This document presents an overview of the current legislation and common management practices for diadromous fishes across the Atlantic Area (Portugal, Spain, France and Ireland), produced as a deliverable (D14) of the Interreg Atlantic Area project DiadSea - Transnational Cooperation to Improve the Management and Conservation of Diadromous Fish at Sea (EAPA_0011/2022) Interreg. Here we give an overview of the ...
This article presents the development of an open-source educational chatbot prototype for student support at Universidade Aberta. Combining large language models (LLM) with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and integration with structured databases, the system responds to academic queries on courses, curriculum and administrative processes. Its modular architecture, classification and generation models, and ...
Database with the microsatellites used to study the genetic structuring and differentiation of 25 populations of S. trutta from the Iberian Peninsula.
Este artigo descreve o desenvolvimento de um protótipo de chatbot educativo open source para apoio a estudantes da Universidade Aberta. Recorrendo a grandes modelos de linguagem natural (LLM) com RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) e integração com bases de dados estruturadas, o sistema fornece respostas a perguntas sobre o percurso académico, a oferta formativa, estrutura curricular e procedimentos administra...
Toxoplasma gondii infection is common in cats, though clinical disease is uncommon and typically occurs in immunocompromised individuals. Till now, there is no specific genotype that can be associated with a certain clinical outcome. A 5-year-old Siamese cat, diagnosed as Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV)-positive and classified within the FeLV-C subgroup, presented with a two-month history of progressive lethargy, ...
The Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe, is home to a distinctive freshwater fish fauna, predominantly composed of endemic species. This is a consequence of the prolonged isolation from western Europe caused by the Pyrenees, the diverse geological and climatic gradients, and the isolation of river basins. Freshwater and diadromous fishes have diversified in the Iberian Peninsula and include 72 currently r...
Plastics have been widely used in agriculture, particularly as mulching materials, due to their ability to improve soil conditions and enhance productivity. However, their degradation into microplastics (MPs) raises significant environmental and agronomic concerns, as these particles may change soil properties, affect microbial communities, and pose risks to surrounding ecosystems. While methodologies for MP de...