Regional planning of river protection and restoration to promote ecosystem services and nature conservation

[Except] International conservation and sustainability agendas (CBD, 2010; European Union, 2011; IPBES, 2018; United Nations, 2018) have repeatedly called for conservation, restoration and sustainable use of biodiversity as well as the enhancement of ecosystem services and benefits to society. These calls are particularly relevant for freshwater ecosystems, which combine conservation interest and high societal value through the supply of multiple ecosystem services (Tharme, Tickner, Hughes, Conallin, & Zielinski, 2018). Freshwater habitats, biodiversity and ecological functions are also amongst the most threatened worldwide, due to a broad range of anthropogenic pressures (IPBES, 2018; Reid et al., 2019). In the European Union, 63% of river and lake habitats protected under the Habitats Directive are considered to hold “Unfavourable” conservation status, and 60% of water bodies are not in “Good” ecological status (IPBES, 2018). [...]Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) through a doctoral fellowship (SFRH/BD/115030/2016) co-financed by the European Social Fund through the Human Capital Operational Program (POCH), the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020) and national funds from the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (MCTES). CV would like to acknowledge the support of the Portuguese Infrastructure of Scientific Collections (POCI-01-0145FEDER-022168) (PRISC.pt). JG developed this work within the scope of the project proMetheus – Research Unit on Materials, Energy and Environment for Sustainability, FCT Ref. UID/05975/2020, financed by national funds through the FCT/MCTE

Compassion-focused therapy for psychosis : presentation of a clinical trial

1º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicopatologia : "Re-descobrir a Psicopatologia". Aula Magna da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, 8 de Abril de 2016 - 9 de Abril de 2016 (Poster)Compassion-focused Therapy (CFT) derives from an evolutionary approach linked to neuroscience and social psychology and was specifically developed for complex disorders in which high levels of shame and self-criticism have a key role. This approach’s main objective is using the Compassionate Mind Training to help people establish compassion-based relationships, deactivating the threat-defense system and developing the soothing system. CFT has shown positive effects on several clinical conditions. It is consensual the importance of psychosocial interventions in the treatment of schizophrenia and this has been an area of significant investment, namely concerning evaluation of efficacy. It has been argued that intervention programs should focus primarily in disease management, change of the underlying mechanisms and adequacy of coping strategies. In psychosis shame and self-criticism have been advocated as a psychological factors increasing vulnerability to relapse which makes CFT especially suitable for this population. The Compassion-Focused Therapy for Psychosis (CFTp) appears in this context as an innovative intervention. Efficacy studies have been emerging with promising results and CFTp seems to address several limitations identified for existing interventions.Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia ; Programa Operacional Temático Factores de Competitividade (COMPETE) ; Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional (QREN) ; União EuropeiaN/

Compassion-focused Therapy for Psychosis : An experimental pilot study for negative affect and well being

The Compassionate Mind Foundation, 4th International Conference. Wednesday 21st - Friday 23rd October 2015, Manchester (Poster).Compassion focused Therapy (CFT) is a new therapeutic approach developed for people with chronic and complex mental health problems associated with shame and self–criticism. CFT aims at developing skills for activating the soothing system in order to regulate threat-based affect, bring a more helpful balance between the different emotion regulation systems and promote a compassionate attitude towards the self and others. Studies have shown feasibility and clinical utility of CFT for psychotic disorders. The only Randomized controlled trial in CFT for psychosis (16 sessions of group therapy) found improvement regarding depressive symptoms, social marginalization and observed clinical improvement.Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia ; Programa Operacional Temático Factores de Competitividade (COMPETE) ; Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional (QREN) ; União EuropeiaN/

Оценка степени ухудшения отношения сигнал/шум монокристаллическими экранами

A new approach to gas leakage detection in high pressure distribution networks is proposed, where the pipeline is modelled as a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) System driven by the source node mass flow with the pressure as the scheduling parameter, and the system output as the mass flow at the offtake. Using a recently proposed successive approximations LPV system subspace identification algorithm, the pipeline is thus identified from operational data. The leak is detected using a Kalman filter where the fault is treated as an augmented state. The effectiveness of this method is illustrated with an example with a mixture of real and simulated data

Green processing of porous chitin structures for biomedical applications combining ionic liquids and supercritical fluid technology

The application of green chemistry principles in the processing of materials for advanced technologies is a steadily increasing field of research. In this work porous chitin-based materials were developed by combining the processing of chitin using ionic liquids (ILs)as a green solvent together with the use of super- critical fluid technology(SCF) as clean technology.Chitin was dissolved in 1-butyl-3-imidazolium acetate,followed by regeneration of the polymer in ethanol in specific moulds.The IL was removed using Soxhlet extraction and successive steps of extraction with SCF using carbon dioxide/ethanol ratios of 50/ 50 and70/30.The developed porous chitin-based structures (ChIL)can be classified as mesoporous materials,with very low density and high porosity.The cytotoxicity of ChIL extracts was investigated using L929 fibroblast like cells,and the results demonstrated that the produced materials have extremely lowcytotoxicityl evels.Therefore,the findings suggest that the porous chitin structures may be potential candidates for a number of biomedical applications,including tissue engineering.Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)S.S.S. and A.R.C.D. thank the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for post-doctoral fellowships (SFRH/BPD/ 45307/2008 and SFRH/BDP/34994/2007, respectively). This work was partially supported by the FCT (Project PTDC/QUI/68804/ 2006) and was carried out under the scope of the European NoE EXPERTISSUES (NMP3-CT-2004-500283)