Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, community pharmacy (CP) professionals were among those who experienced the greatest risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2, which forced major adaptations. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to describe the changes implemented in CP professionals during the pandemic, understand the perception of professionals about their experience, and explore changes to remain. Meth...
Introduction: Due to improvements in medical care, children with complex chronic diseases are living longer. Pediatric palliative care should be offered to these children and their families. The aim of the study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of health care professionals of a pediatric department toward pediatric palliative care and identify the possible barriers to the referral of patients. Method...
A possível escassez de água é um problema cada vez mais abordado a nível mundial. Hoje, mesmo durante a “era da informação” e todo desenvolvimento tecnológico, há regiões urbanas consideradas desenvolvidas que sofrem com a falta de água em seu cotidiano, disposta por diversos fatores como o demasiado crescimento populacional, má gestão e utilização deste bem e a industrialização. Em contrapartida, tem-se cada v...
The most recently discovered Human coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Coronavirus - 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is certainly the best-known coronavirus of all, as it is considered a successful invader. First identified in late 2019, it generated the current pandemic of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) when it spread across the planet in only a few months. Like some other members of the same family of vi...
As embalagens inteligentes são um tema cada vez mais próximo da realidade e algo que começa a ser cada vez mais necessário que se tornem uma realidade. Estas embalagens permitem que os alimentos sejam conservados sem qualquer tipo de adição de conservantes no próprio alimento uma vez que é a própria embalagem que trata disso. Temos também as alterações climáticas que fizeram o nosso planeta atingir um estado de...
After 20 years of the Bologna Declaration, Portuguese universities claim to be implementing student-centred and involved assessment practices. Student conceptions of assessment matter when innovations and reforms in assessment practices are being implemented. This study is part of a larger research project entitled "Assessment in higher education: the potential of alternative methods" funded by the Portuguese F...
New porphyrin-imidazole derivatives were synthesised by Radziszewski reaction between 2-formyl-5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin 1 and several (hetem)aromatic 1,2-diones, which after cationization afforded promising monocationic photosensitizers 3a-d. Singlet oxygen studies have demonstrated that all the cationic porphyrin-imidazole conjugates 3a-d were capable to produce cytotoxic species. These photosensitizers...
This paper looks at how undergraduates look at assessment in Higher Education. It focuses on their views about assessment practices in five Portuguese public universities. The main purpose is to look at the students’ perceptions of assessment in higher education taking into account the assessment methods used, the influence of assessment in their motivation to learn as well as self-regulation of the learning pr...