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Beyong Mirrors: Research Pathways (CeiDE 2013-2017). (2018). In Attitudes and self-beliefs of ability towards mathematics and science and their effects on career choices: A case study with Macao-Chinese girls.

Education for justice-oriented and participatory citizenship in a politicized era in Hong Kong. (2018). In Handbook of Research on Education for Participative Citizenship and Global Prosperity. Hershey, PA.

Amorim, M. C. P., Vasconcelos, R. O., & Fonseca, P. J. (2015). Fish Sounds and Mate Choice. In F. Ladich (Ed.), Sound Communication in Fishes (pp. 1–33). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1846-7_1

Fish acoustic signals associated with mating behaviour are typically low-frequency sounds produced by males when in close proximity to females. However, some species make sounds that serve the function and follow the design of advertisement calls, well known in insects, anurans, and birds. Close-range courtship acoustic signals may be used by females in mate assessment as they contain information of male quality such as size and condition. For example, sound-dominant frequency, amplitude, and fatigue resistance may signal body size whereas pulse period (i.e. muscle contraction rate) and calling activity are related with body condition in some species. Some signal features, such as sound pulse number, may carry multiple messages including size and condition. Playback experiments on mate choice of a restricted number of species suggest that females prefer vocal to silent males and may use sound frequency, amplitude, and mainly calling rateCalling ratewhen assessing males. The assessment of males by females becomes more challenging when males engage in choruses or when sounds are otherwise masked by anthropogenic noise but almost nothing is known about how these aspects affect mating decisions and fish reproductive success.

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.

Baxter, A. N., & Lopes, N. (2018). Concordância verbal. In Tânia Lobo (ed.) O português escrito por afro-brasileiros no século XIX: atas de reuniões da Sociedade Protetora dos Desvalidos. EDUFBA.

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.

Borges, Vera. (2017). Poesia e navegação: o impacto da história e do mito na definição de uma poética especificamente portuguesa. In De Portugal a Macau. Filosofia e literatura no diálogo das culturas (pp. 294–305). Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras.

Maria Celeste Natário, Renato Epifânio, Carlos Ascenso André, Gonçalo Cordeiro, Inocência Mata, Jorge Rangel, Maria Antónia Espadinha

Cai, T. Y. (2020). Original Sin and Reprobation in Renaissance Thomism: The Cases of Domingo Bañez and John of St. Thomas. In Nos sumus tempora (pp. 433–444). Peeters.

Carreiras, H., & Leandro, F. J. (2018). Obediência militar, liberdade e consciência, Ética Aplicada: Política, Edições 70, (pp. 339–364).

Chau, I. F., Cardoso, J. C. S., & Estadieu, G. (2021). Virtual Guia Fortress: A 3D-printed eXtended Reality Playset. In J. Baalsrud Hauge, J. C. S. Cardoso, L. Roque, & P. A. Gonzalez-Calero (Eds.), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021 (Vol. 13056, pp. 370–376). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_28

Choi, H. H., & Pai, H. (Eds.). (2017). Macau Shaped by Use - Vernacular Customization of the City, in (ed.). In Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities", Seoul Biennale of Srchitecture and Urbanism. Actar.

Conde, Margarida. (2017). Descobrimentos marítimos: miscigenação e preconceito em Senna Fernandes. In Maria Celeste Natário, Renato Epifânio, Carlos Ascenso André, Gonçalo Cordeiro, Inocência Mata, Jorge Rangel, Maria Antónia Espadinha, De Portugal a Macau. Filosofia e literatura no diálogo das culturas (pp. 181–191). Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras.

Correia, A. (2020). A figura feminina na ficção de Senna Fernandes: identidade, subalternidade e agência. In O Macaense. Identidade e cultura e quotidiano (pp. 51–62). Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Correia, A., Fernandes, C., & Maia, J. (2018). Attitudes and self-beliefs of ability towards mathematics and science and their effects on career choices: A case study with Macao-Chinese girls. In Beyong mirrors: Research pathways (CeiDE 2013-2017) (pp. 193–204). Edições Universitárias Lusófonas.

Correia, A., & Ribeiro, X. (2011). Panos, traje e moda em Angola: a linguagem política do corpo. In Lusofonia, Encruzilhadas Culturais, Actas da Conferência sobre Lusofonia. Saint Joseph Academic Press.

Correia, A., & Tchiang, V. M. (2019). Principal perspectives. In Perspectives on Inclusion (pp. 13–31). University of Saint Joseph.

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

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.

Duraj, J. (2020). Re-thinking Chinese Ecumene in the Global Age. In L. Trepanier (Ed.), Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought (pp. 9–27). Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the region. Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought brings together a mixture of established and rising scholars from both Asia and the West to reflect upon the political philosopher’s thought about China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and India. From Voegelin’s writings, readers will not only understand how Voegelin’s approach can illuminate the fundamental principles and issues about Asia but also what are the challenges and possibilities that Asia offers in the twentieth-first century. For those who want to move past the superficial commentary and clichés about Asia, Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought is the book for you.

Espadinha, M. A., & Borges, V. (2018). Inquérito aos estudantes da Universidade de São José: o peso da cultura na aprendizagem das línguas. In Grosso, M.J., A framework in Portuguese as a Foreign Language for Chinese Native Speakers. Univeristy of Macau.

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