Background: Functioning assessment is a key tool for health professionals to characterize the person's degree of dependence and plan care. Objectives: The objectives were: (1) know the functioning components of older adults hospitalized in the National Network of Continuous Integrated Health Care (NNCIHC) in Portugal; and (2) compare the conceptual frameworks used in this network with the International Classifi...
Background: Functioning assessment is a key tool for health professionals to characterize the person's degree of dependence and plan care. Objectives: The objectives were: (1) know the functioning components of older adults hospitalized in the National Network of Continuous Integrated Health Care (NNCIHC) in Portugal; and (2) compare the conceptual frameworks used in this network with the International Classifi...
A necessidade de um conhecimento mais profundo acerca das complexidades do fenómeno da “fuga de cérebros” e o seu crescente aumento no país levaram ao desenvolvimento desta pesquisa. De forma a captar esta complexa realidade foi utilizada uma metodologia mista, multilateral, recorrendo a técnicas quantitativas e qualitativas de recolha de informação com vista à caracterização dos fatores de atração e repulsão n...
Over the last few years business management has become quite complex, leading to constant risks in the business context resulting from economies’ globalization, not only by the frequent change in the organizations’ proprietary structure, but also due to technological innovation and competitiveness in the global market. The sum of all the factors referred to above and the actual pandemic situation has substantia...
The need for a deeper knowledge of the complexities of this phenomenon, the brain drain, and its increasing in Portugal were the big spur for the development this research. In order to capture this complex reality a mixed and multilateral methodology was used with quantitative and qualitative techniques for the characterization of push and pull factors. This study allowed us to identify trajectories of upward a...
O objetivo deste trabalho é verificar se a taxa efetiva de IRC condiciona a capacidade de internacionalização das 250 maiores empresas portuguesas exportadoras para o mercado comunitário. Para além da taxa efetiva de IRC, estudaram-se outras variáveis independentes que de acordo com diversos estudos, condicionam o nível de internacionalização: outros benefícios fiscais, custos financeiros, dimensão, idade das e...
How does the U.S.-Mexico border build-up of the mid-2000s change clandestine crossing experiences? Semi-structured interviews with return migrants in Puebla, Mexico in 2003-04 and 2011 revealed how increased enforcement entailed greater risks of arrest and potentiated violence migrants experienced at the hands of smugglers and criminals, reducing circular migration. Dispossessed of physical security and psychol...