Sagres beer and its sponsorship strategy: Will Sagres score with Sport Lisboa e Benfica?

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Cerveja Sagres Bohemia: Marketing plan for the beer category

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Valorization of grape pomace residues integrating hot compressed water with biotechnology

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Biotecnologia

Viability of ceramic residues in lime-based mortars

3rd Historic Mortars Conference, 11-14 September 2013, Glasgow, Scotland

Investigation of the regulation mechanisms for bioplastics production from industrial residues

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Biotecnologia

The influence of brick residues in the behaviour of lime mortars

XXXVI IAHS World Congress on Housing - National Housing Programs-New Visions, November 03–07, 2008, Kolkata, India

Creating greater value for biomass residues

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Engineering Sciences and Technology

Electrodialytic remediation of two types of air pollution control residues and their applicability in construction materials

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente Perfil de Engenharia de Sistemas Ambientais

Natural hydraulic lime mortars with ceramic residues for masonry

9th International Masonry Conference 2014, 7-9 July, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães

Characterization of mortars with ceramic residues

XIII DBMC – 12th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components,2-5 September 2014, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Crystallographic studies of proteins involved in the mRNA localization mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster and amidation of the peptidoglycan residues in Staphylococcus aureus

Part of the work described in this chapter, was the subject of the following publication: D. Vieira, T. a. Figueiredo, A. Verma, R. G. Sobral, A. M. Ludovice, H. de Lencastre, and J. Trincao, “Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of GatD, a glutamine amidotransferase-like protein from Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan,” Acta Crystallogr. Sect. F Struct. Biol. Commun., vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 1–4, Apr. 2014.

Evaluation of neuroprotective effects of natural extracts obtained from portuguese agro-food residues

Countries are currently faced with problems derived from changes in lifespan and an increase in lifestyle-related diseases. Neurodegenerative disorders such Parkinson’s (PD) and Alzheimer’s (AD) diseases are an increasing problem in aged societies. Data from World Alzheimer Report 2011 indicate that 36 million people worldwide are living with dementia. Oxidative stress has been associated with the development of AD and PD. Therefore there is interest to search for effective compounds or therapies to combat the oxidative damage in these diseases. Current evidence strongly supports a contribution of phenolic compounds present in fruits and vegetables to the prevention of neurodegenerative diseases such AD and PD. The industrial processing of a wide variety of fruits results in the accumulation of by-products without commercial value. Opuntia ficus-indica (cactus pear) is consumed fresh and processed like in juice. Prunnus avium (sweet cherry) is consumed fresh but the organoleptics characteristics of the fruits leads to the smaller and ragged fruits have no commercial value. Fruit extracts of both species has described to be rich in phenolic compounds and to have high antioxidant activities due to its composition. The aim of this work was assessing the efficacy of O. ficus-indica and P. avium by-products extracts obtained with conventional solvent extraction and pressurized liquid extraction in a neurodegeneration cell model. All extracts have protected neuroblastoma cells from H2O2-induced death at low, non-toxic levels, which approach to physiologically-relevant serum concentration. However, cherry extract has a slighter neuroprotective activity. The protective effect of Opuntia extracts are not conducted by a direct antioxidant activity since there are not decreases in intracellular ROS levels in cell treated with extracts and challenged with H2O2, while cherry extract neuroprotection seems to be due to a direct scavenging activity. Extracts from different biological matrixes seems to protect neuronal cells trough different cellular mechanisms.

Can a lemon based Sagres product attract consumers that don't drink beer?

The purpose of this project is to understand if the brand Sagres is damaging the product Sagres Radler. The beer market in Portugal was studied and focus groups were used to perceive the impact of the brand in the product. The mother brand is bringing the beer association into a product designed to engage people that don’t like beer. With the insights, a new proposal was drawn and tested. Although it was not possible to prove that the new concept is better for the population, there are strong indications that the brand isn’t enabling the achievement of the proposed target.

Caracterização química e ecotoxicológica de escórias e cinzas resultantes da co-combustão de lamas e carvão

Em 1999 a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia aprovou o financiamento do projecto “Behaviour of Heavy Metals on the Thermal Treatment of Residues” cujo acrónimo era Bimetal. Este projecto, cujos parceiros eram o Departamento de Engenharia Energética e Controlo Ambiental do Instituto Nacional de Engenharia e Tecnologia Industrial (INETI) e o Grupo de Disciplinas de Ecologia da Hidrosfera (GDEH) da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, tinha como objectivo a avaliação do comportamento de metais pesados durante a combustão de resíduos. Neste sentido, a equipa do INETI efectuou quatro ensaios de incineração: dois de mono-combustão de uma lama residual urbana, um de co-combustão de lama residual urbana e carvão e, finalmente, um de mono-combustão de carvão. Cada ensaio de incineração produziu uma cinza de fundo e duas cinzas volantes, provenientes de dois ciclones. A equipa do GDEH foi responsável pela caracterização físico-química e ecotoxicológica das cinzas provenientes dos ensaios realizados pela equipa do INETI. A avaliação incidiu em dois aspectos: 1) a determinação da composição das cinzas, relativamente a um dado conjunto de parâmetros físico-químicos considerados; e 2) produção de lixiviados a partir do contacto das cinzas com um agente lixiviante. Estes lixiviados foram submetidos à caracterização físico-química, relativamente a um dado conjunto de parâmetros físico-químicos e, ainda, à caracterização ecotoxicológica, recorrendo a dois indicadores biológicos. A determinação da composição das cinzas permitiu efectuar um balanço de massas dos ensaios de incineração realizados e, com isto, determinar as taxas de emissão, dos parâmetros analisados, para a atmosfera. Os ensaios de lixiviação permitiram classificar, de acordo com a metodologia de classificação de resíduos a que se recorreu, as doze cinzas produzidas pela equipa do INETI e os materiais que lhes deram origem, a areia do leito, o carvão e a lama residual urbana. De um modo geral, as duas cinzas volantes apresentaram uma concentração superior, dos parâmetros considerados, relativamente à cinza de fundo. Entre as duas cinzas volantes, a cinza do 2º ciclone apresentou um maior teor, relativamente aos parâmetros analisados, do que as cinzas do 1º ciclone.

Zinc-substituted desulfovibrio gigas desulforedoxins

Protein Science (2002), 11:2464–2470