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Tools to persevere towards a challenging goal: lessons learned about grit along...
Nunes, Ana Rita; Moreira, Tânia; Pereira, Armanda; Zanatta, Cleia; Mota Ribeiro, Luísa; Rosário, PedroUnderstanding the factors contributing to increased perseverance and passion toward long-term goals is an ongoing research challenge. The present study explores the inner drive of individuals to achieve meaningful goals over time, despite setbacks and challenges. The scenario chosen to uncover grit processes was the Way of St. James, a long pilgrimage demanding participants’ perseverance and passion for achievi...
How Digital Media can help fight food waste
Moreira, Tânia; Hemsworth, Kevin; Vieira, Bruno Miguel; Monteiro, Márcia; Vieira, ElviraPurpose: This study intends to understand how digital media can help raise consumer awareness of the importance of combating food waste. For this, two issues were investigated: if individuals are aware of this problem food; and if are willing to learn about digital tools that promote combat this type of waste.Methodology: To assess the willingness of individuals to join digital media to combat food waste, an on...
How digital media can help fight food waste
Moreira, Tânia; Hemsworth, Kevin; Vieira, Bruno Miguel; Monteiro, Márcia; Vieira, ElviraPurpose: This study intends to understand how digital media can help raise consumer awareness of the importance of combating food waste. For this, two issues were investigated: if individuals are aware of this problem food; and if are willing to learn about digital tools that promote combat this type of waste. Methodology: To assess the willingness of individuals to join digital media to combat food waste, an o...
Burnout e Estratégias de Coping nos Médicos de Medicina Geral e Familiar dos Cu...
Sousa-Ferreira, Teresa; Freitas, Catarina; Rocha, Hugo; Moreira, Tânia; Marques, João; Correia, Raquel; Ferreira, FátimaIntrodução: O burnout é um estado de exaustão física, emocional e mental, causado pelo envolvimento duradouro em situações de elevada exigência emocional, no local de trabalho. Os médicos têm uma das profissões consideradas mais stressantes, sendo que os Médicos de Medicina Geral e Familiar (MGF) são dos que estão em maior risco de burnout. As estratégias de coping adotadas são cruciais para a transição de níve...
"Did you do your homework?" mathematics teachers' homework follow-up practices ...
Rosário, Pedro; Cunha, Jennifer; Nunes, Ana Rita; Moreira, Tânia; Carlos Núñez, José; Xu, JianzhongTeachers' homework follow-up practices, the in-class strategies teachers use to monitor their students' homework assignments, have an impact on their students' homework behaviors and academic achievement. The current study explored the perspectives of middle school mathematics teachers on the three domains of homework follow-up: the practices used in class, the purposes of each practice, and the aspects that ma...
Promoting school engagement in children with cerebral Palsy: A narrative based ...
Pereira, Armanda; Rosário, Pedro; Lopes, Sílvia; Moreira, Tânia; Magalhães, Paula; Núñez, José Carlos; Vallejo, Guillermo; Sampaio, AdrianaThis study assessed the efficacy of an educational program focused on the promotion of school engagement in children with Cerebral Palsy. A 9 weeks, narrative-based intervention program, with a pre-post neuropsychological and self-report evaluation, was developed with a dual focus: a self-regulation theoretical model and executive function stimulation. Fifteen children with Cerebral Palsy participated in the st...
Impurities: an aesthetic reflection
Moreira, TâniaThe history of aesthetic ideas has explored, from its beginnings, an incompatibility between aesthetics and perfection. On the one hand, this explains the tension found in Plato and Aristotle between the prescribed theory and the practice. On the other hand, it also explains the modern claim of imperfection — as an attribute of the work of art — in authors such as Victor Hugo and Baudelaire. In fact, this claim...
Territorial cohesion; from the European to the regional agenda: conceptual tran...
Santinha, Gonçalo; Marques, Teresa Sá; Saraiva, Miguel Marinho; Guerra, Paula; Moreira, TâniaSince the 1990s, the debate around Europeanization has been continuous in planning and political discourses. But if economic and social cohesion were already deeply rooted in European policies, only after the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion (2008) and the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon (2009), was a third dimension added: Territorial Cohesion. However, this is still not a consensual term. The ambiguity in ...
The Social Place of the Portuguese Punk Scene: an Itinerary of the Social Profi...
Abreu, Paula; Silva, Augusto Santos; Guerra, Paula; Oliveira, Ana; Moreira, TâniaThis article will present a characterisation of the Portuguese punk scene between 1977 and 2014, while considering the social profiles of its protagonists. It is based on the sociological principle that the social positioning of social actors influences what they do, say, and feel. Their social profiling will help clarify their role in the musical scene. This approach has been deemed fundamental in interpreting...
Relationship between oral health and physical activity in a young population ag...
Rodrigues, Octávio; Adam, Susana; Freitas, Mariana; Martins, Ana Cristina; Granja, Ana Rita; Nogueira, Paulo; Moreira, Tânia; Simões, NunoAims: This study aimed to evaluate oral health status, using index missing decomposition index for definitive teeth (DMF), Missing decomposition index for deciduous teeth (dmf), both in children and teenagers from Seixal's public schools, as well as to characterize the level of physical exercise practiced by these students and to analyze its possible relationship with oral health. Materials and Methods: A trans...