Introduction: Following the World Health Organization European Healthy Cities Network, the Portuguese Healthy Cities Network was formally created by municipalities equally committed to promote equity, health and quality of life through local action. Objectives: To evaluate the health promotion strategies and initiatives implemented at municipality level in the Portuguese Healthy Cities Network and to confirm if...
An economy with high exchange rate volatility brings uncertainties to its international trade flow and, therefore, affects its country’s exports. Such uncertainties justify researches trying to identify the effects of exchange rate volatility on exports. This paper aims to investigate the effects of the US dollar exchange rate volatility on Brazilian exports with a focus on certain relevant sectors of Brazil’s ...
INTRODUCTION: Marketing of foods high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) has been idenDfied as a significant risk factor for childhood obesity and for the development of diet-related noncommunicable diseases. The World Health OrganizaDon (WHO) has been providing guidance to Member States to reduce food marketing pressure on children. Portugal has adopted legislation early 2016 to restrict food marketing to children ...
O presente artigo examina a discussão de “arte moderna” no jornal Correio da Manhã, um dos principais diários brasileiros do século 20, entre os anos de 1924 e 1937. Ao seguir detalhada e sistematicamente a cobertura dada pelo jornal a esse tema, constata-se que o assunto era percebido à época de modo bastante distinto da narrativa ascendente construída pela historiografia posterior. O artigo dedica atenção par...
Daphnia magna (pulga-da-água) é um animal aquático (consumidor primário) cuja estratégia reprodutiva pode alternar entre assexuada (partenogénese) e sexuada. Napartenogénese ocorre o crescimento e desenvolvimento de um embrião sem fertilização, levando ao aumento rápido da população. Na fase sexuada originam-se ovos de resistência (ephippium) que são capazes de sobreviver às condições desfavoráveis, prosse...