Michael Mackert, Sara Champlin, Avery E. Holton, Isaac I. Muñoz, Manuel José Damásio,
The development of e-health may provide powerful tools to improve health, but users' health literacy plays a role in their ability to make the most of e-health applications. This study reviewed research focused on e-health and health literacy, using content analysis to assess 95 articles from 2000 to 2010 to provide an overview of work done in this emerging field. Articles were coded for use of theory, research methods, and clarity of reporting study results. Findings indicate a lack of theory-driven ...
Tópico(s): Social Media in Health Education
2014 - Wiley | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Manuel José Damásio, Joana Bicacro,
Entrepreneurship education is a complex topic that can be discussed from a variety of perspectives. One key question in the discussion concerns how one can adapt the general core principles of entrepreneurship education, many of which are closely linked to business education, to other academic areas that currently lack this type of education. This article discusses the challenges of developing a model of entrepreneurship education for the creative industries sector. Focusing specifically on film ...
Tópico(s): Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
2017 - SAGE Publishing | Industry and Higher Education
Michael Mackert, Marie Guadagno, Allison J. Lazard, Erin E. Donovan, Aaron B. Rochlen, Alexandra A. García, Manuel José Damásio, Brittani Crook,
Pregnancy outcomes in the United States rank among the worst of countries with a developed health care system. Although traditional prenatal health primarily focuses on women, promising findings have emerged in international research that suggest the potential of including men in prenatal health interventions in the United States. eHealth apps present a promising avenue to reach new and expectant fathers with crucial parenting knowledge and healthy, supportive behaviors.The aim was to explore the ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2018 - | JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Susana Ferreira, Maria de Fátima Oliveira, Francisco Gomes da Silva, Margarida Ribau Teixeira, Madalena Gonçalves, Rui Eugénio, Henrique Damásio, José Manuel Gonçalves,
Organic farming can play an important role in rural development and food production, by reinforcing the trend toward sustainable agriculture and its purpose of ecosystem conservation. The agribusiness of organic farming is particularly relevant in family farming, given the labor availability and the short marketing circuits. The innovative techniques of organic farming, namely with soil fertility, weed and pest control, opens a wide range of possibilities in its development and extension. The expectation ...
Tópico(s): Rural development and sustainability
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | AgriEngineering
Michael Mackert, Marie Guadagno, Allison J. Lazard, Erin E. Donovan, Aaron B. Rochlen, Alexandra A. García, Manuel José Damásio,
Pregnancy outcomes in the United States continue to rank among the worst in the developed world. Traditional maternal–child health promotion tends to focus exclusively on women, leaving men out of programs that can affect family health. Scholars advocate including men in prenatal health to reduce maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. This study explored the perceived role of men in prenatal health, the use of an e-health application, and participant-suggested ways of improving the application ...
Tópico(s): HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
2016 - SAGE Publishing | American Journal of Men s Health
Manuel José Damásio, Sara Henriques, Inês Teixeira‐Botelho, Patrícia Dias,
Any technology adoption is shaped by a myriad of factors that sometimes conflict in their ultimate goals and outcomes. So is the case with mobile Internet (m-Internet) adoption and diffusion. This paper discusses this process from the stakeholders’ and users’ perspectives and confronts their understanding and attitudes towards this technology with three complementary theoretical models: network theory, activity theory, and the technology acceptance model (TAM).The study presents results for the use ...
Tópico(s): ICT Impact and Policies
2013 - SAGE Publishing | Mobile Media & Communication
Manuel José Damásio, Célia Quico, André Ferreira,
This paper depicts the Portuguese interactive television (iTV) market focusing on the novel applications produced in that market between the years 2001 and 2003. Particular focus is given to two applications, “Noites Interactivas” and “VEMiTV-PANDA”, not only from a technological point of view, but also from the user interaction point of view. These two examples are used to illustrate the challenges facing iTV services technological deployment and commercial development. The paper ends by summarising ...
Tópico(s): ICT Impact and Policies
2004 - Elsevier BV | Computers & Graphics
Rute C. Sofia, Paulo Mendes, Manuel José Damásio, Sara Henriques, Fabio Giglietto, Erica Giambitto, Alessandro Bogliolo,
This paper provides an interdisciplinary perspective concerning the role of prosumers on future Internet design based on the current trend of Internet user empowerment. The paper debates the prosumer role, and addresses models to develop a symmetric Internet architecture and supply-chain based on the integration of social capital aspects. It has as goal to ignite the discussion concerning a socially-driven Internet architectural design.
Tópico(s): Impact of Technology on Adolescents
2012 - Association for Computing Machinery | ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Carla Sousa, José Carlos Neves, Manuel José Damásio,
The potential of games in empowering underrepresented groups is a central theme in the field of media studies. However, to ensure that everyone can benefit from them, it is necessary to ensure that they are inclusive and accessible. In the present work, we have implemented a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach to target this problem, right at the stage of training new game designers and game developers. Thus, through a game-design-based or experimental game design pedagogical approach, we ...
Tópico(s): Educational Games and Gamification
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
Manuel José Damásio, Patrícia Dias, José Gabriel Andrade,
This paper explores the relationship between social media as tools used by public relations professionals and as part of the daily lives of organizations’ stakeholders, identifying emergent practices in public relations and confronting new perspectives, both professional and academic, on public relations functions and on its role within organizational communication.Departing from the agreement shared by academics and professionals on a profound shift in public relations as a consequence of the increasingly ...
Tópico(s): Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies
2012 - IIPR | Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas
Carla Sousa, José Carlos Neves, Manuel José Damásio,
Although the potential of games to foster learning, representation, empowerment, well-being, and social inclusion is already documented, some groups seem to remain underrepresented. In the field of disability, this potential is still immersed in a set of barriers and hindrances, arising from the lack of accessibility of this medium and the lack of representation of voices in research and development processes. This problem seems to be exponentiated in the field of Intellectual Disability (ID). The ...
Tópico(s): Disability Rights and Representation
2022 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Education
Maria de Fátima Oliveira, Francisco Gomes da Silva, Susana Ferreira, Margarida Ribau Teixeira, Henrique Damásio, António Ferreira, José Manuel Gonçalves,
The innovation of agricultural systems management is a determinant factor that guarantees adaptation to a new paradigm of global economy, environmental protection, and social requirements. The conventional concepts of innovation, applicable to new products and processes, do not consider many characteristics of the agricultural sector, such as social innovation and innovation resulting from new or renewed processes. Nevertheless, the overall impact of innovation on yields, competitiveness, and value ...
Tópico(s): Agricultural Innovations and Practices
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
Conceição Costa, Manuel José Damásio,
The ubiquity of media in our society and the use of the Internet and in particular the World Wide Web as a convergent medium for a huge diversity of content and formats (movies in cinema and in YouTube, radio and cartoons on the Web and TV, social networks) has been a concern of academics, educators and governments. In what concerns to children audiences, the focus has been on safety and security of children and the correspondent online data protection. Questions of the impact of subliminal forms ...
Tópico(s): Child Development and Digital Technology
2010 - OberCom (Observatorio da Comunicação) | Observatorio (OBS*)
Manuel José Damásio, Paula A. Cordeiro,
Tópico(s): Evaluation and Performance Assessment
2013 - University of Navarre | Communication & Society
André Mathias Baptista, Ágata Dourado Sequeira, Iolanda Veríssimo, Célia Quico, Mário Cardoso, Manuel José Damásio,
The potential of digital interactive television (iDTV) to promote original services, formats and contents that can be relevant to support personal health care and wellness of individuals, namely elderly people, has not been fully explored yet in the past. Therefore, in a context of rapid change of the technological resources, in which the distribution and presentation of content comes associated to new platforms (such as digital terrestrial TV and IPTV), it is important to identify the configurations ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Liliana Pacheco, Marisa Torres da Silva, María José Brites, Sara Henriques, Manuel José Damásio,
The mediatisation of young people daily lives constitutes a significant subject due to the expressive use of media in their daily routines. In this article, we resort to a representative sample of 3609 online respondents aged between 14 and 30 years old from nine European countries (Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Poland and Portugal), in order to perceive the impact new (and “old”) media have in these youngsters daily media consumption activities. The results of this online ...
Tópico(s): Child Development and Digital Technology
2017 - OberCom (Observatorio da Comunicação) | Observatorio (OBS*)
Nuno Vila‐Chã, Sara Cavaco, Alexandre Mendes, Alexandra Gonçalves, Isabel Moreira, Joana Fernandes, Joana Damásio, Luís Filipe Azevedo, José Manuel Castro‐Lopes,
Sleep disturbances and pain are common non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD). This study aimed to explore the association between these two symptoms in a cohort of patients with PD.The Parkinson's Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS-2) was used to identify sleep disturbances in a series of 229 PD patients. The identification and characterization of pain was performed by a semi-structured interview and by the application of the Ford classification and the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI). The Unified Parkinson' ...
Tópico(s): Neurological disorders and treatments
2019 - Dove Medical Press | Journal of Pain Research
Cláudia Álvares, Manuel José Damásio,
Abstract This article presents the concept of social capital as complementary to Hallin and Mancini’s ‘polarized pluralist’ model, which has been used in relation to both Spain and Portugal. In our view, while the current Spanish context may be characterized by ‘partisan’ journalism, this is less true of Portugal. We propose that Hallin and Mancini’s polarized pluralist model be complemented by the concept of social capital to comprehend the specific underpinnings of the power constellations surrounding ...
Tópico(s): History, Culture, and Society
2013 - Intellect | International Journal of Iberian Studies
Nuno Vila‐Chã, Sara Cavaco, Alexandre Mendes, Alexandra Gonçalves, Inês Moreira, Joana Fernandes, Joana Damásio, Luís Filipe Azevedo, José Manuel Castro‐Lopes,
Pain in Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and heterogeneous non-motor symptom. Although the characteristics and predictors of pain in general and of central pain in particular are still largely unknown.A semi-structured interview, the Brief Pain Inventory and the Pain Disability Index were used to identify and characterize pain in a consecutive series of 292 PD patients. Unified PD Rating Scale-III, Hoehn & Yahr, Schwab and England Independence Scale and Freezing of Gait Questionnaire were applied ...
Tópico(s): Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
2019 - Wiley | European Journal of Pain
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Lia Cruz Vaz da Costa Damásio, José Maria Soares, Jairo Iavelberg, Gustavo Arantes Rosa Maciel, Manuel de Jesus Simões, Ricardo Santos Simões, Eduardo Vieira da Motta, Maria Cândida Pinheiro Baracat, Edmund Chada Baracat,
Ovarian autotransplantation has shown increasing promise as a clinical method for the preservation of fertility and hormonal function. However, information regarding the success rate of this type of transplantation is limited. We hypothesized that results vary according to the site of the ovarian transplantation. To test this hypothesis, fresh or cryopreserved ovarian strips were autotransplanted to orthotopic or heterotopic sites. The strips were later collected, and the morphology and expression ...
Tópico(s): Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
2016 - BioMed Central | Journal of Ovarian Research
Carla Sousa, José Carlos Neves, Manuel José Damásio,
Nowadays, the potential of games to promote well-being and social inclusion is already widely documented by research. Yet, how this potential can reach out to underrepresented communities, namely those with very specific accessibility needs, ensuring their participation, is still somewhat unexplored. The present article discusses accessibility, participation and inclusion as three pillars to address the relationship between gaming and intellectual disability (ID). Through this approach, more participatory ...
Tópico(s): Impact of Technology on Adolescents
2022 - Intellect | Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Juana Serret-Montaya, Jessie Nallely Zurita‐Cruz, Miguel Ángel Villasís-Keever, Alejandra Aguilar-Kitsu, Claudia del Carmen Zepeda-Martínez, Irving Cruz-Anleu, B. Hernández-Hernández, Sara Alonso-Flores, Leticia Manuel‐Apolinar, Leticia Damasio‐Santana, Abigail Hernández-Cabezza, José Carlos Romo-Vázquez,
Tópico(s): Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | Pediatric Nephrology
Célia Quico, Manuel José Damásio, André Mathias Baptista, Ágata Dourado Sequeira, Iolanda Veríssimo, Mário Cardoso, Sara Henriques,
AbstractDigital interactive television (iDTV) is often seen as a platform with great potential to deliver health and wellness content and services directly to people. Despite the advantages of e-Health, public engagement with such services is still limited. Our research assumes that health literacy plays a key role on users' engagement with these kinds of services and we postulate that it is one of the main predictors of users' attitudes and behaviours towards iDTV health and wellness services. Our ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2014 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Health Promotion and Education
O presente artigo apresenta uma proposta teórica de expansão do conceito de literacia tendo como base a noção de serviços educativos em ambiente digital. Tradicionalmente entendida como a capacidade de ler e escrever uma mensagem numa língua específica, o conceito de literacia tem sido alvo de várias interpretações e expansões do seu valor, nomeadamente no que se refere às suas formulações no campo do discurso dos media. A emergência de ambientes digitais de mediatização da experiência educativa, ...
Tópico(s): Information Science and Libraries
2008 - University of Minho | Comunicação e Sociedade
Manuel José Damásio, Sara Henriques, Conceição Costa,
The way communities are being reconfigured via the uses people make of media technologies is a key aspect to understand how contemporary experience is evolving in a changing media environment. This article presents and discusses the findings of an ongoing project that deals with the study of media-based participatory culture and the linkages between face-to-face and virtual communities from the point of view of user’s specific activities. The document specifically deals with the metrics sense of ...
Tópico(s): Social Capital and Networks
2012 - Inderscience Publishers | International Journal of Web Based Communities
Manuel José Damásio, Sara Henriques, Conceição Costa,
This paper introduces the concept of belonging and discusses it in the context of online social networking experience and community experience considering social capital and user’s activities as nuclear concepts to understand collective actions and social relationships mediated by online social media technologies. The paper presents an empirical approach based on the study of two local communities and analyses whether interactive social technologies are capable of allowing a greater social involvement ...
Tópico(s): Social Capital and Networks
2012 - OberCom (Observatorio da Comunicação) | Observatorio (OBS*)
J.D. Villeda-González, José Luis Gómez‐Olivares, Luis Arturo Baiza‐Gutman, Leticia Manuel‐Apolinar, Leticia Damasio‐Santana, César Millán‐Pacheco, Selene Ángeles Mejía, M.C. Cortés-Ginez, Miguel Cruz, Cecilio Vidal-Moreno, Margarita Díaz-Flores,
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) have been associated with risk factors for metabolic syndrome (MetS). Our objective was to evaluate the effect of nicotinamide (NAM) on the activities, expression and protein content of cholinesterases in a MetS model. MetS was induced in male rats administrating 40% fructose to the drinking water for 16 weeks. Additionally, from 5th week onward, the carbohydrate solution was replaced by NAM, at several concentrations for 5 h each morning ...
Tópico(s): Free Radicals and Antioxidants
2020 - Elsevier BV | Life Sciences
Artur Saraiva, Pedro Henrique Presumido, José Silvestre, Manuel Feliciano, G. C. Rodrigues, Pedro Oliveira e Silva, Miguel Damásio, A.C. Ribeiro, Sofia Ramôa, Luís Filipe Ferreira, Artur Gonçalves, Albertina Ferreira, Anabela Grifo, Ana A. Paulo, A.C. Ribeiro, Adelaide Oliveira, Igor Dias, Helena Mira, Anabela Amaral, Henrique São Mamede, Margarida Oliveira,
In the Mediterranean region, climate change is likely to generate an increase in water demand and the deterioration of its quality. The adoption of precision viticulture and the best available techniques aiming at sustainable production, minimizing the impact on natural resources and reducing production costs, has therefore been a goal of winegrowers. In this work, the water footprint (WFP) in the wine sector was evaluated, from the vineyard to the bottle, through the implementation of a methodology ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Atmosphere
Manuel José Damásio, Sara Henriques, Mike Mackert,
A utilização de meios electrónicos na área da saúde fornece ferramentas poderosas para melhorar o conhecimento sobre saúde e a atitude dos sujeitos perante este domínio, mas a literacia em saúde manifestada pelos utilizadores – a sua capacidade de obter, processar e agir adequadamente perante informações relacionadas com a temática da saúde – desempenha um papel importante na sua capacidade de aproveitar ao máximo as aplicações electrónicas disponíveis no domínio da saúde. O presente projecto analisou ...
Tópico(s): Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
2012 - University of Minho | Comunicação e Sociedade
Sara Henriques, Manuel José Damásio,
This paper deals with the relevance of mobile media in shaping online activities and patterns of interaction and its relation with industrial stakeholders and individual users' perspectives on the technology. The concepts of mediation and mediatization, as well as the processes of belonging and social cohesion are discussed and operationalized in the context of an empirical study. Data from mobile internet adoption and use will be discussed in the light of the above mentioned theoretical approaches. ...
Tópico(s): Knowledge Management and Sharing
2016 - IGI Global | International Journal of Handheld Computing Research