to clarify the genetic relationships among the lidia breed lineages and two main portuguese lidia bovine populations, casta portuguesa and brava dos açores, 24 autosomal microsatellites were analyzed in 120 samples. brava dos açores showed the highest observed and expected heterozygosity (0.73 and 0.70, respectively) while casta portuguesa showed the lowest observed and expected heterozygosity ...

Objective: To evaluate the properties of a Portuguese version of the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life-Lite (IWQOL-Lite) questionnaire and to compare quality of life scores between samples of Portuguese and American women. Research Methods and Procedures: IWQOL-Lite scores were obtained from 138 Portuguese participants who were enrolled in a 2-year lifestyle weight management programme (‘Port...

BACKGROUND Most migrant studies have compared health characteristics between migrants and nationals of the host country. We aimed at comparing health characteristics of migrants with nationals from their home country. METHODS Portuguese national health survey (2005-6; 30,173 participants aged 18-75 years) and four national health surveys conducted in Switzerland (2002, 2004, 2007 and 2011, to...

This paper describes a language/accent verification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The two-stage system is designed to be used as a pre-processing module for the Portuguese Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system developed at INESC-ID. As the ASR system is applied everyday to transcribe the evening news from a Portuguese ...

The Portuguese version of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A) was administered to 313 Portuguese college students. Score distribution, item pass rates, item analysis, and reliability of the HGSHS:A are presented and compared to earlier published reference samples. No differences were found between males and females. Reliability of the HGSHS:A Portuguese version ...

The GE-Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology (formerly Jornal Português de Gastrenterologia) was created in 1994 with the main purpose of representing the Portuguese Gastroenterology. It officially represents the three main societies of Portuguese gastroenterology -The Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology, the Portuguese Society of Digestive Endoscopy and the Portuguese Association for the S...

The fact that 85% of the Portuguese lexicon contains Spanish cognates and that the linguistic structures of both languages are highly coincident is believed to be an advantage for the Spanish speaker who learns Portuguese. However, these similarities have some negative aspects in the learning of Portuguese, such as, the pitfall of false friends, since about 20% of cognates are false. The aim of...

The study of Portuguese fricatives is a complex problem, which has not been explored fully. As part of a larger study of the acoustic properties of Portuguese fricatives, corpora of Portuguese words containing /f, v, s, z, A, O/, nonsense words with Portuguese phonology, and sustained Portuguese fricatives have been recorded and analysed. Results show that more than half of the voiced fricative...

The objective of this study was to test the inter-rater reproducibility of the Portuguese version of the PEDro Scale. Seven physiotherapists rated the methodological quality of 50 reports of randomized controlled trials written in Portuguese indexed on the PEDro database. Each report was also rated using the English version of the PEDro Scale. Reproducibility was evaluated by comparing two sepa...

Background Brazil is a country of Portuguese colonization with massive numbers of immigrants and Portuguese descendants (25 millions). At least half of all Brazilian Y chromosomes are from Portuguese origin. Nevertheless, this population suffered miscegenation with native Indians and African descendants. African descendants Brazilians have 48% of non-African genes, probably from Portuguese asce...