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NextGenerationEU landing
Scotti, Francesco; Caporali, Carlo; Luca, DavideIn response to the COVID-19 crisis, the European Union introduced NextGenerationEU, its largest stimulus package to date. We focus on Italy, the program's largest beneficiary, and analyse the territorial distribution of funds. Although centrally coordinated, most expenditures were awarded through calls and implemented by local governments. Using a sample of approximately 4500 Italian municipalities for which ad...
Asymptotic Stability for Stochastic Delay Kelvin–Voigt–Brinkman–Forchheimer Equ...
Zhang, Qiangheng; Kinra, Kush; Mohan, Manil T.Some results on 3D delay Kelvin–Voigt–Brinkman–Forchheimer equations with non-autonomous forcing term and operator type multiplicative white noise are analyzed. First, the existence, uniqueness and backward compactness of pullback random attractors is proved by the backward flattening of solutions and Ascoli-Arzelà theorem. Then we study three types of stability of pullback random attractors: (i) The backward s...
Consulting to social entrepreneurship initiatives: using business skills to sol...
Sacadura, João Arriaga e Cunha Cabral deEscolinha de Rugby da Galiza is a Social Entrepreneurship project from Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Cascais that uses an innovative approach to social integrate children from the community of Fim do Mundo. Through the study and analysis of this project, it was identified the need to improve the sustainability approach currently used. A set of proposals were developed to diversify its sources of donations and g...
Mapping inequalities in rheumatology care in Europe
Moltó, Anna; Miendrova, Anastasiia; Gossec, Laure; Carmona, Loreto; Billis, Konstantinos; Szekanecz, Zoltán; Alvaro-Gracia, Jose Maria; Strangfeld, AnjaObjectives: To describe inequalities in health indicators relevant for quality of care to people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) across Europe by comparing RMD health system indicators across European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) member countries. Methods: RheumaFacts is an EULAR initiative to improve the quality of care across Europe by monitoring access to and outcomes ...
Regions of low gene expression promote maintenance and adaptation of horizontal...
Brito, Patricia H.; Gil, Victoria; Pontes, Ana; Silva, Margarida; Goncalves, Carla; Goncalves, PaulaWe showed previously that yeasts in Starmerella and Wickerhamiella genera (W/S clade) exhibit numbers of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events much larger than found in any other yeast species, with bacteria and other fungi (Pezizomycotina) as donors. Here we shed light on HGT in the W/S clade by carrying out the characterization of xenologous genes present in three species harboring together close to 600 xenol...
The effectiveness of the Media Smart Program on promoting the critical thinking...
Magalhães, Ana Filipa Veloso deThe aim of this project was to try to prove the effectiveness of the Media Smart Program in Portugal, a program that helps children to understand and be critical towards advertising. Until now, there were no quantitative studies about this subject in Portugal. Therefore, it was used a structured questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and an Observation in Media Smart Classes. The results suggested that this ...
Impact of coarse recycled concrete aggregate on punching shear performance of f...
Kormošová, Ľudmila; Fecko, Tadeáš; Halvonik, Jaroslav; Ramos, António PinhoThis paper presents results from the second stage of an extensive experimental programme investigating the punching shear behaviour of flat slabs made with coarse recycled concrete aggregate (CRCA). In this stage, five full-scale slabs (250 mm thick) supported by a square column were tested to failure. Three slabs were tested without shear reinforcement, including a reference slab with natural aggregate and two...
The impact of online brand community on electronic word-of-mouth communications
Beirão, Bernardo de Figueiredo Mateus TeixeiraThrough brand communities, people share essential resources that may be cognitive, emotional and material in nature. They have been cited for their potential not only to enhance the loyalty of members but also to engender a sense of oppositional loyalty towards competing brands. This project explored how brand consumers belonging versus not belonging to a brand community; evaluate electronic word-of-mouth messa...
Consulting to social entrepreneurship initiatives – using business skills to he...
Silva, Ana Alexandra Gonçalves Rebelo daThe Reutilization of Used Goods is a social entrepreneurship initiative of Carcavelos Parish Church Community Centre, which by introducing an innovative concept answers to social needs. This paper aims to empower the initiative, using business skills, in order to help it in the resolution of its main challenges and needs. Throughout an analysis it was possible to understand the initiative’s main issues and make...
Consumption and emotional compensation in economic crisis
Gonçalves, Daniela Maria SantiagoThe present work project aims to study the Portuguese consumer attitude towards non essential goods during economic crisis. It is inspired by a recent trend described in the media as the Lipstick Effect. In order to address the above mentioned objective, we conduct a research that includes an exploratory phase (Case Studies) and a descriptive phase (Questionnaires). Please note that we do not aim to define “eco...