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Exploring relations between social and emotional skills and bullying: the role ...
Veríssimo, Lurdes; Marques, Alexandra; Costa, Marisa; Castro, Isabel; Martins, Filipe; Miranda, FranciscaBullying in school has become a public health problem. Among the various bullying’s risk factors, the vulnerabilities associated with socio-emotional skills stand out. The present study aims to explore the relationship between bullying, victimization, selfconcept, and empathy; to test differences in victimization and bullying between boys and girls; and to study predictors of victimization and bullying. Partici...
Hábil-Mente: Avaliação das potencialidades da aplicação digital Hábil como recu...
Marques, Alexandra; Ingrês, Sónia; Rodrigues, Teresa; Gil, Henrique Manuel Pires TeixeiraO desenvolvimento de competências matemáticas e linguísticas na educação pré-escolar é crucial para o sucesso académico e particularmente desafiante para crianças com Perturbação do Espectro do Autismo (PEA). Este estudo investiga o impacto da aplicação digital Hábil uma ferramenta educativa no nível de envolvimento de uma criança com PEA em atividades educativas. Através de um estudo de caso e da aplicação da ...
Escala sensorial de problemas alimentares: fidedignidade e validade da versão e...
Marques, AlexandraIntrodução: A alimentação é uma atividade complexa e dependente de diversos fatores inerentes à criança. O desenvolvimento e maturação das competências motoras, sensoriais, bem como o contexto em que a atividade ocorre irá influenciar fortemente o envolvimento e participação da criança nesta atividade. Objetivo: Estudar a fidedignidade e validade da versão em português europeu do instrumento Escala Sensorial de...
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New technologies for expedited forest inventory using smartphone applications
Sandim, André; Amaro, Mariana; Silva, Maria Emilia; Cunha, Jorge; Morais, Susana; Marques, Alexandra; Ferreira, André; Lousada, José LuisThe forest inventory plays a crucial role in forest management planning, and it is the first step in planning actions for forest production. However, conducting an inventory can be expensive and complex. Forest inventory applications on smartphones have emerged as an alternative to traditional methods and they aim to make field data collection more accessible to non-professionals while ensuring accuracy in dete...
Comparative analysis between synthetic vitamin E and natural antioxidant source...
Pereira, Ricardo; Costa, Mónica; Velasco, Cristina; Cunha, Luís M.; Lima, Rui C.; Baião, Luís F.; Batista, Sónia; Marques, Alexandra; Sá, TiagoSynthetic vitamin E is commonly used in aquafeeds to prevent oxidative stress in fish and delay feed and flesh oxidation during storage, but consumers’ preferences tend towards natural antioxidant sources. The potential of vegetable antioxidants-rich coproducts, dried tomato (TO), carrot (CA) and coriander (CO) was compared to that of synthetic vitamin E included in diets at either a regular (CTRL; 100 mg kg−1)...
Biofortified Diets Containing Algae and Selenised Yeast: Effects on Growth Perf...
Ferreira, Mariana; Ribeiro, Pedro C.; Ribeiro, Laura; Barata, Marisa; Domingues, Valentina F.; Sousa, Sara; Soares, Cristina; Marques, AlexandraEfforts have been made to find natural, highly nutritious alternatives to replace fish meal (FM) and fish oil (FO), which can simultaneously promote fish health and improve the nutritional quality of filets for human consumption. This study evaluated the impact of biofortified diets containing microalgae (as replacement for FM and FO), macroalgae (as natural source of iodine) and selenised yeast (organic source...
Benefits of fiber and polyphenols in lowering cholesterol levels: perception of...
Marques, Alexandra; Coelho, Ana; Paulos, Ema; Bellém, Fernando; Almeida, Ana; Ladeira, CarinaCardiovascular diseases constitute the leading cause of death in Portugal. Individuals who develop this class of pathologies present an underlying clinical condition, called atherosclerosis. The condition of hypercholesterolemia is a major risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis and, consequently, cardiovascular diseases. Thus, the prevention of cases of hypercholesterolemia constitutes a preventive ...
The Relationship of the Human Capital Index with the Level of Education and the...
Marques, Alexandra; Pinheiro, Ana; Matos, Maria Carolina; Torres, Cristina; Lopes, Isabel Cristina; Vieira, IsabelThe relationship between the level of education and the adult survival rate with the human capital index and its components is studied using cluster analysis, applied to a sample of 174 countries covering all continents. The results allow the grouping of countries into three clusters that are consistent with three different levels of development. It was also observed that the lower the values of survival rate a...
A research perspective towards a more complete biodiversity footprint: a report...
Marques, Alexandra; Robuchon, Marine; Hellweg, Stefanie; Newbold, Tim; Beher, Jutta; Bekker, Sebastian; Essl, Franz; Ehrlich, Daniele; Hill, SamanthaThe impact of human activities on biodiversity is increasingly putting at risk the capacity of Nature to support human well-being (IPBES 2019). The recent Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reiterated the importance of land- and sea-use changes, exploitation, climate change, pollution and the introduction of invasive alien species as the major dire...