This paper discusses the territorial reform in Portuguese parishes in 2013 following the bailout from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission (Troika).The purpose of this paper is (i) to frame the reform of the parishes in Portugal in the trends of reorganization at the local level in European countrie

This work investigates the use of substrate integrated waveguide fed open slot antenna (WOSA) in an array for the first time to provide a new SIW slot antenna array with wide bandwidth and single-layer structure.The antenna array consists of 4×2 substrate integrated WOSA elements as a radiating part and two 1-to-4 SIW power dividers as the f

We present data about body size, sexual dimorphism, reproductive traits and diet ecology of Pleurodoma diplolister.This species is sexually dimorphic with females larger than males, corroborating others Leiuperidae species.The number of eggs varied Scenic Art from 62 to 1241 and we found a positive relationship between SVL of females and number of

Comminuted meat products are highly susceptible to safety and quality degradation swing partly because of their large interfacial area in the emulsion.The food industry extensively uses synthetic chemical preservatives to delay that degradation which is caused by microbial growth, enzyme activities and oxidation reactions.However, due to the potent