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Exploring Opuntia ficus-indica as a Strategy to Mitigate High Temperatures Effe...

High temperatures significantly impact grapevine growth and development and lead to severe losses in grape quality and production. To minimize the impact of those environmental constraints, the application of biostimulants (BSts) has emerged as one of the most interesting strategies. BSts application derived from cactus species has been described as a successful approach to enhance tolerance to biotic and abiot...

The feeling of belonging and inclusion in a european outermost university

It is our wish to describe the development of a transnational research project, aiming to enhance the feeling of belonging and inclusion, as a way of improving student and staff’s wellbeing, particularly at a university of a European outermost region, Madeira. Even though similar studies have been carried out in other four European universities, this paper is only focused on the University of Madeira. The multi...

Relationship between handedness and the incidence of spinal changes in the fron...

Sport practice and plantar pressure in children aged 10–18 years: evaluation us...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome associated with second-generation antipsychotics...

Introduction: Antipsychotic drugs are the cornerstone of the pharmacological treatment of psychotic disorders; however, even with Second-generation antipsychotics (SGA), adverse effects continue to be extremely accentuated and the treatment effectiveness is compromised by low adherence of the patient. Objectives: Taking into consideration the importance of adverse effects for psychotic therapeutics, this study ...

Communication strategies: Explaining the Antimicrobial Resistance to High Schoo...

Hospitalization direct cost of adults with community-acquired pneumonia in Port...

Introduction: Hospitalizations due to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in mainland Portugal from 2000 to 2009 accounted for 3.7% of all hospital admissions in population with 18 or more years of age. There is no direct-cost data regarding these admissions. Methods: In this observational descriptive study all adult hospitalizations associated with CAP diagnosis were retrospectively analyzed for the period betw...

Hospitalization direct cost of adults with community-acquired pneumonia in Port...

Introduction: Hospitalizations due to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in mainland Portugal from 2000 to 2009 accounted for 3.7% of all hospital admissions in population with 18 or more years of age. There is no direct cost data regarding these admissions. Methods: In this observational descriptive study all adult hospitalizations associated with CAP diagnosis were retrospectively analyzed for the period betw...

Proteolysis of PDO Serpa cheese made with Cynara Cardunculus L ecotypes during ...

Portugal and Spain have a strong tradition of cheesemaking from raw ewe’s cheese made with the aqueous extracts of Cynara cardunculus L. dried flowers. Serpa cheese is an example of a Portuguese regional cheese with the label of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), that is characterized with a semi-soft texture and an exquisite flavor. The renewed interest in the enzymes of the Cynara cardunculus L. coagulant...

Evaluation of encapsulated anethole and carvone in lambs artificially- and natu...

Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-06T15:31:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-02-01; Molecules from natural sources, such as essential oils, have shown activity against parasites in vitro, but have not yet been explored extensively in vivo. Anethole and carvone (10% each), encapsulated with 80% of a solid matrix, referred to as EO (encapsulated oils), were tested in vivo in 2 experiment...