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The socio-economic impact of a Polytechnic Institution in a local economy : som...

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are considered important mechanisms of regional development. However, due to the current economic recession and budget constraints, HEIs need to demonstrate the impact that their activities have on the surrounding community that contributes for its economic development. Hence, the aim of this paper is to present the results of a model to estimate the economic impact of differ...

Improvements on colony morphology identification towards bacterial profiling

Colony morphology may be an indicator of phenotypic variation, this being an important adaptive process adopted by bacteria to overcome environmental stressors. Furthermore, alterations in colony traits may reflect increased virulence and antimicrobial resistance. Despite the potential relevance of using colony morphological traits, the influence of experimental conditions on colony morphogenesis has been scarc...

Caracterização socioeconómica e análise do impacto económico do ano 2012, do In...

Acompanhando a prática de outros países e recomendações de organizações internacionais, tem vindo a ganhar peso a preocupação por parte das instituições do ensino superior (IES) em estimar o impacto económico que resulta da sua atividade nas regiões onde se encontram inseridas e também os decisores regionais e a população em geral revelam interesse em conhecer essa realidade e avaliar a sua importância no desen...

Socioeconomic characterization and analysis of the economic impact of the Polyt...

Taking the practice of other countries and recommendations of international organizations into account, higher education institutions (IES) are showing a growing concern in estimating the economic impact resulting from their activity in the regions where they are inserted; regional decision-makers and the population in general also show interest in knowing about that reality and also evaluate its importance in ...

The socio-economic impact of a Polytechnic Institution in a local economy: som...

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are considered important mechanisms of regional development. However, due to the current economic recession and budget constraints, HEIs need to demonstrate the impact that their activities have on the surrounding community that contributes for its economic development. Hence, the aim of this paper is to present the results of a model to estimate the economic impact of d...

Influence of carrier concentration on the control of Galactomyces geotrichum bu...

The present work aims to evaluate a strategy to solve Galactomyces geotrichum bulking based on the incorporation of a biofilm carrier in activated sludge systems. For this study, four sequencing batch reactors (SBR) were operated without (SBR1) and with a carrier for biofilm growth (5% [SBR2], 10% [SBR3], and 20% [SBR4] of the reactor volume). As expected, G. geotrichum bulking was observed in the SBR operating...

Characterization of the virulence and the antibiotic susceptibility profiles in...

The increased prevalence of antibiotic resistance is one of the main problems faced by health professionals nowadays, consequently dealing with the expansion of nosocomial infections in hospitals and other health institutions. Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) aim at the treatment of residual waters ensuring the preservation of the environment and ultimately, human health. Nevertheless, they also receive resid...

New insights on the roles of bacteria and protozoa in activated-sludge processes

Wastewater treatment is one of the most important biotechnological processes in the world. Nevertheless, the highly complex microbial communities in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are barely understood, remaining, most of the time, as a “black box”. Even though many microbiological methods are available to study the activated-sludge communities, many recent questions on the role of a significant number of m...

Profiling of pathogenic bacteria by colony morphology – identification of poten...

Colony morphology changes may be an indicator of the phenotypic variations associated to the pathogenecity, virulence and antimicrobial resistance of infection-causing microorganisms. Particularly, phenotypic changes derived from biofilm growth and in response to environmental stressors. For instance, in patients with cystic fibrosis, P. aeruginosa colony morphology undergoes a conversion from non- to mucoi...

La organización y atención a la diversidad en centros de educación secundaria d...