Meeting the Challenge by T. Reg Bott

“…The first Chempor Conference held in Lisbon in 1975 under the auspices of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, heralded a regular wide-ranging review of research and development in Portugal and the UK Progressively in later years the Conferences have attracted contributions from other European countries and indeed further afield. …”
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Linguagem, espaço e nação: um mapeamento das identidades multigeográficas do protagonista imigrante by Cecily Raynor

“…In this paper, I analyze works portraying migration:Estive em Lisboa e lembrei devocê(2009), by Luiz Ruffatto, a work centered on the story of a Brazilian migrantto Lisbon, andMar Paraguayo(1992 ), by Wilson Bueno, which recounts the taleof a Paraguayan prostitute living inGuaratuba. …”
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Editorial: Exploring the multifaceted relationship between human health and urban nature in times of crises by Diogo Guedes Vidal, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Hélder Silva Lopes, Hélder Silva Lopes, Rui Leandro Maia

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Introduction by Milena Lenderová

“…In July 2007 the young researchers met in the French city of Montpellier (topic entitled Le corps et ses images: santé, humeurs, maladies / The body and its images: health, humours, illnesses); in September 2009 they met in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon (the topic was Europe and the Colonial World / L’Europe et le monde colonial), and in 2008 they were invited to the seminar by the Czech branch of the ISECS, Česká společnost pro výzkum 18. století (The Czech Society for 18th- century Research). …”
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High-resolution mapping of evapotranspiration over heterogeneous cropland affected by soil salinity by Meihan Liu, Huimin Lei, Xingwang Wang, Paula Paredes

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Association of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms with rheumatoid arthritis by Noelia Marquez Pete, Cristina Perez Ramirez, Maria del Mar Maldonado Montoro, Fernando Martinez Martinez, Fernando Fernández-Llimos, Antonio Sánchez Pozo, María del Carmen Ramirez Tortosa, Alberto Jiménez Morales

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NutriLive: An Integrated Nutritional Approach as a Sustainable Tool to Prevent Malnutrition in Older People and Promote Active and Healthy Ageing—The EIP-AHA Nutrition Action Group... by Maddalena Illario, Angela Serena Maione, Maria Rosaria Rusciano, Edwig Goossens, Amelia Rauter, Nidia Braz, Harriet Jager-Wittenaar, Carolina Di Somma, Catherine Crola, Maria Soprano, Laura Vuolo, Pietro Campiglia, Guido Iaccarino, Helen Griffiths, Tobias Hartman, Donatella Tramontano, Annamaria Colao, Regina Roller-Wirnsberger

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Cosmopolitan impressions from a contemporary Bengali patachitra painting museum collection in Portugal by Inês Ponte

“…Focusing particularly on the recent development of women as painters and performers of the patua folk craft in an expanded market, through a study of the acquisition of a patachitra collection by the Ethnology Museum in Lisbon, I explore the cosmopolitan impressions in the work of such women from the village of Naya. …”
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Complex Interplay of Eastern Bloc SMEs Trade Credit Determinants: Changes due to the Global Financial Crisis by Tamara Teplova, Tatiana Sokolova, Kristina Galenskaya, Mariya Gubareva

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New restaurants and their intra-industry effects: evidence from Portugal by Luís Miguel Serra Coelho

“…Regression analysis further shows that high industry concentration, low labor productivity, and low asset profitability magnify the rivals’ underperformance, which is particularly acute when the restaurants are located at Lisbon and Oporto, the two most heavily populated Portuguese cities. …”
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More than twenty years of European policy for the development of the information society by Claudio Feijóo, José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Edvins Karnitis

“…The vision of a Europe driven by its incorporation to the information society has been thinned down after the modification of the Lisbon strategy. This diversion of the course that had been taken in the past represents a worrying backward step, which is aggravated when considering the situation described in a not so encouraging preview of the results of eEurope.…”
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Future of European Security Policies: Is Geopolitical Europe Possible? by Ahmet K. Han, Çiğdem Üstün

“…Since the aftermath of World War II, the pursuit of European autonomy in ensuring its security began with the 1950s French proposal for a pan-European defense force, though never realized. The Lisbon Treaty facilitated Union representation as a legal entity and introduced Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) to deepen defense ties. …”
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Emergent Biomarkers of Residual Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Low HDL-c and/or High Triglycerides and Average LDL-c Concentrations: Focus on HDL Subpopulations, Oxidized LDL... by Filipa Mascarenhas-Melo, Filipe Palavra, Daniela Marado, José Sereno, Edite Teixeira-Lemos, Isabel Freitas, Maria Isabel-Mendonça, Rui Pinto, Frederico Teixeira, Flávio Reis

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El Esthesioneuroblastoma: the impact of brain oncological disease on neuropsychological changes – Clinical Case Study by Charles Ysaacc Da Silva Rodrigues

“…Methods: Only one participant was considered for this case study, a 53-year-old man who lived in the city of Lisbon. A screening consisting of various subtests of the WISC and the complex figure of Rey was applied. …”
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The afterlife of François Le Moyne’s Annunciation on eighteenth-century Portuguese azulejos by Rosário Salema de Carvalho

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Human Echinococcosis: A Neglected Disease by António Menezes da Silva

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Do We Need to Choose Between Theory and Practice? On the Place of Logos and Praxis in Philosophy as a Way of Life by Marta Faustino

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Plural Identity and Migrant Communities in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (2018) by Margarida Pereira Martins

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The Reversely Zoned Castelo Branco Pluton at the New “Barrocal” City Park (Central Iberian Zone, Portugal) by Isabel Margarida Antunes, Carlos de Carvalho, Mohamed Abioui

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Territorialisation de la plateforme Airbnb by Alexandre Grondeau, Gwenaëlle Dourthe

“…To this end, we propose to focus on the territorialization of accommodations available on the Airbnb platform, as well as the socio-economic and political issues induced in two emblematic Mediterranean tourist cities: Barcelona and Lisbon. We'll analyze the spatial distribution of accommodations offered on Airbnb, their characteristics and cross-reference them with various socio-demographic data from these cities to measure the impact of the emergence and international development of the Californian platform. …”
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