António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

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What is your book? What do you think about Jose Martí quote: “Plant a tree, have a child, write a book”?

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Is, can or should be an Engineer, a Researcher or a Scholar essentially/mainly an eternal student?

What can or should be generically the development natural of the career of an Engineer, a Researcher or a Scholar? Should tend mainly to a manager of human resources or an Administrative or...

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How should a researcher deal with evidence that goes against the main stream of the established knowledge?

When we research we question the existing knowledge. What should be the ethical compromise/commitment? What should we value more, intellectual honesty or the indispensable kindness with our...

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What are the current best approaches known and in use for computing the peak storm water flow rates in urban drainage systems?

The conventional rational method or its derivate is still very used for dimensioning and calculating separate urban storm water networks. What are the main reasons for the use of the classic...

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In Wastewater Engineering, is still acceptable old combined systems, or should all these systems be converted to separate systems?

The advantages and disadvantages of separate systems for storm water and sanitary sewerage with respect to combined systems transporting simultaneously all flows was a classic discussion in...

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Can be the expression/proverb “When in Rome do as the Romans do” suitable with respect to some aspects of internationalization of Universities?

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What are the current possible approaches and the short term predictable developments in multi-objective optimization of sewer systems rehabilitation?

Multi-objective optimization can be used in sewer system rehabilitation. Many particular aspects may be modeled and optimized, like rehabilitation costs, reduction of costs of transport and...

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What are the possible approaches for solid transport computation in turbulent pipe flow and for the requirements necessary for avoiding sedimentation?

The development of correlations for computing the critical velocity required for avoiding sedimentation in two phase liquid-solids in pipes under pressure was subject of many studies since several...

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What should be the role of the scientific community and researchers in the combat to the social inequities and different sort of discriminations?

The principle of equality has been considered since a long time ago (at least in the more developed countries). However it looks still tolerated (if not supported) all over the world all kind of...

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Are empirical methods and correlations useful in the context of the current scientific developments and in the Engineering practice or other areas?

The extensive use of empirical correlations and empirical methods instead of scientific approaches can be controversial. Theoretical laws in many physical phenomena are frequently difficult to...

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