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Helena Carvalho
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The Role of Attachment in the Life Aspirations of Portuguese Adolescents in Residential Care: The Mediating Effect of Emotion Regulation
Quality of attachment relationships developed within an institutional environment may be a risk or protective factor for the creation of life aspirations and for emotion regulation abilities among adolescents ...
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Social interaction matters to job search over the long haul
Based on social cognitive, reasoned action, and basic needs theories, this study examines whether co-rumination with others about the job search mediates the positive relation between state negative affect and...
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‘What could make me stay at work’: Retirement transition profiles
Aging populations pose a persistent challenge to the sustainability of public pension systems. To tackle these financial pressures, many countries strengthen the incentives to work by increasing the statutory ...
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Attachment, Emotional Regulation and Perception of the Institutional Environment in Adolescents in Residential Care Context
There is a scarcity of studies that relate attachment, emotional regulation difficulties and perception of the institutional environment among adolescents in a residential care context (RCC). Research has sugg...
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Open AccessA randomised control trial protocol of MuST for vascular access cannulation in hemodialysis patients (MuST Study): contributions for a safe nursing intervention
The vascular access preservation and the maintenance of a complication-free fistula remains an Achilles’ heel of hemodialysis in chronic kidney patients due to its substantial contribution to the morbidity and...
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Industry 4.0 maturity follow-up inside an internal value chain: a case study
Social, economic, and technological developments are leading companies to face new production challenges. The use of information and communication technologies offers to companies physical and virtual structur...
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Tracking the maturity of industry 4.0: the perspective of a real scenario
To track industry 4.0 status, readiness models are used to analyze the state of industry 4.0 technologies’ implementation, allowing the quantification and qualification of its readiness level considering diffe...
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Open AccessConceptions of Learning and Teaching for Faculty Who Teach Basic Science
Conceptions of learning and teaching refer to what faculty think about teaching effectiveness. Approaches to teaching refer to the methods they use to teach. Both conceptions and approaches range from student-...
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Open AccessThe effects of austerity measures on quality of healthcare services: a national survey of physicians in the public and private sectors in Portugal
The European Union member countries reacted differently to the 2008 economic and financial crisis. However, few countries have monitored the outcomes of their policy responses, and there is therefore little ev...
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A proposed framework to assess upstream supply chain sustainability
There are few methods that are suitable for assessing the sustainability of companies and supply chains in an integrated way, taking into consideration the economic, social and environmental dimensions. This p...
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Psychometric Assessment of the Child Surgery Worries Questionnaire Among Portuguese Children
Worries are common in surgical patients, especially in children. The present study analyzed the factor structure and the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Child Surgery Worries Questionnai...
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Security in the Interparental Subsystem (SIS) Scale: Psychometric Characteristics in a Sample of Portuguese Adolescents
The Security in the Interparental Subsystem Scale (SIS) is based on emotional security theory. This study examined the psychometric properties of an adaptation of the SIS to a sample of Portuguese adolescents ...
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Agile and resilient approaches to supply chain management: influence on performance and competitiveness
Supply chain management must adopt different and more innovative strategies that support a better response to customer needs in an uncertain environment. Supply chains must be more agile and be more capable of...
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Perceptions of quantitative methods in higher education: map** student profiles
A number of studies have concluded that when students have greater confidence about their math skills and are aware of its usefulness, they have a more positive perception of the subject. This article aims to ...
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Phosphorylation and subsequent interaction with 14-3-3 proteins regulate plastid glutamine synthetase in Medicago truncatula
In this report we demonstrate that plastid glutamine synthetase of Medicago truncatula (MtGS2) is regulated by phosphorylation and 14-3-3 interaction. To investigate regulatory aspects of GS2 phosphorylation, we ...
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Cellular expression and regulation of the Medicago truncatula cytosolic glutamine synthetase genes in root nodules
In this paper we have studied the localisation of expression of the two functional cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS) genes, MtGSa and MtGSb, in root nodules of the model legume Medicago truncatula. We have used...
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Heteromeric assembly of the cytosolic glutamine synthetase polypeptides of Medicago truncatula: complementation of a glnA Escherichia coli mutant with a plant domain-swapped enzyme
We have cloned and sequenced the cDNAs corresponding to the two cytosolic glutamine synthetase (GS) polypeptides (a and b) of Medicago truncatula. Using these two cDNAs we have prepared a construct encoding th...
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Immunocytolocalization of glutamine synthetase in mesophyll and phloem of leaves ofSolanum tuberosum L.
Localization of glutamine synthetase inSolanum tuberosum leaves was investigated by techniques of Western tissue printing and immunogold electron microscopy. Anti-GS antibodies used in immunolocalization recogniz...
