Contemporary political and scientific discourses strongly emphasise issues related to the construction, communication, and contestation of the future. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) represent high-impact social innovations aimed at reshaping practices and enhancing the resilience of infrastructures and populations through natural solutions. This chapter revisits the primary objectives of NBS and discusses the sig...
Pautada por uma indiscutível e bem delimitada interdisciplinaridade, esta obra intitulada VINUM VITA EST – Culturas da Vinha e do Vinho – Entre o Mediterrâneo e o Atlântico reúne um conjunto de textos resultantes de investi- gação, reflexão e discussão de académicos e especialistas de áreas relacionadas com o vinho e a vinha. Os textos assumem perspetivas das ciências sociais e humanas, onde a técnica e a ciênc...
O Turismo é considerado um motor de desenvolvimento dos territórios. Neste contexto o Turismo criativo e, particularmente o sustentável, podem assumir um papel determinante em territórios de baixa densidade. Em Portugal o número de aldeias onde o envelhecimento demográfico, a falta de atratividade comercial, empresarial e industrial tem vindo a aumentar e a acentuar o esvaziamento destes territórios. A aldeia d...
Abiotic stress combinations, such as high temperatures and soil/water salinization, severely threaten crop productivity worldwide. In this work, an integrative insight into the photosynthetic metabolism of tomato plants subjected to salt (100 mM NaCl) and/or heat (42 °C; 4 h/day) was performed. After three weeks, the stress combination led to more severe consequences on growth and photosynthetic pigments than t...
Nanomaterials offer a broad spectrum of applications in biomedicine. The shapes of gold nanoparticles could modulate tumor cell behavior. Spherical (AuNPsp), stars (AuNPst) and rods (AuNPr) shapes of polyethylene glycol coated-gold nanoparticles (AuNPs-PEG) were synthesized. Metabolic activity, cellular proliferation, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) were measured and the impact of AuNPs-PEG in metabolic enzym...
Diabetes Mellitus Type I (DM1) is an autoimmune disease, characterized by the total destruction of the beta (β) cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. This disease can strike people at any age, but it usually develops in children or young adults. Because of the high prevalence of DM1 in the young population, as well as all the difficulties in effective self-management in this population, with very s...
Nanomaterials offer a broad spectrum of applications in biomedicine. The shapes of gold nanoparticles could modulate tumor cell behavior. Spherical (AuNPsp), stars (AuNPst) and rods (AuNPr) shapes of polyethylene glycol coated-gold nanoparticles (AuNPs-PEG) were synthesized. Metabolic activity, cellular proliferation, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) were measured and the impact of AuNPs-PEG in metabolic enzym...
O presente texto resume o que considerámos não poder ser esquecido da vida de Alice Gomes (1910-1983) dedicada ao ensino e à criação de literatura a ser acolhida pelos leitores mais jovens em Portugal. A autora, tradutora e pedagoga representa uma perfeita fusão dos dois perfis de adultos que se “intrometem” na relação livro-criança e no seu estudo, e que habitualmente se separam em “pessoas do livro” ...
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