among the firms involved in debt specialization by applying a holistic approach. Results show that small, growing, dividend-paying companies, having high expense and risk ratios, followed the debt specialization strategy. This strategy enables firms to reduce their agency conflicts, transaction costs, information asymmetry, risk management and building up their good market reputation. Conclusively, we have identified the gross profit margin, long-term debt to asset ratio, firm size, age, asset tangibility, and long-term industry debt to asset ratio as reliable and core predictors of debt specialization for sustainable business growth.
- Textile rectenna for RF energy harvestingPublication . Silva, Fábio; Almeida, Rita; Gouveia, Carolina; Loss, Caroline; Pinho, Pedro; Belo, DanielWearable devices are part of many people’s lives, however the batteries they need are a major limitation. In order to solve this problem, an energy harvesting system was studied and implemented, to replace the battery usage and thus enhance the device portability. It is composed by two antennas, one for transmitting and the other for receiving, and a rectifier circuit. The system was completely developed in textile, allowing the integration into the user’s clothing.