Afonso Cavaco
Biographic Data
| ID | 2762165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Afonso Cavaco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Afonso |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavaco |
| SIGNATURE | CAVACO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8112-1696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Analysis of photovoltaic power plant resilience under Iberian heatwaves
Purpose This study aims to quantify heatwave impacts on operational performance of Iberian photovoltaic (PV) plants in the context of climate change and examines whether typical meteorological year (TMY) expectations mask event-driven losses. It isolates performance ratio (PR) degradation, timing and recovery, providing evidence to align PV deployment planning and operation and maintenance (O&M) with a warming climate. Design/methodology/approach…
Effects of non-native word shapes in the recognition and recall of medicine names
Mistakes involving medicine brand names may lead to serious medication errors and even patients’ death. We tested the effect of medicine brand names shape – native vs. non-native spelling – in two groups of Portuguese speaking subjects: (i) pharmacy clients (older and less educated); (ii) graduate students (younger and more educated). We run a recognition task and an immediate recall task, testing three groups of names with: (1) non-native graphe…
Brand names of Portuguese medication
Among other regulatory requirements, medicine brands should be composed of single names without abbreviations to prevent errors in prescription of medication. The purposes of the study were to investigate the compliance of a sam ple of Portuguese medicine brand names with Portuguese pharmaceutical regulations. This includes identifying their basic linguistic characteristics and comparing these features and their frequency of occurrence with bench…
Readability of medicinal package leaflets
OBJECTIVE To review studies on the readability of package leaflets of medicinal products for human use.METHODS We conducted a systematic literature review between 2008 and 2013 using the keywords “Readability and Package Leaflet” and “Readability and Package Insert” in the academic search engine Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online,comprising different bibliographic resources/databases. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-a…
Avaliação da legibilidade de folhetos informativos e literacia em saúde
OBJETIVO: O bom uso dos folhetos informativos dos medicamentos depende, entre outros fatores, da sua legibilidade e da literacia do utilizador, respectivamente a clareza em identificar letras, palavras e frases impressas e a capacidade em compreender e usar essa informação. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar a possível relação entre uma medida de literacia funcional em saúde e a legibilidade de um folheto de um medicamento anti-inflamatório não…
Avaliação da legibilidade de folhetos informativos e literacia em saúde
OBJETIVO: O bom uso dos folhetos informativos dos medicamentos depende, entre outros fatores, da sua legibilidade e da literacia do utilizador, respectivamente a clareza em identificar letras, palavras e frases impressas e a capacidade em compreender e usar essa informação. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar a possível relação entre uma medida de literacia funcional em saúde e a legibilidade de um folheto de um medicamento anti-inflamatório não…
Avaliação da legibilidade de folhetos informativos e literacia em saúde
OBJETIVO: O bom uso dos folhetos informativos dos medicamentos depende, entre outros fatores, da sua legibilidade e da literacia do utilizador, respectivamente a clareza em identificar letras, palavras e frases impressas e a capacidade em compreender e usar essa informação. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar a possível relação entre uma medida de literacia funcional em saúde e a legibilidade de um folheto de um medicamento anti-inflamatório não…
Brand names of Portuguese medication
Among other regulatory requirements, medicine brands should be composed of single names without abbreviations to prevent errors in prescription of medication. The purposes of the study were to investigate the compliance of a sam ple of Portuguese medicine brand names with Portuguese pharmaceutical regulations. This includes identifying their basic linguistic characteristics and comparing these features and their frequency of occurrence with bench…
Readability of medicinal package leaflets
OBJECTIVE To review studies on the readability of package leaflets of medicinal products for human use.METHODS We conducted a systematic literature review between 2008 and 2013 using the keywords “Readability and Package Leaflet” and “Readability and Package Insert” in the academic search engine Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online,comprising different bibliographic resources/databases. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-a…
Effects of non-native word shapes in the recognition and recall of medicine names
Mistakes involving medicine brand names may lead to serious medication errors and even patients’ death. We tested the effect of medicine brand names shape – native vs. non-native spelling – in two groups of Portuguese speaking subjects: (i) pharmacy clients (older and less educated); (ii) graduate students (younger and more educated). We run a recognition task and an immediate recall task, testing three groups of names with: (1) non-native graphe…
Analysis of photovoltaic power plant resilience under Iberian heatwaves
Purpose This study aims to quantify heatwave impacts on operational performance of Iberian photovoltaic (PV) plants in the context of climate change and examines whether typical meteorological year (TMY) expectations mask event-driven losses. It isolates performance ratio (PR) degradation, timing and recovery, providing evidence to align PV deployment planning and operation and maintenance (O&M) with a warming climate. Design/methodology/approach…
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 works) · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Spelling (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Brand names (1 work) · Brazilian Portuguese (1 work) · Climate change (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work)