Transição para o ensino secundário em Portugal: Vozes de estudantes sobre dificuldades acadêmicas = Transition to upper secondary education in Portugal: Students' voices about academic difficulties

From incubation to sustainability: a case-study of graduated companies in Portugal

The purpose of this article is to discuss business incubators as a new way to boost companies and create jobs in a very competitive economic context. From a sociological perspective inspired by concepts such as those of "network" and "social capital", we analyze the entrepreneurial ecosystem as an instrument to overcome challenges during post-incubation. A qualitative research based on a multiple case-study in companies formerly incubated at the Science and Technology Park of the University o...

A exposição Ciência numa Ilustração, Ilustrar para Comunicar / Divulgar Ciência: das origens aos planos futuros

ResumoA exposicao Ciencia numa Ilustracao, Ilustrar para Comunicar / Divulgar Ciencia visa a aquisicao de uma visao integrada e abrangente, incluindo uma visao historica, acerca da Ilustracao Cientifica, bem como a sensibilizacao para a area, designadamente, para os seus diferentes dominios e subdominios e enquadramento no nosso quotidiano. Ainda no ambito da exposicao e possivel observar diferentes modelos cientificos tridimensionais (naturais e artificiais) usados em contexto de sal...

Chronic exposure to ethanol exacerbates MDMA-induced hyperthermia and exposes liver to severe MDMA-induced toxicity in CD1 mice

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA; ecstasy) is an amphetamine derivative drug with entactogenic, empathogenic and hallucinogenic properties, commonly consumed at rave parties in a polydrug abuse pattern, especially with cannabis, tobacco and ethanol. Since both MDMA and ethanol may cause deleterious effects to the liver, the evaluation of their putative hepatotoxic interaction is of great interest, especially considering that most of the MDMA users are regular ethanol consumers. Thus, t...