using Raman Amplification and Multi-Channel DBP Lidia Galdino,* Mingming Tan, Domaniç Lavery, Pawel Rosa, Robert Maher, Ian D. Phillips, Juan D. Ania Castañón, Paul Harper, Robert I. Killey, Benn C. Thomsen, Sergejs Makovejs, and Polina Bayvel 1 Optical Networks Group, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK 2 Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET,...

Reseña a: Leonardo Rodríguez-Medina, María de los Ángeles Pozas y Lidia Girola (eds.) (2022), La teoría del actor-red desde América Latina, Ciudad México, El Colegio México-Centro Estudios Sociológicos, 516 pp., ISBN: 978-607-564-334-2

As the lingua franca of the 21st century, English has become the main language for intercultural communication for those wanting to embrace globalization. In Portugal, it is the second language of most public and private domains influencing its culture and discourses. Language contact situations transform languages by the incorporations they make from other languages and Portugal has...

Aim of study: The aim this work was to study the effect different length physical activity carried out by bull prior show during final performance animal, analyzing behavior and displayed in ring.Area There is no clear scientific evidence capacity improvements lidia or “corrida”, Lidia cattle, as a result previous training.Material methods: A total 233 bulls from eight farms were studied classi...

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...

Declaration I declare that this work has been prepared by myself, all literal or content-based quotations are clearly pointed out, and no other sources or aids than those declared have been used. ii Acknowledgements My sincere thanks go to all who contributed to the success of this work: Dr. Michael K ¨ ohler for the exciting topic and the outstanding supervision and support of this work; for t...

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...