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- Comparing psychopathological symptoms in portuguese football fans and non-fansPublication . Leite, Ângela; Ramires, Ana; Costa, Rui; Castro, Filipa; E Sousa, Hélder Fernando Pedrosa; Vidal, Diogo Guedes; Dinis, Maria Alzira PimentaThe present study aims to characterize football fans and non-fans and to compare their psychopathological symptoms with the latest normative values for the Portuguese population from Canavarro in 2007. Results showed that football fans and non-fans are mostly male, have an affective relationship, are childless, have secondary education or a high degree, and are employed or students; fans are more likely to be male, dating, unemployed, to have elementary education and be younger than non-fans. Football fans present significantly higher psychopathological symptoms than non-fans in somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism and all psychopathological indexes. Football fans present values very close to those of populations with emotional distress in hostility and are above the mean of the general population in obsession–compulsion, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism.
- First characterization of the ecotoxicologic effects of waters from the North of Portugal, using mortality of the crustacean Daphnia magna as effect criterionPublication . Castro, Filipa; Machado, Alexandra; Nunes, BrunoWater contamination can result in the deterioration of its ecological quality and value for human consumption. The present work assessed the ecotoxicologic effects of potential contaminants present in several water samples from varied provenience (aquifer, municipal spring, rivers, public distribution system and treated effluents from a car garage). The adopted end-point was immobilization of Daphnia magna juveniles. The obtained results show high toxicity for samples collected from the aquifer, municipal spring and public distribution system. Intermediate toxicity was attributed to the treated garage effluents. No toxicity was observed for river water. A contaminação da água pode resultar na deterioração da sua qualidade tanto ecológica como para consumo humano. Este trabalho avaliou os efeitos ecotoxicológicos de contaminantes em amostras de água de diversa proveniência (aquífero, fonte municipal, rios, água de distribuição pública e efluentes tratados de uma oficina). O parâmetro avaliado foi a imobilização de juvenis de Daphnia magna. Os resultados obtidos demonstram alta toxicidade para amostras recolhidas no aquífero, fonte municipal e água de rede pública. Toxicidade intermédia foi observada para os efluentes tratados da oficina. Nenhuma toxicidade foi observada para a água dos rios.