Respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in older adults and patients with chronic disorders: A position paper from the Portuguese Society of Pulmonology, the Portuguese Association... by Tiago Alfaro, Filipe Froes, Cláudia Vicente, Rui Costa, Cristina Gavina, Rui Baptista, António Maio, Saraiva da Cunha, João Sérgio Neves, Pedro Leuschner, Sofia Duque, Paula Pinto

“…Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of lower respiratory tract infection, hospitalisation and death in adults.Methods Based on evidence regarding the impact of RSV on adult populations at risk for severe infection and the efficacy and safety of RSV vaccines, the Portuguese Society of Pulmonology, the Portuguese Association of General and Family Medicine, the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, the Portuguese Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, the Portuguese Society of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and the Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine endorses this position paper with recommendations to prevent RSV-associated disease and its complications in adults through vaccination.Conclusion The RSV vaccine is recommended for people aged ≥50 years with risk factors (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, heart failure, coronary artery disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, immunocompromise, frailty, dementia, and residence in a nursing home) and all persons aged ≥60 years. …”
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The Portuguese Dilemma of Unstable Pensions by Friedrich L. Sell

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Sports experience, affects and life satisfaction in Portuguese athletes with disabilities by Miguel Jacinto, Nuno Couto, Anabela Vitorino, Teresa Bento, Rui Matos, Diogo Monteiro, Nuno Amaro, Raul Antunes, Luís Cid

“…Abstract This study aims to validate the Portuguese version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.82) and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.86 for positive affect and 0.89 for negative affect) for people with disabilities and to examine the association between engaging in physical activity and affective responses, investigating the relationship with satisfaction with life. 143 Portuguese with disabilities filled in the Portuguese version of the scales. …”
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House and Mobility: Portuguese Hindus and Brazilians in Lisbon in face of housing constraints by Rita Ávila Cachado, Simone Frangella

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From occupation to independence: contemporary East Timorese history and identity in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos

“…In Portugal, the suffering and struggle of the East Timorese people for independence started a social movement of solidarity with strong repercussions in the arts, namely music and literature. …”
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Pre-graduate medical education from the perspective of Primary Health Care: the Portuguese case by Paulo Santos

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Transcultural Adaptation of Environmental Health Questionnaire with Attitude, Knowledge, and Skills Scales for Portuguese Nursing Students by Cristina Álvarez-García, Beatriz Edra, Goreti Marques, Catarina Simões, Mª Dolores López-Franco

“…The main objective of this study was to validate in the Portuguese context three scales to assess attitudes, knowledge, and skills on children’s environmental health. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Dental Fear Schedule Subscale in a Portuguese pediatric population: exploratory study by Inês Esteves, Andreia Costa, Ana Coelho Canta, Sónia Mendes

“…Factor analysis identified two factors: “Fear of unknown people” and “Fear of invasive procedures,” explaining 54.1% of the variance. …”
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Phoneme analysis for multiple languages with fuzzy‐based speaker identification by Thales Aguiar deLima, Márjory Cristiany Da‐Costa Abreu

“…The experiments are performed using three widely spoken languages which are Portuguese, English, and Chinese. The Mel‐Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients and its Deltas are extracted from those languages. …”
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Frontera política, resistencias y solidaridades: el caso de los refugiados de la Guerra Civil Española en Barrancos (1936) by Dulce Simões

“…The Spanish-Portuguese border was an instrument of protection and resistance, which demarcated the lives and deaths of thousands of people during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), despite Salazar having strengthened his control and surveillance. …”
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Ali se mudou a aventura… O imaginário mítico no pensamento de Luís Krus by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto

“…Recognizing the rhetorical, anthropological and ideological importance of the fictional narrative for the legitimization of the lineage and the construction of a discourse on the past, Luís Krus has devoted not only his work to an important renewal of the traditional viewpoints of Portuguese Medieval Historiography. He has deeply reinvented the dialogue among Literature, History and Studies on the Imaginary (as, for example, “A cidade no imaginário medieval” [1983] or “O imaginário português e os medos do mar” [1998]) creating bridges through people, disciplines, knowledge, languages and methodologies that are still largely lacking today.…”
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Comunidades de práctica de la lengua caboverdiana y de A Fala de Xálima. Estudio comparativo by Natalia Czopek, Bartosz Dondelewski

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"Povo": percursos de um conceito em Portugal 1780-1850 by Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira

“…In this article are highlighted some of the main paths covered by the term people, in Portugal in the last decades of the XVIIIth century and in the first half of the XIXth century. …”
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A Conversational Agent for Empowering People with Parkinson’s Disease in Exercising Through Motivation and Support by Patricia Macedo, Rui Neves Madeira, Pedro Albuquerque Santos, Pedro Mota, Beatriz Alves, Carla Mendes Pereira

“…The MoveONParkinson project aims to enhance exercise engagement among people with Parkinson’s Disease (PwPD) in the Portuguese context through the ONParkinson digital platform, which provides mobile and web interfaces. …”
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Interprofessional collaborative practice in health and social care for people living with multimorbidity: a scoping review protocol by Josephine-L. K. Murray, Virginia Hernandez-Santiago, Frank Sullivan, Joanna Hornal, Farhana Badshah, Ben Keatley, Jillian Galbraith, Pam Channer, Anne Fearfull, Anne Haddow, Eleanor Johnston, Maureen Ward, Veronica O’Carroll

“…Evidence suggests it can improve outcomes for people living with a single condition. What remains unknown is if interprofessional collaborative practice has been used to improve the outcomes of people living with multimorbidity, and if so, to what extent? …”
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¿Jóvenes y cuentos tradicionales? Estudio exploratorio en la enseñanza superior / ¿Young people and traditional tales? Exploratory study in higher education by Paulo Costa, Ângela Balça

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Peut-on traverser les Tumuc Humac ? Réflexions autour de la configuration historique et géographique de l’extrême sud de la Guyane by François-Michel Le Tourneau

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Uma reflexão sobre os agentes históricos na sistematização do estereótipo africano sobre a construção do imaginário do negro no Brasil by Claudia Lima

“…In this article, the focus is towards the possible origins of the construction of the African stereotype as a starting point in the trajectory of the representation of the identity which established the image of the black African in the Portuguese imagery in the 14th century. In this context, some special features shown by the Portuguese Catholic culture migrate as a continuum phenomenon which is fostered in the meeting or (re)meeting in Brazilian territory, of the African culture together with the Portuguese catholic religion.…”
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Actitudes lingüísticas en tres comunidades hispano-lusas de fronteira: Miranda do Douro, Val do Ellas e Olivença by Xosé-Henrique Costas

“…On the border between Spain and Portugal there are some enclaves that resist linguistic and cultural assimilation under the pressure / oppression of the corresponding state linguistic ideology, Portuguese or Spanish.This is Miranda do Douro (Tras-os-Montes, Portugal) where there is still a community of 3.500 people speaking a variety of Asturian-Leonese Language called Mirandes; of the Val do Río Ellas, or Xálima (northwest of Cáceres, Spain), where there is a community of 4.500 speakers of varieties derived from medieval Galician; and from Olivenza (Badajoz, Spain) where still 3.000 people keep the Portuguese language alive. …”
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Subversion de la langue portugaise dans la traduction brésilienne du classique féministe Our Bodies, Ourselves by Érica Lima, Janine Pimentel

“…By means of examples translated passages in English, Portuguese, and French, we explain why we decided to adopt an inclusive and feminist language in the translation. …”
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