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The effect of environment, social and governance on demand and supply of debt
Morais, F.; Ferreira, J.; Marques, L.; Ramalho, J.This paper investigates how Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) performance affects the zero-leverage phenomenon. Using a sample of European-listed firms for the 2002–2020 period and bivariate probit models with partial observability, we find that a greater ESG performance decreases the firm’s propensity to have zero leverage. The negative effect of ESG performance on zero leverage is determined by credito...
Artificial intelligence driven diagnosis of motility patterns in high-resolutio...
Mascarenhas, M.; Mota, J.; Cordeiro, J. R.; Mendes, F.; Martins, M.; Cardoso, P.; Almeida, M. J.; Pinto da Costa, A.; Hajra Martinez, I.INTRODUCTION: Esophageal motility disorders (EMDs) are common in clinical practice, with a high symptomatic burden and significant impact on the patients' quality of life. High-resolution esophageal manometry (HREM) is the gold standard for the evaluation of functional esophageal disorders. The Chicago Classification offers a standardized approach to HREM. However, HREM remains a complex procedure, both in data...
“Navigating through the digital swamp”: Assessing SME propensity for online mar...
Gonçalves, M.; Ferreira, F.; Dabić, M.; Ferreira, J.Digital technology has produced deep changes in the business world. However, companies have a hard time understanding consumers’ changing needs and new consumption patterns, especially small and medium-sized enterprises that currently face growing challenges in an era characterized by a lack of time and information overload. New mechanisms must be found that not only can keep businesses competitive in digital e...
Building healthy life models centered on human and democratic values in a chang...
Ferreira, J.This chapter presents an essay based on social research, and professional and personal experience on the major issues facing contemporary society, ranging from quality of life, healthy living, the family, and the harmonization of social and human relations from a collective perspective. The structuring points I mention are human and democratic values from the humanist perspective of life in society; and some co...
Entre gestão de risco e gestão da qualidade nas CPCJ
Ruxa, A. C.; Ferreira, J.; Eiras, M.Num contexto atual, de valorização e dignificação da Infância, onde o expectável é que a criança, durante o seu processo de crescimento e maturação, consiga adquirir competências para o exercício de uma cidadania plena, coexistem riscos que assolam as vidas de muitas delas, fazendo perigar a efetivação dos seus direitos e, consequente, o seu desenvolvimento seguro. No balanço, entre a maximização do bem-estar e...
The effect of coping on the relationship between work-family conflict and stres...
Sousa, C. de.; Viseu, J.; Pimenta, A. C.; Vinagre, H.; Ferreira, J.; Matavelli, R.; José, H.; Sousa, L.; Romana, F. A.; Valentim, O.The challenges experienced in the context of the pandemic have required a significant reconciliation between work and family domains due to confinement and the need to spend more time at home, which may have increased the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression, making it necessary to use resilient coping strategies to overcome the difficulties felt. This study examined the effect of resilient coping on the r...
Enhancing cybersecurity education for the healthcare sector: Fostering interdis...
Rajamäki, J.; Rathod, P.; Ferreira, J.; Ahonen, O.; Serrão, C.; Gomes, M. C.The health care sector faces growing and evolving cybersecurity threats and pressing need to enhance its cybersecurity education programmes. Many research study confirms the growing gap of cybersecurity and digitalisation know-how for the healthcare professionals. Robust cybersecurity education is crucial to equipping healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to safeguard sensitive patien...
Investigation of insulin nucleation kinetics under oscillatory flow mixing
Castro, Filipa; Araújo, S.; Ferreira, J.; Ferreira, António; Campos, João; Teixeira, J. A.; Rocha, FernandoCrystallization can represent a cost-effective and scalable alternative for protein separation and purification. However, it is still not widely implemented in biopharmaceutical industry due to limited understanding of the underlying phenomena. Herein, insulin crystallization was investigated in an oscillatory flow reactor in the presence and absence of acetone. The results show the impact of both supersaturati...
Effects of methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) in avoidance behaviour and reprodu...
Ribeiro, O.; Ferreira, J.; Sousa, J. R.; Natal-da-Luz, T.; Ribeiro, C.; Carrola, J. S.Background: The excessive use of psychoactive substances (PAS) is a global problem that directly and indirectly affects human, animal health and environment [1], related with “one health” concept. These substances and their metabolites enter in the wastewater through human excretion and consequently into water systems. The sewage sludge produced in wastewater treatment plants can be used as amendment in agricul...
Detection of cracks in building facades using infrared thermography
Fonseca, T.; Ferreira, J.Cracks in building facades can deteriorate the health of a building, putting in risk the well being of the people who use it or that are in its surroundings. Identifying the cracks and assessing the damage degree of a facade is essential to the maintenance life cycle of a building. Infrared thermography has been playing a major role in identifying cracks and other defects in building facades. The aim of this pa...