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Enza Maria Valente

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Maria João Valente

- Verified email at ff.up.pt - Cited by 14985

Khat and synthetic cathinones: a review

MJ Valente, P Guedes de Pinho… - Archives of …, 2014 - Springer
For centuries,'khat sessions' have played a key role in the social and cultural traditions
among several communities around Saudi Arabia and most East African countries. The …

Advantages and disadvantages of single-versus multiple-occupancy rooms in acute care environments: a review and analysis of the literature

H Chaudhury, A Mahmood… - Environment and …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Private patient rooms have become the industry standard in the United States based on the
assumption that they reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections, facilitate patient care …

The effect of environmental design on reducing nursing errors and increasing efficiency in acute care settings: a review and analysis of the literature

H Chaudhury, A Mahmood… - Environment and …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Physical environment is an important component in the acute care setting that can affect
nursing and medication accuracies, as any inadequacy in physical environment would …

Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

LC Slivinski, GP Compo, JS Whitaker… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Historical reanalyses that span more than a century are needed for a wide range of studies,
from understanding large‐scale climate trends to diagnosing the impacts of individual …

COQ2 nephropathy: a newly described inherited mitochondriopathy with primary renal involvement

F Diomedi-Camassei, S Di Giandomenico… - Journal of the …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Primary coenzyme Q 10 (CoQ 10) deficiency includes a group of rare autosomal
recessive disorders primarily characterized by neurological and muscular symptoms. Rarely …

Effect of probiotics on incident ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients: a randomized clinical trial

J Johnstone, M Meade, F Lauzier, J Marshall, E Duan… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Growing interest in microbial dysbiosis during critical illness has raised
questions about the therapeutic potential of microbiome modification with probiotics. Prior …

How exceptional was the early August 2003 heatwave in France?

RM Trigo, R García‐Herrera, J Díaz… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The summer of 2003 was characterised by exceptionally warm weather in Europe with the
average temperature exceeding that of any previous summer over the last 500 years. The …

[PDF][PDF] 20th century Portuguese climate and climate scenarios

P Miranda, FES Coelho, AR Tomé… - Climate change in …, 2002 - researchgate.net
2 20 Century Portuguese Climate and Climate Scenarios Page 1 Climate Change in Portugal:
Scenarios Impacts and Adaptation Measures. Cap 2 – 20th Century Portuguese Climate and …

The ER luminal binding protein (BiP) mediates an increase in drought tolerance in soybean and delays drought-induced leaf senescence in soybean and tobacco

MAS Valente, JAQA Faria… - Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The ER-resident molecular chaperone BiP (binding protein) was overexpressed in soybean.
When plants growing in soil were exposed to drought (by reducing or completely …

Biological activities of Portuguese propolis: protection against free radical-induced erythrocyte damage and inhibition of human renal cancer cell growth in vitro

MJ Valente, AF Baltazar, R Henrique… - Food and Chemical …, 2011 - Elsevier
This study reports for the first time the biological properties of Portuguese propolis. The
antioxidant potential of propolis samples from Bornes (Northeast) and Fundão (Centre) …