The present article presents the development and implementation of an educational project centered on the triad of Education, Emotions, and Democracy. The project's main goal was to understand how Emotions can be explored with children in Preschool Education, aligning these activities with the Portuguese curricular guiding documents of this level of Education, while fostering the mobilization of democratic prin...
The link between salt consumption and hypertension has been the focus of many studies and clinical trials in the past few years. It is recommended that table salt intake does not exceed the maximum of 5g per day and yet most people find almost impossible to comply with this recommendation. New types of salt have recently appeared in the market and they claim to be less harmful to health than current commercial ...
A contaminação de águas superficiais por pesticidas tem sido alvo de atenção crescente por parte das entidades europeias devido aos efeitos nocivos destes compostos, principalmente a nível do biota. Neste contexto, procedeu-se à monitorização sazonal de 56 pesticidas em águas superficiais da Ria Formosa (Portugal) de 2010 a 2013. Os pontos de amostragem incluíram as cidades de Faro, Olhão e Tavira, assim como o...
In spite of its outstanding ecological and touristic importance the Ria Formosa Lagoon shows signs of anthropogenic pollution. Nonetheless, until the present survey no studies had ever documented the measurement of natural and pharmaceutical estrogens (17β-estradiol, estrone, and 17α-ethynylestradiol), xenoestrogenic industrial pollutants (4-octylphenol, 4- nonylphenol, and their mono and diethoxylates and bisp...