Manuel Seabra Pereira 
A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon 

The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) is celebrating this year its 75th anniversary. Being a jubilee occasion, a full program of events took place, including a two-day Symposium on the research at UTL. This Symposium addressed the state-of-art in major areas of excellence at UTL. Science, technology and innovation and the way universities and society in general, create, use and disseminate knowledge have gained a growing signi?cance over the last decades. UTL no doubt embeds a relevant potential of excellence in different areas of research in basic and applied sciences, which bears its development on the basis of a “research university” model. This book contains the edited version of the invited lectures that were delivered by prominent researchers at UTL. This book brings together in a review manner a comprehensive summary of high quality research contri- tions across basic and applied sciences. The contributing papers are organized around the following major areas: – Emergent areas (Nanosciences, Quantic Computations and Infor- tion, Risk and Volatility in Financial Markets); – Basic Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Materials); – Social Sciences, Economics and Management Sciences; – Life Sciences and Biotechnology; – Engineering and Technologies – Nature, Environment and Sustainability; – Public Health, Food Quality and Safety; – Health and Sport Sciences; – Urbanism, Transports, Architecture, Arts and Design. The transdisciplinary nature of most areas aims to stress a compelling sense of purpose in the work developed.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Emergent Areas.- Nanotechnology and the Detection of Biomolecular Recognition Using Magnetoresistive Transducers.- Financial Econometric Models.- Quantum Computation and Information.- Basic Sciences.- An Overview of Some Mathematical Models of Blood Rheology.- Mathematical Models in Finance.- More Sustainable Synthetic Organic Chemistry Approaches Based on Catalyst Reuse.- Simulation and Modeling in Computational Chemistry: A Molecular Portfolio.- Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics.- Frontiers on Extreme Plasma Physics.- Nuclear Fusion: An Energy for the Future.- Social Sciences, Economics and Management Sciences.- Regulation Policies in Portugal.- The Growing Relevance of Africa in Chinese Foreign Policy: The Case of Portuguese Speaking Countries.- Economic Growth Theory, Fifty Years After.- Life Sciences and Biotechnology.- DNA Vaccines.- Biotechnology of the Bacterial Gellan Gum: Genes and Enzymes of the Biosynthetic Pathway.- Epigenetics: The Functional Memory of Ribosomal Genes.- Biotechnology of Reproduction and Development: From the Biomedical Model to Enterprise Innovation.- Engineering and Technologies.- Evolution and Challenges in Multimedia Representation Technologies.- Bioinformatics: A New Approach for the Challenges of Molecular Biology.- Research and Development in Metal Forming Technology at the Technical University of Lisbon.- Agronomy: Tradition and Future.- Towards a Clean Energy for the Future — the Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development of Ist.- Nature, Environment and Sustainability.- Industrial Ecology: A Step Towards Sustainable Development.- Forests for the 21st Century?.- The Role of the Emergent Technologies Towards an Integrated Sustainable Environment.- Integrated Water Management.- Public Health, Food Quality and Safety.- Food Safety Crisis Management and Risk Communication.- Debaryomyces Hansenii, a Salt Loving Spoilage Yeast.- The New Diseases and the Old Agents.- The Sharing of Urban Areas by Man and Animals.- Health and Sport Sciences.- Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness.- Ergonomics: Humans in the Centre of Innovation.- Developments in Biomechanics of Human Motion for Health and Sports.- Urbanism, Transports, Architecture and Design.- Urbanisation Trends and Urban Planning in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.- Technical, Economical and Organizational Innovation in Transport Systems.- Hotel Architecture in Portugal.- Inclusive Design: A New Approach to Design Project.