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Physical volcanology and emplacement mechanism of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) lava flows from the Central High Atlas, Morocco

The best preserved and most complete lava flow sequences of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in Morocco are exposed in the Central High Atlas and can reach up to 300 m in thickness. Four distinct formations, emplaced in subaerial environments, are classically recognized: the Lower, Intermediate, Upper and Recurrent formations. These formations are separated by paleosoils and sedimentary sequences (mudstones, siltstones, sandstones, limestones), that are in general less than two meter-thick and may exceptionally reach a thickness of 80 m, representing minor periods of volcanic quiescence. CAMP lava flows of the Central High Atlas can be grouped into two main categories: subaerial compound pahoehoe flows and simple flows. The former type is exclusively confined to the Lower and Intermediate Formations, while simple flows occur in the Upper and Recurrent Formations. The dominance of compound flows in the two lowermost units of the CAMP suggests a slow emplacement during successive sustained eruptive episodes. Instead the thick single flows characterizing the Upper and Recurrent units indicate higher effusive rates. Basaltic pillow lavas (always of short lateral extent: 10 to 100 m), showing radial jointing and vitreous rinds, identical to those found in the Western Meseta, are occasionally associated with hyaloclastites in the base of the Intermediate Formation, immediately above clastic sediments, or in the Upper Formation. The occurrence of pillow lavas does not imply a generalized subaqueous environment at the time of the lava emission. Instead, they represent subaerial flows that entered small lakes occupying depressions on the volcanic topography of the Lower and Intermediate Formations. The short lateral extent of the pillow lavas and their constant stratigraphic position, the existence of lava flows with unequivocal subaerial characteristics associated to sediments containing fossilized wood, clearly indicate onshore emplacement.

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2025-10-28T12:15:10Z

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El Hachimi, Hind Youbi, Nasrrddine Madeira, José Marzoli, Andrea Mata, João Bertrand, Hervé Bensalah, Mohamed Khalil Boumehdi, Moulay Ahmed Doblas, Miguel Medina, Fida Ben Abbou, Mohamed Martins, Línia

Crafting an event, an event on craft. Working together to represent migration experiences

We are concerned. We are three early-career researchers in the feld of international migration and we are concerned. This concern arises from our respective feldwork. On the one hand, we witness a politics which toughens eligibility to asylum and makes the access to reside in a foreign country precarious. On the other hand, we are witnesses of an ever more polarised discourse induced by an emergency-like and securitised management of migration fows. European policies aiming at controlling migration routes favour exclusion (erections of walls, multiplication of hotspots’ logics) and death (in the last 25 years, IOM estimates account for 40,000 humans who died or disappeared on migration routes, with 6000 in 2016 only). These migration policies are the result of a selective amnesia: only certain striking fgures, facts and images participate in their production. Secondly, our concern grows while we witness a lack of circulation between scientifc knowledge and measures adopted at a political level: our researches’ results are too often confned to the scientifc sphere.

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2025-10-28T12:25:26Z

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Bacon, Lucie Desille, Amandine Paté, Noémie

Guia de acesso à Universidade de Lisboa : 2010/2011

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2025-10-28T12:20:34Z

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Universidade de Lisboa. Reitoria

Diverse bioerosion structures in lower Pliocene deposits from a volcanic oceanic island: Baía de Nossa Senhora section, Santa Maria Island, Azores (central North Atlantic)

Pliocene body fossils from Santa Maria Island, Azores, have been studied for decades, but only more recently have ichnofossils received their due attention. Calcareous Pliocene deposits from the Baía de Nossa Senhora section contain numerous, diverse, well-preserved natural casts of invertebrate borings. The study of this type of fossils adds to knowledge on the dispersal of benthic faunas across oceans to volcanic oceanic islands. The borings belong to seven ichnogenera and twenty-two ichnotaxa at the ichnospecies level with more than half pertaining to Entobia, which is produced by clionaid sponges. Other borings found were produced by bivalves (Gastrochaenolites), polychaete worms (Caulostrepsis and Maeandropolydora), sipunculid worms (Trypanites), phoronid worms (Talpina) and ctenostome bryozoans (Iramena). The occurrence, ichnogeny, distribution and preservational state of the borings suggest that the bearing bioclasts have been exposed for several years on the sea floor. The borings derive from different bathymetric zones on the shelf, and their formation took place during several bioerosional phases. The association of borings belongs to the Entobia ichnofacies, which is typical of carbonate rocky shores, and shows close similarity to those described from the Paratethys, Mediterranean and partly the eastern Atlantic regions. This fits the idea that most of the Neogene shallow-water marine fauna in the Azores is biogeographically related to the eastern Atlantic shores.

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2025-10-28T12:26:07Z

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Dávid, Árpád Uchman, Alfred Ramalho, Ricardo Dos Santos Madeira, José Melo, Carlos Madeira, Patrícia Rebelo, Ana Cristina Berning, Björn Johnson, Markes E. Ávila, Sérgio P.

Síndrome hemofagocítica associada a Leishmaniose visceral : a propósito de 3 casos clínicos

A síndrome hemofagocítica ou linfohistiocitose hemofagocítica (HLH) é uma síndrome potencialmente fatal e rara, na qual há uma hiperativação dos macrófagos e dos linfócitos, causando assim um quadro de hiperinflamação. Esta síndrome pode ser secundária à infeção por Leishmania, cuja doença é endémica no mediterrâneo, incluindo em Portugal. Quer a leishmaniose visceral, quer a HLH têm uma incidência mais elevada na idade pediátrica, pelo que a suspeita diagnóstica desta associação é fundamental em Pediatria, especialmente em zonas endémicas. No presente trabalho, são apresentados e discutidos três casos clínicos de três crianças com idades compreendidas entre os 12 meses e os 5 anos de idade que, na investigação da causa do quadro de HLH, foram diagnosticadas com leishmaniose visceral. O tratamento com anfotericina B lipossómica demonstrou uma resolução total do quadro clínico e laboratorial, com excelente seguimento. Pretende-se alertar para a ocorrência desta associação nas crianças e em Portugal.

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2025-10-28T12:09:36Z

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Santos, António Urbano dos

Três estudos sobre a nova emigração portuguesa

Para conhecer, analisar e explicar a emigração portuguesa precisamos de acionar e combinar múltiplas metodologias. Não está em causa, naquela afirmação, apenas a referência à utilidade da clássica combinação entre metodologias extensivas e intensivas. No estudo da emigração portuguesa começa por ser necessário combinar, desde logo, diferentes metodologias e métodos extensivos, nomeadamente a análise de estatísticas institucionais com a realização de operações de inquérito por questionário. Os dados das estatísticas institucionais permitem medir e caracterizar, em termos muito gerais, os fluxos e populações de emigrantes portugueses. As medidas são, em rigor, estimativas construídas com as estatísticas-espelho usadas para caracterizar a emigração, ou seja, com as estatísticas sobre a entrada e residência de portugueses nos países de destino. A qualidade dessas estimativas depende, pois, da qualidade das estatísticas sobre imigração nos países de destino ou, mais simplesmente, da existência dessas estatísticas. Apesar de todos os problemas que resultam quer da desigual qualidade dos diferentes sistemas estatísticos nacionais, quer da falta de harmonização dos indicadores usados em cada país, as estimativas realizadas com recursos às estatísticas-espelho são fundamentais. Não há outra maneira de medir, ainda que aproximadamente, o volume e as características gerais dos fluxos e das populações emigradas. E, sem essa medida, é impossível contextualizar e precisar o significado estatístico dos resultados de estudos que produzem os seus próprios dados através de processos de inquirição mais localizados.

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2025-10-28T12:20:07Z

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Pereira, C. Malheiros, Jorge Peixoto, J.

Imagem do acidente vascular cerebral isquémico agudo : TC ou Angio-TC : qual o melhor preditor de enfarte?

Introdução: No Acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) isquémico, a trombectomia mecânica é uma importante ferramenta terapêutica. O score ASPECTS, calculado em estudos de Tomografia Computorizada (TC), é utilizado na seleção de doentes para este procedimento, necessitando de ser superior a 6 para inclusão. Os estudos de angio-TC, que são realizados simultaneamente com a TC na admissão do doente, também possibilitam a avaliação do parênquima e frequentemente demonstram áreas de hipodensidade, que podem ser diferentes das identificadas nos estudos TC. Assim, surge a questão de qual dos métodos de imagem é um melhor preditor do enfarte final, informação que pode ser muito relevante, não apenas na seleção dos doentes, mas também na determinação do prognóstico. Objetivos: Comparar o score ASPECTS em estudos de TC com o mesmo score em estudos de angio-TC, aquando a admissão de doentes com AVC isquémico agudo, submetidos a procedimentos de revascularização vascular, para predição da área de enfarte final. Será ainda avaliada a relação entre os scores e o grau de recanalização e determinar-se-á a reprodutibilidade inter-observador das medições efetuadas. Métodos: Estudo coorte retrospetivo, de doentes com AVC isquémico agudo da circulação anterior submetidos a procedimento de trombectomia no serviço de Imagiologia Neurológica do CHLN-EPE, entre 2019 e 31 de janeiro de 2020. De forma independente e cega para os dados clínicos, efetuou-se o cálculo do score ASPECTS nos estudos de TC e angio-TC à admissão e na TC às 24h. Os valores do score foram também comparados entre os subgrupos de diferentes graus de recanalização e analisados quanto à reprodutibilidade inter-observador. Resultados: Neste estudo, foram incluídos 99 doentes. Os valores do score ASPECTS na angio-TC foram, em média, mais próximos dos valores na TC às 24h. Nos doentes com TICI ≥ 2B, os valores do score na TC e angio-TC foram, em média, mais próximos dos valores na TC às 24h comparativamente aos doentes com TICI < 2B. Os valores do score ASPECTS apresentaram uma boa reprodutibilidade inter-observador. Discussão e conclusão: O valor do score ASPECTS calculado no estudo de angio-TC é um melhor preditor da área final de enfarte, relativamente ao valor obtido com a TC. Nos doentes com TICI ≥ 2B, tanto a TC como a angio-TC apresentaram um maior valor preditor comparativamente aos doentes com menor grau de recanalização. O score calculado na angio-TC pode vir a ser utilizado para uma melhor seleção dos doentes e determinação do prognóstico.

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2025-10-28T12:14:15Z

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Rodrigues, Bárbara Alves Silva da Encarnação

BCGite como complicação da imunoterapia intravesical com Bacillus Calmette-Guérin : prevenção, diagnóstico e terapêutica, qual a melhor abordagem?

A Imunoterapia Intravesical com Bacillus Calmette-Guérin é o tratamento adjuvante recomendado para o carcinoma não-invasivo da bexiga de risco intermédio e alto, após resseção transuretral da bexiga. Apesar da sua eficácia comprovada, esta terapêutica apresenta efeitos colaterais que podem apresentar gravidade significativa, nomeadamente a BCGite. Pensa-se que esta entidade poderá ser o resultado de uma infeção disseminada por Bacillus Calmette-Guérin. A sua incidência é reportada em 3% a 7% dos indivíduos que realizam instilações intravesicais com Bacillus Calmette-Guérin. Ainda que a incidência seja relativamente reduzida, a taxa de interrupção do tratamento, com consequente redução da sua eficácia, e a morbilidade (7,4%) e mortalidade (5,4%) associadas a esta infeção disseminada salientam a importância do seu reconhecimento. A BCGite manifesta-se localmente, no aparelho genito-urinário e sistemicamente com envolvimento de órgão. Esta entidade carece de uma caracterização concisa, pois diversos estudos apresentam dados pouco claros e muitas vezes discordantes. Com esta revisão pretende-se incidir sobre os diferentes aspetos clínicos da BCGite com o objetivo de obter uma caracterização mais completa da mesma, favorecendo uma abordagem mais adequada na prática clínica. A apresentação clínica, os preditores de risco, a implementação de profilaxia, o diagnóstico e o tratamento da mesma são os principais alvos deste trabalho.

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2025-10-28T12:26:34Z

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Sardinha, Bárbara Parreira

Mild traumatic brain injury : a systematic review on brain MRI changes and correlation with neuropsychological outcomes

Introdução: O traumatismo crânio encefálico ligeiro tem sido associado a alterações encefálicas e défices neuropsicológicos a longo prazo. Objetivo: Procedeu-se a uma revisão sistemática da literatura com o objetivo de estudar a relação entre os achados de ressonância magnética (RM) avançada, em indivíduos com traumatismo crânio-encefálico (TCE) ligeiro, e o outcome neuropsicológico aos 6 e 12 meses após o traumatismo. Métodos: Foi realizada uma pesquisa de literatura, entre 2010 e 2020, utilizando a Pubmed, Cochrane library e Scopus. Resultados: Dos 237 artigos que resultaram da pesquisa, 15 foram incluídos na revisão sistemática. Todos os estudos incluídos relataram, pelo menos, um achado de RM após TCE ligeiro. Dez artigos documentam uma associação entre os achados de RM após o traumatismo e alterações neuropsicológicas. O TCE ligeiro pode condicionar alterações encefálicas, mesmo em doentes que não apresentem alterações agudas identificáveis por estudos de tomografia computorizada (TC) e de RM convencional. Os achados mais relevantes referem-se à utilização de estudos de RM com tensores de difusão (DTI1), demonstrando que uma redução da anisotropia fracional (FA2) e aumento da difusibilidade média (MD3) na fase aguda do traumatismo se correlacionavam com pior prognóstico neuropsicológico a longo prazo, nomeadamente ao nível da atenção, de função executiva e de memória. Adicionalmente, um melhor outcome cognitivo foi associado a tendências crescentes nos valores de FA e kurtose média (MK4) e decrescentes nos valores de MD aos 6 e 12 meses após o traumatismo. Conclusão: De acordo com esta revisão sistemática, os achados de RM avançada, em indivíduos que sofrem um TCE ligeiro, correlacionam-se com pior outcome neurocognitivo ao fim de 6 meses. Não foi possível ter resultados conclusivos relativamente a um outcome neuropsicológico aos 12 meses após o traumatismo. Estudos com técnicas de ressonância avançada podem surgir no futuro como biomarcadores in vivo para definir o prognóstico de indivíduos que sofrem um TCE ligeiro.

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2025-10-28T12:28:46Z

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Sousa, Bárbara Ribeiro de

Fraturas do anel pélvico em idade pediátrica : abordagem terapêutica e prognóstico : revisão de literatura a propósito de um caso clínico

As fraturas pélvicas em idade pediátrica são raras e associam-se, maioritariamente, a atropelamentos e acidentes de viação. Relativamente à combinação de fraturas do anel pélvico com fraturas acetabulares, a situação é ainda mais rara. Pela raridade da situação e pelo facto de que quando ocorrem em idades precoces poderem vir a afetar o correto desenvolvimento do individuo, a abordagem atempada e correta, influencia as consequências a longo prazo dos doentes. Com este trabalho pretendo fazer a discussão de um caso clínico individual revendo e estruturando a literatura em relação à identificação e descrição das abordagens terapêuticas à fratura do anel pélvico dando destaque à associação com fraturas acetabulares e fratura-luxação da anca. Adicionalmente pretendo discutir o prognóstico e complicações das fraturas referidas. Quanto à metodologia utilizada teve por base numa pesquisa bibliográfica com dados recolhidos no Pubmed e Google Scholar, tendo sido selecionados artigos entre 2000-2021, em idade pediátrica, escritos em língua portuguesa e inglesa. Adicionalmente, para inclusão de dados do caso clínico foram utilizados os registos pessoais do médico assistente responsável pela orientação do trabalho. Apesar da falta de evidência e de consensos, existiu uma evolução no último século, preferindo-se atualmente um tratamento menos conservador. A abordagem à criança deve ser iniciada assegurando a estabilização hemodinâmica, seguindo-se a caracterização e classificação correta da fratura através de meios de imagem para tomada de decisão terapêutica consoante o grau de imaturidade da pélvis e estabilidade fraturária. Acabando o tratamento cirúrgico por ser preconizado sempre para fraturas com grande disrupção, instáveis e abertas pela maior severidade de lesões e maiores implicações a longo prazo. Em termos de prognóstico, destaca-se que um tratamento atempado e correto permite uma recuperação da funcionalidade e diminuição das complicações a longo prazo.

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2025-10-28T12:18:41Z

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Miguel, Beatriz Bandarra

O que eu vejo de onde estou : contributo de um programa artístico-pedagógico ao serviço do desenvolvimento da livre expressão criadora na infância

The theoretical and practical discourse of artistic experience and its importance in pedagogy addressed during the course of the 20th century constituted a relevant interest for the study of the harmonious development of children and youth. The present thesis presents a theoretical and practical study using references from the field of philosophy, pedagogy and art. Based on contributions by John Dewey (1859-1952), Herbert Read (1893-1968) and Elliot Eisner (1933-2014), we certify the extension of the arts in the field of life in general and pedagogy in particular, and even though, art allows the human being to be touched emotionally through a unique form of experience. We found reference and inspiration in the work of artist pedagogues such as John Cage, Tim Rollins, Joseph Beuys, Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, Bruno Munari, Madalena Cabral and Eurico Gonçalves. Artists in the educational role, often in experimental contexts display relevancy for conceptual thinking on the development of aesthetic experience in the field of art and pedagogy. Practices that present the creation of artistic structures or programs linked to reforming pedagogies that demonstrate the potential of artistic languages as an innovative concept in artistic-pedagogical programs. Such experiences also ensure that the methodology used allows for a natural shift between artist, pedagogue and researcher. Based on the theoretical references and the artistic and pedagogical practices mentioned above, we created the artistic-pedagogical program: “What I see from where I am” that takes shape in the practical part of this thesis and with which we tried to identify methods and test practices for the construction of artistic processes and products. This program was designed with an organized base structure, in artistic experimentation workshops, inspired by artistic movements of such references as: Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and the KWY Group. The structure was designed to be flexible and adapted to different ages, heterogeneous groups, at different times and workspaces. Thus, we were able to observe the program in three different contexts: school, artistic residency and museum. The artistic activities performed during the workshops, brought about different interpretations despite of using the same materials and techniques allowing for free self-expression in childhood. They also made it possible to test the effectiveness of the strategies and resources involved in the sessions for the development of aesthetic sensitivity and openness to the arts, to be measured through the artistic objects produced, allowing participants to obtain knowledge in a metaphorical way.

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2025-10-28T12:25:13Z

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BAUDOUIN, alexandra

Cinema relacional : cinema como diálogo em uma "Triologia do Encontro"

The thesis intends to make a reading for the cinema of Nicolas Bourriaud's relational aesthetics and to observe how the process, understood here as an event, can produce cinema, taking into account the absence of materiality that relational theory proposes. The intention is to understand what belongs to the cinema and what belongs to the film, making a distinction between the two dimensions and, above all, trying to understand the process through which the cinema passes until it becomes a film, and the role of the director and other actors in this relational scenario. It studies the dialogues, the quality of the meetings, the nature of the relations of domination between the actors and also the relationship between the images that are inscribed in the film and those that remain outside the representation. It also tries to think about the relationships that are held in the construction of the film from the ideas of action and reaction, active force and reactive force. In an attempt to reflect on the transformation of cinema and film, he discusses the role of memory, the creation of archives and editing as decisionmaking elements that imply political and affective choices. The thesis is theoretical-practical and integrates three films – “Dream Machine”, “Halfways” and “How do you Say it in Words?” – which make up the "Trilogy of Encounter". It is from and around the questions motivated by artistic practice that the text is organized. The text also aims to clarify the methodology and choices present in the making of these films.

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2025-10-28T12:24:33Z

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Albuquerque, Nycolas dos Santos

‘Cosmovillagers’ as sustainable rural development actors in mountain hamlets? International immigrant entrepreneurs’ perceptions of sustainability in the Lleida Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain)

In recent decades, small villages in some mountainous regions in Europe have been suffering from ageing and depopulation, yet at the same time, immigrants have been arriving and settling there. This paper sheds light on the perceptions of sustainable rural development among international immigrants living in municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants, which are already the home to some ‘cosmovillagers’. If immigrants’ views are left unattended, an important part of reality will be lacking in the picture of mountainous areas because today immigration is qualitatively relevant in rural Europe. This paper aims to answer the following questions, among others: What dimensions of sustainability are underscored? What are the main challenges for sustainability and the proposals for improvement? What are the local sustainability challenges? This paper provides research results and insights based on original data gathered during fieldwork in the Pyrenees as well as analyses of documents, maps and statistics. Specifically, the main focus is on some several sparsely populated areas in the Lleida Pyrenees, e.g. dozens of municipalities in Alt Urgell, Cerdanya, Pallars Sobirà and Val d’Aran. Thus this paper aims to help fill that relative gap in the existing academic literature by offering original qualitative information.

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2025-10-28T12:11:58Z

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Morén-Alegret, Ricard Milazzo, Josepha Romagosa, Francesc Kallis, Giorgos

Do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça à desconstrução do poder judiciário em oitocentos

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2025-10-28T12:15:53Z

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Graes, Isabel

Habitat selection and foraging success by an endangered Mediterranean cyprinid: implications for habitat restoration

Habitat loss and degradation are causing collapses in freshwater fish in the Mediterranean region, where habitat restoration actions are still hampered by poor understanding of fish habitat selection and fitness. Here, we combined field surveys and laboratorial experiments to investigate how water velocity, body size and intra-specific interactions influence habitat selection and foraging success by the highly endangered Mira chub Squalius torgalensis. Velocity negatively affected habitat selection and fitness of chub via its negative effects on prey capture rate. Small chub occupied lower velocity ranges than large chub, and both captured the most prey at the range of velocities selected in the stream. Size-based intra-specific interactions also affected capture success, with small chub capturing proportionally less prey in the presence of large chub. Our results suggest that, during base-flow conditions, restoring low and moderate velocities up to 26 cm/s will help ensure suitable habitat and improve the fitness of small and large chub occurring in interacting groups. Integrated approaches uncovering factors directly related to habitat selection and individual fitness should guide habitat restoration for fish in Mediterranean streams and may help identify critical habitat features for other endangered species.

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2025-10-28T12:21:01Z

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Martelo, Joana Grossman, Gary D. Magalhaes, Maria Filomena

Assessment of the Density Loss in Anobiid Infested Pine Using X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography

The present study aims at evaluating the impact of anobiid damage on pine timber elements. Anobiid attack produces a diffuse damage of the elements with a set of tunnels in random directions and sizes, thus confusing quantification. Therefore, a method was developed based on X-ray micro-computed tomography (µ-XCT) to obtain, for naturally infested timber samples, an empirical correlation between lost material percentage (consumed by beetles) and timber apparent density (original, before degradation—OTD and residual, after degradation—RTD). The quantified density loss can then be used in further assessment of the structure. The results of the tests performed showed high correlation between original apparent density and lost material percentage (r2 = 0.60) and between residual apparent density and lost material percentage (r2 = 0.83), which confirms µ-XCT as a valuable tool to the required quantification. The loss of density results can be further applied on the definition of an assessment method for the evaluation of the residual strength of anobiids infested timber, thus contributing to reducing unnecessary replacement. The optimized procedure of the µ-XCT study for infested Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) is presented and discussed in this article.

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2025-10-28T12:18:14Z

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Parracha, João Pereira, Manuel Maurício, António Faria, Paulina Lima, Daniel F. Tenório, Marina Nunes, Lina

Glacial oscillations during the Bølling–Allerød Interstadial–Younger Dryas transition in the Ruda Valley, Central Pyrenees

The Upper Garonne Basin included the largest glacial system in the Pyrenees during the last glacialcycle. Within the long‐term glacial retreat during Termination‐1(T‐1), glacier fluctuations left geomorphic evidencein the area. However, the chronology of T‐1 glacial oscillations on the northern slopes of the Central Pyrenees is stillpoorly constrained. Here, we introduce new geomorphological observations and a 12‐sample dataset of10Becosmic‐ray exposure ages from the Ruda Valley. This U‐shaped valley, surrounded by peaks exceeding 2800 m a.s.l.,includes a sequence of moraines and polished surfaces that enabled a reconstruction of the chronology of the lastdeglaciation. Following the maximum ice extent, warmer conditions prevailing at ~15–14 ka, during theBølling–Allerød (B–A) Interstadial, favoured glacial retreat in the Ruda Valley. Within the B–A, glaciers experiencedtwo phases of advance/stillstand with moraine formation at 13.5 and 13.0 ka. During the early Younger Dryas (YD),glacial retreat exposed the highest surfaces of the Saboredo Cirque (~2300–2350 m) at 12.7 ka. Small glacierspersisted only inside the highest cirques (~2470 m), such as in Sendrosa Cirque, with moraines stabilising at 12.6 ka.The results of this work present the most complete chronology for Pyrenean glacial oscillations from the B–A to theYD

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2025-10-28T12:27:41Z

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Fernandes, Marcelo Oliva, Marc Vieira, Gonçalo Palacios, D. Fernández-Fernández, Jose M. Garcia‐oteyza, J. Schimmelpfennig, I. Team, Aster Antoniades, D.

Influence of Zwitterionic Buffer Effects with Thermal Modification Treatments of Wood on Symbiotic Protists in Reticulitermes grassei Clément

The majority of thermal modification processes are at temperatures greater than 180 °C, resulting in a product with some properties enhanced and some diminished (e.g., mechanical properties). However, the durability of thermally modified wood to termite attack is recognised as low. Recent attempts at combining thermal modification with chemical modification, either prior to or directly after the thermal process, are promising. Buffers, although not influencing the reaction systems, may interact on exposure to certain conditions, potentially acting as promoters of biological changes. In this study, two zwitterionic buffers, bicine and tricine, chosen for their potential to form Maillard-type products with fragmented hemicelluloses/volatiles, were assessed with and without thermal modification for two wood species (spruce and beech), with subsequent evaluation of their effect against subterranean termites (Reticulitermes grassei Clément) and their symbiotic protists. The effect of the wood treatments on termites and their symbionts was visible after four weeks, especially for spruce treated with tricine and bicine and heat treatment (bicine HT), and for beech treated with bicine and bicine and heat treatment (bicine HT). The chemical behaviour of these substances should be further investigated when in contact with wood and also after heat treatment. This is the first study evaluating the effect of potential Maillard reactions with zwitterionic buffers on subterranean termite symbiotic fauna.

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2025-10-28T12:27:27Z

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Duarte, Sónia Nunes, Lina Kržišnik, Davor Humar, Miha Jones, Dennis

Impact of large wildfires on PM10 levels and human mortality in Portugal

Uncontrolled wildfires have a substantial impact on the environment, the economy and local populations. According to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), between 2000 and 2013 wildfires burned up to 740 000 ha of land annually in the south of Europe, Portugal being the country with the highest percentage of burned area per square kilometre. However, there is still a lack of knowledge regarding the impacts of the wildfire-related pollutants on the mortality of the country's population. All wildfires occurring during the fire season (June–July–August–September) from 2001 and 2016 were identified, and those with a burned area above 1000 ha (large fires) were considered for the study. During the studied period (2001–2016), more than 2 million ha of forest (929 766 ha from June to September alone) were burned in mainland Portugal. Although large fires only represent less than 1 % of the number of total fires, in terms of burned area their contribution is 46 % (53 % from June to September). To assess the spatial impact of the wildfires, burned areas in each region of Portugal were correlated with PM10 concentrations measured at nearby background air quality monitoring stations. Associations between PM10 and all-cause (excluding injuries, poisoning and external causes) and cause-specific mortality (circulatory and respiratory) were studied for the affected populations using Poisson regression models. A significant positive correlation between burned area and PM10 was found in some regions of Portugal, as well as a significant association between PM10 concentrations and mortality, these being apparently related to large wildfires in some of the regions. The north, centre and inland of Portugal are the most affected areas. The high temperatures and long episodes of drought expected in the future will increase the probabilities of extreme events and therefore the occurrence of wildfires.

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2025-10-28T12:23:27Z

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Tarín-Carrasco, Patricia Augusto, Sofia Palacios-Peña, Laura Ratola, Nuno Jiménez-Guerrero, Pedro

HIV-2 infection is associated with preserved GALT homeostasis and epithelial integrity despite ongoing mucosal viral replication

The mechanisms that enable preservation of gut mucosal integrity during persistent viral replication and inherent inflammation remain unclear. Here, we investigated, for the first time, gut homeostasis in HIV-2 infection, a naturally occurring form of attenuated HIV disease. We found viral replication in both sigmoid and ileum of asymptomatic HIV-2+ patients (range: 240-851 circulating CD4+T-cells per μl) despite their undetectable viremia, accompanied by interferon-γ-producing CD8 T-cell expansion, irrespective of antiretroviral treatment. Nevertheless, there was no CD4 T-cell depletion, and Foxp3+ and IL-17- or IL-22-producing CD4 T-cell numbers were unaffected. Moreover, IL-22-producing innate lymphoid cells and IL-22-induced antimicrobial peptides and mucins were maintained. In agreement, the epithelium histology was preserved, including tight junction protein zonula occludens (ZO-1) levels. Furthermore, in vitro infection of colon epithelia with primary isolates revealed no HIV-2 impact on ZO-1 expression. Notably, sigmoid transcriptional levels of CCL20 and CCL28 were significantly increased, in direct correlation with GM-CSF, indicating a local response able to enhance CD4 T-cell recruitment. In conclusion, maintenance of mucosal integrity in HIV-2 infection was associated with T-cell recruitment responses, potentially counteracting CD4 T-cell depletion due to HIV-2 replication. These data have unique implications for the design of therapies targeting gut homeostasis in HIV-1 infection and other chronic inflammatory settings.

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2025-10-28T12:19:09Z

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Fernandes, S. M. Pires, A. R. Matoso, P. Ferreira, C. Nunes-Cabaço, Helena Correia, L. Valadas, Emília Poças, J. Pacheco, P. Veiga-Fernandes, Henrique Foxall, Russell Sousa, Ana E.