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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the European Portuguese version of ...
Ikedo, Fabio; Castro, Luisa; Fráguas, Sofia; Rego, Francisca; Nunes, RuiBackground Forgiveness is linked with well-being, and social and health research has focused on the role and aspects of forgiveness that has been recently suggested as a phenomenon of public health importance. The Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS) was developed gathering three subscales to assess the forgiveness of others, forgiveness of self, and forgiveness of situation. The present study aimed to adapt the H...
A multi-integrated approach on toxicity effects of engineered TiO2 nanoparticles
Picado, Ana; Paixão, Susana M.; Moita, Liliana; Silva, Luis; Diniz, Mário S.; Lourenço, Joana; Peres, Isabel; Castro, Luisa; Correia, José BritoThe new properties of engineered nanoparticles drive the need for new knowledge on the safety, fate, behavior and biologic effects of these particles on organisms and ecosystems. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles have been used extensively for a wide range of applications, e.g, self-cleaning surface coatings, solar cells, water treatment agents, topical sunscreens. Within this scenario increased environmental expo...
Evaluation of the sub-lethal toxicity of bleached kraft pulp mill effluent to c...
Diniz, Mário S.; Pereira, Ruth; Freitas, Ana C.; Rocha-Santos, Teresa A. P.; Castro, Luisa; Peres, Isabel; Duarte, Armando C.The effluents from bleached Kraft pulp mill (BKME) and paper industry are toxic to different aquatic organisms being an important source of contamination to aquatic environments due to the presence of several chemicals produced during the production of Kraft pulp. The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the exposure effects ofasecondary-treatedBKME in two different species of fish:Carassius aura...