Background: Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) is a major setback for musicians with diverse backgrounds and expertise. MPA can be managed with adequate strategies, and success will improve if information and professional help is widely available and if musicians are willing to seek such help. Research on MPA has focused on the correlates (potential causes) of MPA, but results are scattered across studies. Also, t...
O salmão-do-atlântico (Salmo salar L., 1758) é uma espécie piscícola migradora icónica dos ecossistemas aquáticos, com um elevado valor económico e cultural, cuja área de distribuição se localiza desde o mar Báltico até ao norte da Península Ibérica. Em Portugal, as populações de salmão encontram-se no limite sul da sua distribuição e, portanto, em condições sub-ótimas associadas com o regime térmico e variaçõe...
Assess intraespecific diferences in residency and migration; ii) Assess fidelity to the river of origin; Iii) Identify which environmental variables influence the presence/atraction of individuals downstream Foz Tua dam
O salmão-do-atlântico (Salmo salar) é uma espécie anádroma emblemática do Hemisfério Norte e autóctone em Portugal. Segundo a IUCN o seu estatuto de conservação global é Pouco Preocupante (LC), mas em Portugal encontra-se classificado como Criticamente em Perigo (CR), sendo provavelmente a população desta espécie mais ameaçada à escala global. A sua abundância na Europa diminuiu em toda a área nativa, fruto de ...
A comunicação organizacional tem vindo a sofrer alterações na sua operacionalização, ao longo dos tempos. Por outro lado, o tema do bem-estar tem estado na agenda de muitas organizações. Apesar disso, estes dois temas têm vindo a ser tratados individualmente, desconsiderando-se a sua eventual relação, havendo igualmente pouco investimento no que diz respeito ao contexto do ensino superior. Neste estudo de inves...
The management of NSCLC remains challenging, and the integration of data from predictive biomarkers in routine clinical practice can contribute to an optimal, individualized patient approach, particularly given the rapid emergence of effective targeted therapies. When considering molecular biomarker testing, the choice of the biomarker panel, target population, testing approach, and turnaround time are key issu...
Cancer patients may experience significant distress. The “Emotion Thermometers” (ETs) are a short visual analogue scale used to screen patients for psychosocial risk. This study aimed to assess emotional distress in a large sample of cancer patients attending psychological services at an non-governmental organization (NGO), and to explore factors that may contribute to it. The ETs were answered by 899 cancer pa...
his study presents a systematic review of the sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial factors associated with distress in elderly cancer patients. Relevant studies were identified using four electronic databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and ProQuest. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies exploring factors associated with distress in people over 60 years of age were included and independently asse...
The threespine stickleback is a freshwater fish listed as endangered in Portugal, near the southern limit of the species global distribution. However, few measures have been proposed aiming at the conservation of this species in suboptimal environments. From existing databases and specific sampling campaigns, we obtained occurrence data of threespine stickleback for a total of 646 sites. The occurrence data, to...
This paper showcases the exploratory results of a pedagogical exercise developed with people aged 65 and over, aiming to understand their fears and its impact in the experience of the everyday life. The exercise was carried in the spring semester 2021, by students enrolled in the Sociology course at the University of Évora, Portugal. Against the background of a major project with the aim of studying fear in con...