Based on a survey of 4,393 journalism students in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, this study provides much-needed comparative evidence about students’ motivations for becoming journalists, their future job plans, and expectations. Findings show not only an almost universal decline in students’ desire to work in journalism by the end of their program but also important national differences in terms of the journalistic fields in which they want to work, as well as their job expectations. The results reinforce the need to take into account national contexts when examining journalism education across the globe.

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Transformers are one of the most important part in a power system and, especially in key-facilities, they should be closely and continuously monitored. In this context, methods based on the dissolved gas ratios allow to associate values of gas concentrations with the occurrence of some faults, such as partial discharges and thermal faults. So, an accurate prediction of oil-dissolved gas concentrations is a valuable tool to monitor the transformer condition and to develop a fault diagnosis system. This study proposes a nonlinear autoregressive neural network model coupled with the discrete wavelet transform for predicting transformer oil-dissolved gas concentrations. The data fitting and accurate prediction ability of the proposed model is evaluated in a real world example, showing better results in relation to current prediction models and common time series techniques.

a b s t r a c tDisease spreading models need a population model to organize how individuals are distributed over space and how they are connected. Usually, disease agent (bacteria, virus) passes between individuals through these connections and an epidemic outbreak may occur. Here, complex networks models, like Erdös-Rényi, Small-World, Scale-Free and Barábasi-Albert will be used for modeling a population, since they are used for social networks; and the disease will be modeled by a SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) model. The objective of this work is, regardless of the network/population model, analyze which topological parameters are more relevant for a disease success or failure. Therefore, the SIR model is simulated in a wide range of each network model and a first analysis is done. By using data from all simulations, an investigation with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is done in order to find the most relevant topological and disease parameters.

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a b s t r a c tThe high penetration of distributed energy resources (DER) in distribution networks and the competitive environment of electricity markets impose the use of new approaches in several domains. The network cost allocation, traditionally used in transmission networks, should be adapted and used in the distribution networks considering the specifications of the connected resources. The main goal is to develop a fairer methodology trying to distribute the distribution network use costs to all players which are using the network in each period. In this paper, a model considering different type of costs (fixed, losses, and congestion costs) is proposed comprising the use of a large set of DER, namely distributed generation (DG), demand response (DR) of direct load control type, energy storage systems (ESS), and electric vehicles with capability of discharging energy to the network, which is known as vehicle-to-grid (V2G). The proposed model includes three distinct phases of operation. The first phase of the model consists in an economic dispatch based on an AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF); in the second phase Kirschen's and Bialek's tracing algorithms are used and compared to evaluate the impact of each resource in the network. Finally, the MW-mile method is used in the third phase of the proposed model. A distribution network of 33 buses with large penetration of DER is used to illustrate the application of the proposed model.

A r t i c l e i n f o A b s t r A c t Article Type: Research ArticleArticle History: Received: 2015-06-04 Revised: 2016-04-12 Accepted: 2016 Keywords: Brazil Journalism Journalism education This paper discusses the profile of journalism students in Brazil: what they think of the education they receive and the activities undertaken by the university. It also discusses the modalities for constructing and incorporating journalistic culture within Brazilian academic institutions. It is based on a questionnaire administered to 611 students in six higher education institutions.©Journal of Professional Communication, all rights reserved.

2017 AcknowledgmentsThroughout this year there were many people who helped me overcome the obstacles I faced. First of all, I would like to thank my family for giving me the opportunity to get where I am and for supporting me while I wrote this thesis and over all my life, in general.I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues with whom I shared great moments over the year. They made my work days more pleasant and our break times refreshing. They were always there to motivate me and to discuss ideas when I got stuck.I am also grateful to Faculdade de Ciências, specially its Informatics Department and the LaSIGE research group, for providing me all the conditions to perform my work.A special acknowledgement for my advisors, Professor Nuno Fuentecilla Maia Ferreira Neves and Professor Fernando Manuel Valente Ramos, for giving me the opportunity to join this project, for their guidance, and availability over the year. FundingThis work was partially supported by the European Commission through project FP7 SEGRID (607109) and project H2020 SUPERCLOUD (643964), and by national funds of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through project UID/CEC/00408/2013 (LaSIGE). i To my family and friends ResumoA monitorizaçãoé uma ferramenta fundamental na gestão das redes de computadores ao oferecer uma visão sobre o seu comportamento ao longo do tempo. Diferentes técnicas de monitorização têm sido aplicadas na prática, das quais se destacam duas: as baseadas em amostras e as baseadas em sketches. Enquanto as técnicas baseadas em amostras processam apenas um subconjunto do tráfego total (uma amostra), as técnicas baseadas em sketches processam todo o tráfego, procurando obter maior precisão nos seus resultados. Para poderem processar todo o tráfego e ainda assim serem escaláveis, os algoritmos baseados em sketches comprimem a informação monitorizada em estruturas de dados que têm comportamento semelhante ao das hash tables. Apesar da inevitável perda de informação resultante das colisões que ocorrem tipicamente quando se usam estas estruturas de dados, os algoritmos baseados em sketches apresentam ainda assim resultados bastante precisos, uma vez que todo o tráfego contribui para a computação das variáveis estatísticas monitorizadas.A informação fornecida pelos algoritmos de monitorizaçãoé essencial para a correta operação da rede. No entanto, se o algoritmo de monitorização puder ser corrompido, os seus resultados deixarão de ser confiáveis, tornando a monitorização inútil. No pior caso, o administrador de sistemas não deteta que o algoritmo de monitorização foi comprometido e acaba por tomar decisões inadequadas, baseadas em informação incorreta. Este problema demonstra a utilidade de algoritmos de monitorização seguros. No entanto, não temos conhecimento de nenhuma proposta que vise a segurança dos algoritmos de monitorização. De facto, a generalidade dos algoritmos de monitorização ignora as questões de segurança de forma a minimizar os seus tempos de execução e a memória utilizada, o que se justifica pelas ...