Globalization of food chains and scale increases in business models are dramatically affecting rural areas in Europe, by a simplification of land use, new urban-rural relations and reshaped social networks. While pressures on land use systems have been increasing due to the competition on commodity markets, the role of territorially embedded produc...
Published in Foot and ankle surgery : official journal of the European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons
The Score Committee of the European Foot and Ankle Society (EFAS) developed, validated, and published the EFAS Score in ten languages (English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, Portuguese). From other languages under validation, the Portuguese version completed data acquisition and underwent further validation. The...
ICAAR 2020-2022, 16th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete, Lisbonne, PORTUGAL, 31-/05/2022 - 02/06/2022
Changes in climate, land use, and land management impact the occurrence and severity of wildland fires in many parts of the world. This is particularly evident in Europe, where ongoing changes in land use have strongly modified fire patterns over the last decades. Although satellite data by the European Forest Fire Information System provide large-...
Comparable and cross-national research is needed to examine students’ views on the role of physical education (PE) inpromoting active and healthy lifestyles, particularly in non-English speaking contexts. Thus, the present study aims to investigate andcompare the views of middle school students from four European countries towards PE, considering c...
La Méditerranée constitue un espace unique au monde sur le plan culturel. La «mer entre les terres» assure en effet un lien entre des sociétés différentes qui se nourrissent pourtant les unes des autres des échanges nombreux qu’elles ont eus et continuent d’avoir. La démographie est un bon exemple de la diversité des pays qui la bordent et des lien...
Published in E3S Web of Conferences
In this paper, selected aspects of an experimental study conducted in a geotechnical centrifuge are discussed. The tests aimed to explore the effects of partial saturation of soil on the response of a single pile subjected to a combination of lateral force and bending moment under drained conditions. The soil used in the experiments is a low plasti...
VEHICULAR 2020, Ninth International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications, Porto, PORTUGAL, 18-/10/2020 - 22/10/2020
Published in Journal of safety research
Exploratory data reduction techniques, such as Factor Analysis (FA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), are widely used in questionnaire validation with ordinal data, such as Likert Scale data, even though both techniques are indicated to metric measures. In this context, this study presents an e-survey, conducted to obtain self-reported behavi...
