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Football, economics, and environmental sustainability: The communicative power of professional football in Portugal [comunicação oral]
2025-10-30 - Gouveia, Miguel; Pinho, Micaela
Resumo apresentado no 4th International Congress On Finance, Economy And Sustainable Policies.
Synthetic Data Generation for Binary and Multi-Class Classification in the Health Domain
2025-11-14 - Guerreiro, Camila; Leal, Fátima; Pinho, Micaela
The growing demand for data-driven solutions in healthcare is often hindered by limited access to high-quality datasets due to privacy concerns, data imbalance, and regulatory constraints. Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising strategy to address these challenges by creating artificial yet statistically valid datasets that preserve the underlying patterns of real data without compromising patient confidentiality. This study explores methodologies for generating synthetic data tailored to binary and multi-class classification problems within the health domain. We employ advanced techniques such as probabilistic modelling, generative adversarial networks, and data augmentation strategies to replicate realistic feature distributions and class relationships. A comprehensive evaluation is conducted using benchmark healthcare datasets, measuring fidelity, diversity, and utility of the synthetic data in downstream predictive modelling tasks. The original dataset consisted of 2125 imbalanced cases, both in the binary and multi-class classification scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that models trained on synthetic datasets achieve performance levels comparable to those trained on real data, particularly in scenarios with severe class imbalance. The findings underscore the potential of synthetic data as a privacy-preserving enabler for robust machine learning applications in healthcare, facilitating innovation while adhering to strict data protection regulations.
The impact of communication, gender, and risk aversion on family businesses’ sustainable practices: A game theoretical and experimental approach
2025-11-13 - Ramos, Adelinda; Jayantilal, Shital; Jorge , Sílvia F.; Sardo , Filipe
We explore how communication, gender, and risk aversion influence decision-making in sustainability within family businesses. Using game theory, we model a sustainability decision-making-focused game, wherein we frame adopting sustainable practices considering the alignment between founder engagement and the successor’s proactive approach. We then use experimental economics to assess the robustness of the theoretical outcomes in real-world scenarios through simulated strategic interactions. Our main methodological contribution is bridging the gap between theory and empirical data under family business sustainability practices by combining game theory and experimental economics. Our findings show that communication increases the likelihood of sustainability decision-making, while gender and risk aversion have no statistically significant effect. However, when communication is factored in, gender becomes a significant factor, with females showing a greater likelihood of investing in sustainability.