OBJECTIVE This paper focuses on the policy context for the deployment of nurses in advanced roles, with particular reference to Portugal. The health sector in Portugal, as in all countries, is labour intensive, and the scope to utilise nurses in more advanced roles is currently being debated. METHODS Mixed methods were used: an analysis of international data on the nursing workforce; an analy...

T. A. Cunha,1,2 L. M. Matias,1,3 P. Terrinha,1,2 A. M. Negredo,4,5 F. Rosas,1,3 R. M. S. Fernandes1,6 and L. M. Pinheiro7 1Instituto Don Luiz (IDL-LA). Campo Grande, Edif ı́cio C8, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected] 2Unidade de Geologia Marinha, LNEG Bairro do Zambujal-Alfragide, Apartado 7586, 2611-901 Amadora, Portugal 3Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Campo ...

1. Departamento de Microscopia, Laboratório de Biologia Celular. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar. Universidade do Porto. Porto. Portugal. 2. Serviço de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. Centro de Genética da Reprodução Prof. Alberto Barros. Porto. Portugal. 3. Serviço de Embriologia. Centro de Genética da Reprodução Prof. Alberto Barros. Porto. Portugal. 4. Clinical Embryologists. Cen...

a Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 7. H-6720 Szeged, Hungary 8 b MTA-SZTE Bioinorganic Chemistry Research Group, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 7. H-6720 Szeged, 9 Hungary 10 c Centro de Química e Bioquímica (CQB), Faculdade de Ciências, ULisboa, Campo Grande, Lisbon, Portugal 11 d Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), Faculdade de Ciências, ULisboa, ...

1. Center of Research in Natural Resources (CIRN) and Department of Biology, University of the Azores, Ponta 6 Delgada, Portugal 7 2. Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 8 3. Laboratorio de Biología Molecular, Instituto de Enfermedades Neurológicas, Fundación Socio-Sanitaria de 9 Castilla-La Mancha, Guadalajara, Spain 10 4. Unitat Antropolog...

3B’s Research Group – Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho, AvePark, 4806-909 Taipas, Guimarães, Portugal Life and Health Sciences Research Institute – ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal Department of Veterinary Sciences, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes ...

1. Serviço de Epidemiologia. Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil. Lisboa. Portugal. 2. Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz. Costa da Caparica. Portugal. 3. Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente. Instituto Superior Técnico. Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa. Portugal. 4. Serviço de Oncologia Médica. Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil....

FC Portugal Rescue team is the result of a cooperation project between the Universities of Aveiro and Porto in Portugal. The project started in January 2004 following previous collaborations of these two Portuguese Universities in RoboCup simulation league and associated competitions: coach competition, simulation league presentation competition and simulation 3D competition. FC Portugal Rescue...

In the mid-1980s, the first volume of the New History of Portugal, edited by A. H. de Oliveira Marques and Joel Serrão, was published. This was a work that examined the period of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and consisted of the fourth volume of a long and comprehensive edition of a New History of Portugal.2 The sole person responsible for this volume was Oliveira Marques, the author ...

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...