Background and objective: Motor diagnosis, monitoring and management of Parkinson’s disease (PD) focuses mainly on observational methods and, clinical scales, resulting in a subjective evaluation. Inertial sensors combined with artificial intelligence have emerged as a promising solution to help physicians perform early, differential, and objective quantification of motor symptoms over time. We hypothesize that...
Cruzando registos, fontes e metodologias provenientes de diversos territórios disciplinares das ciências sociais e humanas, a obra reúne – no espaço simultaneamente uno, heterogéneo e pluridimensional da antologia – documentos textuais e iconográficos, artes plásticas, arquivos fotográficos e estudos críticos que visam mapear os elementos constitutivo de um imaginário marítimo atlântico entre a Idade Média e a ...
Modern lifestyle factors—such as dietary changes, reduced microbial exposure, and ge- netic susceptibility—profoundly influence the composition and function of the commensal microbiota. Additionally, dysregulation of the gut microbiota has been linked to impaired immune responses and an increased prevalence of skin disorders, including allergies and in- flammatory conditions, thereby underscoring the importance...
Em 2019, a participação eleitoral dos jovens portugueses na eleição para o Parlamento Europeu foi a mais baixa de toda a União Europeia. O presente artigo visa identificar estratégias de mobilização jovem para as eleições europeias de 2024. Para tal, este artigo oferece uma tipologia descritiva que distingue entre estratégias de mobilização a curto e a médio/longo prazo. Esta tipologia foi testada em três focus...
Nesta 6ª idade (“Um pouco mais de azul”), os textos críticos balizam, metodológica e programaticamente, os primeiros três quartos do século XX — textos estes que procuram, assim, com as inevitáveis restrições e reservas determinadas (necessariamente sintéticas e elucidativas) por uma História Global da Literatura, refletir sobre autores, obras, contextos, tendências estético-literárias, grupos, gerações, que ma...
Books and writing have a history that is inseparable from their various forms and the materials in which they are or were produced. They are also closely associated with the evolution of administrative procedures and ways of ruling, the emergence of public opinions and influential political oppositions, or even the involvement of citizens in civic and critical activity. This mutation and search for ...
The calving moment is one of the most stressful events in the calf’s life. Therefore, evaluating the level of the birth impact in the calf can provide valuable information for both nursery and research activities. The evaluation can be performed by measuring calf’s vitality, or vigor, using ethologic and physiological parameters. However, there is a lack of general agreement regarding which measures are more su...
Failure of passive immune transfer is a widespread problem in dairy farming. Recent scientific recommendations and welfare requisites indicate that passive immune transfer (PIT) should not be treated as a binary variable but as a continuous variable. In other words, the calf benefits from the best immunization possible. So, the objective of this study was to investigate the management factors associated with th...
Failure of passive immune transfer is a condition attributed to calves that did not receive an appropriated doses of immunoglobulins through colostrum, which is known to compromise calf’s health and welfare, usually leading to an increase in antimicrobials’ usage. At the farm level, immunoglobulins analysis is not feasible, thus, the standard method consists in measuring the total protein concentration in serum...
O colostro é para as espécies ruminantes um alimento essencial nas primeiras horas de vida. A sua ingestão confere ao neonato um suporte energético e imunológico determinante para os processos biológicos relacionados com a termogénese, com o desenvolvimento gastrointestinal e com a transferência de imunidade passiva. Estes processos refletem-se na viabilidade, no bem-estar animal e nos índices de crescimento e ...