In recent years, genome-scale metabolic models have become indispensable tools for studying complex metabolic processes occurring within living organisms. Understanding plants metabolic behaviour under diel cycles (24-h daynight cycles) is essential to explain their adaptive strategies to different light conditions. However, integrating these cycles in plant GEMs is complex, laborious, time-consuming, and not s...
The significance of schools' self-evaluation is intrinsically linked to their autonomy and responsibility in interpreting and executing educational tasks. However, this authority is influenced by both European and national policies. This paper aims to compare the policies and practices underlying the process of school self-evaluation in Slovakia and Portugal. Employing a qualitative approach rooted in comparati...
Multi-omics integration is a novel approach that combines data from different biomolecular levels, such as genes, proteins, and metabolites, to obtain a comprehensive view of the biological system. This approach is even more relevant for studying plants, as plant metabolism includes complex and interconnected mechanisms responsible for environmental adaptation. Plant metabolism has also been studied using Genom...
Vitis vinifera, also known as grapevine, is widely cultivated and commercialized, particularly to produce wine. As wine quality is directly linked to fruit quality, studying grapevine metabolism is important to understand the processes underlying grape composition. Genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) have been used for the study of plant metabolism and advances have been made, allowing the integration of omic...
The significance of schools' self-evaluation is intrinsically linked to their autonomy and responsibility in interpreting and executing educational tasks. However, this authority is influenced by both European and national policies. This paper aims to compare the policies and practices underlying the process of school self-evaluation in Slovakia and Portugal. Employing a qualitative approach rooted in comparati...
Tourism is currently one of the main sectors of profit for the worldwide economy. This study aims to explore ethics and sustainability in employer branding applied in the hotel industry, which is intended to correlate these very current and little-explored themes. This study aims to explore the investigation of these concepts that have grown, especially in the area of tourism and hospitality, as a way to better...
As plants produce an enormous diversity of metabolites to help them adapt to the environment, the study of plant metabolism is of utmost importance to understand different plant phenotypes. Omics data have been generated at an unprecedented rate for several organisms, including plants, and are widely used to study the central dogma of molecular biology, connecting the genome to phenotypes. Constraint-based mode...
Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) are essential tools for in silico phenotype prediction and strain optimisation. The most straightforward GEMs reconstruction approach uses published models as templates to generate theinitial draft, requiring further curation. Such an approachis used by BiGG Integration Tool (BIT), available for merlin users. This tool uses models from BiGG Models database as templates for t...
Based on the belief that the involvement of schools in self-assessment processes allow them to better know each other and, based on this knowledge, make decisions that contribute to social justice, a study was developed focused on two education policies in Portugal, both justified in this intention and which require the use of self-evaluation. The data collected from semi-directive interviews with school princi...