Background: Globally, the demand for fishery resources has increased significantly to meet the nutritional needs of the population. With the continuous increase in aquaculture and the introduction of new species, knowledge of the life cycle of infectious agents is essential, as it is crucial for public health and industry [1]. Myxosporeans are microscopic multicellular parasites belonging to the phylum Cnidaria...
A Ciência Aberta (CA) envolve um conjunto de princípios e práticas que permite que os diferentes resultados da investigação se tornem mais acessíveis, transparentes, fiáveis e inclusivos, aumentando a qualidade de produção de conhecimento, a reutilização dos resultados e o impacto na sociedade. A adoção de princípios e práticas da CA implica uma profunda mudança cultural particularmente difícil de implementar n...
Partindo-se dos dados recolhidos no Hipogeu 2 do Monte do Carrascal 2 (Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja), um dos sepulcros colectivos sito nas imediações do grande sítio do Porto Torrão, procurou-se obter uma leitura biográfica do mesmo, abordando-se especificamente as questões relativas à construção, uso, reconfiguração, reutilização e abandono da estrutura tumular. Através da análise integrada das informações espac...
Apesar dos hipogeus (ou grutas artificiais) serem explorados desde a década de 1870, é apenas da última década do século XX que um destes monumentos é pela primeira vez alvo de uma intervenção levada a cabo por arqueólogos e antropólogos – o Hipogeu de Monte Canelas I. Aqui, o tipo de registo efectuado permitiu realizar uma análise arqueotanatológica do sítio, vinte anos após a sua escavação, devidamente baliza...
The involvement of people with psychiatric disabilities in research and service evaluation has traditionally been rare, especially in the construction of outcome measures. This study documents a collaborative process with consumers from 2 Portuguese community mental health services in the construction of the Capabilities Questionnaire for the Community Mental Health context (CQ-CMH). The measure is inspired by ...
An archaeological excavation in Valle da Gafaria (Lagos, Portugal), revealed two contiguous burial places outside the medieval city walls, dating from the 15(th)-17(th) centuries AD: one was interpreted as a Leprosarium cemetery and the second as an urban discard deposit, where signs of violent, unceremonious burials suggested that these remains may belong to slaves captured in Africa by the Portuguese. We obta...
In 2009, an archaeological intervention in the Valle da Gafaria (Lagos, Portugal) allowed the excavation of part of a leprosarium and an associated necropolis (15th-17th centuries). The individuals recovered were buried directly in the soil, in positions and orientations discordant to the prevailing Christian rules. The sample is made up of eleven adult individuals of both sexes. This paper discusses the differ...
This paper presents a geoarchaeological study of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic (Châtelperronian, Aurignacian and Solutrean) occupations preserved at the Bordes-Fitte rockshelter in Central France. The lithostratigraphic sequence is composed of near-surface sedimentary facies with vertical and lateral variations, in a context dominated by run-off and gravitational sedimentary processes. Field description and mic...
Geoarchaeological analysis of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic record preserved in cave, rock-shelter and open-air sites in the northern sector of the Meso-Cenozoic of the Western Iberian Peninsula margin (Portugal) reveals several disconformities (erosive unconformities), hiatuses and surface stabilization phases. A recurrent disconformity, dated to ca. 29,500–32,000 cal yr BP, in the time range of Heinrich e...
The archaeological small site of Gândara do Outil 1 supplied a litic industry on surface deserving of a preliminary attribution to the recent Aurinhacense (~ 28.000 BP) that it contrasts with the rarity of the archaeological register of the initial Upper Palaeolithic period in western peninsular. This attribution also assumed significant relevance for the understanding of the sedimentary sequence and geomorphol...