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Diakité, A. D. (2010). Aid to Infrastructure Development in Sub Saharan Africa: An Assessment of China Financing Approaches. In China-Africa: New Types of Exchange, Cultural Identity and Emerging Relations in a Globalized World (pp. 205–227). Saint Joseph Academic Press.
Porschitz, E. T., Guo, C., & Alves, J. (2012). “Going through the mist”: early career transitions of Chinese Millennial returnees. In E. Ng, S. Lyons, & L. Schweitzer, Managing the New Workforce (pp. 86–106). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857933010.00010
Rato, R., & Davey, G. (2012). Quality of Work Life in Macau. In H. Selin & G. Davey (Eds.), Happiness Across Cultures: Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western Cultures (pp. 95–106). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7_7

This chapter explores Quality of Work Life (QWL) in Macau. We investigate the meanings and importance of QWL and its implications in terms of happiness and business performance. Although QWL is central to people’s lives, research on this topic is still in its infancy in Macau. Our interviews revealed three salient themes of QWL: Work context, the perceived benefits and demands of the job; Organization, mainly work environment and factors within the organizational context mediating QWL; and the implications of QWL on overall living and happiness.
Davey, G., & Rato, R. (2014). Macau, Quality of Life. In A. C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 3737–3740). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3953
Carreiras, H., & Leandro, F. J. (2018). Obediência militar, liberdade e consciência, Ética Aplicada: Política, Edições 70, (pp. 339–364).
Leandro, F. J. (2018). The OBOR Global Geopolitical Drive: The Chinese Access Security Strategy -. In Julien Chaisse and Jędrzej Górski (Ed.), Law, Economics, and Politics (pp. 83–106). Brill. https://brill.com/view/ti-tle/38740
Leandro, F. J. B. S. (2018). The OBOR geopolitical drive: the Chinese access security Strategy. In J. C. and L. Nottage (Ed.), The Belt and Road Initiative Law, Economics, and Politics. Brill.
Lobo-Marques, J. Al. (2018). Artificial intelligence and forensic computing. In Forensic Computing.
Lei, W. C. (2020). The Road to Service Export Diversification: Gambling and Convention in Macao. In E. Lau, B. Simonetti, I. Trinugroho, & L. M. Tan (Eds.), Economics and Finance Readings: Selected Papers from Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance, 2019. Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2906-1

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the APEF 2019 conference which was held on 25th and 26th July 2019 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront in Singapore. With a great number of submissions, it presents the latest research findings in economics and finance and discusses relevant issues in today's world. The book is a useful resource for readers who want access to economics, finance and business research focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.
Marques, J. A. L., Gois, F. N. B., Xavier-Neto, J., & Fong, S. J. (2020). Artificial Intelligence Prediction for the COVID-19 Data Based on LSTM Neural Networks and H2O AutoML. In Predictive Models for Decision Support in the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 69–87). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61913-8_5
Marques, J. A. L., Gois, F. N. B., Xavier-Neto, J., & Fong, S. J. (2020). Epidemiology Compartmental Models—SIR, SEIR, and SEIR with Intervention. In Predictive Models for Decision Support in the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 15–39). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61913-8_2
Marques, J. A. L., Gois, F. N. B., Xavier-Neto, J., & Fong, S. J. (2020). Forecasting COVID-19 Time Series Based on an Autoregressive Model. In Predictive Models for Decision Support in the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 41–54). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61913-8_3
Marques, J. A. L., Gois, F. N. B., Xavier-Neto, J., & Fong, S. J. (2020). Nonlinear Prediction for the COVID-19 Data Based on Quadratic Kalman Filtering. In Predictive Models for Decision Support in the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 55–68). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61913-8_4
Marques, J. A. L., Gois, F. N. B., Xavier-Neto, J., & Fong, S. J. (2020). Predicting the Geographic Spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study from Brazil. In Predictive Models for Decision Support in the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 89–98). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61913-8_6
Marques, J. A. L., Gois, F. N. B., Xavier-Neto, J., & Fong, S. J. (2020). Prediction for Decision Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Predictive Models for Decision Support in the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 1–13). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61913-8_1
Phillips, J. O. L. (2021). Ritual and the Sacred in Peter Shaffer’s Theatre. In Sacred and the Everyday: Comparative approaches to literature, religious and secular (pp. 137–150). University of Saint Joseph.
Bernardo Gois, F. N., Lima, A., Santos, K., Oliveira, R., Santiago, V., Melo, S., Costa, R., Oliveira, M., Henrique, F. das C. D. M., Neto, J. X., Martins Rodrigues Sobrinho, C. R., & Lôbo Marques, J. A. (2021). Predictive models to the COVID-19. In U. Kose, D. Gupta, V. H. C. de Albuquerque, & A. Khanna (Eds.), Data Science for COVID-19 (pp. 1–24). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824536-1.00023-X

Following the World Health Organization proclaims a pandemic due to a disease that originated in China and advances rapidly across the globe, studies to predict the behavior of epidemics have become increasingly popular, mainly related to COVID-19. The critical point of these studies is to discuss the disease's behavior and the progression of the virus's natural course. However, the prediction of the actual number of infected people has proved to be a difficult task, due to a wide range of factors, such as mass testing, social isolation, underreporting of cases, among others. Therefore, the objective of this work is to understand the behavior of COVID-19 in the state of Ceará to forecast the total number of infected people and to aid in government decisions to control the outbreak of the virus and minimize social impacts and economics caused by the pandemic. So, to understand the behavior of COVID-19, this work discusses some forecast techniques using machine learning, logistic regression, filters, and epidemiologic models. Also, this work brings a new approach to the problem, bringing together data from Ceará with those from China, generating a hybrid dataset, and providing promising results. Finally, this work still compares the different approaches and techniques presented, opening opportunities for future discussions on the topic. The study obtains predictions with R2 score of 0.99 to short-term predictions and 0.93 to long-term predictions.
Arraut, I., Marques, J. A. L., Fong, S. J., Li, G., Gois, F. N. B., & Neto, J. X. (2022). A Quantum Field Formulation for a Pandemic Propagation. In J. A. L. Marques & S. J. Fong (Eds.), Epidemic Analytics for Decision Supports in COVID19 Crisis (pp. 141–158). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95281-5_6

In this chapter, a mathematical model explaining generically the propagation of a pandemic is proposed, helping in this way to identify the fundamental parameters related to the outbreak in general. Three free parameters for the pandemic are identified, which can be finally reduced to only two independent parameters. The model is inspired in the concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking, used normally in quantum field theory, and it provides the possibility of analyzing the complex data of the pandemic in a compact way. Data from 12 different countries are considered and the results presented. The application of nonlinear quantum physics equations to model epidemiologic time series is an innovative and promising approach.
Fong, S. J., Marques, J. A. L., Li, G., Dey, N., Crespo, R. G., Herrera-Viedma, E., Gois, F. N. B., & Neto, J. X. (2022). Analysis of the COVID19 Pandemic Behaviour Based on the Compartmental SEAIRD and Adaptive SVEAIRD Epidemiologic Models. In J. A. L. Marques & S. J. Fong (Eds.), Epidemic Analytics for Decision Supports in COVID19 Crisis (pp. 17–64). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95281-5_2

A significant number of people infected by COVID19 do not get sick immediately but become carriers of the disease. These patients might have a certain incubation period. However, the classical compartmental model, SEIR, was not originally designed for COVID19. We used the simple, commonly used SEIR model to retrospectively analyse the initial pandemic data from Singapore. Here, the SEIR model was combined with the actual published Singapore pandemic data, and the key parameters were determined by maximizing the nonlinear goodness of fit R2 and minimizing the root mean square error. These parameters served for the fast and directional convergence of the parameters of an improved model. To cover the quarantine and asymptomatic variables, the existing SEIR model was extended to an infectious disease model with a greater number of population compartments, and with parameter values that were tuned adaptively by solving the nonlinear dynamics equations over the available pandemic data, as well as referring to previous experience with SARS. The contribution presented in this paper is a new model called the adaptive SEAIRD model; it considers the new characteristics of COVID19 and is therefore applicable to a population including asymptomatic carriers. The predictive value is enhanced by tuning of the optimal parameters, whose values better reflect the current pandemic.
Fong, S. J., Marques, J. A. L., Li, G., Dey, N., Crespo, R. G., Herrera-Viedma, E., Gois, F. N. B., & Neto, J. X. (2022). The Comparison of Different Linear and Nonlinear Models Using Preliminary Data to Efficiently Analyze the COVID-19 Outbreak. In J. A. L. Marques & S. J. Fong (Eds.), Epidemic Analytics for Decision Supports in COVID19 Crisis (pp. 65–81). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95281-5_3

The COVID-19 pandemic spread generated an urgent need for computational systems to model its behavior and support governments and healthcare teams to make proper decisions. There are not many cases of global pandemics in history, and the most recent one has unique characteristics, which are tightly connected to the current society’s lifestyle and beliefs, creating an environment of uncertainty. Because of that, the development of mathematical/computational models to forecast the pandemic behavior since its beginning, i.e., with a restricted amount of data collected, is necessary. This chapter focuses on the analysis of different data mining techniques to allow the pandemic prediction with a small amount of data. A case study is presented considering the data from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus was first detected, and the place where the major outbreak occurred. The PNN + CF method (Polynomial Neural Network with Corrective Feedback) is presented as the technique with the best prediction performance. This is a promising method that might be considered in future eventual waves of the current pandemic or event to have a suitable model for future epidemic outbreaks around the world.

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