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Towards safer edible insects: assessing contaminant bioaccumulation and depurat...
Cardoso, Diogo N.; Alvito, Paula; de Boevre, Marthe; Silva, Ana Rita; Pinto, José; Rodrigues, Ana; Prodana, Marija; Silva, Patricia; Mostafaie, AmidThe integration of insects into sustainable food and feed chains demands a robust evaluation of their capacity to accumulate and eliminate contaminants. Understanding these dynamics is fundamental to ensuring consumer safety and supporting the development of regulatory standards for insect-derived products. This study assessed the bioaccumulation and depuration kinetics of metal(loid)s (As, Cd, Pb) and mycotoxi...
Health care transition: Key points for creating and implementing a project
Santos, Mónica; Espírito Santo, Maria Inês; Nascimento , Patricia; Silva, Patricia; Rocha Saraiva, Paula; Lopez, Paula SuarezObjective: Transitional care (TC) from hospital to home is a potential assessment indicator for the assessment of integrated and people-centered care. This qualitative exploratory-descriptive study aimed to identify principles of good practices in home-based TC after hospital discharge through content analysis of experiences shared by healthcare professionals in a workshop. Method: The workshop involved two mod...
Modal identification of train passenger seats based on dynamic tests and output...
Silva, Patricia; Ribeiro, Diogo; Mendes, Joaquim; Seabra, EuricoRailways are one of the most efficient and widely used mass transportation systems for mid-range distances, also being pointed out as the best strategy to reach European Union decarbonisation goals. However, to increase railways attractiveness, it is necessary to improve the quality of the ride, namely its comfort, by decreasing the vibration at the passenger level. This article describes the experimental vibra...
Railways passengers comfort evaluation through motion parameters: a systematic ...
Silva, Patricia; Ribeiro, Diogo; Mendes, Joaquim; Seabra, Eurico; Postolache, OctavianRailways are one of the most widely used mass transportation systems. Its superior transportation capacity, low environmental impact, high safety, and comfort have been leading to a continuous increase in passengers. To keep this trend going, it is crucial to improve the railways’ attractiveness and comfort levels. A rail journey’s comfort performance is rather complex, involving the analysis of multiple factor...
LEARNING PLATFORMIZATION AND SCREEN PROTAGONISM IN PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES
Silva, Patricia; Couto, Edvaldo SouzaThe educational policies and practices of intervention in the pandemic and post-pandemic context start to privilege the educational process with a focus on digital platforms and the personalization of learning in networks. The objective of the article is to present the role of digital platforms (nonhuman actors) and consequently of the screen in pedagogical practices, from the perspective of teachers and techni...
Interventions in the control of xerostomia in the person in palliative situation
Lourenço, Marisa; Cunha, Sara; Fernandes, Olga; Silva, Patricia; Oliveira, SandraIntroduction: Xerostomia is the subjective sensation of dry mouth; it occurs when less saliva is secreted than the amount of water lost through evaporation and absorption from the oral mucosa. It has multiple consequences for the general and oral health of people in a palliative situation, and quality of life. Objective: To examine and map the interventions implemented to relieve xerostomia of the person in pal...
ENTOSAFE - Edible insects: From a sustainable food production to a food safety ...
Cardoso, Diogo; Mostafaie, Amid; Silva, Ana Rita; Motta, Carla; Murta, Daniel; Pinto, Glória; Coelho, Inês; Prodana, Marija; Silva, PatriciaThe use of insects as a food and feed source is nowadays considered a solution for the increasing food demands in the following years. With that in mind, the recently funded project “ENTOSAFE - Edible insects: From a sustainable food production to a food safety concern” aims to integrate the food safety and the environmental sustainability aspects of edible insect farming. ENTOSAFE will take advantage of a symb...
Psychopolitics: neoliberalism and new power technique
Silva, Patricia; Maia, Jadson; Almeida, CristinaProtect me from what I want” is the subtle warning inherent in contemporary capitalism, explains Byung-Chul Han (2018b, p. 28) in Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and the New Techniques of Power. Although it is characteristic of this South Korean philosopher to be brief in exposing his thoughts, it is not his profile to offer a calm reading - he ends up conceiving homeopathic doses of discomfort. An essayist based...
Os crimes virtuais sob a óptica da tutela penal: uma análise dos crimes contra ...
Silva, PatriciaÉ certo que a internet trouxe inúmeros benefícios aos usuários da rede, estreitando distâncias e mudando a forma de interação entre as pessoas, inclusive, a forma de se relacionar por meio de mensagens de texto, fotos e vídeos. A grande questão é que a facilidade de acesso e a rápida disseminação de conteúdo faz com que cada vez mais pessoas sofram exposição sexual na internet, se tornando vítimas dos chamados ...
Paradoxes of authentic leadership
Silva, PatriciaThe dissertation explores contradictory elements of Authentic Leadership (AL) in three studies: a systematic critical review of AL research, a qualitative study leveraging a cross-national sample of 46 leaders, and a quantitative study of 305 voters in a political community. Our findings contribute to extend knowledge of the current state of research in AL, of the individual-level experience of tensions related...