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Poster presented at the 2022 Conference of the European Association of Health Law (EAHL) in Ghent., Also available: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03779408v1

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The goal of the present study was to identify the potential changes in ecosystem service values provided by wetlands in Galveston Bay, Texas, USA, under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A1B max (0.69 m) sea level rise scenario. Built exclusively upon the output produced during the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model 6 (SLAMM 6) exercise for the Galveston Bay region, this study showed that fresh marsh and salt marsh present a steady decline from 2009 (initial condition) to 2100. Fresh marsh was projected to undergo the biggest changes, with the loss of approximately 21% of its extent between 2009 and 2100 under the A1B max scenario. The percentages of change for salt marsh were less prominent at approximately 12%. This trend was also shown in the values of selected ecosystem services (disturbance regulation, waste regulation, recreation, and aesthetics) provided by these habitats. An ordinary least squares regression was used to calculate the monetary value of the selected ecosystem services provided by salt marsh and fresh marsh in 2009, and in 2050 and 2100 under the A1B max scenario. The value of the selected services showed potential monetary losses in excess of US$40 million annually in 2100, compared to 2009 for fresh marsh and more than $11 million for salt marsh. The estimates provided here are only small portions of what can be lost due to the decrease in habitat extent, and they highlight the need for protecting not only built infrastructure but also natural resources from sea level rise. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2017;13:431-443. © 2016 SETAC.

While efforts to integrate ecosystem services into the management of coastal and terrestrial systems continue to advance, similar efforts for deepwater environments are still in the early stages of deliberation. To begin closing this gap, two workshops were held to engage participants in a discussion on ecosystem services provided by the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, and to facilitate the relative ranking of offshore ecosystem services using a non-monetary valuation scheme. Both workshops relied on a balanced representation of ocean users from multiple industry sectors, government and non-government organizations with interests in the deepwater Gulf. The following findings were made: (1) participants recognized the benefit of being able to rank multiple ecosystem services rather than limiting their attention to those services that were closely related to their respective constituents׳ interests; (2) both workshops yielded similar results, with food, raw materials (including hydrocarbons), and recreation being among the top three ranked ecosystem services; (3) participants in both workshops distinguished between direct (provisioning and cultural) and indirect (regulating and supporting) services; (4) there was a preference among participants to focus on ranking the direct services; and (5) participants of the workshops expressed that the role of the indirect services needed to be considered when designing monitoring and/or mitigation measures to protect the sustainability of the direct services. These results can be used in future discussions to further vet the viability of using such a non-monetary valuation scheme to assist in guiding the development or implementation of scientific and socio-economic indicators to monitor and maintain the health of ecosystem services in order to try to meet stakeholder needs.

Relatório da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada apresentado no ISPA – Instituto Universitário/ ESEI Maria Ulrich para obtenção de grau de Mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar O século XXI é marcado pela incerteza de um mundo em rápida transformação. É urgente pessoas inovadoras e criativas, capazes de resolver os problemas e desafios que surgem na sociedade contemporânea. É necessário que os sistemas de educação se abram a novas ideias, desenvolvendo novas conceções de ensino-aprendizagem. Neste contexto, o presente relatório estuda o modo como a criatividade pode ser promovida no 1.º CEB, mais precisamente qual o papel do professor, qual o ambiente facilitador deste fenómeno e quais as características das situações pedagógicas que melhor asseguram a sua promoção. Foram propostas situações de ensino-aprendizagem no âmbito de uma intervenção/investigação em 1.º CEB que foram objeto de observação, fotografia, recolha notas de campo descritivas e detalhadas e entrevistas aos participantes com base em uma abordagem qualitativa. Após a análise e reflexão destes momentos, apresento as considerações finais e refiro a pertinência deste estudo no âmbito das novas tendências da educação, realçando o modo como esta investigação contribuiu para a mais profunda compreensão sobre o que é ser professora e educadora, sobre o meu perfil profissional e as minhas crenças. The 21st century is characterized by the uncertainty of a world undergoing a quick and deep transformation. Therefore, contemporary societies need urgent, innovative, creative and problem solving people, able to face and deal with challenges. New educational systems must be open to updated ideas thus developing new teaching/learning conceptions and methods. This report accounts for the way creativity might be promoted in primary education, mainly focusing on the role of the teacher as a facilitator of learning and on which features in pedagogical situations best raise and assure creativity promotion. Teaching/learning situations co-related with investigation in action have been observed. Photographs, descriptive detailed field notes have been collected as well as interviews to participants based on a qualitative approach. My final considerations underline the accuracy of this study, referring the new trends in education and the way the investigation has contributed to a better and deeper understanding of what being a teacher and an educator means and what my professional profile and my beliefs actually are.

The determinants of human longevity have been extensively studied, indicating cultural, nutritional and genetic factors as major causes that increase our life time.On the island of Pico,Azores,several studies have detected,between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, distinct paths in the levels of mortality compared to those recorded in other contemporary European populations. Considering data from parish records on births, marriages and deaths, kinship relations were established and the main demographic characteristics of people in 9 of the island’s 17 parishes for that period were described. After applying the methodology of parish reconstitution and the method of Desjardins and Charbonneau, intergenerational correspondence in the age of death was analyzed, considering the sex of the parents and children, as well as different age groups, with the aim of verifying the existence of an intergenerational correspondence for longevity. The results confirm the hereditary component, and emphasize the negative effects of advanced paternal age at the time of birth in the life span of daughters but not of sons, as previously noted by other authors.

The goal of the present study was to identify the potential changes in ecosystem service values provided by wetlands in Galveston Bay, Texas, USA, under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A1B max (0.69 m) sea level rise scenario. Built exclusively upon the output produced during the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model 6 (SLAMM 6) exercise for the Galveston Bay region, this study showed that fresh marsh and salt marsh present a steady decline from 2009 (initial condition) to 2100. Fresh marsh was projected to undergo the biggest changes, with the loss of approximately 21% of its extent between 2009 and 2100 under the A1B max scenario. The percentages of change for salt marsh were less prominent at approximately 12%. This trend was also shown in the values of selected ecosystem services (disturbance regulation, waste regulation, recreation, and aesthetics) provided by these habitats. An ordinary least squares regression was used to calculate the monetary value of the selected ecosystem services provided by salt marsh and fresh marsh in 2009, and in 2050 and 2100 under the A1B max scenario. The value of the selected services showed potential monetary losses in excess of US$40 million annually in 2100, compared to 2009 for fresh marsh and more than $11 million for salt marsh. The estimates provided here are only small portions of what can be lost due to the decrease in habitat extent, and they highlight the need for protecting not only built infrastructure but also natural resources from sea level rise. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2017;13:431-443. © 2016 SETAC.

The objective of this paper is to analyse temporal birth weight variation, its relationship to the frequency of premature births in Portugal, and the influence of native and immigrant mothers' characteristics as well as to determine the possible existence of a pattern of temporal change in birth weight in the Iberian Peninsula as a whole. Individual mother-child data from the Portuguese National Institute of Statistics regarding live births (N = 2,661,542) permitted an analysis, for the first time, of weight at birth in Portugal from a bio-demographic perspective. The results obtained show that from 1988 to 2011 there was a gradual decline in the average weight at birth in Portugal that may be related to shifts in the duration of gestation. An initial rapid decline in the relative frequency of post-term births took place, followed by small variations from 1995 on. Logistic regressions indicated a pattern unaffected by maternal origin or the sex of the newborn. With regard to weeks of gestation, the odds values obtained were < 1 when the reference category was < 28 weeks. For this factor, no significant differences were found in relation to the mother's origin. Portuguese mothers over 35 years were associated with a higher incidence of low birth weight. Regardless of maternal origin, being a newborn of parity 1, and with the mother not in a couple, resulted in unfavourable outcomes with regard to low birth weight. On the other hand, long gestation periods and having secondary or university education constituted a protective factor., The authors thank the Portuguese Institute of Statistics for the facilities provided in order to obtain the data. This study has been partly supported by the project "Urban Spaces: Demographic and Social Dynamics (17th-20th centuries)", reference PTDC/HIS-HIS/099228/2008, co-financed by the programme COMPETE-Operational Programme for Factors of Competitiveness, funded by FEDER, and by Portugal's state-financed Foundation for Science and Technology as well by Project CGL2008-03737 (Spain)., info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

"First published online 13 August 2013", Information on multiple deliveries with regard to Portugal is scarce. Based on data provided by the Portuguese Institute of Statistics (INE), the rates for double and triple deliveries were calculated since 1930. The results obtained show for twins a uniform temporal pattern up to the 1970s. At this time rates decreased, but later they gradually recovered, reaching their maximum level in 2010. For triplets, the highest rates occurred between 1999 and 2002. For the period 1988-2011, the rates of multiple deliveries were related to a set of variables recorded in the INE database on live births. Significant differences (p < .001) between simple and multiple deliveries were obtained for maternal age, parity and marital status. Considering the year when the delivery occurred, significant differences (p < .001) persisted for maternal age regardless of the year. For the type of mating, significance was consistently found since the year 2002 (either by using the marital or the cohabitation criteria), and for parity since 2003. With regard to territorial variation, throughout seven periods between 1930 and 2011, the rates among the 20 administrative Portuguese territories, including the two insular districts of Açores and Madeira, were mostly stable for twinning rates, with a minimum level in 1970-1989. Regarding triplets, the greatest inter-district variation was found after 1980. The results of the Portuguese study on multiple deliveries are interpreted in the context of the Iberian Peninsula based on findings reported for Spain., The authors thank the Institute for Statistics of Portugal for the facilities given in order to obtain the data on which this article is based. This study has been partly supported by the project 'Urban Spaces: Demographic and Socialdynamics (XVII-XX centuries)', reference code PTDC/HIS-HIS/099228/2008, co-financed by the program COMPETE - Operational Program for Factors of Competitiveness, funded by FEDER, and by Portugal's state financed Foundation for Science and Technology as well by Project CGL2008-03737 (Spain). The authors also thank Erik Lundin for revising the article.

Este projecto de intervenção visou recolher todos os elementos necessários para a construção do programa de gestão de carreiras dos alunos e diplomados do IST: portal de emprego; calendário de actividades de recrutamento; programa de desenvolvimento de carreira. A pesquisa bibliográfica evidenciou a importância de um programa de gestão de carreiras que integre os três sistemas de análise, o aluno, a empresa e a universidade, sendo que os programas podem ser construídos com enfoque numa intervenção individual ou em grupo para o desenvolvimento interno ou externo de carreira. Para consolidar a informação anterior, foi realizada uma pesquisa interna e externa dos serviços de apoio à inserção profissional no IST e nas universidades nacionais de engenharia, bem como a caracterização das empresas nacionais tendo como base as reuniões com os profissionais de recursos humanos. Realizam-se 12 entrevistas a alunos e diplomados do IST, sendo que as entrevistas foram organizadas em dois grupos. O grupo 1 constituído pelos alunos que já passaram pelo processo de transição para a vida activa e o Grupo 2, pelos alunos de 2.º ciclo que iniciaram a recolha de informação sobre o mercado de trabalho. Neste sentido, conclui-se que o serviço de carreiras em contexto universitário tem de assumir um papel activo na inserção profissional dos seus alunos, através da construção de um programa de gestão de carreiras sistémico e integrado, pois quanto maior a envolvência de todos os intervenientes e a integração de diferentes actividades de inserção, maior é o sucesso do programa. This intervention project aimed at congregating all the elements needed to build the career management program of IST for its students and graduates: job bank, calendar of recruitment activities and career development program. The bibliographic research evidenced the importance of a career management program that integrates the three systems of analysis, the student, the company and the university, these programs having the possibility of being built with a focus on an individual or a group intervention for internal or external career development. To consolidate this information, an internal and external research of services provided for employability in IST as well as in other national engineering universities was carried out along with the characterization of national companies, which took place through meetings with human resources professionals. Twelve interviews, organized in two groups, were conducted with IST’s students and graduates. Group 1 was composed of students who have gone through the process of transition to the working life, and Group 2 was composed of 2nd cycle students, that have initiated the process of gathering information about the labor market. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that the career management program services in the university context have to play an active role in the employability of their students through the development of a systemic and integrated career management program, given that the stronger the involvement of all the actors and the integration of the different activities in the scope of employability, the greater the success of the program.