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A One Health perspective of the impacts of microplastics on animal, human and environmental health by Prata, Joana C., da Costa, João P., Lopes, Isabel, Andrady, Anthony L., Duarte, Armando C., Rocha-Santos, Teresa

“…Microplastics contamination is widespread in the environment leading to the exposure of both humans and other biota. While most studies overemphasize direct…”
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Degradation of azo dye Orange II under dark ambient conditions by calcium strontium copper perovskite by Chen, Huihuang, Motuzas, Julius, Martens, Wayde, Diniz da Costa, João C.

“…[Display omitted] •CSC perovskite degraded Orange II under dark conditions without peroxides or ozone.•Fast kinetics under dark conditions up to 80% of AO7…”
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Quasinormal Modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship by Cardoso, Vitor, Costa, João L, Destounis, Kyriakos, Hintz, Peter, Jansen, Aron

“…The fate of Cauchy horizons, such as those found inside charged black holes, is intrinsically connected to the decay of small perturbations exterior to the…”
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Contamination issues as a challenge in quality control and quality assurance in microplastics analytics by Prata, Joana C., Reis, Vanessa, da Costa, João P., Mouneyrac, Catherine, Duarte, Armando C., Rocha-Santos, Teresa

“…[Display omitted] •Contamination control measures were assessed for their importance and compliance.•Studies sampling microplastics in 2019 only complied with…”
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Review of perovskite ceramic synthesis and membrane preparation methods by Athayde, Daniel D., Souza, Douglas F., Silva, Alysson M.A., Vasconcelos, Daniela, Nunes, Eduardo H.M., Diniz da Costa, João C., Vasconcelos, Wander L.

“…In the 25 years since the first report of mixed ionic and electronic conducting ceramics, perovskite membranes underwent both research and development phases,…”
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Plastic additives and microplastics as emerging contaminants: Mechanisms and analytical assessment by Costa, João Pinto da, Avellan, Astrid, Mouneyrac, Catherine, Duarte, Armando, Rocha-Santos, Teresa

“…Plastic additives comprise a plethora of substances that serve numerous purposes in the plastic industry. These can be used to assist the molding of plastics…”
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Worldwide contamination of fish with microplastics: A brief global overview by Sequeira, Inês F., Prata, Joana C., da Costa, João P., Duarte, Armando C., Rocha-Santos, Teresa

“…Widespread contamination of microplastics may lead to internalization in fish. This literature review from March 2019 to March 2020 details that a median of…”
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Approaches to Outdoor Thermal Comfort Thresholds through Public Space Design: A Review by Santos Nouri, Andre, Costa, João, Santamouris, Mattheos, Matzarakis, Andreas

“…Based on the Köppen Geiger (KG) classification system, this review article examines existing studies and projects that have endeavoured to address local…”
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Insulin receptor in the brain : mechanisms of activation and the role in the CNS pathology and treatment by Pomytkin, Igor, da Costa Alvares Viegas Nunes, João Pedro, Kasatkin, Vladimir, Veniaminova, Ekaterina, Demchenko, Anna, Lyundup, Alexey, Lesch, Klaus-Peter, Ponomarev, Eugene D., Strekalova, Tatyana

“…Copyright © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. While the insulin receptor (IR) was found in the CNS decades ago, the brain was long considered to be…”
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Major factors influencing the quantification of Nile Red stained microplastics and improved automatic quantification (MP-VAT 2.0) by Prata, Joana C., Alves, Jorge R., da Costa, João P., Duarte, Armando C., Rocha-Santos, Teresa

“…Automated count of Nile Red fluorescent microplastics allows fast and reliable quantification. However, factors involving staining, digital camera conditions…”
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Enhanced biocatalytic sustainability of laccase by immobilization on functionalized carbon nanotubes/polysulfone membranes by Costa, João B., Lima, Maria J., Sampaio, Maria J., Neves, Márcia C., Faria, Joaquim L., Morales-Torres, Sergio, Tavares, Ana P.M., Silva, Cláudia G.

“…[Display omitted] •Laccase efficiently immobilized over surface modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes.•Immobilized laccase displays good recovered activity…”
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Selection of microplastics by Nile Red staining increases environmental sample throughput by micro-Raman spectroscopy by Prata, Joana C., da Costa, João P., Fernandes, António José Silva, da Costa, Florinda Mendes, Duarte, Armando C., Rocha-Santos, Teresa

“…Nile Red staining enables visual identification and quantification of fluorescent particles as a proxy to microplastics at low cost and high throughput,…”
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Stationary Black Holes: Uniqueness and Beyond by Chruściel, Piotr T., Costa, João Lopes, Heusler, Markus

“…The spectrum of known black-hole solutions to the stationary Einstein equations has been steadily increasing, sometimes in unexpected ways. In particular, it…”
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Suspected microplastics in Atlantic horse mackerel fish (Trachurus trachurus) captured in Portugal by Prata, Joana C., da Costa, João P., Duarte, Armando C., Rocha-Santos, Teresa

“…Microplastics have been found in fish, but most studies have focused on the digestive system without considering additional organs. Herein, the objective was…”
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The evening complex integrates photoperiod signals to control flowering in rice by Andrade, Luis, Lu, Yunlong, Cordeiro, André, Costa, João M F, Wigge, Philip A, Saibo, Nelson J M, Jaeger, Katja E

“…Plants use photoperiodism to activate flowering in response to a particular daylength. In rice, flowering is accelerated in short-day conditions, and even a…”
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Symposium review: Precision technologies for dairy calves and management applications by Costa, Joao H C, Cantor, Melissa C, Neave, Heather W

“…There is an increasing interest in using precision dairy technologies (PDT) to monitor real-time animal behavior and physiology in livestock systems around the…”
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Combinatory approach for developing silk fibroin scaffolds for cartilage regeneration by Ribeiro, Viviana P., da Silva Morais, Alain, Maia, F. Raquel, Canadas, Raphael F., Costa, João B., Oliveira, Ana L., Oliveira, Joaquim M., Reis, Rui L.

“…[Display omitted] Several processing technologies and engineering strategies have been combined to create scaffolds with superior performance for efficient…”
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Cobalt oxide silica membranes for desalination by Lin, Chun Xiang C., Ding, Li Ping, Smart, Simon, Diniz da Costa, João C.

“…[Display omitted] . ► CoOxSi membranes processed low (NaCl 1wt.%) and high salinity (7.5–15wt.%) waters. ► CoOxSi films became hydrostable after 5days of water…”
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On the Occurrence of Mass Inflation for the Einstein–Maxwell-Scalar Field System with a Cosmological Constant and an Exponential Price Law by Costa, João L., Girão, Pedro M., Natário, José, Silva, Jorge Drumond

“…In this paper we study the spherically symmetric characteristic initial data problem for the Einstein–Maxwell-scalar field system with a positive cosmological…”
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Enzymatically Cross-Linked Silk Fibroin-Based Hierarchical Scaffolds for Osteochondral Regeneration by Ribeiro, Viviana P, Pina, Sandra, Costa, João B, Cengiz, Ibrahim Fatih, García-Fernández, Luis, Fernández-Gutiérrez, Maria del Mar, Paiva, Olga C, Oliveira, Ana L, San-Román, Julio, Oliveira, Joaquim M, Reis, Rui L

“…Osteochondral (OC) regeneration faces several limitations in orthopedic surgery, owing to the complexity of the OC tissue that simultaneously entails the…”
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