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UID/CED/04748/2020 The II International Congress - CIEQV is the consequence of the development of the center’s strategic plan, which aims to increase scientific production in the field of quality of life. The communication of the science carried out configures a relevant social approach for public scientific research institutions. This congress aims above all to make available the knowledge acquired on the subject of quality of life, aiming to transfer to society and citizens the information applied to their way of life. We consider the highlights of the congress to be the discussion at roundtables on two fracturing themes, inclusion and urbanism associated with the quality of life of citizens. The conferences are multidisciplinary, addressing topics such as children’s education and sports participation, sustainable agriculture and self-care, all of them related to citizens’ quality of life. The proposed papers reflect the diverse research paradigms of this multidisciplinary and thematic center: studies on the educational contexts of youth and children; on the inclusion of people with disabilities; research focused on food products and sustainable behaviors; approaches to sports training, athlete performances, physical activity practice; exploration of research on the motor behavior of children and youth; study of sustainability in organizations; research focused on quality of life in the different stages of human life; etc. This diverse approach demonstrates the complexity of the social phenomenon under study. Researchers search the connection between some variables and their interrelationship. In this way, the research produced gets closer to the ecological and social reality, transferring itself to human practices towards a better and healthy quality of life. This II International Congress - CIEQV is another initiative for the challenges of research in Quality of Life. I take this opportunity to thank the institutions that support us, the organizers of the event and the researchers who share their knowledge, from the perspective of open science and available to society. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

This paper presents two novel approaches for uncertainty estimation adapted and extended for the multi-link bus travel time problem. The uncertainty is modeled directly as part of recurrent artificial neural networks, but using two fundamentally different approaches: one based on Deep Quantile Regression and the other on Bayesian neural network. Both approaches use a recurrent neural network to predict multiple time steps into the future, but handle the time-dependent uncertainty estimation differently. We present a novel sampling technique in order to aggregate quantile estimates for link level travel time to yield the multi-link travel time distribution needed for a vehicle to travel from its current position to a specific downstream stop point or transfer site.To motivate the relevance of uncertainty-aware models in the domain, we focus on the connection protection application as a case study: An expert system to determine whether a bus driver should hold and wait for a connecting service, thus ensuring the connection, or break the connection and reduce its own delay. Our results show that the proposed quantile sampling method performs overall best for the 80%, 90% and 95% prediction intervals, both for a 15 min time horizon into the future (𝑡 + 1), but also for the 30 and 45 min time horizon (𝑡+ 2 and 𝑡+ 3), with a constant, but very small underestimation of the uncertainty interval (1–4 pp.). However, we also show, that the Bayesian model still can outperform the DQR for specific cases. Lastly, we demonstrate how a simple decision support system can take advantage of our uncertainty-aware travel time models to prioritize the difference in travel time uncertainty for bus holding at strategic points, thus reducing the introduced delay for the connection protection application.

When two distinguished professors get together to tell us one hundred stories with the purpose of helping us to be happier, we should pay attention. In addition to the scientific demonstration that storytelling enhances behavior change, the authors make this change occur through physical activity, which responds more effectively to the challenges that the modern world poses to us. Starting from the theoretical/scientific knowledge of the benefits of physical activity for our happiness and choosing storytelling as a privileged mechanism to instill this behavioral change, Filipe Rodrigues and Pedro Morouço manage to take us on a journey down the memory lane, in which we come across stories we heard as children, transporting us to a time when it was so much easier to be physically active. At the end of the journey through the one hundred stories told in this book, we arrive at a destination called happiness. The pedagogical way in which each story is presented and the moral complement to it, lead us to a world of fables and allegories, easily understood by everyone and which compels us to have a more ethically responsible and physically active attitude. By pointing happiness as a destiny, Rodrigues and Morouço follow in the noble footsteps, for example, of America´s founding fathers when, in the Declaration of Independence, they state that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” When I accepted the honorable invitation to write these brief lines that serve as a preface to the book “Storytelling for Behavior Change in physical activity”, I thought, from what I knew about the quality of the authors, that I would have the privilege of reading a magnificent book before other people. Now, with the book already read, I just want to share it and to advise everyone to read it, so that they can have the same privilege that I had. The privilege was not having read it before the others. The privilege, now in range of everybody, is only to read the book. Believing that happiness is a feeling that grows as it is shared, I hope that many can read this book so that we can all share the happiness that a lifestyle that combines a more active physical behavior and a more responsible moral attitude brings us. To all who have read this preface to the end, I ask you to do yourselves a favor: read and share this book and, therefore, just be happy! info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

The aim of this article is to analyze the expansion of the global market of private military companies in the field of cyber operations and to reflect on the possibility of State responsibility for the actions of these non-state actors. From a methodological point of view, the research has an exploratory character, since it deals with a topic that has been understudied in the literature. The technique used includes a bibliographic review based on academic articles and international documents. The article is divided into two parts. The first part highlights the expansion of the use of communications and information technologies and the emergence of private military companies in cybersecurity. The second part discusses the possibilities of holding states accountable for cyber operations conducted by private military companies. As a partial result, the emergence of a global market of private military companies in cybersecurity could be observed. The attribution of state responsibility in the case of cyber operations conducted by private actors can be analyzed from three perspectives: technical, political, and legal. As for the legal perspective, the literature points to divergences between the application of the theories of effective control and overall control.

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease and one of few trinucleotide repeat disorders. HD is the result of an abnormal expansion of a DNA segment known as CAG. This expansion occurs within the huntingtin gene (HTT), causing the encoding of a mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT). This appears to be toxic to neuronal cells and can lead to nerve cell damage. Many antibodies have been developed to target HTT, aiding HD research. However, there are problems in the lack of information on their validation status and key attributes. This review aims to cover the validation status and attribute information of all current antibodies raised against mHTT.

Competitive sports involve physiological, technical and psychological skills, which influence directly on individuals’ performance. This study aims to investigate the levels of perceived stress and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) before and after matches with victory and defeat in professional eSports athletes. Our hypothesis was that the winners would have better autonomic and stress responses after match, thus corroborating the literature on neurocardiac connections. Fifty male eSport players were selected players from 10 different Brazilian teams. The experiment was carried out in 2 sessions. Firstly, after signing the informed consent form, 24 h before the game, anthropometric, physical activity levels and time of expertise data were recorded only for sample characterization and the players were familiarized with the perceived stress scale—10 (PSS-10) and the HRV measurements. Secondly, players performed the PSS-10 and HRV recording at rest by 10 min 60 and 30 min before the game (i.e., baseline time) and 10 min after the end of the game. Overall, concerning PSS-10 our findings show that VG had significant reduced scores in post-game time compared to baseline (BL) and pre-game times, while DG had significant increased scores in post-game time compared to BL and pre-game times. Regarding HRV, our results demonstrate that VG had significant increase in RR, SDNN, rMSSD, pNN50 and HF, and significant decrease in LF and LF/HF, while DG had a significant decrease in RR, SDNN, rMSSD and HF, and significant increase in LF and LF/HF. It was observed that VG had better HRV responses (greater parasympathetic activation) as well as lower levels of perceived stress, while DG had worst HRV responses (greater sympathetic activation) and higher levels of perceived stress. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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