Sentence processing is affected by the sentence context and word expectancy. To investigate sentence comprehension experimentally, it is useful to have sentence completion norms with both context constraint and word expectancy measures. In this study, two experiments were conducted to collect norms for completion of 807 European Portuguese sentences. Context constraint was measured through type-token ratio and ...
Thirty people (mostly children) experienced an episode of skin rash days after a sand sifting beach operation at Porto Pim Beach in Faial, Azores during June 2019. An environmental and epidemiologic investigation was conducted to identify the cause of the outbreak of skin rash. The epidemiologic investigation found that some of the patients experiencing symptoms had never entered the beach water. During the pol...
Paracentrotus lividus is the most valuable sea urchin species in the European roe markets. Its economic value has been driving an intense exploration of wild populations leading to their over-exploitation in several areas of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic coast. The full production of P. lividus in aquaculture can potentially supply the European market for sea urchin roe reducing the impact over the wil...