João Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3705201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | João Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | João |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5123-8244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anticipating uncertainty in infrastructure LCC, LCA, and S-LCA: A systematic, context-aware early identification framework
Uncertainty undermines the reliability of Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) in Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM). Many methods for uncertainty analysis exist, but practitioners often lack systematic guidance to anticipate how uncertainties will unfold in specific assessments and thereby how to manage them. We propose a pre-emptive framework that anchors uncertainty analysis in the …
The effect of a universal, school-based social and emotional learning intervention (passport: (Skills for life) on internalizing symptoms and related outcomes during the transition from childhood to a…
Internalizing mental health difficulties impair quality of life, and their prevalence increases significantly during the transition from childhood to adolescence. This parallel cluster randomized controlled trial examined whether a universal, school-based social and emotional learning intervention (Passport: Skills for Life) could reduce internalizing symptoms and related outcomes compared with the usual school curriculum. Passport is implemented…
An aggregate price for energy services: Useful exergy as an intermediate flow in a two-sector model of the economy
Understanding the role of energy in economic growth has been particularly successful when measuring it as useful exergy with, however, the major shortcoming of treating this (intermediate) flow as a primary factor of production. Here, we solve this issue by conceptualizing the economy with an extended energy macro sector ( E -Sector) encompassing all primary-to-final-to-useful exergy conversions, supplying useful exergy for consumption and as an …
O Diabetes Mellitus E a Insulinoterapia Na Atenção Primária De Saúde: Relato De Experiência
Introdução: O diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DM2) é um problema de saúde pública global, com prevalência crescente, especialmente entre a população idosa. A insulinoterapia subcutânea apresenta desafios de autoadministração para este grupo: dificuldades visuais, motoras, cognitivas e lacunas de conhecimento sobre técnica, conservação e descarte de material, podendo levar a controle glicêmico inadequado e a complicações. A educação em saúde na Atenção …
Data-driven analysis of Urban Heat Island phenomenon based on street typology
This study explores the intricate relationship between diverse street types and the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon - a major urban issue where urban regions are warmer than their rural counterparts due to anthropogenic heat release and absorption by urban structures. UHI leads to increased energy consumption, diminished air quality, and potential health hazards. This research posits that a sample of representative streets (i.e., a few streets…
Tecnologias vestíveis no monitoramento de cardiopatias: Uma revisão de literatura
Introdução: As cardiopatias causam cerca de 30% das mortes no Brasil, representando um desafio para o sistema de saúde pelo elevado custo do tratamento e pela falta de monitoramento contínuo. Tecnologias vestíveis surgem como ferramentas promissoras para o acompanhamento remoto desses pacientes, permitindo detectar precocemente complicações, melhorando sua gestão e engajando os pacientes nos tratamentos. Objetivo: Investigar o impacto dessas tecn…
Participação popular em saúde mental: O Que Pessoas Usuárias Têm a Dizer
Apesar de ser um direito desde a criação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) no Brasil, a participação da população nas políticas públicas de saúde tem sido um desafio. A ideia de desrazão socialmente relacionada a pessoas em sofrimento psíquico faz com que o saber de pessoas usuárias dos serviços de saúde mental seja, por vezes, destituído de possibilidade de contribuição para decisões. O objetivo deste artigo é, através da metodologia participativa…
The realness of fakes: Primary evidence of the effect of deepfake personas on user perceptions in a design task
Deepfakes, realistic portrayals of people that do not exist, have garnered interest in research and industry. Yet, the contributions of deepfake technology to human-computer interaction remain unclear. One possible value of deepfake technology is to create more immersive user personas. To test this premise, we use a commercial-grade service to generate three deepfake personas (DFs). We also create counterparts of the same persona in two tradition…
A comparative analysis of surface and canopy layer urban heat island at the micro level using a data-driven approach
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, which is defined as the temperature differential between inner cities and surrounding areas, has been extensively studied over the past few years to unravel its mechanism and develop mitigation strategies. Nonetheless, two distinct types of temperature can be used to measure UHI, namely, (1) air temperatures, which refer to air temperatures at the canopy layer (CUHI), and (2) surface temperature, which refe…
A comprehensive generalizability assessment of data-driven Urban Heat Island (UHI) models
Data-driven models serve as valuable tools for understanding and tackling the UHI phenomenon that can provide user-friendly platforms for urban planners for incorporating UHI considerations in their decisions. This study aims to assess the generalizability of data-driven UHI models at the street-level resolution, particularly considering various similarity degrees of urban contexts between training and testing cities. Five cities from three count…
Associations of Physical Activity and Television Viewing With Depressive Symptoms of the European Adults
Background: While mentally passive sedentary behavior such as television viewing (TV) is often related with depressive symptoms, some research shows that physical activity (PA) may attenuate this association. Thus, this study aimed to examine the associations between TV, PA, and depressive symptoms, considering sociodemographic covariates. Methods: A sample of 29,285 adults (13,943 men; 15,342 women) with a mean age of 50.9 ± 17.4 years (50.6 ± 1…
Impacts of future climate change on flexible road pavement economics: A life cycle costs analysis of 24 case studies across the United States
Highway agencies are facing pressure for repairing and replacing underfunded and aged road pavement networks that were initially designed for historical climatic conditions. Road pavements must be updated while accounting for the impacts of climate change, which are likely to be exacerbated in the years to come, and with limited budgets. Methodologies and frameworks that help agencies incorporate the long-term effects of climate change on pavemen…
How to bring UHI to the urban planning table? A data-driven modeling approach
While temperature rises in urbanized area there is a growing concern among key decision-makers and urban planners to actively incorporate Urban Heat Island (UHI)-related considerations in their development/design. However, given that the existing models (mainly physics-based) are too complex to use, there is a need for an easy-to-use decision support tool that provides an explicit understanding of the contributions of different urban planning dec…
Development of a bridge circularity assessment framework to promote resource efficiency in infrastructure projects
Given the predominant use of virgin materials and the creation of vast amounts of waste in the construction sector, increasing its resource efficiency could result in a large improvement in overall use of resources. Bridges are a logical target for increasing resource efficiency, not only because of the large amount of materials involved but especially because a considerable number of bridges are demolished because of changing functional demands …
Climate change impacts on asphalt road pavement construction and maintenance: An economic life cycle assessment of adaptation measures in the State of Virginia, United States
Pavement design and management practices must be adapted in response to future climate change. While many studies have attempted to identify different methods to adapt pavements to future climate conditions, the potential economic impacts of the adaptations still remain largely unquantified. This study presents the results of a comprehensive life‐cycle cost analysis (LCCA) aimed at quantifying the potential economic impacts of a climate adaptatio…
Displaying data is not enough: Incorporating User Behavior Transformation in domestic reporting systems
Useful Exergy Is Key in Obtaining Plausible Aggregate Production Functions and Recognizing the Role of Energy in Economic Growth: Portugal 1960–2009
A Bittersweet Recipe: Spaces of Utopia and Imagination in "Harry Potter" Meals
My purpose with this paper will be to analyze how food contributes for the creation of relationships between Harry Potter characters and how it helps readers to evaluate certain spaces and moments within the series itself. The existence of food helps to determine some of the most important interactions between characters of the saga and can be seen as part of the narrative device that makes the plot evolve (for example, the very first encounter o…
Publications on Utopia and Dystopia in the United Kingdom and Ireland (2016–2017)
In the year 2016, fourteen books regarding utopia were published in the United Kingdom, while none was published in Ireland. Taking the year 2017 into consideration, four titles have been published in the United Kingdom, while none has been published in Ireland so far as well. With this review I aim to see how influential utopia has been as a subject in the United Kingdom and Ireland and how significant the number of publications has been. From w…
Escala de perceção dos alunos sobre a sua identificação escolar: Construção e validação
O presente estudo descreve o processo de construção e validação de uma escala que avalia a perceção dos alunos sobre a sua identificação escolar. Os questionários foram aplicados a uma amostra de 1089 alunos do 6 o, 7 o, 9 o e 10o anos de escolaridade (mediana da idade =13 anos) em Portugal continental, a partir da qual foram extraídas duas sub-amostras aleatórias, sem valores missing. Uma sub-amostra foi submetida a análise fatorial exploratória…
Using machine learning methods for disambiguating place references in textual documents
Anticipating uncertainty in infrastructure LCC, LCA, and S-LCA: A systematic, context-aware early identification framework
Uncertainty undermines the reliability of Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) in Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM). Many methods for uncertainty analysis exist, but practitioners often lack systematic guidance to anticipate how uncertainties will unfold in specific assessments and thereby how to manage them. We propose a pre-emptive framework that anchors uncertainty analysis in the …
Using machine learning methods for disambiguating place references in textual documents
Escala de perceção dos alunos sobre a sua identificação escolar: Construção e validação
O presente estudo descreve o processo de construção e validação de uma escala que avalia a perceção dos alunos sobre a sua identificação escolar. Os questionários foram aplicados a uma amostra de 1089 alunos do 6 o, 7 o, 9 o e 10o anos de escolaridade (mediana da idade =13 anos) em Portugal continental, a partir da qual foram extraídas duas sub-amostras aleatórias, sem valores missing. Uma sub-amostra foi submetida a análise fatorial exploratória…
A Bittersweet Recipe: Spaces of Utopia and Imagination in "Harry Potter" Meals
My purpose with this paper will be to analyze how food contributes for the creation of relationships between Harry Potter characters and how it helps readers to evaluate certain spaces and moments within the series itself. The existence of food helps to determine some of the most important interactions between characters of the saga and can be seen as part of the narrative device that makes the plot evolve (for example, the very first encounter o…
Publications on Utopia and Dystopia in the United Kingdom and Ireland (2016–2017)
In the year 2016, fourteen books regarding utopia were published in the United Kingdom, while none was published in Ireland. Taking the year 2017 into consideration, four titles have been published in the United Kingdom, while none has been published in Ireland so far as well. With this review I aim to see how influential utopia has been as a subject in the United Kingdom and Ireland and how significant the number of publications has been. From w…
Useful Exergy Is Key in Obtaining Plausible Aggregate Production Functions and Recognizing the Role of Energy in Economic Growth: Portugal 1960–2009
Displaying data is not enough: Incorporating User Behavior Transformation in domestic reporting systems
Climate change impacts on asphalt road pavement construction and maintenance: An economic life cycle assessment of adaptation measures in the State of Virginia, United States
Pavement design and management practices must be adapted in response to future climate change. While many studies have attempted to identify different methods to adapt pavements to future climate conditions, the potential economic impacts of the adaptations still remain largely unquantified. This study presents the results of a comprehensive life‐cycle cost analysis (LCCA) aimed at quantifying the potential economic impacts of a climate adaptatio…
How to bring UHI to the urban planning table? A data-driven modeling approach
While temperature rises in urbanized area there is a growing concern among key decision-makers and urban planners to actively incorporate Urban Heat Island (UHI)-related considerations in their development/design. However, given that the existing models (mainly physics-based) are too complex to use, there is a need for an easy-to-use decision support tool that provides an explicit understanding of the contributions of different urban planning dec…
Development of a bridge circularity assessment framework to promote resource efficiency in infrastructure projects
Given the predominant use of virgin materials and the creation of vast amounts of waste in the construction sector, increasing its resource efficiency could result in a large improvement in overall use of resources. Bridges are a logical target for increasing resource efficiency, not only because of the large amount of materials involved but especially because a considerable number of bridges are demolished because of changing functional demands …
Associations of Physical Activity and Television Viewing With Depressive Symptoms of the European Adults
Background: While mentally passive sedentary behavior such as television viewing (TV) is often related with depressive symptoms, some research shows that physical activity (PA) may attenuate this association. Thus, this study aimed to examine the associations between TV, PA, and depressive symptoms, considering sociodemographic covariates. Methods: A sample of 29,285 adults (13,943 men; 15,342 women) with a mean age of 50.9 ± 17.4 years (50.6 ± 1…
Impacts of future climate change on flexible road pavement economics: A life cycle costs analysis of 24 case studies across the United States
Highway agencies are facing pressure for repairing and replacing underfunded and aged road pavement networks that were initially designed for historical climatic conditions. Road pavements must be updated while accounting for the impacts of climate change, which are likely to be exacerbated in the years to come, and with limited budgets. Methodologies and frameworks that help agencies incorporate the long-term effects of climate change on pavemen…
The realness of fakes: Primary evidence of the effect of deepfake personas on user perceptions in a design task
Deepfakes, realistic portrayals of people that do not exist, have garnered interest in research and industry. Yet, the contributions of deepfake technology to human-computer interaction remain unclear. One possible value of deepfake technology is to create more immersive user personas. To test this premise, we use a commercial-grade service to generate three deepfake personas (DFs). We also create counterparts of the same persona in two tradition…
A comparative analysis of surface and canopy layer urban heat island at the micro level using a data-driven approach
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, which is defined as the temperature differential between inner cities and surrounding areas, has been extensively studied over the past few years to unravel its mechanism and develop mitigation strategies. Nonetheless, two distinct types of temperature can be used to measure UHI, namely, (1) air temperatures, which refer to air temperatures at the canopy layer (CUHI), and (2) surface temperature, which refe…
A comprehensive generalizability assessment of data-driven Urban Heat Island (UHI) models
Data-driven models serve as valuable tools for understanding and tackling the UHI phenomenon that can provide user-friendly platforms for urban planners for incorporating UHI considerations in their decisions. This study aims to assess the generalizability of data-driven UHI models at the street-level resolution, particularly considering various similarity degrees of urban contexts between training and testing cities. Five cities from three count…
Data-driven analysis of Urban Heat Island phenomenon based on street typology
This study explores the intricate relationship between diverse street types and the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon - a major urban issue where urban regions are warmer than their rural counterparts due to anthropogenic heat release and absorption by urban structures. UHI leads to increased energy consumption, diminished air quality, and potential health hazards. This research posits that a sample of representative streets (i.e., a few streets…
Tecnologias vestíveis no monitoramento de cardiopatias: Uma revisão de literatura
Introdução: As cardiopatias causam cerca de 30% das mortes no Brasil, representando um desafio para o sistema de saúde pelo elevado custo do tratamento e pela falta de monitoramento contínuo. Tecnologias vestíveis surgem como ferramentas promissoras para o acompanhamento remoto desses pacientes, permitindo detectar precocemente complicações, melhorando sua gestão e engajando os pacientes nos tratamentos. Objetivo: Investigar o impacto dessas tecn…
Participação popular em saúde mental: O Que Pessoas Usuárias Têm a Dizer
Apesar de ser um direito desde a criação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) no Brasil, a participação da população nas políticas públicas de saúde tem sido um desafio. A ideia de desrazão socialmente relacionada a pessoas em sofrimento psíquico faz com que o saber de pessoas usuárias dos serviços de saúde mental seja, por vezes, destituído de possibilidade de contribuição para decisões. O objetivo deste artigo é, através da metodologia participativa…
The effect of a universal, school-based social and emotional learning intervention (passport: (Skills for life) on internalizing symptoms and related outcomes during the transition from childhood to a…
Internalizing mental health difficulties impair quality of life, and their prevalence increases significantly during the transition from childhood to adolescence. This parallel cluster randomized controlled trial examined whether a universal, school-based social and emotional learning intervention (Passport: Skills for Life) could reduce internalizing symptoms and related outcomes compared with the usual school curriculum. Passport is implemented…
An aggregate price for energy services: Useful exergy as an intermediate flow in a two-sector model of the economy
Understanding the role of energy in economic growth has been particularly successful when measuring it as useful exergy with, however, the major shortcoming of treating this (intermediate) flow as a primary factor of production. Here, we solve this issue by conceptualizing the economy with an extended energy macro sector ( E -Sector) encompassing all primary-to-final-to-useful exergy conversions, supplying useful exergy for consumption and as an …
O Diabetes Mellitus E a Insulinoterapia Na Atenção Primária De Saúde: Relato De Experiência
Introdução: O diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DM2) é um problema de saúde pública global, com prevalência crescente, especialmente entre a população idosa. A insulinoterapia subcutânea apresenta desafios de autoadministração para este grupo: dificuldades visuais, motoras, cognitivas e lacunas de conhecimento sobre técnica, conservação e descarte de material, podendo levar a controle glicêmico inadequado e a complicações. A educação em saúde na Atenção …
Anticipating uncertainty in infrastructure LCC, LCA, and S-LCA: A systematic, context-aware early identification framework
Uncertainty undermines the reliability of Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) in Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM). Many methods for uncertainty analysis exist, but practitioners often lack systematic guidance to anticipate how uncertainties will unfold in specific assessments and thereby how to manage them. We propose a pre-emptive framework that anchors uncertainty analysis in the …
Computer Science (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Meteorology (4 works) · Urban heat island (4 works) · Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 works) · Art (3 works)