Context: Many IT organizations are looking towards DevOps to make their software development and delivery processes faster and more reliable, while DevOps revolutionized the industry by emphasizing collaboration between development and operations teams. Nonetheless, there still exist challenges in harmonizing cultural, technical, measurement and process capabilities for its successful adoption. Objective: To re...
Context: Information Technology organizations are aiming to implement DevOps capabilities to fulfill market, customer, and internal needs. While many are successful with DevOps implementation, others still have difficulty measuring DevOps success in their organization. As a result, the effectiveness of assessing DevOps remains erratic. This emphasizes the need to withstand management in measuring the implementa...
Efective conservation actions to counteract the current decline of populations and species require a deep knowledge on their genetic structure. We used Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) to infer the population structure of the highly threatened freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera in the Iberian Peninsula. A total of 130 individuals were collected from 26 locations belonging to 16 basins. We...
Effective conservation actions to counteract the current decline of populations and species require a deep knowledge on their genetic structure. We used Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) to infer the population structure of the highly threatened freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera in the Iberian Peninsula. A total of 130 individuals were collected from 26 locations belonging to 16 basins. W...
Estarreja is a highly industrialized municipality in NW Portugal, well known for its historical mercury contamination. Some reports have linked hypertension and mercury exposure. In this work, we collected house dust samples and hair from the residents of this area, together with systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure. Hair mercury levels varied between 624 and 4535 ng/g, and mercury in dust varied f...
Esta reflexão, que é partilhada no quadro da VI Edição da Semana Social de Angola, organizada pelo MOSAIKO - Instituto para a Cidadania, com o apoio da CEAST - Conferência Episcopal de Angola e São Tomé e Príncipe, aos quais agradeço o privilégio de ter participado das apresentações, reflexões e debates que dela fizeram parte, tem como principal objectivo apresentar o conceito de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, de...
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Main goal: To provide a global picture on the prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases in Estarreja and to characterize, for the 1st time, the indoor microbiome (fungi and bacteria).
People spend about 90% of their time indoors, being exposed to a large number of indoor contaminants, including fungi. Some fungi are associated with a wide range of adverse health effects, including the risk of asthma onset or exacerbation. Many studies support this fact, showing associations between the exposure to indoor damp and mould and the risk of asthma.