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UAveiro Research

Newsletter #39 - 2016/10/27
    
Researcher of the Month: Robert Pullar   
Dr. Robert Pullar is a principal researcher at the Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering and CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, at the University of Aveiro. For his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Warwick, he produced the first ever ceramic fibres of hexagonal ferrites. Recently, he and his colleagues from UA and other countries, have developed a bimetallic nanoparticle 50,000 times thinner than a human hair, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
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Save the date: Telma Esteves promotes ERC and FET info session at UA - Today, 2.15pm.
Within the ECIU meeting at the University of Aveiro, Telma Esteves promotes today an info session at the Sala de Atos, which will include some  "tips and tricks" to take into consideration in ERC and FET proposal spreparation. The session is open to scientific community.
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Research news

Publication | Adaptive Memory: The Evolutionary Significance of Survival Processing
A few seconds of survival processing, during which people assess the relevance of information to a survival situation, produces particularly good retention. One interpretation of this benefit is that our memory systems are optimized to process and retain fitness-relevant information.
By: JS Nairne, JNS Pandeirada, Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol11, 4, 2016
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Publication | Exome sequencing in a consanguineous family clinically diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease identifies a homozygous CTSF mutation
In this analysis, we identified several large regions of homozygosity shared between both affected siblings, which we suggested could be candidate loci for a recessive genetic lesion underlying the early onset AD in these cases.
By: J Bras, R Djaldetti, AM Alves, S Mead, L Darwent, A Lleo, JL Molinuevo, R Blesa, A Singleton, J Hardy, J Clarimon, R Guerreiro, Neurobiology of Aging, Vol 46,  2016
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Publication | Radioactively contaminated areas: Bioindicator species and biomarkers of effect in an early warning scheme for a preliminary risk assessment
Concerns about the impacts on public health and on the natural environment have been raised regarding the full range of operational activities related to uranium mining and the rest of the nuclear fuel cycle (including nuclear accidents), nuclear tests and depleted uranium from military ammunitions.
By: J Lourenço, S Mendo, R Pereira, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol 317,  2016
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