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    Develo** a social prescribing local system in a European Mediterranean country: a feasibility study to promote active and healthy aging

    Social Prescribing (SP) is an innovative strategy to respond to the non-clinical health needs of the population. A Social Prescribing Local System (SPLS) can be defined as a set of joined community, health, an...

    A. Costa, J. Lopes, C. J. Sousa, O. Santos, A. Virgolino in BMC Health Services Research (2021)

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    Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytical Theory, Approaches and Clinical Relevance: Applying the Psychoanalytic Principles and Practices to Mental Health Nursing

    Spurred by the original contribution of Peplau, who in turn was inspired by Harry ‘Stack’ Sullivan’s work, the notion of interpersonal, psychoanalytical-based Psychiatric/Mental Health (P/MH) Nursing has both ...

    J. Lopes, John R. Cutcliffe in European Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing… (2018)

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    Liver transplant recipients have a higher prevalence of anal squamous intraepithelial lesions

    Anal squamous intraepithelial lesions (ASIL) are precancerous lesions of anal squamous cell carcinoma, with a higher prevalence in immunosuppressed patients. There are some studies in kidney transplant recipie...

    A Albuquerque, H Pessegueiro Miranda, J Lopes, J Gandara in British Journal of Cancer (2017)

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    Investigating ozone episodes in Portugal: a wavelet-based approach

    During the summer season, ozone concentrations regularly exceed the legislation limits in the North of Portugal, namely at Douro Norte monitoring station. The origin of such ozone episodes has been widely repo...

    A. Monteiro, S. Gouveia, M. G. Scotto, J. Lopes in Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health (2016)

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    The FEN1 E359K germline mutation disrupts the FEN1–WRN interaction and FEN1 GEN activity, causing aneuploidy-associated cancers

    Polymorphisms and somatic mutations in Flap Endonuclease 1 (FEN1), an essential enzyme involved in DNA replication and repair, can lead to functional deficiencies of the FEN1 protein and a predisposition to ca...

    L Chung, D Onyango, Z Guo, P Jia, H Dai, S Liu, M Zhou, W Lin, I Pang, H Li in Oncogene (2015)

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    Helicobacter pylori Identification: A Diagnostic/Confirmatory Method for Evaluation

    The Helicobacter pylori extra gastric reservoir is probably the oral cavity. In order to evaluate the presence of this bacterium in patients with periodontitis and suspicious microbial cultures, saliva was collec...

    B. Mesquita, M. J. Gonçalves, P. Pacheco, J. Lopes, F. Salazar in Current Microbiology (2014)

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    Discrimination of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticusAcinetobacter baumannii complex species by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    The main goal of this work was to assess the ability of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) to discriminate between the species of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus

    C. Sousa, L. Silva, F. Grosso, A. Nemec in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology … (2014)

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    MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry as a tool for the discrimination of high-risk Escherichia coli clones from phylogenetic groups B2 (ST131) and D (ST69, ST405, ST393)

    Reliable, quick and low-cost methods are needed for the early detection of multidrug-resistant and highly virulent high-risk B2 and D Escherichia coli clones or clonal complexes (HiRCC). Matrix-assisted laser des...

    Â. Novais, C. Sousa, J. de Dios Caballero in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology … (2014)

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    Pochonia chlamydosporia controls Meloidogyne incognita on carrot

    The fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia var. chlamydosporia isolate Pc-10 (Pc-10) presents great potential for the management of root-knot nematodes on vegetable crops. However, there is no information about the use o...

    A. F. Bontempo, R. H. Fernandes, J. Lopes, L. G. Freitas in Australasian Plant Pathology (2014)

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    Tumor necrosis factor beta (TNF-β) NcoI polymorphism is associated with multiple sclerosis in Caucasian patients from Southern Brazil independently from HLA-DRB1

    This study evaluated the association of tumor necrosis factor beta (TNF-β) NcoI polymorphism with the presence of multiple sclerosis (MS), disability, and HLA-DRB1 alleles in 208 Brazilian MS patients. As control...

    A. P. Kallaur, S. R. Oliveira, A. N. C. Simão in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (2014)

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    Design Methods for Ion Exchange Equipment

    The methods for designing ion exchange equipment, namely batch, continuous perfectly mixed and fixed beds, are discussed.

    J. Loureiro, C. Costa, M. Dias, J. Lopes in Fundamentals and Applications of Ion Excha… (1985)