A DPOC na Área Metropolitana do Porto e o efeito das ondas de calor e de frio na enfermidade

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the possible socioeconomic aspects associated with the disease were characterized and the effects that heat waves (HW) and cold waves (CW) can have on the increase of hospitalizations in people living in the Porto Metropolitan Area (PMA) between 2000 and 2015 were evaluated. The effects of HW and CW on hospital admissions for COPD were investigated by multiple linear regression analysis, with a significance level of α= 5%. Statistical and carto...

Recent paths in nineteenth-century history: diversity and modernity of a historiographic field

This study focuses on a set of ninety-six doctoral theses related to Modern History-nineteenth-century carried out in Portuguese universities between 2010 and 2018and aims to analyze their distribution among the referred schools and doctoralprograms, their main scientific focus and studied geographical spaces, evidencing theoccurrence of these variants over the nine years under study in order to check forpatterns or trends in this field.

The patron saints and devotions of the Benedictine Military Orders (Portugal and Castile, 15-16th Centuries)

This paper studies hagiographic devotion in the seigniories of the military orders: theOrders of Avis and Christ in Portugal and of Calatrava in Castile. Applying acommon methodology and using similar sources for all three cases, this paperanalyzes the written testimonies of the orders' devotion to Christ and the VirginMary, as well as their veneration of the saints. These records were compiled from thevisitations made to churches, hermitages, and confraternities between 1462 and 1539.The res...

Lugares da música numa distopia: a pandemia de 2020