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Wrack Composed by Fucus spp, Ascophyllum nodosum and Pelvetia canaliculata Limits Metal Uptake and Restores the Redox Homeostasis of Barley Plants Grown in Cu-Contaminated Soils
Since metal contamination compromises crop growth and food safety, eco-friendly responses to prevent this are needed. This study provided an integrative evaluation of the potential of wrack (macroalgae debris)...
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The potential of beach wrack as plant biostimulant to mitigate metal toxicity: mineral composition, antioxidant properties and effects against Cu-induced stress
Plant biostimulants such as seaweed extracts, present a sustainable alternative to agrochemicals. Moreover, the accumulation of beach-cast seaweed (wrack), due to climate change and anthropic pressures, is exp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Green Marketing Trends in Specific Contexts of Tourism and Music Festivals: Preliminary Insights
Green marketing based on environmentally sound practices, with the aim of generating more sustainable products and services, strengthens the image of companies, differentiating them from other brands in the ma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Safety Seal Clean & Safe and Recovery of Tourism Marketing in the (Post) Pandemic Context
Tourism is an activity heavily dependent on the movement of people and travel (with different motivations). As a result, tourism has been heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
EvoMCS: Optimising Energy and Throughput of Mission Critical Services
Mission critical services have stringent requirements in terms of reliability, energy-efficiency and performance. Optimisation approaches are required to maximise missions’ service time by minimising the consu...
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Chapter
SWS—A Decision-Making Tool to Support Occupational Safety
Disorders caused by poor lighting, inappropriate thermal environments, noise and manual handling constitute a daily challenge for workers, since these factors influence worker productivity and can trigger long...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tourism Development Through the Events Industry: The Case of Outdoor Corporate Events
Many types of tourism can be treated as facilitators to answer the market needs, as events tourism. The link between events and tourism is explicit in several studies, showing tourists as participants in event...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sustainability in Rural Tourism: The Strategic Perspective of Owners
There is a multiplicity of reasons and purposes behind the growing demand for rural tourism experiences. The personalised encounter between place, people/culture, and guests. As expected, the rural accommodati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Trends and Segmentation of Medical Tourism: An Approach to Reproductive Tourism
This study aims to understand some of the main trends in tourist segmentation in the context of medical tourism, with an emphasis on reproductive tourism (or, also called fertility tourism). The research study...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
E-GovSTP: An E-Government Model for a Small Island State, the Case of São Tomé and Principe
Literature posits that most data and research on E-Government dominantly focuses on large economies where social, political, organizational and economic aspects of these local contexts significantly differ fro...
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Chapter
Tourist Experience in Rural Areas in Portugal: The Case of the “Quadrilátero Do Minho”
Rural tourism (both physical and emotional experiences) has been increasingly sought after for a multitude of reasons. The personalised encounter between places, people/culture and guests, characteristic of ru...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Northern Portugal Tourism Experiences Management for the Post-Covid Period: Facing Demand Changes in Tourism Products and Services
Several authors consider that the current outbreak of COVID-19 presented serious economic consequences worldwide, leading to dramatic changes in companies and consumers behavior, improving changes in communica...
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Cooperation as a Basic Strategy for New Dynamics of a Cross-Border Destination: The Case of the Euroregion Galicia and Northern Portugal
Cooperation is a strategy increasingly used in the tourism sector, as it can enhance cross-border tourism, including in regions characterised by historical singularities, social and institutional relations, wh...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Development and validation of a framework for the assessment of school curricula on the presence of evolutionary concepts (FACE)
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a framework for the assessment of school curricula on the presence of evolutionary concepts (FACE)
Evolution is a key concept of biology, fundamental to understand the world and address important societal problems, but research studies show that it is still not widely understood and accepted. Several factor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Movie Tourism and Attracting New Tourists in the Post-pandemic Period: A Niche Marketing Perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be a huge public health problem with an impact on companies and consumers at the national and international levels. Measures were implemented in Portugal in response to COVI...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Managing Motivation (Outside) Business Contexts: Tourism and Teambuilding
Tourism is a multifaceted phenomenon and geographically complex, which moves millions of people worldwide and with a predominant contribution to the economy. The tourism is a psychological state of understandi...
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Chapter
A Marketing Contribution to the Recognition of Regional and Local Brands: “Portugal Sou Eu” Case Study
This case study aims to understand the importance of attachment in social marketing contexts, analysing the affectivity to the program “Portugal Sou Eu” (i.e. an initiative of the Portuguese Ministry of Econom...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Basic Social Process of “Re-functionalising” and Its Implications for Housing Tourism: A Niche Tourism Perspective
Tourism has been regarded by Portuguese governmental authorities as a device of economic diversification of rural areas, thus contributing to the revitalization of the most depressed regions of the country. Fo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CROCUS: An Objective Approach for SDN Controllers Security Assessment
Software Defined Networking (SDN) facilitates the orchestration and configuration of network resources in a flexible and scalable form, where policies are managed by controller components that interact with ne...
