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Digital games as safe places: the case of animal crossing

Digital games have become a popular cultural pastime and a profitable media industry, with an average player age of 32. During the lockdown years, the many facets of digital games came to light, particularly their capacity to encourage the development of safe spaces for interaction and communities. Games that encourage creativity and content creation, like Second Life, Animal Crossing, and Minecraft, for exampl...

Trabalho por turnos e impactos na vida familiar e social na perspetiva dos fami...

Este trabalho pretende contribuir para a caracterização dos impactos do trabalho por turnos na vida familiar e social na perspetiva dos familiares de trabalhadores por turnos e refletir sobre possibilidades de intervenção em termos da gestão de pessoas nas organizações. São apresentados resultados parciais de três estudos empíricos realizados em Portugal, tendo dois deles questionado cônjuges de trabalhadores e...

Prevalence and serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in da...

The prevalence of Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) was determined by evaluating its presence in faecal samples from 155 heifers, and 254 dairy cows in 21 farms at North of Portugal sampled between December 2017 and June 2019. The prevalence of STEC in heifers (45%) was significantly higher than in lactating cows (16%) (p<0.05, Fisher exact test statistic value is <0.00001). A total of 133 STE...

Nomophobia and lifestyle: smartphone use and its relationship to psychopathologies

In the last decade, smartphone use increased exponentially among the population mainly among adolescents and young adults. Today, people are constantly clinging to the smartphone in many situations of their life, even though this activity can have physical and psychological negative consequences. Through the popularization of smartphones, a new dependency was born, nomophobia, defined as the fear of being away ...

Prevalence and serotypes of Shiga toxinproducing Escherichia coli (STEC) in dai...

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The prevalence of Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) was determined by evaluating its presence in faecal samples from 155 heifers, and 254 dairy cows in 21 farms...

Prevalence of shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli in bovine cattle: a survey in the...

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are food-borne pathogens that can be transmitted to humans through many different routes, but mainly through consumption of contaminated foods. STEC strains are characterized by the production of Shiga toxins (Stx) that are encoded by two genes stx1 and/or stx2. Each toxin can be subdivided into subtypes and, currently, there are three known subtypes for stx...

Adaptação do teste de dependência do telemóvel para adolescentes e jovens portu...

O uso dos telemóveis é um comportamento quotidiano que nos aproxima da informação e das pessoas que nos são significativas. Com o avanço da tecnologia, tornou-se uma ferramenta presente no dia-a-dia das pessoas e por utilizadores cada vez mais jovens, associada também a alguns riscos ou mesmo a um uso excessivo. No presente trabalho, pretendemos apresentar os estudos de adaptação para a população portuguesa de ...

Perfil de resistência a antibióticos de Escherichia coli produtoras e não produ...

A Escherichia coli produtora de toxina Shiga (STEC) é um agente patogénico para o Homem, responsável por infeções intestinais. Os bovinos são considerados o principal reservatório de STEC, devido à presença desta bactéria na microflora do seu trato intestinal. Para combater as infeções nos animais recorre-se frequentemente ao uso dos antibióticos, porém o seu uso excessivo e desadequado tem contribuído para que...

An examination of nomophobia among Portuguese college students

Prevalence of shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli in bovine cattle: a survey in the...

To assess the prevalence of STEC in dairy cattle faeces in the North of Portugal and to determine the genetic pool of STEC virulence genes: stx1 and stx2 and eae.