Os contos não têm fronteiras: releituras para crianças de um conto tradicional em Portugal e no Brasil

Neste estudo, de forma breve, procuramos refletir sobre as diversas manifestações da literatura tradicional e, mais concretamente, dos contos tradicionais, na atualidade. Centramos o nosso texto em releituras para crianças, em suporte livro e online, de um conto tradicional, recolhido no século XIX, por Teófilo Braga, na ilha de São Miguel, no arquipélago dos Açores, Portugal.

Analysis of output properties of the Peroxiredoxin/Thioredoxin/Thioredoxin reductase system

Dissertação de mestrado em Bioinformática

O efeito da insulina na placentação: estudos in vitro com células HTR8-SVneo

Dissertação de mestrado em Bioquímica Aplicada

SIC Notícias: o lugar da política: estudo da programação semanal da SIC Notícias no período das 21 às 24 horas

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Informação e Jornalismo)

Biblioteca de referência de DNA barcodes de bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia) e gastrópodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) da costa Portuguesa

Dissertação de mestrado em Ecologia

24-h urinary free cortisol from mid-pregnancy to 3-months postpartum: gender and parity differences and effects

Background: Pregnancy and postpartum have been associated to several physiological changes;however, empirical evidence was almost exclusively obtained in primiparous women and few studies focus on hormonal changes in men and second-time parents. The main aim of this study is to examine 24-h urinary free cortisol from mid-pregnancy to 3-months postpartum, comparing women/men and first/second-time parents.Methods: Twenty-six women and 22 men (N = 48) were recruited from an antenatal obstetric unit in Porto, Portugal. 24-h urinary free cortisol was measured at the 2nd and 3rd trimester and at 3-months postpartum. Repeated measures analyses of variance were conducted, in order to analyze 24-h urinary free cortisol patterns of change over this period. Gender and parity were included in the analyses as potential modifiers, in order to compare women and men, and first-and second-time parents.Results: An increase from the 2nd to the 3rd trimester (p = .006) and a decrease from the 3rd trimester to 3-months postpartum (p = .005) were reported in all parents’ 24-h urinary free cortisol. The interaction effects for Time * Gender (p = .03) and Time * Parity (p = .02) were found. Women and first-time parents revealed higher levels, while men and second-time parents showed lower 24-h urinary free cortisol levels at the 2nd trimester than at 3-months postpartum.Conclusions: Findings appear to clarify the direction, as well as, the timing, gender and parity extension of 24-h urinary free cortisol changes from mid-pregnancy to 3-months postpartum.The same pattern of change in all parents’ 24-h urinary free cortisol from mid-pregnancy to 3-months postpartum is consistent with the proposed role of hormones in preparation to parenting.

Study of validation of the Portuguese version of the inventory «Experiences in Close Relationships»

The Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory permits to evaluate attachment in close relationships during adulthood based on two dimensions able to be present in this kind of relationships: the avoidance of proximity and the anxiety related with to abandonment. It is a self-report 7- points likert scale composed by 36 items. The Portuguese version was administered to a sample of 551 university students (60% female), the majority with ages between 19 and 24 years old (88%) in a dating relationship (86%). The principal components analysis with oblimin rotation was performed. The total scale has good internal consistency (α=.86), as also has the 2 sub-scales: anxiety (α=.86) and avoidance (α=.88). The two dimensions evaluated are significantly correlated with socio-demographics, relational characteristics (jealousy, relationship distress, and compromise), wishes (enmeshment versus differentiation) and fears (abandonment versus control) related to attitudes in significant relationships, which testify the construct validity of the instrument. The results obtained are coherent with the original version and other ECR‘s adaptations. Practitioners and researchers in the context of clinical psychology and related areas have now at their disposal the Portuguese version of the ECR inventory, which has shown its very high usefulness in the study of close relationships, and specifically attachment in adulthood.

Estudo de estirpes probióticas como inoculantes de silagens para o controlo de micotoxinas

Dissertação de mestrado em Bioengenharia

From perfect strangers to research partners: a study of relationships, resource sharing and perceived benefits within R&D cooperation networks

Doctoral thesis in Marketing and Strategy.

Synthetic biology approaches to shape bacteriophages towards Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm control

Dissertation for Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering.