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Melatonin production improves Senegalese sole sperm motility at night, but fail...
Félix de Azeredo Pinto e Melo, Francisca; Ferrão, Leonor; Gallego, Victor; Oliveira, Catarina; Cabrita, ElsaMelatonin is a powerful antioxidant present in fish seminal plasma. This study aimed to understand melatonin's endogenous and exogenous effects on first-generation Senegalese sole sperm quality for sperm management applications. In the first experiment, samples were collected at mid-light (ML) and mid-dark (MD) daytimes, to evaluate the effects on sperm motility. In a second experiment, using confocal microscop...
Gestão do Design: sector construção
Maldonado, Paulo; Ferrão, LeonorO Manual de Gestão de Processos de Design pretende ser, por um lado, um documento de referência operativo para a integração de design e de inovação na cultura e na visão estratégica das organizações do Sector e, por outro, um instrumento facilitador de processos de internacionalização. O público-alvo deste manual são os empreendedores, os empresários, os gestores de topo, as pessoas com funções de direcção e os...
Exposure to silver and titanium dioxide nanoparticles at supra-environmental co...
Oliveira, Catarina; Ferrão, Leonor; Gallego, Victor; Mieiro, Cláudia; Oliveira, Isabel B.; Carvalhais, Ana; Pachedo, Mário; Cabrita, ElsaMarine pollution by nanoparticles (NPs) can be reprotoxic for fish and disturb successful reproduction of wild populations. In gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata), a mild effect on sperm motility was observed after exposure to high concentrations of silver NPs. Considering the great heterogeneity traits within a sperm sample, it is possible that NPs affect spermatozoa accordingly, modulating subpopulation profile...
Insertion of sustainable strategic design in the furnishings of micro and small...
Braga, Juliana Cardoso; Da Silva, Fernando Moreira; Ferrão, Leonor; Paschoarelli, Luis Carlos [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:09:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-01-01; There are around thirteen thousand, five hundred micro and small enterprises (MSEs) acting in the furniture sector in Brazil, whose production is essentially made to order. The manufacturing processes are not sustainable, resulting in large volumes of waste discarded in a wasteful manner on the outskirt...
Design, Objects and Memory: A Sustainability-Oriented Project Itinerary
Torres, Myrla; Maldonado, Paulo; Ferrão, LeonorGame kasino Concerns related to sustainability are recurrent in Design. Questioning project practices, reassessing principles which are intrinsic to the design process, promoting the dissemination of sustainability-oriented actions, and contributing with a new awareness-raising process about consumption are attitudes that might help in the inclusion of environmental and social requirements in design practices. ...
Inspiration Mining: Intersecting Improbable Connections in a New Landscape of C...
Maldonado, Paulo; Ferrão, LeonorThis article aims to present a critical reflection on the collaborative curatorship of the exhibition “Intersecting Improbable Connections”. It is a transdisciplinary exhibition covering architecture, design, arts, among other fields, and calls for non-linear productive thinking strategies. It explores the intersection of unlikely relationships to inspire memorable visits to museums, and it feeds the Inspædia p...
Inspædia: [Almost] Everything About Simplicity, Playfulness and Inspiration
Maldonado, Paulo; Teixeira, Fábio; Duarte, José; Câmara, António; Correia, Nuno; Ferrão, Leonor; Ermida, Pablo; Passos, MariaThe aim of this paper is to disclose the new research developments and the results from the systematization of experience and user interaction with the Inspædia (a new web knowledge “Agora”), to inspire a dynamic, collaborative, and interactive intelligence among the inspædiers. We will explain in detail and describe the design process and discuss the ultimate design interaction concept & development regarding ...
Inspædia: changing the landscape of cultural reflection and influence through u...
Maldonado, Paulo; Ferrão, Leonor; Ermida, PabloThis article presents and encourages use of Inspædia, the online platform for inspiring collaborative and interactive intelligence. Inspædia’s launch will take place in Los Angeles and will have the 8th AHFE as its backdrop. GET INSPIRED is the provocative and motivational call to action that appears when inspædiers (collaborative visual storytellers) access the online platform at www.inspaedia.com. This is the...
Inspædia report: an inspired research itinerary
Maldonado, Paulo; Duarte, José; Câmara, António; Correia, Nuno; Ferrão, Leonor; Ermida, PabloThis article summarizes the essentials of the design research path that led to the collaborative and interactive intelligence platform Inspædia. Firstly, it discusses the concepts and contexts that favor innovation to understand the importance of entrepreneurship, exploring successful business models and identifying trends and patterns of excellence; some inspirational riffs to inspire other organizational cont...