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Work sustainability: Insights from employees and managers on weekly working hours

This study aims to review the theoretical and empirical effects of working time reduction (WTR) and compare them with workers’ expectations and experiences. A survey was conducted with 61 individuals working 40 h per week, 36 workers who had undergone WTR, and 47 managers. The results showed that all participants were in favor of WTR; managers preferred reducing to a 4-day workweek, while workers opted for a fl...

Serum neutrophil biomarkers to predict crohn's disease progression and inflixim...

Background and aims: Predicting the treatment outcomes of biological therapies is an unmet need in Crohn's Disease. In this study, we explored the potential of serum neutrophil-related biomarkers to predict infliximab therapeutic results and disease progression in Crohn's Disease patients, over a 2-year period, in a real-world setting. Methods: The study included 100 asymptomatic Crohn's Disease patients in the...

Effectiveness of health literacy interventions on the health outcomes of higher...

A Porter’s Five Forces model proposal for additive manufacturing technology: A ...

Industry 4.0 constituted a trigger to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution, heavily focused on the interconnectivity of the systems, bringing disruptive technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (AM). On top of that, in the past few decades AM has been gaining visibility due to technological evolution and due to the need to increase differentiating factors to overtake competitors. Coupled with this, pheno...

A Porter’s Five Forces model proposal for additive manufacturing technology: A ...

Industry 4.0 constituted a trigger to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution, heavily focused on the interconnectivity of the systems, bringing disruptive technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (AM). On top of that, in the past few decades AM has been gaining visibility due to technological evolution and due to the need to increase differentiating factors to overtake competitors. Coupled with this, pheno...

Wet-blue retanning process optimization for reducing water and energy consumpti...

The process of transforming animal skin into leather comprises a range of chemical processes and mechanical operations that can be divided in four sectors such as beamhouse, tanning, dyeing, and finishing. In the dyeing sector, the chemical process (normally called retanning or dyeing process) has four main steps: neutralization, retanning, dyeing, and fatliquoring. A very important part of research in field of...

Oral health-related quality of life in portuguese pre-school children: a cross-...

Purpose To study Oral Health related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) of pre-school children and its associated factors. Methods Cross-sectional study with sample data collected through an on-line questionnaire to a non-probabilistic sample. The questionnaire included the Portuguese version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) and questions about sociodemographic characteristics, oral health behavio...

Understanding how additive manufacturing influences organizations’ strategy in ...

Industry 4.0 constituted a trigger to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution, heavily focused in the interconnectivity of the systems, bringing disruptive technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (AM). On top of that, the shift from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy, where knowledge is the actual raw material, is implicating changes on the labor market, as new jobs strongly rely on knowled...

Perspectives of health care providers in Portugal on the provision of care to m...

Introduction: Migrants’ access to and use of health care often plays an important role in their vulnerability to infectious diseases, namely tuberculosis and HIV. Despite the increasing efforts of health systems, some difficulties in prevention and treatment remain. Studies of the provision of care to migrants with TB or HIV-TB are still scarce. This study aims to analyse the providers’ perspectives on the prov...

Efeito da prática continuada do regadio sobre o complexo de troca do solo

Tendo como principal objectivo a análise das alterações provocadas no complexo de troca do solo pela prática continuada do regadio, recolhemos, de forma georeferenciada, nos 12400 ha que constituem o Perímetro de Rega do Caia e áreas imediatamente adjacentes (situado nos Municípios de Elvas e Campo Maior, distrito de Portalegre, Portugal), 14280 amostras da camada superficial do solo (0-20 cm), as quais, depois...