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Rapid response Task Force: addressing the detection of Aedes albopictus in Lisb...
Grau-Pujol, B.; Moreira, A.; Vieira Martins, J; Costa Osório, H; Ribeiro, L.; Dinis, A.; Sousa, C.; Alves, M. João; Leite, P. Pinto; Vasconcelos, P.Issue: The invasive Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are spreading in southern Europe and pose a heightened risk of mosquito-borne diseases, like Dengue and Chikungunya. On September 2023, A. albopictus was first identified in Lisbon through community-based surveillance and a multidisciplinary national Task Force (TF) was convened. Description of the problem: The TF included experts in epidemiology, entomology, envi...
Climate change vulnerability of cetaceans in Macaronesia: Insights from a trait...
Sousa, A.; Alves, F.; Arranz, P.; Dinis, A.; Fernandez, M.; González García, L.; Morales, M.; Lettrich, M.; Encarnação Coelho, R.; Costa, H.Over the last decades global warming has caused an increase in ocean temperature, acidification and oxygen loss which has led to changes in nutrient cycling and primary production affecting marine species at multiple trophic levels. While knowledge about the impacts of climate change in cetacean's species is still scarce, practitioners and policymakers need information about the species at risk to guide the imp...
Ecophysiological traits of highly mobile large marine predators inferred from n...
Alves, Filipe; Dromby, Morgane; Baptista, Vânia; Ferreira, R.; Correia, A. M.; Weyn, M.; Valente, R.; Froufe, E.; Rosso, M.; Sousa-Pinto, I.; Dinis, A.Nucleic acid-derived indices such as RNA/DNA ratios have been successfully applied as ecophysiological indicators to assess growth, nutritional condition and health status in marine organisms given that they provide a measure of tissue protein reserves, which is known to vary depending on changes in the environment. Yet, the use of these biochemical indices on highly mobile large predators is scarce. In this st...
How vulnerable are cetaceans to climate change? Developing and testing a new index
Sousa, A.; Alves, F.; Dinis, A.; Bentz, Julia; Cruz, M.J.; Nunes, João Pedro
Promotion of mental health literacy and mental well-being in a Portuguese unemp...
Santos, Maria João Heitor dos; Moreira, S.; Dinis, A.; Virgolino, Ana; Carreiras, Joana; Rosa, R.; Ambrósio, S.; Lopes, E.; Fernandes, T.Introduction: Economic crises have consequences on labor market, with impacts on mental health (MH) and psychological well-being (PWB). We describe the effectiveness of an intervention among unemployed, performed within EEA Grants Healthy Employment project.Objectives Evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention for MH literacy, PWB and resilience among unemployed. Aims MH and PWB promotion, common mental diso...
Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus group dynamics, site fidelity, residency ...
Dinis, A.; Alves, F.; Nicolau, C.; Ribeiro, C.; Kaufmann, M.; Cañadas, A.; Freitas, LThe bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus is one of the most frequently sighted cetacean species in the Madeira Archipelago (North-East Atlantic); however, little is known about its population ecology in these waters. Photo-identification undertaken during systematic, non-systematic and opportunistic surveys conducted between 2001 and 2012 was used to assess group dynamics, site fidelity, residency and movement...
Geological and geotechnical surveys in tectonically active rock masses
Bhavsar, H.; Dinis, A.; Mira-Fernandes, E.; Paulino, F.; Antunes, P.; Melâneo, FredericoThe economic development of a region depends on the speed that people and goods can travel. The reduction of people and goods travel time can be achieved by planning smooth road layouts, which are obtained by crossing natural obstacles such as hills, by tunneling at great depths, and allowing the reduction of the road alignment length. The stress state in rock masses at such depths, either because of the overbu...
Design and construction of tunnels in zones subjected to high convergences
Bhavsar, H.; Dinis, A.; António, L.; Mira-Fernandes, E.; Antunes, P.; Melâneo, FredericoThe economic development of a region depends on the speed that people and goods can travel. The reduction of people and goods travel time can be achieved by planning smooth road layouts, which are obtained by crossing natural obstacles such as hills, by tunneling at great depths, and allowing the reduction of the road alignment length. The stress state in rock masses at such depths, either because of the overbu...
Daytime dive characteristics from six short-finned pilot whales Globicephala ma...
Alves, Filipe; Dinis, A.; Ribeiro, C.; Nicolau, C.; Kaufmann, M.; Fortuna, C. M.; Freitas, L.
Dual Effect of Nitrate Therapy for Cyclosporine-Induced Hypertension on Vascula...
Reis, F.; Lemos, E. Teixeira de; Almeida, L.; Parada, B.; Garrido, A. P.; Rocha-Pereira, P.; Santos-Silva, A.; Santos-Dias, J.; Dinis, A.The present study sought to evaluate the prevention and reversion effects of isosorbide-5-mononitrate (Is-5-Mn) on the development of hypertension (HT) and on the underlying vascular and platelet morphofunctional disturbances, using an animal model of cyclosporine (CsA)-induced HT. The following rat groups (n = 8) were tested: (1) a control group (orange juice, for 7 weeks); (2) the CsA group (5 mg/kg/d for 7 w...