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- Tri-Collab: a machine learning project to leverage innovation ecosystems in PortugalPublication . Marujo, Ângelo; Afonso, Bruno; Martins, Inês; Pires, Lisandro; Fernandes, Silvia C. Pinto de BritoThis project consists of a digital platform named Tri-Collab, where investors, entrepreneurs, and other agents (mainly talents) can cooperate on their ideas and eventually co-create. It is a digital means for this triad of actors (among other potential ones) to better adjust their requirements. It includes an app that easily communicates with a database of projects, innovation agents and their profiles, and the originality lies in the matching algorithm. Thus, co-creation can have better support through this assertive interconnection of players and their resources. This work also highlights the usefulness of the Canvas Business Model in structuring the idea and its dashboard, allowing a comprehensive view of channels, challenges and gains. Also, the potential of machine learning in improving matchmaking platforms is discussed, especially when technological advancements allow for forecasts and match people at scale.
- The early–middle pleistocene transition in the gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic) – an interplay between subtropical gyre and extremely cold surface watersPublication . Mega, Aline; Rodrigues, Teresa; Salgueiro, Emilia; Padilha, Mária; Kuhnert, Henning; Voelker, AntjeBesides the shift in dominant orbital cyclicity depicted in paleoclimate proxy records, the Mid-Pleistocene Transition or Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT) was linked to a change in the deep thermohaline circulation. Those changes contributed to more intense and longer-lasting glacial periods and cooler sea surface temperatures (SSTs) during glacials. Within the Atlantic Ocean, the Iberian Margin is considered a key location to study climatic variations influenced by both high- and low-latitude processes. In this study we focus on IODP Site U1387 on the southern Portuguese margin to reconstruct surface water circulation changes and related plankton foraminifera ecosystems during the interval of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 28 to MIS 18 (1006-750 ka). Our planktonic foraminifera assemblages and SST reconstructions (foraminifera assemblages and U-37(K ') alkenone index) demonstrate warm, relative stable SST conditions during much of the interval due to persistent influence of subtropical gyre waters as indicated by the tropical-subtropical and Azores Current-related foraminifera species and the periods with dominant sinistral coiling direction of the species Globorotalia truncatulinoides. Maximum interglacial SSTs were up to 2 degrees C warmer than at present in both summer and winter, with the exception of interglacial MIS 23 with SSTs similar to 1.5 degrees C colder than in the other interglacials. Subsequent to the respective glacial inception, the relatively warm conditions were periodically interrupted by millennial-scale extreme cold events when polar species Neogloboquadrina pachyderma became abundant (> 30 %), and the SSTs, reconstructed from the foraminifera assemblage data, dropped below 10 degrees C in summer and 5 degrees C in winter, although some of those values might be overestimated. The most pronounced event, considering the amplitude of cooling and duration, occurred between 870 and 864 ka, marking the terminal stadial event of the MIS 22-MIS 21 transition (Termination X). Extreme cold events, always associated with the incursion of subpolar waters into the Gulf of Cadiz, mark all the terminal stadial events from Terminations XII to IX and the millennial-scale variability during the transitions to full glacial conditions, although the duration of the cooling varied greatly. The extreme cooling was only possible through migration of the subarctic front into the lower mid-latitudes as a consequence of cooling and freshening in the higher latitudes and the associated extreme reduction in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The amplitude of cooling, duration, and frequency of subpolar water incursions during MIS 24 to MIS 22 stands out, providing further evidence for the "900 ka event" being a key feature of the EMPT.