Institution
University of Lisbon
Recent research
- Society & Economics
Achieving sustainable development necessitates a symbiotic relationship between sustainable production and consumption, with product utilization rates playing a critical mediating role. Although recent advances have promoted sustainable production, particularly through experiment...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
A Kähler and Quaternion-Kähler Spacetime Structure
When real Lorentzian spacetime is embedded into a manifold parametrized by higher division algebras (complex or quaternion with Hermitean metric) and the representation constraints of their symmetry groups are made compatible, a set of quantum numbers is generated that is evocati...
- Biology
Bridging Behavior and Policy—An Approach for Reducing Household Food Waste
ABSTRACT Households generate over 60% of Portugal's food waste, making them a key target for waste‐reduction efforts. Existing behavioral interventions have limited impact due to fragmented implementation and insufficient stakeholder involvement. This study develops a model that...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background Primaquine is widely used to prevent relapses of Plasmodium vivax malaria, but the optimal dose in Latin America is unknown. We undertook a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy, tolerability and safety of different pri...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Water color is an important optical proxy for trophic status and water quality, but its integration into regulatory assessment frameworks is still limited. This study assesses the potential of the Forel–Ule Index (FUI) derived from Sentinel-2 as a proxy indicator to support the a...
- Health & Medicine
Management of Acute Periodontal Conditions—The EFP S2k Level Clinical Practice Guideline
BACKGROUND: The European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) has developed Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the treatment of periodontitis and for the management of peri-implant diseases. In accordance with the 2018 Classification, acute periodontal conditions are character...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Ground-based GNSS tomography reconstructs three-dimensional tropospheric water-vapor fields from slant observations. However, unconstrained solutions rely heavily on station and satellite geometry. This study introduces a GNSS-only approach that uses precise SP3 orbit products to...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
EUPopLink Country report - Portugal
Portugal has long been regarded as a Euroenthusiastic country, with broad support for European integration among citizens, political elites, and organised interests since the 1980s. This permissive consensus has been politically sustained by the country’s two mainstream pro-Europ...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and a major driver of hospital admissions. Older adults are disproportionately affected, owing to immune senescence and a higher prevalence of chronic comorbidities. This s...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Background: The development of sustainable biomaterials that combine imaging capability with complementary biological functions without relying on incorporated drugs or exogenous fluorophores represents an attractive strategy for multifunctional biomedical platforms. Methods: Her...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Design and Early Industrial Deployment of a Digital Continuous Improvement System for Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies often register process deviations in operational systems while managing continuous improvement (CI) actions through separate spreadsheets, templates and meeting records. This fragmentation weakens traceability between detection, prioritisation, execution a...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Consecutive warm nights during heatwaves erode the cooling potential of night ventilation (NV), making its effectiveness strongly dependent on both the event and the building conditions. This study quantified the nonlinear effects of heatwave morphology, building thermal mass (TM...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Nutritional properties and traditional uses of a native palm species in West Africa
Abstract Palm trees (Arecaceae) are critically important worldwide, particularly in tropical regions where they provide essential resources for food, shelter, medicine, and income. The African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis holds particular significance in West Africa, as a vital nu...
- Society & Economics
ABSTRACT In this study, we examine how green human resource management (GHRM) affects employee performance by integrating signaling theory and cognitive dissonance theory to address paradoxical findings in the literature on GHRM. Utilizing a sample of 201 employees in Portugal, w...
- Health & Medicine
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Approximately 30%–40% of breast cancers harbor mutations in the TP53 gene, leading to structural and functional alterations in the p53 protein. These changes result in mutant proteins that are unable to perform their cano...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
The persistent sensitivity to sensory and painful stimuli of people with migraine has been associated with disruption of the salience network (SN). Although migraine is characterized by severe head pain attacks, brain changes have been observed in people with migraine in between...
- Health & Medicine
Abstract Current immunotherapies often fail in immunologically “cold”, macrophage-rich tumor microenvironments (TMEs). Multi-targeting approaches that modulate innate-adaptive immune activation represent a promising frontier in cancer immunotherapy. Here, we developed phagocytic...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract Providing space for children’s voices to be heard, listening to their ideas and giving due weight to their propositions, on all matters that affect them, describes the concept of participation rights according to the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child....
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Luminescence dating of offshore tsunami deposits from the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom
Abstract. With onshore geological evidence of three tsunami events, the Shetland Islands (UK) yield the most-detailed Holocene tsunami record in the North Sea region. Lately, tsunami deposits were also identified in shallow waters offshore the Shetland Islands. These offshore tsu...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Towards a deep-learning genomic tool for risk stratification and diagnostic support in sporadic ALS
Abstract Background A variety of common and rare genetic factors have been implicated in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and the evidence is that a genetic component is present in most affected individuals. However, our current understanding of ALS genetic...