University of Porto

Voluntary product passports also have unique advantages beyond legal requirements and audits.

Pedro Madeira, civil engineer and invited assistant professor at the University of Porto, joins Kasimir Forth and Silvia Vangelova from the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture to explore how digital building logbooks and digital product passports could reshape circular construction.

Drawing from two decades of work in academia, policy, and industry, he discusses tensions between technological innovation and industry adoption.

He demonstrates how circularity requires changing how the construction sector thinks about responsibility, continuity, and collaboration.

I am a doctoral researcher at the Circular Engineering for Architecture Lab.

Yeah, we are very happy to interview today Pedro Madeira.

Pedro has a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Porto.

He's currently also an invited assistant professor at the Institute for Circular Construction, where he participates in consultancy services, public works audits, national and international project, as well as training and actions.

I thought it was great.

And that stands in front of the University of Porto.

So that was a great photo op.

We made our way to a church that was, I have no idea what the church was, but it was covered in such beautiful blue tiles.

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Today's guest is Antonio Ferreira, assistant professor at the University of Porto, who has been on the podcast before discussing cyborgs as...

More, or perhaps less, than humans.

I highly recommend listening to that episode as well.

Olá, sejam bem-vindos a mais um episódio do Science Bits.

Hoje vamos falar sobre inteligência artificial com o Alípio Jorge, investigador do INESC Tech, docente na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto e vice-reitor para Infraestruturas Digitais e Transformação Digital da Universidade do Porto.

Nesta conversa vamos querer saber como tem evoluído a inteligência artificial e vamos ficar a saber o que é a aprendizagem computacional, o processamento de linguagem natural e a extração de conhecimento a partir de fluxos contínuos de dados.

Muita coisa.

So this one looked at women with and without orgasm difficulty.

It was done out of Portugal, University of Porto.

let's see here she did her declarations here's the abstract this is always the it's kind of like an executive summary in a for business like if you were thinking of a business plan um the abstract of a research paper is like the executive summary of a business plan so orgasmic difficulties are one of the most common sexual complaints among women yes in fact it's up to 72 percent of females, premenopausal women who have orgasm difficulty, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

It says here, whereas models of sexual dysfunction propose that cognitive effective factors are involved in the development and maintenance of sexual difficulties, there is a need to examine how these factors are actually associated with orgasmic difficulties specifically.

Just say you pick this point and you teach the students.

And the whole School of Architecture would also be teaching this principle, like the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto, FAUP.

I got some information about that, which I will discuss later about comparing that school of architecture with the one that I worked at.

So I would like to conclude this episode with another paragraph in The Thinking Hand by Yohani Palasma.

and um they said apply and then yeah i just got really really lucky and it all just worked out which i've i know is not a typical get into a phd program story so i feel extremely fortunate

um yeah well and it's such a small world the the the surf research it's kind of a small world you said like csu here in the u.s you've got griffith university's going really strong in australia yeah You've got some people at University of Porto have since left.

Marcio left and is doing his thing now, but that was kind of a hub in Portugal.

And then now I just went out to Scotland and I met with Brendan Ferrier, who's doing research there.

Yes

... and Porto University's at your back-

Yes

... on the left on the corner there you had like ...

For me it was the French hotel, it's called Hotel Paris or something like that.

Yeah.

A very small boutique hotel on your way to Porto University, or on your way to the famous bookstore where a man was poisoned and then something happened with his kids.

I can't remember the whole story.