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Fostering participation of women survivors of violence in community-based advoc...

Violence against women persists and prevails worldwide. Women who survive are isolated in service-providing systems, with case management professionals who support navigating within the judicial, welfare, and health systems. The present study results from a PAR project “PEER NETWORK: Gender Violence and Empowerment” aimed at potentiating partnerships with women who are survivors of gender violence establishing ...

Avaliação linear da raça caprina Serrana : ecótipo ribatejano

Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar os resultados da avaliação morfológica linear da cabra Serrana - ecótipo Ribatejano, através da medição de 17 características conformacionais e estudar a sua associação com as estimativas dos valores genéticos para a produção leiteira ajustada aos 150 dias. Com a avaliação linear pretende-se selecionar animais com melhores valores de produção e condições para uma vida pr...

Mechanisms behind the neurotoxicity of 2C-I and 25I-NBOMe drugs

Background: New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) pose significant health and legal risks worldwide. At the end of 2021, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction was monitoring 886 NPS, 106 of them phenethylamines [1]. Phenethylamine derivatives include 2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine-based (2C) and N-benzylphenethylamine-based (NBOMe) drugs, widely known for their psychedelic effects. However, their...

Perineal necrotizing fasciitis, a challenge

Necrotizing perineal fasciitis is a complex situation, with high morbidity and mortality, mainly because most patients seek medical services late, at an advanced stage of theinfectiousprocess1. There are several studies that recommend the use of Negative Pressure Therapy in the treatment of lesions of this nature, with benefit in the patient's wellbeing and in reducing healing time.

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Salivary oxytocin after play with parents predicts behavioural problems in pres...

Background: Oxytocin (OXT) has attracted research interest for its potential involvement in many of the behavioural problems observed in childhood. Due to its logistical advantages, saliva is an attractive fluid to quantify neuropeptides in children. Salivary OXT has been suggested as a potential biomarker for psychopa- thology during childhood. However, several questions still remain about the extent to which,...

Does music training enhance auditory and linguistic processing? A systematic re...

It is often claimed that music training improves auditory and linguistic skills. Results of individual studies are mixed, however, and most evidence is correlational, precluding inferences of causation. Here, we evaluated data from 62 longitudinal studies that examined whether music training programs affect behavioral and brain measures of auditory and linguistic processing (N = 3928). For the behavioral data, ...

Supporting students’ engagement with teachers’ feedback: the role of students’ ...

This study explored the link between teachers’ feedback and students’ behavioural engagement with school identification. Using a sample of 2534 students from 6th to 12th school year, we examined whether their perceptions about teachers’ feedback were related to their behavioural engagement and mediated by their school identification. We also explore whether this relation was moderated by students’ year of schoo...

Internal devaluation and economic inequality in Portugal: challenges to industr...

Internal devaluation policies imposed in southern European countries since 2010 have weakened labour market institutions and intensified wage inequality and the falling wage share. The debate in the wake of the financial and economic crisis raised concerns about slow wage growth and per- sistent economic inequality. This article attempts to shed light on this debate, scrutinising the case of Portugal in the per...

Determinants of ageism against older adults: a systematic review

Ageism is a widespread phenomenon and constitutes a significant threat to older people’s well-being. Identifying the factors contributing to ageism is critical to inform policies that minimise its societal impact. In this systematic review, we gathered and summarised empirical studies exploring the key determinants of ageism against older people for a period of over forty years (1970–2017). A comprehensive sear...