Susana Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susana Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susana |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1335-8648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sustainability paradox in emerging markets
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how quality standards and technical regulations emerge, evolve and shape competitive strategies. It seeks to explore the processes of co-creation of standards, the roles played by different firms, and the interrelations among companies, institutions and regulatory actors within an emerging economy context. By examining these dynamics, the study aims to contribute to the literature on institutional c…
Following Facial Recognition Technologies Across Social Worlds
Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are increasingly the subject of public debate, yet qualitative research that follows contemporary controversies around them remains fragmented and often limited to single sites or perspectives. This article presents the study protocol for fAIces ( Facial Recognition Technologies. Etho-Assemblages and Alternative Futures ), an Advanced Grant funded by the European Research Council using a multi-sited, multi-v…
Sociologia da Inteligência Artificial
Propomos uma Sociologia da Inteligência Artificial (IA), reforçando a necessidade de compreender em profundidade as implicações sociais desta tecnologia numa perspetiva arredada de visões deterministas. Apresentamos pistas para abordar a IA como um fenómeno sociotécnico e para desconstruir criticamente mitos culturais, metáforas e expectativas sociais em torno destas tecnologias, e as retóricas empresariais e políticas que os acompanham. Um dos t…
Exploring implicit artificial grammar learning in students with reading difficulties and its educational implications
Intrafamilial gamete donation
The data that support the findings of this study are available upon reasonable request from the corresponding author, S. Silva. These data are not publicly available due to a confidentiality agreement securing the privacy and anonymity of research participants
Narratives about distributed health literacy during the Covid-19 pandemic
The promotion of health literacy was a key public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the role of social networks and relationships for support with health literacy-related tasks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is scarcely understood. Moving beyond traditional notions of health literacy, which focus on individual skills and knowledge, this study uses the concept of distributed health literacy to explore how individuals …
Performing publics of science in the Covid-19 pandemic
Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performativity, we mean the ways by which pa…
Duration Perception and Reading in Typically Developing Adults and Adults with Developmental Dyslexia
While the link between beat perception and reading skills is attributed to a general improvement in neural entrainment to speech units, duration perception (DP) is primarily linked to a specific aspect of speech perception, specifially discriminating phonemes of varying lengths. Our previous study found a significant correlation between DP and pseudoword reading in both typically developing (TD) individuals and adults with dyslexia (DD). This sug…
Energy taxes recycling as an instrument for the mitigation of the expenditure on energy products of vulnerable households in the European Union
Environmental problems, particularly climate change, have raised awareness of the need to decarbonize the energy sector. Several policies have been followed worldwide, including high energy taxes in European countries. However, simultaneously, many countries still suffer from energy poverty, and energy taxation only aggravates this problem. Considering this situation, this research proposes implementing green tax reform in European countries wher…
Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing
Processing musical meter—the organization of time into regular cycles of strong and weak beats—requires abstraction from the varying rhythmic surface. Several studies have investigated whether meter processing requires attention, or if it can be both pre-attentive and attentive. While findings on temporal expectation (processing meter per se) indicate benefits of attention, studies on meter processing in complex, dual-task contexts (meter used fo…
Quality of Life of Mothers and Fathers 4 to 6 Months After Birth
Developing Curriculum for Emergency Remote Learning Environments
Public Views About Involvement in Decision-Making on Health Data Sharing, Access, Use and Reuse
Background: Data-intensive and needs-driven research can deliver substantial health benefits. However, concerns with privacy loss, undisclosed surveillance, and discrimination are on the rise due to mounting data breaches. This can undermine the trustworthiness of data processing institutions and reduce people's willingness to share their data. Involving the public in health data governance can help to address this problem by imbuing data process…
Teachers’ Perceptions of Remote Learning during the Pandemic
The closure of higher education institutions (HEIs) due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to visible changes in pedagogical practices. With the lockdown, there was ambiguity and disagreement about the workload of teachers and students, and about what to teach and what strategies to select. For most instructors, the first challenge was to recreate the face-to-face experience. Worldwide, most universities have speedily adopted synchronou…
Medical ethics when moving towards non-anonymous gamete donation
Drawing on the views of donors and recipients about anonymity in a country that is experiencing a transition towards non-anonymous gamete donation mandated by the Constitutional Court, we explore how the intersection between rights-based approaches and an empirical framework enhances recommendations for ethical policy and healthcare. Between July 2017 and April 2018, 69 donors and 147 recipients, recruited at the Portuguese Public Bank of Gametes…
Developing Curriculum for Emergency Remote Learning Environments
Benefits and Risks of Sharing Genomic Data for Research
Assessing public and patients' expectations and concerns about genomic data sharing is essential to promote adequate data governance and engagement in rare diseases genomics research. This cross-sectional study compared the views of 159 rare disease patients, 478 informal carers and 63 healthcare professionals in Northern Portugal about the benefits and risks of sharing genomic data for research, and its associated factors. The three participant …
Biopsychosocial Correlates of Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating chronic disease that has had increasing prevalence over the last years. We have investigated whether the perceived quality of life is reduced in multiple sclerosis patients compared to control participants with a cross-sectional approach, and how it relates to sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial variables in MS with multiple regression. To that end, a group of MS patients ( n = 50) and a control…
EmoLexPros
In this study, we validated a set of audio stimuli addressing emotional lexico-prosodic congruence. Positive, neutral and negative words classified as such in European Portuguese lexical databases were recorded with matching and mismatching emotional prosodic patterns (positive, neutral and negative). The produced set was submitted to behavioral validation, where each utterance was rated for lexico-prosodic match. Word pairs showing maximal diffe…
Interpersonal Synchronization Protects Against the Antisocial Outcomes of Frustration
Prosociality improves with interpersonal synchronization-the temporal coordination of movement across individuals. We tested whether the benefits of interpersonal synchronization extend to temporary circumstances of induced frustration, where negative changes in prosociality are expected as a result. Participants performed two joint tasks-synchronization versus non-synchronization. Each task was performed twice, with high versus low induced frust…
Economic valuation of urban parks with historical importance
Priorizar o acesso à reprodução assistida com base no peso
Excerto] Introdução: Há políticas que restringem o acesso a tratamentos de reprodução assistida por \nparte de pessoas obesas ou que têm sobrepeso, sobretudo em países onde a epidemia da obesidade constitui um desafio (WILKES; MURDOCH, 2009; CORRÊA; LOYOLA, 2015; KONING; MOL; DONDORP, 2017; BROWN, 2019). Ainda que essas pessoas tenham necessidade de recorrer à reprodução assistida com mais frequência do que aquelas com peso normal, devido à maior…
Decoupling economic growth from emissions
Assessing the double dividend of a third-generation environmental tax reform with resource substitution
Validation of the Short Assessment of Health Literacy in Portuguese-speaking Adults in Portugal
To validate the Brazilian version of the Short Assessment of Health Literacy in Portuguese-speaking Adults (SAHLPA), a 50-item test proposed as a particularly helpful instrument to assess health literacy in people with limited skills, in the Portuguese population. We used the standard procedure for cultural adaptation and administered the instrument to 249 participants. We examined construct validity using groups with expectedly increasing levels…
Forensic DNA databases in European countries
The political and financial investments in the implementation of forensic DNA databases and the ethical issues related to their use and expansion justify inquiries into their performance and general utility. The main function of a forensic DNA database is to produce matches between individuals and crime scene stains, which requires a constant input of individual profiles and crime scene stains. This is conditioned, among other factors, by the leg…
Posição socioeconômica e autoavaliação da saúde bucal no Brasil
Analisou-se a autoavaliação da saúde bucal da população adulta brasileira segundo a posição socioeconômica (região de residência, escolaridade, renda e classe social), explorando as variáveis com maior sensibilidade para medir tal associação. Estudaram-se 59.758 indivíduos com 18 anos ou mais de idade, que participaram da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde 2013, um inquérito domiciliar de base populacional. A autoavaliação da saúde bucal (dentes e gengiv…
Narratives about distributed health literacy during the Covid-19 pandemic
The promotion of health literacy was a key public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the role of social networks and relationships for support with health literacy-related tasks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is scarcely understood. Moving beyond traditional notions of health literacy, which focus on individual skills and knowledge, this study uses the concept of distributed health literacy to explore how individuals …
Distributed health literacy among people living with type 2 diabetes in Portugal
This study embraces a patient-centred and narrative-oriented notion of health literacy, exploring how social networks and personal experiences constitute distributed health literacy (DHL) by mapping out health literacy mediators of each individual and how they enable self-management skills and knowledge of health conditions. Semi-structured interviews with 26 patients with type 2 diabetes were conducted in a Primary Care Center of Porto (Portugal…
Reflexoes sobre a investigacao em embrioes de origem humana
Analisam-se os argumentos usados pelas organizações de ética portuguesas na regulação da investigação em embriões de origem humana. Recolheram-se documentos produzidos entre 2006 e 2010. Procedeu-se à análise temática de conteúdo, e as estratégias discursivas foram estudadas a partir de uma abordagem semântica da informação. Discutiram-se o estatuto do embrião abstrato (ser humano/pessoa ou artefato biológico/neoestrutura laboratorial) e os crité…
Heterosexual couples’ uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation
This article is about how ovarian stimulation is understood within the context of heterosexual couples’ relationships. The empirical research involves 15 semi-structured interviews with patients in Portugal who have undergone IVF programmes performed with eggs collected in stimulated cycles. We argue that the uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation expressed in the patients’ narratives represent situated values and knowledges conveyed by existin…
The construction of meaning by experts and would-be parents in assisted reproductive technology
This article explores the construction of meaning regarding assisted reproductive technology by legal framers, medical practitioners and would-be parents, through the concept of ecology of knowledge. It is argued that these inter-relationships between experts and lay people can be understood in terms of the formation of a social structure of ecology of knowledge, which depends on local and emotional knowledge co-produced by medical doctors, juris…
A compreensão jurídica, médica e "leiga" do embrião em Portugal
Pretende-se contribuir para o debate em torno dos processos de circulação de conhecimentos e sentidos entre especialistas e "leigos" no que concerne ao estatuto dos embriões humanos em Portugal. Reflete-se sobre as expectativas e preocupações manifestadas quanto à confiança, qualidade, segurança e eficácia das tecnologias médicas de reprodução assistida. O estudo assenta na realização de entrevistas individuais, com vistas a explorar as complexid…
Voluntary Participation in Forensic DNA Databases
The public's understanding of forensic DNA databases remains undertheorized and few empirical studies have been produced. This article aims to address this omission by exploring the answers to an open-ended question taken from an online questionnaire regarding the reasons for individuals' voluntarily accepting or refusing to allow their DNA profile to be included in the Portuguese forensic DNA database. The analysis is undertaken from the perspec…
Family structure and use of prenatal care
This cross-sectional study intended to assess the use of prenatal care according to the family structure in a population with free universal access to prenatal care. In 2005-2006, the Portuguese birth cohort was assembled by the recruitment of puerperae at public maternity wards in Porto, Portugal. In the current analysis, 7,211 were included. Data on socio-demographic characteristics, obstetric history, and prenatal care were self-reported. Sing…
Assessment of the contents related to screening on Portuguese language websites providing information on breast and prostate cancer
The objective of this study was to assess the quality of the contents related to screening in a sample of websites providing information on breast and prostate cancer in the Portuguese language. The first 200 results of each cancer-specific Google search were considered. The accuracy of the screening contents was defined in accordance with the state of the art, and its readability was assessed. Most websites mentioned mammography as a method for …
Biogenética e género na construção da intencionalidade da paternidade
Este artigo aborda as modalidades de intencionalidade da paternidade construídas por mulheres e homens que realizaram testes de DNA ordenados por tribunais, em Portugal, para apuramento da paternidade biológica de crianças sem 'pai oficial'. Partindo de uma perspectiva feminista, analisa-se o impacto das ideologias de género na mediação da intenção de desempenhar o papel de pai, na negociação de relações de parentesco e nos processos sociais e mo…
A Portuguese Perspective
Informed Consent in Forensic DNA Databases
Trust, morality and altruism in the donation of biological material
This paper examines a number of social, ethical and cultural issues related to the application of biotechnology. The focus of the paper relies on two different cases of governing biotechnology in Portugal, referring to donation of biological material: the act of donation of eggs and sperm; and volunteers for donation of DNA material for the forensic national DNA database. We analyze the discourses on donation of biological material framing them i…
A compreensão jurídica, médica e "leiga" do embrião em Portugal
Pretende-se contribuir para o debate em torno dos processos de circulação de conhecimentos e sentidos entre especialistas e "leigos" no que concerne ao estatuto dos embriões humanos em Portugal. Reflete-se sobre as expectativas e preocupações manifestadas quanto à confiança, qualidade, segurança e eficácia das tecnologias médicas de reprodução assistida. O estudo assenta na realização de entrevistas individuais, com vistas a explorar as complexid…
Uncertainty, risks and ethics in unsuccessful in vitro fertilisation treatment cycles
In this article we explore the results of interviewing Portuguese couples involved in unsuccessful in vitro fertilisation (IVF) programmes. We argue that the references to uncertainties and risks of IVF procedures and their implications in the mobilisation and in the actions of different social and/or professional groups should be central topics in the debates of biomedicine and bioethics in a broader sense and in local ethics of clinical researc…
Heterosexual couples’ uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation
This article is about how ovarian stimulation is understood within the context of heterosexual couples’ relationships. The empirical research involves 15 semi-structured interviews with patients in Portugal who have undergone IVF programmes performed with eggs collected in stimulated cycles. We argue that the uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation expressed in the patients’ narratives represent situated values and knowledges conveyed by existin…
O ritual da comunicação e o ritual do consumo
Este artigo aborda a condição dos objectos enquanto signos produzidos pelodiscurso publicitário, promovendo uma reflexão sobre as relações que se estabelecementre comunicação, consumo e publicidade. Nas sociedades contemporâneas, os objectosexcedem as suas características funcionais para se revestirem de tecido simbólico,transportando significados e valores que se projectam nas relações sociais e na ideologiaque orienta a actuação do indivíduo no…
Biogenética e género na construção da intencionalidade da paternidade
Este artigo aborda as modalidades de intencionalidade da paternidade construídas por mulheres e homens que realizaram testes de DNA ordenados por tribunais, em Portugal, para apuramento da paternidade biológica de crianças sem 'pai oficial'. Partindo de uma perspectiva feminista, analisa-se o impacto das ideologias de género na mediação da intenção de desempenhar o papel de pai, na negociação de relações de parentesco e nos processos sociais e mo…
The construction of meaning by experts and would-be parents in assisted reproductive technology
This article explores the construction of meaning regarding assisted reproductive technology by legal framers, medical practitioners and would-be parents, through the concept of ecology of knowledge. It is argued that these inter-relationships between experts and lay people can be understood in terms of the formation of a social structure of ecology of knowledge, which depends on local and emotional knowledge co-produced by medical doctors, juris…
Perspectives on access to in vitro fertilization in Portugal
OBJECTIVE: To analyze users' reasons for choosing in vitro fertilization treatment in public or private services and to identify their suggestions for improving fertility treatment. METHODS: A qualitative study using an interpretative approach was conducted. Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment (nine women, one man and five couples) at home or at their workplace in the distric…
Association between neighborhood deprivation and fruits and vegetables consumption and leisure-time physical activity
Overall, neighborhood deprivation had a small effect on the consumption of fruits and vegetables and leisure-time physical activity. Neighborhood factors other than socioeconomic deprivation may still impact on the studied outcomes among women. This study provides relevant information for the design of interventions directed to neighborhood characteristics in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Forensic DNA databases in European countries
The political and financial investments in the implementation of forensic DNA databases and the ethical issues related to their use and expansion justify inquiries into their performance and general utility. The main function of a forensic DNA database is to produce matches between individuals and crime scene stains, which requires a constant input of individual profiles and crime scene stains. This is conditioned, among other factors, by the leg…
Assessment of the contents related to screening on Portuguese language websites providing information on breast and prostate cancer
The objective of this study was to assess the quality of the contents related to screening in a sample of websites providing information on breast and prostate cancer in the Portuguese language. The first 200 results of each cancer-specific Google search were considered. The accuracy of the screening contents was defined in accordance with the state of the art, and its readability was assessed. Most websites mentioned mammography as a method for …
Os jardins no contexto do turismo pós-moderno. O caso de Portugal
A matriz da atividade turística mudou e assume -se agora como uma indústria de experiências \no que tem feito aumentar a procura de paisagens pelo que estas evocam, simbolizam e representam. Os \njardins, documentos culturais e espaços de sensações visuais e sensoriais várias são cada vez mais locais \nde visita, de atividades várias ou simplesmente de contemplação e de estar. Estão na ordem do dia no \ncontexto internacional e o turismo de jardi…
Reflexoes sobre a investigacao em embrioes de origem humana
Analisam-se os argumentos usados pelas organizações de ética portuguesas na regulação da investigação em embriões de origem humana. Recolheram-se documentos produzidos entre 2006 e 2010. Procedeu-se à análise temática de conteúdo, e as estratégias discursivas foram estudadas a partir de uma abordagem semântica da informação. Discutiram-se o estatuto do embrião abstrato (ser humano/pessoa ou artefato biológico/neoestrutura laboratorial) e os crité…
Social Trajectory and Body Image Satisfaction in Childbearing Women
Public Perspectives on Risks and Benefits of Forensic DNA Databases
There is scarce knowledge about the influence of the professional group, education, and age on public perspectives on the risks and benefits of forensic DNA databases. Based on data collected through an online questionnaire applied to 628 individuals in Portugal, this research fills that gap. More than three quarters of the respondents believed that the Portuguese forensic DNA database can help fight crime more efficiently and develop a swifter a…
Family structure and use of prenatal care
This cross-sectional study intended to assess the use of prenatal care according to the family structure in a population with free universal access to prenatal care. In 2005-2006, the Portuguese birth cohort was assembled by the recruitment of puerperae at public maternity wards in Porto, Portugal. In the current analysis, 7,211 were included. Data on socio-demographic characteristics, obstetric history, and prenatal care were self-reported. Sing…
Too little or too much? Parafoveal preview benefits and parafoveal load costs in dyslexic adults
Uso de estatinas e o risco de Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2
Objetivo: Determinar se existe relação entre o uso de estatinas e a incidência de Diabetes Melittus tipo 2 (DM2). Métodos: Foram realizadas pesquisas nas bases de dados National Guidelines Clearinghouse, Cochrane Lybrary, Trip database, PubMed e MedLine utilizando os termos MeSH “Diabetes Mellitus Type 2” e “Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors” (inibidores da HMG-CoA redutase). Foram incluídas revisões sistemáticas e meta-análises e en…
Necessidades e papéis parentais em cuidados intensivos neonatais
Pretende-se analisar as necessidades e os papéis parentais incluídos nos guias sobre Unidades de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal. Realizou-se uma análise de conteúdo temática de 33 guias (28 consensos e 5 documentos dirigidos aos pais) disponíveis em acesso livre no site da Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria em agosto de 2014. Estes documentos contemplam, principalmente, necessidades de informação, cuidados a prestar pelos pais e respectivas responsabi…
Voluntary Participation in Forensic DNA Databases
The public's understanding of forensic DNA databases remains undertheorized and few empirical studies have been produced. This article aims to address this omission by exploring the answers to an open-ended question taken from an online questionnaire regarding the reasons for individuals' voluntarily accepting or refusing to allow their DNA profile to be included in the Portuguese forensic DNA database. The analysis is undertaken from the perspec…
Cancer screening in Portugal
BACKGROUND: Cancer screening has contributed to downward trends in cancer mortality, but is also associated with adverse effects, which highlights the importance of promoting the participation based on informed decisions. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to describe the use of cancer screening (either in organized programmes or as opportunistic screening), awareness of organized programmes and perception of its potential benefits and adverse effects, depicti…
Rubella in Sub-Saharan Africa and sensorineural hearing loss
Rubella is a disease that can be prevented. Rubella infections are still very common in São Tomé and Príncipe, and women of child-bearing age are still at risk for rubella infection during pregnancy, justifying the urgency of vaccination against rubella. A statistically significant association between the group of children under 14 years of age with HL and immunity for rubella was observed in this country, although this study did not allow us to …
Distributed health literacy among people living with type 2 diabetes in Portugal
This study embraces a patient-centred and narrative-oriented notion of health literacy, exploring how social networks and personal experiences constitute distributed health literacy (DHL) by mapping out health literacy mediators of each individual and how they enable self-management skills and knowledge of health conditions. Semi-structured interviews with 26 patients with type 2 diabetes were conducted in a Primary Care Center of Porto (Portugal…
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