As intervenções com recurso à tecnologia têm mostrado ser promissoras para ultrapassar algumas barreiras de acesso aos cuidados dos sobreviventes cancro regiões mais isoladas. Os estudos aceitabilidade e das preferências relativamente a estas são escassos em Portugal, inexistente nos Açores. OBJETIVOS: Este estudo pretendeu avaliar: i) os comportamentos procura ajuda Açores as ajuda; ii) o grau...

Desde a gênese do pensamento europeu açoriano, passando pela conquista da autonomia político-administrativa e com entrada de Portugal na Comunidade Europeia, Região Autónoma dos Açores tem empreendido um significativo percurso integração europeia, onde também sobe inspirar outras ilhas arquipélagos nos seus processos emancipação política. Pretendemos explorar esse articulação três conceitos: au...

BACKGROUND Although autologous fat grafting is widely accepted for breast reconstruction, its indications remain limited to minor contour deformities after reconstruction and small deformities after breast-conserving surgery. The authors describe a case series of total or nearly total breast reconstructions treated with the perioperative use of a vacuum-based external tissue expander (i.e., the...

BACKGROUND Breast augmentation by autologous fat transfer is an appealing alternative in need of scientific validation. METHODS In a prospective multicenter study, 81 women (age range, 17 to 63 years) wore the Brava device, a bra-like vacuum-based external tissue expander, for 4 weeks and then underwent autologous fat injection using 10 to 14 needle puncture sites into each breast in a three-...

Drawing on the Islamic court records of Brava, a small Indian Ocean port city on the southern Benadir coast of Somalia, dating from the period 1893-1900, this essay analyzes the legal agency and economic roles of the women of Brava and sheds new light on social (especially family) relations in this town. The qāḍī’s court records give evidence of married women’s fully recognized (even if qualifi...

Institute of Botany, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, Dep. Ciências Agrárias, Terceira, Portugal, Department of Plant Biology, La Laguna University, Tenerife, Spain, Biodiversity, Macroecology and Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen, Gött...