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A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite feve...
Pena,Eduarda; Jordão,Sofia; Simões,Maria João; Oleastro,Mónica; Neves,IsabelAbstract Rat-bite fever is a rarely diagnosed illness caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis . Although this disease is distributed worldwide, there have been few cases reported in Europe. Here, we report a case of vertebral osteomyelitis and sternoclavicular septic arthritis caused by S. moniliformis in a Portuguese patient previously bitten by a rat. Laboratory diagnosis was performed using molecular identifi...
Fahrenheit 451 Or A “New Café”? Old and new issues on political participation
Simões,Maria João; Barriga,Antónia do Carmo; Jerónimo,Nuno Amaral; Augusto,Fábio RafaelAbstract Does e-participation enhance, or not, citizens’ political participation? Such a debate implies identifying whether there are contexts of social change and/or social reproduction, and, if change actually occurs, which direction it takes. When it comes to online political participation, it is necessary to highlight whether there is some continuity from the offline form of participation and if some new fe...
Expostos e duplamente vigiados: o caso do Facebook
Simões,Maria João; Augusto,Fábio RafaelExpostos e duplamente vigiados: o caso do Facebook. Tal como acontece com a maioria dos artefactos tecnológicos, também a emergência do Facebook gerou diversas teorias, que variam entre o mais exacerbado otimismo e um tremendo ceticismo. O facto de o seu surgimento estar muito associado ao exibicionismo e ao voyeurismo, tem sido campo fértil para o desenvolvimento de ideias feitas e pré-concebidas, que dificult...