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Homozygosity for a rare FASTKD2 variant resulting in an adult onset autosomal r...

Mitochondrial cytopathies can have kidney involvement in up to half of cases. Their diagnosis is challenging due to phenotypic variability, lack of noninvasive tests to assess mitochondrial dysfunction, and genetic heterogeneity. We report on a young adult male with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) with subnephrotic proteinuria who presented to the emergency department with kid...

Social expenditure composition and inequality: A dynamic panel threshold analys...

This paper studies the relationship between inequality and public social spending for an overall sample of 28 OECD countries spanning 1997 to 2017. We add to the literature by dissecting social expenditure according to nine programs and allowing for the existence of a non-linear relation in the context of a dynamic panel threshold model. The analysis reveals a positive contribution of old-age pensions to the Gi...

Social expenditure composition, inequality and growth in the OECD: Labour marke...

Erro e Discrepância no Diagnóstico Radiológico

Discrepâncias entre relatórios dos exames da Radiologia e seus subsequentes desfechos nos pacientes não são necessariamente considerados erro ou má prática.  O desempenho, avaliado pelo relato e interpretação dos achados pelo especialista em Radiologia, pode não ser perfeito ou exímio, e algumas discrepâncias, ou mesmo erros, são inevitáveis. O erro ou discrepância, na interpretação e relato dos achados pelo es...

The Financialization of Health and Education and Inequality in Twenty-first Cen...

Exploring Aveiro salterns to discover new and robust biosurfactant producers

Nowadays, the awareness of the concepts of sustainability, environmental impact and green biotechnology has reached more and more importance. In this line, biotechnology techniques emerged as a powerful tool to find new and bio-sustainable molecules, such as biosurfactants, with interesting properties. Biosurfactants are versatile molecules produced by microorganisms that can be applied in several fields, namel...

Health human capital formation in the OECD: Exploring the role of welfare state...

This study examines the relationship between welfare state or social expenditure composition and health human capital in 37 OECD countries spanning 1980–2018. Our findings confirm that public health spending has a positive effect on health capital formation. Dissecting social expenditure according to other nine social spending categories reveals a positive influence for old age pensions and unemployment benefit...

Human capital and labour market resilience over time: a regional perspective of...

This paper examines the influence of human capital on labour market resilience in the seven Portuguese NUTS-2 over the period 1995-2018. We define resilience as the ability of regional employment to recover from a shock to output over the business cycle. We use the Local Projection (LP) methodology applied to a SVAR model with three variables - employment, human capital, real GDP - and the output gap as the swi...

Inequality and growth in Portugal: a reappraisal for the period 1986-2017

This paper investigates the inequality-growth nexus for Portugal over the period 1986-2017. Portugal is a country that has recorded a decelerating growth trajectory together with high levels of inequality, coupled with relatively low levels of human capital and productivity. We compute different measures of earnings inequality using microdata from the Quadros de Pessoal database and use them to estimate VAR and...

Human Capital and Labour Market Resilience: A Regional Analysis for Portugal

This paper investigates labour market resilience for seven Portuguese NUTS-2 regions over the period 1995-2018 detailing its relationship with levels of education and highlighting the period following the 2007-08 financial and economic crisis. We define resilience as the ability of regional employment to recover from a recessionary shock over an entire business cycle. Our results point to the existence of labou...