University of Lisbon

Parallel Descriptive Assessments of Indoor Radon (2023) and Regional Hospital Cancer Registry Records (2003–2023) in Midwestern Santa Catarina, Brazil

Radon is an established environmental cause of lung cancer, but residential surveillance is limited in Brazil. This study comprised two complementary, analytically independent components: indoor radon monitoring in Caçador, and Hospital Cancer Registry records of tracheal, bronch...

Understanding the Drivers of Environmental Innovation: Regulatory Pressures, Economic Incentives and Market Mechanisms

ABSTRACT This study examines the associations between regulatory pressures, economic incentives, market‐related mechanisms and firms' reported environmental benefits from innovation, distinguishing between benefits related to internal production processes and those that benefit e...

Tensile properties and bond behaviour to concrete of thermoplastic GFRP bars at elevated temperature

Thermoplastic glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars offer a more versatile and sustainable alternative to conventional thermoset bars, given their ability to be bent on-site and potential for easier recycling. However, as a newly developed technology, its mechanical performa...

Mycoremediation a promising strategy to challenge chemical food hazards

With the fast growth of industrialization, intensive farming, and urban development, environmental pollution has evolved into a major global challenge. The poor handling, bad control, or inadequate management of waste and effluents from households, industries, and agricultural fi...

Optimising sequential electrodeposition to control structure and pseudocapacitive performance in PEDOT/MnOx electrodes

This work systematically investigates how PEDOT and MnOx deposition parameters affect the electrochemical performance of sequentially electrodeposited composites by independently varying the growth potential and synthesis charge of each layer. The PEDOT underlayer transformed the...

Glycome remodeling programs pathogenic γδ T17 cell responses in autoimmunity

Glycans play fundamental roles in T cell biology; however, the glycome landscape of γδ T cells remains to be unlocked. Despite the growing importance of γδ T cells in host defense, tissue homeostasis, and diseases, the glycosylation mechanisms guiding their activation, commitment...

Discovery and characterization of outer membrane vesicles produced by the bee gut microbiota

Bacteria use diverse mechanisms to interact with each other and with eukaryotic hosts, thereby shaping microbiome composition and influencing host health. One of these mechanisms is the production of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), nanoscale structures that bud off from bacterial...

Aquatic vegetation promotes prey diversity but not the diversification of predator phenotypes

Freshwater fish have evolved to forage in a range of habitats, from open water in lakes to benthic shorelines and streams. Much research has focused on how prey differences, such as zooplankton versus benthic macroinvertebrates, might select for divergence in predator traits acro...

Antimicrobial Resistance to WHO-Categorised Critically Important Antimicrobials in Piglet-Derived Escherichia coli and Enterococci: A One Health Approach

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical health issue affected by human, animal, and environmental factors within a One Health framework. Livestock production, particularly pig farming, contributes to the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria through antimicrobial use an...

TROJAN CICERO: A NOTE ON PHILIPPICS 2.55

Abstract This note highlights the presence of a previously unnoticed hypodochmiac clausula in Cic. Phil. 2.55, which introduces a tragic element towards the end of the sentence. This feature complements the established reading of the passage in light of ancient tragedy. It will b...

A composite-based analysis of the dynamical linkage of atmospheric rivers, warm conveyor belts, and extratropical cyclones

Abstract. Extratropical cyclones (ETCs), warm conveyor belts (WCBs), and atmospheric rivers (ARs) are dynamically connected features key to understand midlatitude weather and hydroclimate. However, the precise spatial and temporal coupling between the moisture transport in ARs an...

Improving on the spatial location of geostationary satellite-derived FRP by accounting for parallax effect

When a satellite observes the Earth at an angle, the apparent position of elevated features, such as mountains, clouds or fires in high terrain, can be shifted from their true ground location. This effect, which may be particularly pronounced in the case of geostationary platform...

Coupled U–Pb geochronology of inherited and detrital zircon in the Iberian Massif: insights into its deep structure and geodynamic evolution

Abstract The combined use of detrital and inherited zircon U-Pb age spectra provides new insights into the crustal evolution of the Iberian Massif as part of the North Gondwana margin. In the Ossa–Morena Zone (OMZ), Ediacaran detrital zircon populations are dominated by Pan‑Afric...

Structural and energetic signatures of SO2 and CH4 incorporation in imidazolium-based ionic liquids

A systematic molecular dynamics study of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and methane (CH4) incorporation in 24 imidazolium-based ionic liquids is presented, spanning different anion families and cation alkyl chain lengths. The two gases represent limiting cases of solvation behavior in ioni...

Widespread hybridization in sympatric populations of allis shad Alosa alosa (L.1758) and twaite shad Alosa fallax (Lacépède 1803): A transnational perspective for conservation and management

Abstract The dynamics of hybridization between co‐occurring species in environments that have been modified by anthropogenic activities are important for generating new understandings of how species respond to disturbance and to support conservation management. Accordingly, the p...

A Review of Wastewater for Hydrogen Production by Electrochemical Processes

Wastewater electrochemical processes and electrolysis—defined here as direct electrochemical water splitting using wastewater as the electrolyte, without biological hydrogen-producing pathways or external organic oxidation processes—have emerged as compelling dual-function strate...

Antenna subtraction at NNLO for heavy quark pair production at hadron colliders: the non-diagonal channels

A bstract We present the calculation involving the qq , qq ′ and qg partonic channels contributing to heavy-quark pair production at hadron colliders through next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD using the antenna subtraction formalism. The calculation is performed in full colour...

WAPOSAL: a multi-regional wave dataset from satellite altimetry for significant wave height, period estimation, and wave power density

Abstract. Accurate assessment of wave power density (WPD) is essential for marine renewable energy development and for validating numerical wave models, particularly in coastal and nearshore regions where in situ observations are sparse. This study presents a high-resolution, mul...

Targeting Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Companion Animals Using Bacteriophages

Antimicrobial resistance poses a major challenge to veterinary and human medicine, particularly in the context of difficult-to-treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a WHO priority pathogen, is known for its resistance profile and a...

Low-Profile Versus Standard-Profile Endograft for Thoracoabdominal and Complex Abdominal Endovascular Aortic Treatment—Multicenter Cohort Study

Objective: The introduction of low-profile stent grafts (LPSGs) has proven to be a useful option despite initial concerns. The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the outcomes of standard-profile stent grafts (SPSGs) versus LPSG in a cohort of patients treated for thorac...