The impact of European employment strategy in Greece and Portugal: Europeanization in a world of neglect by Sotirios Zartaloudis

“…By focusing on three key areas of employment policy – public employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity – in Greece and Portugal, this study provides a model to explore how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence member states' employment policy. …”
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Sophie's choice: social attitudes to welfare state retrenchment in bailed-out Portugal by Laura Valadez, F. Carreira da Silva

“…These two logics frame choices concerning the future of the welfare state in Portugal. We explore the determinants of this choice through three hypotheses: dualization between insiders and outsiders (H1); the type of welfare regime (H2), and social rights consciousness (H3). …”
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Microbiological and physicochemical characterization of olive mill wastewaters from a continuous olive mill in Northeastern Portugal by Carla Amaral, Marco Lucas, Joao Coutinho, Antonio L. Crespi, Maria do Rosario Anjos, Celia Pais

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Socioeconomic status and biological factors on the nutritional health of an urban community of Cape Verdean children residing in Portugal by Ana Lucia Vieira Peixoto Andre

“…Portugal is one of those countries with 37.9% overweight and 15.3% obesity in 6 to 8 year olds (Rito et al. 2012). …”
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How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis by Alexandre Afonso, Sotirios Zartaloudis, Yannis Papadopoulos

“…Drawing on an analysis of austerity reforms in Greece and Portugal during the sovereign debt crisis from 2009 onwards, we show how the nature of the linkages between parties and citizens shapes party strategies of fiscal retrenchment. …”
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Growing up in Portugal: Cape Verdean ancestry children exhibit low overweight and obesity compared to Portuguese in urban Lisbon by Ana Lucia Vieira Peixoto Andre, M.C. Padez, V. Rosado-Marques, Paula Griffiths, Maria Ines Varela Silva

“…Cape Verdean rates for combined overnutrition (overweight and obesity) in 2013 (9.8% for boys and 16.7% for girls) are lower than the Portuguese (33% for boys and 31.7% for girls). …”
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A horizon scan exercise for aquatic invasive alien species in Iberian inland waters by FJ Oficialdegui, JM Zamora-Marín, Simone Guareschi, PM Anastácio, P García-Murillo, F Ribeiro, R Miranda, F Cobo, B Gallardo, Emili García-Berthou, D Boix, A Arias, JA Cuesta, L Medina, D Almeida, F Banha, S Barca, I Biurrun, MP Cabezas, S Calero, JA Campos, L Capdevila-Argüelles, C Capinha, F Casals, M Clavero, J Encarnação, C Fernández-Delgado, J Franco, A Guillén, V Hermoso, A Machordom, J Martelo, A Mellado-Díaz, F Morcillo, J Oscoz, A Perdices, Q Pou-Rovira, A Rodríguez-Merino, M Ros, A Ruiz-Navarro, MI Sánchez, D Sánchez-Fernández, JR Sánchez-González, E Sánchez-Gullón, MA Teodósio, M Torralva, R Vieira-Lanero, FJ Oliva-Paterna

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When soft law overshadows other European resources: Portuguese reconciliation policies and usages of Europe by Sotirios Zartaloudis

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An analysis of the problems inherent in obtaining information on Spanish and Portuguese companies by Sylvia Herd

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Budgets, expenditure composition and political manipulation by Vitor Castro, Rodrigo Martins

“…Moreover, right-wing governments are more prone to reduce expenditures and deficits after the elections than left-wing ones. A deeper disaggregated analysis of the components of government expenditures corroborates these findings while disentangles other relevant patterns of political manipulation in Portugal.…”
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Parental investment in growth and development: Cape Verdean migrants in a portuguese poor neighbourhood by Joelma Almeida

“…Results The key findings are: 1)Children are born and raised between 1997 and 2002, a time characterized by a favourable socioeconomic development in Portugal in general and Cova da Moura in particular. 2)In spite of living in a so called deprived neighbourhood , the school children linear growth falls into the healthy range of the III NHANES growth reference, and it is slightly better than the linear growth of other groups of children measured in Portugal in late 1980s and early 2000. …”
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The impact of the fiscal crisis on Greek and Portuguese welfare states: retrenchment before the catch-up? by Sotirios Zartaloudis

“…It is argued that these reforms constitute a critical juncture and a considerable effort towards welfare retrenchment, which is which is implemented before converging with the more advanced welfare states of the EU15. …”
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A framework for action and reflection: Using play to facilitate / understand the relationships between art practice and life science. [Presented at Drawing Between, Along, Across University Borders Conference, Porto, Portugal, 16 - 19 September 2024] by Joanne Berry-Frith

“…Presented at Drawing Between, Along, Across University Borders Conference, Porto, Portugal, 16 - 19 September 2024.Since 2010, a central part of my practice has involved contributing to scientific research projects as one of the research team. …”
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Life after the squares: reflections on the consequences of the Occupy movements by Amador Fernandez-Savater, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Luhuna Carvalho, Cigdem, Hoda Elsadda, Wiam El-Tamami, Patricia Horrillo, Silvia Nanclares, Stavros Stavrides

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Socio-demographic and behavioural risk factors associated with the high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Portuguese children by Daniel D. Bingham, Maria Ines Varela Silva, Maria M. Ferrao, Augusta Gama, Maria I. Mourao, Helena Nogueira, Vitor R. Marques, Cristina Padez

“…Conclusions: The protective factors against childhood overweight/obesity in this sample of Portuguese children are: (i) being male; (ii) having been breastfeed; (iii) having been born from mothers who did not smoke during pregnancy; (iv) engaging in little sedentary behaviors (TV, PC, and playing electronic games); (iv) performing at least 1 h of moderate physical activity every day; and (v) having parents with higher educational levels who also have their BMI within the healthy ranges.…”
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Association between maternal education and objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in adolescents by Lauren Sherar, Tom P. Griffin, Ulf Ekelund, Ashley R. Cooper, Dale Esliger, Esther M.F. van Sluijs, Lars Bo Andersen, Greet Cardon, Rachel Davey, Karsten Froberg, Pedro Hallal, Kathleen F. Janz, Katarzyna Kordas, Susi Kriemler, Russ R. Pate, Jardena J. Puder, Luis B. Sardinha, Anna Timperio, Angie S. Page

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Antropologia Biocultural: abordagens teóricas e aplicações interdisciplinares [Biological Anthropology: Theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary applications] by Ines Varela-Silva

“…Aula Aberta. Apresentada (online) em 2 de outubro de 2024 à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FSCH-Portugal) e aos alunos da licenciatura em Antropologia do ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal).Invited guest lecture. …”
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The role of human capital in the Iberian countries' growth and convergence by Catarina Cardoso

“…This thesis examines the role of human capital in the growth and convergence of the Iberian countries. Using a newly computed series for human capital at the NUTS III level for the Portuguese regions, the comparison between Portugal and Spain suggests a positive role for human capital proxied by the average years of schooling in both Iberian countries regional growth, which supports the hypothesis that higher levels of education improved the regions‟ ability to adopt new technology; although the levels of education indicate that secondary schooling is important for technology adoption in Portugal, but not in Spain, and its effect is higher than that of tertiary education. …”
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Feminist Art Making Histories: a practice towards not-losing by Hilary Robinson

“…The Lost-and-found: revising art stories in search of potential changes, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado / Univesidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, 6th December 2023 - 7th December 2023…”
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Fiscal and external deficits nexus in GIIPS countries: evidence from parametric and nonparametric causality tests by Ahmad Hassan Ahmad, Olalekan Bashir Aworinde

“…This paper investigates relationship between fiscal and external deficits in five European Union countries: Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain (GIIPS) using quarterly data for the period 1980:1-2020:1. …”
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Growth and nutritional status of Portuguese children from Lisbon, and their parents. Notes on time trends between 1971 and 2001 by Maria Ines Varela Silva, Isabel Fragoso, Filomena Vieira

“…There is an urgent need to conduct a national growth survey in Portugal, including all age groups, with stratified samples by district and ethnic diversity. © 2010 Informa UK, Ltd.…”
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How to design effective AR retail apps by Liangchao Xue, Christopher J. Parker, Cathryn Hart

“…Liangchao's Best Paper award winning presentation: Xue, L., Parker, C.J. and Hart, C. (2021), “How To Design Effective AR Retail Apps”, 6th International AR & VR Conference, ARVR, Lisbon, Portugal.…”
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Wage gradients in an enlarged EU. by Helena Marques, Hugh Metcalf

“…In this paper we estimate a sectoral real wage equation for three regional blocs of the enlarged EU that we defined as North (wealthiest EU), South (Greece, Portugal and Spain) and East (acceding Central and Eastern European countries). …”
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Comparative analysis of Minimum Income Standards: Ireland and the United Kingdom by Laura Valadez, Donald Hirsch

“…The purposes of the comparison are: 1) To identify similarities and differences in Irish and UK formulations of what needs to be included in a minimum acceptable budget. 2) To explore what lies behind differences and in particular what this might tell us about factors that cause minimum income requirements to differ across countries. 3) To establish the potential and any limitations in such cross-country comparisons using the MIS method. …”
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The effects of high sub-zero storage temperatures on the quality of frozen hake (merluccius merluccius) by Nidia Rebelo Braz

“…During distribution and retail display, the correct storage temperatures are often disregarded and frozen fish can be subjected to temperatures in the range of -5°C to -15°C, often with fluctuating temperatures within that range. …”
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What determines sectoral trade in the enlarged EU? by Helena Marques, Hugh Metcalf

“…In this paper we estimate a sectoral gravity model for trade within a heterogeneous trade bloc, the enlarged EU, comprised of a high-income group (wealthiest EU), a middle-income group (Greece, Portugal and Spain), and a low-income group (acceding Central and Eastern European countries). …”
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Frontiers of human biology-Bridging scientific and political boundaries by Barry Bogin

“…The international conference “Frontiers of Human Biology” was held near Seferihisar, Turkey from September 15 to 18, 2018. The organizers were Prof. Elena Godina, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation and Prof. …”
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The qualitative influence of model parameters on the dynamic response of a viaduct by Andre Jesus, Z Dimitrovová, MAG Silva

“…The qualitative influence of several model parameters on the dynamic response of a railways viaduct, modelled after an actual structure located in Santana do Cartaxo, Portugal, is analysed through a parametric statistical analysis. …”
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Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think about Hell (PDF) by Maria Manuel Lisboa

“…Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist’s work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego’s personal history as well as Portugal’s (and indeed other nations’) stories, and reveals the interrelationship between political significance and the raw emotion that lies at the heart of Rego’s uncompromising iconographic style. …”
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Essays on Paula Rego: Smile When You Think about Hell (XML) by Maria Manuel Lisboa

“…Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist’s work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego’s personal history as well as Portugal’s (and indeed other nations’) stories, and reveals the interrelationship between political significance and the raw emotion that lies at the heart of Rego’s uncompromising iconographic style. …”
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The impact of ventilation cooling towers on plus energy houses in southern Europe by Francesco Babich, Malcolm Cook, Jan Cremers, Georgios Papachristou

“…Refinements to the design of the existing ventilation tower of a Solar Decathlon House developed by the Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart are proposed and tested in eight locations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain using dynamic thermal and computational fluid dynamics simulations in order to predict energy consumption, mean and peak CO2 levels, temperatures, ventilation rates, cooling potential, fresh air distribution, indoor air quality and water consumption of the evaporative cooling system implemented within the tower. …”
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Wielding soft power in a world of neglect: the Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese public employment services by Sotirios Zartaloudis

“…This article focuses on the activation of public employment services (PES), which has been one of the key elements of the EES. Based on a sample of 44 semi-structured interviews and primary and secondary document research on seven reform episodes during 1995–2009, it finds that the EES altered Greek and Portuguese employment policies by empowering policy entrepreneurs and, when the latter were absent, through European Social Fund financial conditionality. …”
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