Introdução: O desperdício alimentar é um dos desafios globais mais prementes, com implicações ambientais, sociais e económicas, estando frequentemente associado a fatores socioeconómicos, influenciando os comportamentos dos consumidores. Objetivo: Avaliar a relação entre fatores socioeconómicos (nível de escolaridade, ocupação profissional e o rendimento familiar percecionado), e os comportamentos de consumo de...
Introdução: O Programa MUN-SI desenvolve-se anualmente no Município de Oeiras em crianças do 3º e 4º ano de escolaridade do 1º ciclo do Ensino Básico, com o objetivo de promover atitudes e comportamentos mais saudáveis, ao nível dos hábitos alimentares. O consumo regular do pequeno-almoço (PA) tem sido associado à manutenção de um peso saudável, redução do risco de doenças cardiovasculares e benefícios cognitiv...
Introdution: Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is a multidimensional concept encompassing aspects of quality of life that directly or indirectly relate to health, such as physical, psychological, and social well-being. The interplay between socioeconomic factors, like family earnings and weight status impacts children’s HRQoL, highlighting the importance of addressing these factors to promote health equity...
Introduction: The prevalence of childhood overweight has been increasing in Portugal. This may be linked to poor dietary habits, sedentary behavior, and excessive screen time, key modifiable risk factors for childhood overweight. Aims: This study evaluated the relationship between dietary habits, screen time and the prevalence of overweight in children participating in Escola Missão Continente study (EMC) on th...
Coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix) is the most important disease of Coffea arabica. This project aims to identify coffee’s primary metabolic components essential for growth and development that are simultaneously involved in plant defense responses. We studied the interaction of two contrasting coffee genotypes [C. arabica S4 Agaro and Kawisari hybrid (C. arabica × C. liberica)] inoculated with different H. ...
It’s a well-known fact that universities have the power to change society. For this reason they are considered key actors of sustainable development. Education was highlighted in the 2030 Agenda increasing the number of papers pertaining to universities' role in this pursuit. This paper aims to understand how international research is being developed on the matter of sustainability in universities. For that, ou...
The energy sector at a global level is one of the most discussed agendas in the current century, whose centralization of the debate permeates the emergence of establishing new patterns of production and consumption in a perspective of sustainability. In this sense, the legitimacy and importance of the topic was recognized in 2015 by the United Nations (UN) on the occasion of the launch of the 2030 agenda. From ...
O espaço urbano brasileiro tem sido fortemente modificado com o passar do tempo. E por não ser acompanhado de políticas urbanas, diversos problemas vieram à superfície. Diante disso, é preciso incorporar um desenvolvimento urbano sustentável nos municípios, bem como uma constante mensuração, visando proporcionar qualidade às cidades e à sociedade ao longo do tempo. O objetivo neste artigo é analisar a sustentab...
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is involved in cell proliferation, immunoinflammatory response, hypoxia and angiogenesis, which are critical biological processes in lung cancer. Our aim was to study the association of putatively functional genetic polymorphisms in genes coding for proteins involved in RAS, hypoxia and angiogenesis with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) prognosis.
Sialic acids, particularly N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac), are present as terminal components of rich and complex oligosaccharide chains, which are termed glycans, and are exhibited on the cell surfaces, especially on epithelial cells. Crucial in the 'social behavior' of the cell, sialic acids play vital roles in many physiological and pathological phenomena. The aim of the present study was to separate, iden...