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Humor strategies used in palliative care to promote mentally healthy working co...
Cunha, Vânia; Dias, Mária; Mourato, Ana; Calado, Ricardo; Cordeiro, Raul; Serra, RicardoIntroduction: Evidence indicates that humor is important in promoting a healthy working environment in palliative care. Although, the evidence on the use of humor by teams is scarce. Objective: To characterize humor strategies used by health professionals to promote mentally healthy work environments in palliative care. Resources and methods: The Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for conducting Scoping Review...
Use of isotopic and elemental fingerprints for seahorse species discrimination ...
Cabral, Ana Elisa; Calado, Ricardo; Palma, Jorge; Ricardo, Fernando; Silva, Eduardo Ferreira da; Patinha, Carla; Planas, MiquelSeahorses (Hippocampus spp.; Family Syngnathidae) are mainly targeted by Traditional Chinese Medicine, curio and ornamental trade, as dried or live specimens. Traceability tools may help fill the gaps on supply chains, securing information on geographic origin and identification of traded specimens. Fin-clipping, a non-lethal and well-established method in seahorse research, offers a potential approach to trace...
Fatty acid profiles of cultured hippocampus hippocampus trunk muscles and poten...
Cabral, Ana Elisa; Rey, Felisa; Domingues, M. Rosário; Cabral, Miguel; Planas, Miquel; Palma, Jorge; Calado, RicardoSyngnathids (seahorses, pipefishes and seadragons) are an attractive resource for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Despite few scientific studies supporting seahorse nutritional benefits, they are believed to possess medicinal properties that enhance human health. The European short-snout seahorse Hippocampus hippocampus is classified as Data Deficient by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Nevertheless...
Current trends in the traceability of geographic origin and detection of specie...
Santos, Andreia; Ricardo, Fernando; Domingues, M. Rosário M.; Patinha, Carla; Calado, RicardoMarine bivalves are increasingly consumed worldwide, with their complex supply chain being particularly prone to fraud. This scenario drives economic losses and is a threat to public health, with multiple recent food worries driving consumers to demand more transparency and information on the seafood they buy. To increase consumers confidence in bivalves and enforce current legislation, robust tools are needed ...
Thermal tolerance limits and physiological traits as indicators of Hediste dive...
Fernandes, Joana Filipa; Calado, Ricardo; Jerónimo, Daniel; Madeira, DianaGlobal projections predict significant increases in ocean temperature and changes in ocean chemistry, including salinity variations by 2100. This has led to a substantial interest in the study of thermal ecophysiology, as temperature is a major factor shaping marine ectotherm communities. However, responses to temperature may be influenced by other factors such as salinity, highlighting the relevance of multipl...
Characterization and behaviour of silica engineered nanocontainers in low and h...
Ferreira, Violeta; Figueiredo, Joana; Martins, Roberto; Sushkova, Alesia; Maia, Frederico; Calado, Ricardo; Tedim, João; Loureiro, SusanaMesoporous silica engineered nanomaterials are of interest to the industry due to their drug-carrier ability. Advances in coating technology include using mesoporous silica nanocontainers (SiNC) loaded with organic molecules as additives in protective coatings. The SiNC loaded with the biocide 4,5-dichloro-2-octyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one (DCOIT), i.e., SiNC-DCOIT, is proposed as an additive for antifouling marine ...
Fatty acid ratio analysis identifies changes in competent meroplanktonic larvae...
Rey, Felisa; Greenacre, Michael; Neto, Gina M. Silva; Bueno-Pardo, Juan; Domingues, M. Rosário; Calado, RicardoPlanktonic communities are a cornerstone of ocean food webs. Early benthic performance of meroplanktonic organisms is shaped by their life stages in planktonic communities. Fatty acid profiles of marine invertebrates are a good indicator of their nutritional state and allow inferring how dietary regimes experienced during larval pelagic life may drive their pre- and post-metamorphosis performance. Fatty acid pr...
The physiological consequences of delaying metamorphosis in the marine ornament...
Calado, Ricardo; Carvalho, Leina; Rodrigues, Andreia C.M.; Abe, Flávia; Patrício Silva, Ana L.; Soares, Amadeu M.V.M.; Gravato, CarlosThe timing of metamorphosis has recently been referred as a more suitable proxy to evaluate postlarval quality than size. Indeed, while displaying a larger size at settlement, late settlers that originate from larvae that have delayed metamorphosis commonly display poorer growth performances This delay in metamorphosis is possibly at the expenses of larval endogenous energetic reserves that, once allocated to f...
Green approaches for extraction, chemical modification and processing of marine...
Sacramento, Margarida M. A.; Borges, João; Correia, Fernando J. S.; Calado, Ricardo; Rodrigues, João M. M.; Patrício, Sónia G.; Mano, João F.Over the past few decades, natural-origin polysaccharides have received increasing attention across different fields of application, including biomedicine and biotechnology, because of their specific physicochemical and biological properties that have afforded the fabrication of a plethora of multifunctional devices for healthcare applications. More recently, marine raw materials from fisheries and aquaculture ...
A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conse...
Herbert-Read, James E.; Thornton, Ann; Amon, Diva J.; Birchenough, Silvana N. R.; Côté, Isabelle M.; Dias, Maria P.; Godley, Brendan J.; Keith, Sally A.The biodiversity of marine and coastal habitats is experiencing unprecedented change. While there are well-known drivers of these changes, such as overexploitation, climate change and pollution, there are also relatively unknown emerging issues that are poorly understood or recognized that have potentially positive or negative impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems. In this inaugural Marine and Coastal Horizo...