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Imaginários tecno-autoritários na América Latina: a contestação das tecnologias...

No contexto da expansão global de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial, organizações da sociedade civil têm empreendido ações de contestação do seu uso, invocando riscos de vigilância massiva, ameaças à privacidade e liberdades civis, e desigualdades e discriminação. Este artigo expande o conhecimento sobre a contestação de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial para além dos casos dos EUA e da Europa, analisando...

Narratives about distributed health literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic

The promotion of health literacy was a key public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the role of social networks and relationships for support with health literacy-related tasks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is scarcely understood. Moving beyond traditional notions of health literacy, which focus on individual skills and knowledge, this study uses the concept of distributed health ...

Intrafamilial gamete donation: Perspectives of donors

[Excerpt] The gap between the supply of and demand for donated gametes is primarily due to challenges in recruiting donors amidst a rising number of recipients, as observed in Portugal (Da Silva , 2019). This imbalance leads to longer waiting lists, higher costs, and contributes to the transnational flow of gametes and the pursuit of cross-border reproductive care (Da Silva , 2019). To address this supply-deman...

Desafios sociais e éticos da inteligência artificial no século XXI

Este livro nasce da necessidade de disponibilizar, numa linguagem acessível, uma análise científica e pedagógica sobre Inteligência Artificial (IA) que fomente a capacidade crítica e reflexiva. Com um olhar atento aos principais desafios sociais e éticos da IA no século XXI — sobretudo na educação, saúde e justiça —, esta obra explora questões de poder e elementos políticos e culturais que subjazem às narrativa...

Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in ...

Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performa...

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Non‑conventional treatments to control cork oak infection by Phytophthora cinna...

Cork oak (Quercus suber) is one of the most important forest species in Portugal and in the Mediterranean basin, but in recent decades a progres- sive decline has been registered in the montado ecosys- tem. The main phytopathogenic agent involved in this process, Phytophthora cinnamomi, has a high infection potential and survival ability, and became a serious threat to this ecosystem. Extensive areas of cork oa...

The ADnet Bayesian belief network for alder decline: Integrating empirical data...

The globalization in plant material trading has caused the emergence of invasive pests in many ecosystems, such as the alder pathogen Phytophthora ×alni in European riparian forests. Due to the ecological importance of alder to the functioning of rivers and the increasing incidence of P. ×alni-induced alder decline, effective and accessible decision tools are required to help managers and stakeholders control t...

Ethical, legal, and social challenges of next-generation sequencing technologie...

Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), otherwise known as Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS), or High Throughput Sequencing (HTS), promises to revolutionize the field of forensic science in supporting the activities of the criminal justice system. Besides being aware of the potential of NGS technologies for supporting activities of the criminal justice, it is urgent to attend to its Ethical, Legal, and Social Issue...

Os microrganismos do solo no montado: uma estratégia para adaptação às alteraçõ...

O Montado é um ecossistema mediterrânico florestal com particular resiliência, rico em biodiversidade e de grande relevância para a conservação da natureza. No entanto, está exposto a ameaças por pressões ambientais agravadas pelas mudanças climáticas e pela pressão do Homem, o que está a levar ao seu declínio. Os microrganismos do solo são cruciais na manutenção de várias das funções do solo onde se inclui a r...