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Bibliometric Analysis and Benchmarking of Life Cycle Assessment of Higher Educa...
Déda, Denner; Gervásio, Helena; Quina, Margarida J.Higher Education Institutions (HEI), such as Universities and Institutes worldwide, are making efforts and setting goals to assess and minimise their environmental impacts, and to become more sustainable. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been considered a powerful approach to deal with environmental impacts of products and services. Thus, in this paper, a bibliometric analysis was carried out to benchmark the su...
Design for Adaptability (DfA)—Frameworks and Assessment Models for Enhanced Cir...
Askar, Rand; Bragança, Luís; Gervásio, HelenaA growing interest has been expressed in the issue of building adaptability over the past decade, perceiving it as an intrinsic criterion for sustainability. In light of the circular economy (CE) and its application in the construction sector, more attention has been paid to buildings’ design for adaptability (DfA) towards the realization of circular buildings. DfA is considered a key enabler for other circular...
Adaptability of Buildings: A Critical Review on the Concept Evolution
Askar, Rand; Bragança, Luís; Gervásio, HelenaOur ever-evolving built environment is continuously facing emerging needs for housing, work, health, and mobility, among others. Yet, buildings are usually designed and set up as finished permanent objects, reflecting the one constant scenario in mind of defined form, function, and performance. Since change is increasingly inevitable in our life, enlarging buildings’ adaptive capacities in response to arising v...
Thermal Performance and Comfort Condition Analysis in a Vernacular Building wit...
Fernandes, Jorge; Malheiro, Raphaele; Castro, Maria de Fátima; Gervásio, Helena; Silva, Sandra Monteiro; Mateus, RicardoThe increase in global environmental problems requires more environmentally e cient construction. Vernacular passive strategies can play an important role in helping reducing energy use and CO2 emissions related to buildings. This paper studies the use of glazed balconies in the North of Portugal as a strategy to capture solar gains and reduce heat losses. The purpose is understanding thermal performance and co...
Thermal Performance and Comfort Conditions Analysis of a Vernacular Palafitic T...
Fernandes, Jorge; Mateus, Ricardo; Gervásio, Helena; Silva, Sandra Monteiro; Branco, Jorge; Almeida, ManuelaThe palafitic timber constructions of the central Portuguese coastline are an example of the adaptation to site-specific conditions (climate and sand landscape morphodynamics) using the available endogenous resources. Thus, in a context of environmental awareness and climate change, it is relevant to understand their features/strategies and how they perform. This work analyses the energy performance and thermal...
Passive strategies used in Southern Portugal vernacular rammed earth buildings ...
Fernandes, Jorge Emanuel Pereira; Mateus, Ricardo; Gervásio, Helena; Silva, Sandra Monteiro; Bragança, L.In Portugal, there is a lack of quantitative studies on the thermal performance of earthen buildings. This paper aims at contributing to this research context by studying site-specific strategies, and the thermal performance and comfort conditions of a rammed earth building located in southern Portugal. The study is based on objective and subjective assessments and consists of assessing the hygrothermal conditi...
Cancro da mama hereditário: dupla heterozigotia para variantes patogénicas nos ...
Theisen, Patrícia; Rodrigues, Pedro; Silva, Catarina; Ribeiro, Leonor; Carreiro, Helena; Gervásio, Helena; Vieira, Luís; Gonçalves, JoãoIntrodução/objetivos: O cancro da mama hereditário (CMH) representa 5-10% dos casos de cancro da mama, destes ~30% devem-se a variantes patogénicas germinativas nos genes BRCA1 e BRCA2. Vários outros genes de suscetibilidade para CMH têm sido identificados, com diferentes graus de penetrância. A determinação da causa genética subjacente ao CMH permite identificar os indivíduos com risco aumentado de desenvolver...
Benchmarking the Life-Cycle Environmental Performance of Buildings
Gervásio, Helena; Dimova, Silvia; Pinto, ArturThe work presented in this paper is part of a research project aiming for the development of a performance-based approach for sustainable design, focusing on the efficient use of natural resources over the lifetime of buildings. The proposed approach requires the set of benchmarks to provide a consistent and transparent yardstick for the environmental performance of buildings and to strive towards an effective ...
Hepatic Angiosarcoma Masquerading as Hemangioma: A Challenging Differential Dia...
Garcia, Ana Rita; Ribeiro, João; Gervásio, Helena; Castro-Sousa, FranciscoHemangiomas are usually diagnosed based on ultrasound findings. The presence of symptoms, rapid growth or atipical imagiological findings should make us consider other diagnoses, including malignant tumors such as angiosarcomas. We describe the case of a previously healthy 46-year-old female without a history of exposure to carcinogens who presented with abdominal pain for two months. Diagnostic work-up reveale...
Hepatic Angiosarcoma Masquerading as Hemangioma: A Challenging Differential Dia...
Garcia, Ana Rita; Ribeiro, João; Gervásio, Helena; Sousa, Francisco Castro eHemangiomas are usually diagnosed based on ultrasound findings. The presence of symptoms, rapid growth or atipical imagiological findings should make us consider other diagnoses, including malignant tumors such as angiosarcomas. We describe the case of a previously healthy 46-year-old female without a history of exposure to carcinogens who presented with abdominal pain for two months. Diagnostic work-up reveale...