A holistic perspective of the human development needs to look for every element responsible for the individual success. Surely between those, motor development for its relation with healthy lifestyles, and academic achievement due to its social relevance, constitute two major determinants of future success in life. The aim to this article was to review the major contributions found in the scientific literature ...
Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Doutor, na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, sob a orientação do Prof. Doutor Vladimiro Miranda
The two main goals of this review were to understand how the relationships between physical activity, physical fitness, somatic fitness, and coordination are established along the motor development of children and adolescents, and how they would influence their future lives. The web based bibliographic database B-On was searched for peer-reviewed publications during the last decade (2000 to 2009). Search criter...
In the fifty years since the foundation of the European Community, Europe has evolved in many fields. From being exclusively concerned with economic integration – reflected by policies to increase agricultural productivity and improvement of intra-communitarian trade –, nowadays, the European Union is gradually advancing towards a political integration, in the direction of common environmental values and toward...
It is clear that the successful management of water resources must take into account the influence of policies affecting the irrigated agriculture sector. Among these, the importance of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is well recognised. In Portugal, more than 606,000 hectares (INE 2001b) are allocated to irrigated agriculture, which accounts for 74.8% of all wate...
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