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Amuno, S. A. (2013). Potential Ecological Risk of Heavy Metal Distribution in Cemetery Soils. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 224(2), 1435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1435-2

In this paper, preliminary investigation was conducted to evaluate the potential ecological risk of heavy metals contamination in cemetery soils. Necrosol samples were collected from within and around the vicinity of the largest mass grave in Rwanda and analyzed for heavy metal concentrations using total digestion–inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and instrumental neutron activation analysis. Based on the concentrations of As, Cu, Cr, Pb, and Zn, the overall contamination degree (Cdeg) and potential ecological risks status (RI) of the necrosols were determined. The preliminary results revealed that the associated cemetery soils are only contaminated to a low degree. On the other hand, assessment of the potential ecological risk index (RI) revealed that cumulative heavy metal content of the soil do not pose any significant ecological risks. These findings, therefore, suggest that, while cemetery soils may be toxic due to the accumulation of certain heavy metals, their overall ecological risks may be minimal and insignificant.

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Barbosa, A., & Cordeiro, J. (2013). Monitoring Temporal Personal Information Regarding Soundscapes and Movement, as a Way to Enhance Social Interactions. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID).

Barbosa, A., & Martins, L. (2013). NIME Education at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University / CITAR. Proceedings of the Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering (LaTiCE) Conference.

Barbosa, A., Pestana, P., & Reiss, J. (2013). Loudness Measurement of Multitrack Audio Content Using Modifications of ITU-R BS.1770. Proceedings of the 134th Audio Engineerg Soceity Convention.

Berglund, A. (2013). Message from general chairs. Proceedings - 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, LaTiCE 2013, Query date: 2023-04-11 19:43:09, 9–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/LaTiCE.2013.4

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Cordeiro, J., & Barbosa, A. (2013). Soundscape-Sensing in Social Networks. Proceedings of AIA-DAGA 2013 Conference on Acoustic; Merano, Italy.

Cordeiro, J., Barbosa, A., & Santos, A. (2013). A Soundscape Assessment Tool Based On A Massive Multichannel Loudspeaker Setup. Proceedings of Echopolis-Days of Sound 2013: Sounds, Noise and Music for Re-Thinking Sustainable City and Econeighborhood.

Correia, A., & Marques, T. (2013). Prospects and pitfalls of being a good communicator: Contemplating the career choices of female students in Macau. 8th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. http://www.ied.edu.hk/asahkconf/view.php?secid=3773

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Joaquim-Fernandes, V., & Barbosa, A. (2013). Are Luminous Devices Helping Musicians to Produce Better Aural Results, or Just Helping Audiences Not To Get Bored. Proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (XCOAX 2013).

Martins, L. G., & Barbosa, A. (2013). NIME education at the school of arts of the portuguese catholic university/CITAR. Proceedings - 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, LaTiCE 2013, 237–238. https://doi.org/10.1109/LaTiCE.2013.50

Morais, I. (2013). Darwinism, Freemasonry and print culture: The construction of identity of the Macanese colonial elites in the late nineteenth century. In Macao - The Formation of a Global City. Routledge.

In his most quoted study Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson argues that the invention of the printing press and the rise of print media contributed to a textual representation of the concept of the nation and nationalism. He states that ‘popular’ print culture was also crucial in its contribution to a global exchange that would have reinforced the idea of an ‘imagined community’.1 Anderson further explains that before the eighteenth century, the concept of nation was extensive, as Latin was the language of a broad, vast, imagined community called ‘Christendom’, but as there were changes in the religious communities, such a concept began to be replaced by French and English as vernacular languages of administrative centralization.2 Thus, print capitalism allied to the book market supported by the improvement of communications and the emergence of new and diverse forms of national languages, originated the creation of clusters of small creole ‘imagined political communities’ that were eager to promote new forms of national and cultural consciousness, aimed at widespread literacy through liens of kinship, ethnicity, fraternity, and power loyalties.3 This chapter posits that Anderson's arguments regarding creole nationalism in the new world, fit the particular case of the emergence of the printing, publishing and book-selling culture among a Euro-creole bourgeoisie from Macao with solid kinship, ethnic, commercial and social connections in Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai and other littoral spaces in the treaty ports in East Asia, and takes these developments as a necessary point of departure. I argue that they used the widespread nature of print media to empower themselves and other community members with the progressive eighteenth-century Enlightenment ideas on rational scientific knowledge. They embraced atheism and anti-clericalism as important elements of enlightenment, thus promoting scientific culture, constitutional monarchy or republican forms of government, social mobility for ethnic minorities, and religious and intellectual tolerance that to a certain extent challenged the Catholic Church and conservative circles.

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Pestana, P., Reiss, J., Ma, Z., & Barbosa, A. (2013). Spectral Characteristics of Popular Commercial Recordings 1950-2010. Proceedings of the 135th AES Convention.

Simões, J. M. (2013). Os índios potiguara: memória, asilo e poder (1a edição). Editora Media XXI.

Schulte, C., Hornung, M., Sentance, S., Dagiene, V., Jevsikova, T., Thota, N., Eckerdal, A., & Peters, A.-K. (2012). Computer science at school/CS teacher education: Koli working-group report on CS at school. Proceedings of the 12th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/2401796.2401800

In an international study, experts reflected on their national state of computer science education in school, and the associated situation and education of computer science teachers. While these situations are shaped by local circumstances, they are also shaped by changes in the discipline. The results of the study showed a number of recurrent themes and patterns such as curriculum difficulties, training and support for teachers, as well as the understanding (e.g. computer science vs. information technology) and relevance of computer science. The study also draws attention to initiatives that are being undertaken at the local and international levels to solve these problems. Finally, the study points out trends which are -- according to the experts asked -- likely to occur within the next few years.

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Soares, N. (2012). Shaped by use. Urban space appropriation in Macau. Morfologia Urbana nos Países Lusófonos. Actas da Conferência Internacional, 274–276. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/3633

The contemporary city is a complex system where a multitude of factors and dwellers interact, creating a multi-layered spatial structure that supports the urban life. To successfully research and intervene in this context, one needs to develop fitting approaches and methods to be able to analyze it in depth.

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Barbosa, A., Makelberge, N., Perrota, A., & Ferreira, L. S. (2012). Perfect Take: Experience Design and New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Proceedings of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2012).

Barbosa, A., Pestana, P., & Reiss, J. (2012). Accuracy of ITU-R BS.1770 Algorithm in Evaluating Multi-track Material. Proceedings of the 133rd Audio Engineerg Soceity Convention.

Cordeiro, J., Baltazar, A., & Barbosa, A. (2012). Murky shooting: The use of auditory (non-speech) feedback on mobile audiogames. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 40–43. https://doi.org/10.1145/2371456.2371462

Correia, A., & Marques, A. (2012). The gender gap in science, engineering, technology & mathematics: unfolding traditional mindsets. 6070–6078.

Found, A., Cheong, H. I., & Duarte, C. (2012). Negative affect among undergraduates: Why are higher levels reported by Asian students?: Negative affect in Asian undergraduates. Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, 4(3), 210–218. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-5872.2012.00193.x

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