Problematic usage of the internet (PUI) refers to a pattern of internet use that results in negative consequences in an individual’s life. It encompasses a broad spectrum of activities, which require assessment in terms of both severity and diversity, for a comprehensive understanding. This study aimed to translate the Internet Severity and Activities Questionnaire (ISAAQ-10) into Portuguese, to analyze its psy...
Benign rolandic epilepsy or benign epilepsy in childhood with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) and developmental dyslexia (DD) are two of the most studied disorders in childhood. Despite decades of research, the neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning these disorders are largely unknown. Here, we use auditory event-related potentials (AERPs) to shed light on these issues, since several authors have reported the...
A organização neuronal para a música e linguagem tem sido alvo de inúmeras discussões nas áreas de audiologia, neurociência e arte musical. Vários estudos têm procurado investigar a influência da prática musical na discriminação da fala com ruído competitivo. Averiguar se a prática musical frequente promove uma melhoria significativa na capacidade de discriminação tonal e vocal em ambientes ruidosos. Material e...
Introduction: The neuronal organization for music and language has been the subject of numerous discussions in the areas of audiology, neuroscience and musical art. Several studies have sought to investigate the influence of musical practice on speech discrimination with competitive noise. Objectives: To ascertain whether the frequent musical practice promotes a significant improvement in the capacity of tone a...
Resumen ANTECEDENTES: Presentamos una experiencia pedagógica realizada en la asignatura de Metodología de la Investigación en Gastronomía y Turismo (MIGT) (titulación: Gastronomía), de la Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (ESE-IPC). En ESE-IPC funciona una Escuela de Educación Sénior (EES), un programa de educación no-formal cuyos alumnos frecuentan asignaturas de titulaciones form...
Antecedentes. Presentamos una experiencia pedagógica realizada en la asignatura de Metodología de la Investigación en Gastronomía y Turismo (MIGT) (titulación: Gastronomía), de la Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra(ESE-IPC). En ESE-IPC funciona una Escuela de Educación Sénior (EES), un programa de educación no-formal cuyos alumnos frecuentan asignaturas de titulaciones formales. El ...
Due to the excessive use of conventional energy sources, renewable energy technologies have becoming a potential alternative to provide a sustainable development of society. Biogas has been considered as one of the most environmental beneficial source of energy that contributes for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming (Jiang et al., 2011). Furthermore, the production of biogas can be highly impo...
College students are undergoing major academic and psychosocial pressures and show preference for evening activities. Due to the increasing enrollment in higher education and the propensity for sleep problems could jeopardize the health, academic performance and quality of life, the goal was to analyze the relationship between perceptions of quality of sleep (QS) and the perception of quality of life (QoL) amon...
Face aos desafios de otimizar o processo de ensino aprendizagem, numa convergência com as melhores práticas internacionais, foi realizada alguma experiência b-Learning (bL) num sistema pedagógico de Problem Based Learning (PBL), atualmente adotado pelo curso de Terapia ocupacional (TO) da Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto (ESTSP). Esta iniciativa pretendeu confluir adequadamente com a reforma Bolo...
Many of the major decisions taken by health professionals have some statistical basis. Nowadays the interest in attitudes towards statistics has increased since there is some evidence that these can impede the effective learning of statistics and/or the correct development of useful statistical intuitions. In this work, we analyze the components of graduate (n=385) and undergraduate (n=507) health sciences stud...