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A single dose of COVID-19 vaccine induces a strong T cell and B cell response in healthcare professionals recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection
A broad understanding on how SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination mobilize the immune system is necessary to find the best predictors of long-term protection and identify individuals that would benefit from ad...
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Quality of Life in Women with Obesity
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Musculoskeletal Injuries and Associated Pain in Portuguese Ju Jitsu Athletes: Prevalence and Associated Factors
Objective: To study the prevalence of injuries in Ju Jitsu and its association with athletes’ experience and state of progression in the modality. Background: Data specifically on the prevalence of injuries in...
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Work Changes Due to COVID-19: Exploring Portuguese Workers’ Expectations Using IRaMuTeQ
The COVID-19 pandemic brought massive disruption, as it strongly impacted several dimensions of people’s life. All over the world, organizations were forced to stop presential activities and adopt teleworking,...
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Positive Ecological Psychology: Contributes to the Promotion of Healthy Lives and Well-Being
We currently live in a consumer society with extremely damaging consequences for the environment. It urges to develop modes and models of production, and consumption behaviours with less environmental impact, ...
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Quality of Life in Women with Obesity
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The COVID-19 Crisis in the Words of Human Resources Professionals: The Use of Internet Latent Corpus
This paper focuses on the use of latent corpus from the internet to explore HR professionals’ work experience when Portugal first declared a state of emergency in March 2020 due to the pandemic outbreak. Given...
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Exploring Wine Terroir Experiences: A Social Media Analysis
The present study seeks to better understand wine terroir experiences as reported by visitors of a Portuguese wine region, namely Bairrada in Central Portugal that has also been dynamized through a wine touris...
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The Portuguese Adaptation of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form for Adult Population
The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) is a self-report questionnaire that allows the assessment of positive mental health, including three well-being components—emotional, psychological and social—as...
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Type II Violence in Portuguese Nursing Homes: Contributions to its Characterization
This article aims at contributing to the characterization of the phenomenon of violence practiced by institutionalized elderly people on “non-technical” care providers in Portugal. A cross-sectional, descripti...
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Modelling Overdispersion with Integer-Valued Moving Average Processes
A new first-order integer-valued average, INMA(1), model based the negative binomial thinning operation by Ristić et al. [21] is proposed and characterized. It is shown that this model has negative binomial...
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Amniotic membrane extract differentially regulates human peripheral blood T cell subsets, monocyte subpopulations and myeloid dendritic cells
The discovery of the immunoregulatory potential of human amniotic membrane (hAM) propelled several studies focusing on its application for the treatment of immunological disorders. However, there is little inf...
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Decision Making on Human Resource Management Systems
The objective of this study is to describe the interactions between individual-level response (employees’ trust and adhesion to Human Resource (HR) Management practices) and organizational-level processes (ma...
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Wavelet-Based Detection of Outliers in Poisson INAR(1) Time Series
The presence of outliers or discrepant observations has a negative impact in time series modelling. This paper considers the problem of detecting outliers, additive or innovational, single, multiple or in patc...
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CD38, CD81 and BAFFR combined expression by transitional B cells distinguishes active from inactive systemic lupus erythematosus
In view of its heterogeneous presentation and unpredictable course, clinical management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is difficult. There is a need for biomarkers and diagnostic aids to monitor SLE di...
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The Effect of Ischemia and Reperfusion on Enteric Glial Cells and Contractile Activity in the Ileum
We investigated the effects of ischemia followed by different periods of reperfusion (I/R) on immunoreactive S100β-positive glial and Hu-immunoreactive neurons co-expressing the P2X2 receptor in the myenteric ...
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Open AccessPsychosocial factors as predictors of quality of life in chronic portuguese patients
Chronic illnesses are diseases of long duration and generally of slow progression. They cause significant quality of life impairment. The aim of this study was to analyse psychosocial predictors of quality of ...
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Women with Obesity, Quality of Life
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Open AccessImpact of allergic rhinitis and specific subcutaneous immunotherapy on peripheral blood basophils of patients sensitized to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus
Basophils are important effectors cells in allergic rhinitis (AR) since they are involved in immunoglobulin (Ig) E – mediated inflammation and in the release of pro-inflammatory mediators. Specific subcutaneou...
