João Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3694022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | João Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | João |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3058-2227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Global potential of integrated biorefineries for leaf protein and sugar: Producing sustainable food and preventing starvation in catastrophes
To accommodate population growth and shifting diets, the global protein supply must increase. Simultaneously, rising climate variability increases agricultural yield shocks, disrupting conventional crops. Worse, global catastrophes such as nuclear war or pandemics could collapse the global food system. Here, we turn to the potential of grasslands and plentiful legume biomass (e.g., alfalfa, clover) to address these challenges. We demonstrate the …
A content map analysis of the national policy landscape in physical education, physical activity and youth sport in Ireland
Mapping the Conceptual Terrain Avoiding Common Conflations: Tentative Guide to Fruitful Discussion about Sexes and Genders
Subsídios Teóricos Para a Terapia Psicomotora: Mediação aquática na (re)construção do envelope psicocorporal em crianças com transtorno do espectro autista
This article aims to present a theoretical approach to aquatic mediation and the concomitant psychomotor-child relationship in the process of structuring the psychocorporal envelope of children with ASD. A path is presented that goes from the concept of organism to that of body and from body envelope to psychocorporal envelope; the body-psychic structure of children with ASD and its influence on the way they inhabit their body are addressed, and …
Health as a Social System: Luhmann's Theory Applied to Health Systems. An Introduction
While it has become fashionable in the arena of international health to think about health systems, the theoretical underpinning of Niklas Luhmann's vast and productive theory has been given too little consideration in the field. It is rich in concepts that can facilitate a fuller understanding of what health systems are. João Costa applies these concepts and shows the analytical possibilities they open up. He argues concisely how Luhmann's Socia…
Portuguese research on physical education and sport didactics—a critical discussion
This article presents a discussion of research in Physical Education and Sport Didactics in Portugal. It starts by situating it from an historical perspective, placing the 1980s as the beginning era, mainly based on the studies provided by the two first Physical Education higher education institutes of the country. The initial research, first based on master and doctoral dissertations, progressed to ongoing projects that have been disseminated in…
Adolescents’ enjoyment in face-to-face physical education during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the routines of children and adolescents and on their level of involvement in physical activity (PA). The restrictive rules applied in this period affected the functioning of physical education (PE) classes in Portugal, and strongly limited student participation. The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the affective attitude (enjoyment) of adolescents during face-to-face PE lessons during the CO…
Physical education student teachers’ wellbeing during Covid-19: Resilience resources and challenges from school placement
The coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has given rise to significant global challenges across education, and specifically in the physical education teacher education (PETE) community. Students attending teacher education programmes during the Covid-19 pandemic have experienced an abrupt and unprecedented pedagogical transition from a face-to-face capacity to remote teaching, learning, and assessment environments. Crucially, student teachers' sc…
Power analysis in health policy and systems research: A guide to research conceptualisation
Power is a growing area of study for researchers and practitioners working in the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR). Theoretical development and empirical research on power are crucial for providing deeper, more nuanced understandings of the mechanisms and structures leading to social inequities and health disparities; placing contemporary policy concerns in a wider historical, political and social context; and for contributing t…
Implications for European Physical Education Teacher Education during the Covid-19 pandemic: A cross-institutional SWOT analysis
The present study, using a sample of Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) representatives from five Higher Education European institutions (England, Finland, Greece, Ireland, and Portugal) sought to investigate the proposed measures of change required for programme delivery during the academic year of 2020–21. Each team completed a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) examination through inductive cross-analysis, using a…
Hedonic, emotional and willingness-to-pay response to beers of a different type in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the differences between common Brazilian beer and pure malt beer in the responses of hedonic scaling, willingness to pay and emotional response. Design/methodology/approach Two types of beer were selected to be tested – a common beer: Pilsen Skol and pure malt beer: Pilsen Eisenbahn. All the analysis was conducted under three labeling conditions: blind; labeled; inverted label with 70 participants…
A Comparative Study of Participation in Physical Education Classes among 170,347 Adolescents from 54 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries
Given the need for comparative research on the participation of adolescents in physical education (PE) classes as a privileged space for physical activity (PA) promotion, this study sought to estimate, analyse and compare the prevalence of participation in PE classes among adolescents from 54 countries and to examine sex, age, country income and world regions disparities. Data from the Global Students Health Survey (2010-2015) were used, comprisi…
Direct objects and language acquisition by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, and Yves Roberge
Reviewed by: Direct objects and language acquisition by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, and Yves Roberge João Costa Direct objects and language acquisition. By Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, and Yves Roberge. (Cambridge studies in linguistics 152.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 231. ISBN 9781107018006. $110 (Hb). Direct objects and language acquisition, by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux, Mihaela Pirvulescu, a…
An Analysis of Consumer Protection for Gamblers Across Different Online Gambling Operators in Ireland: A Descriptive Study
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the responsible gambling tools which are available to online gamblers at Irish online gambling websites. The present study used a similar methodology to a recent study carried out on the world’s most popular websites (Bonello and Griffiths Gaming Law Review and Economics, 21, 278–285, 2017), where 50 of the most advertised online gambling websites were evaluated in relation to their responsible gamblin…
Effectiveness of needle and syringe Programmes in people who inject drugs – An overview of systematic reviews
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
Input variability and late acquisition: Clitic misplacement in European Portuguese
The boy that the chef cooked: Acquisition of PP relatives in European Portuguese and Hebrew
The delusion of processing
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A Gente: Pronominal status and agreement revisited
The status of the expression a gente (lit. the people) in European Portuguese is the topic of this paper. We revisit its classical analysis, treating it as a pronoun, and the explanation for the patterns of agreement it may trigger on the inflected verb. In particular, the paper addresses Taylor's (2009) argument against the pronominal status of a gente, and argues that it can be analyzed as a regular DP. We compare a gente with other pronouns, s…
Embedded null subjects in Capeverdean
The status of Capeverdean as a pro -drop language is controversial. Baptista (2002) contends that this Portuguese-based creole has null referential subjects with some types of predicates, while Pratas (2002, 2007) proposes that it has only expletive null subjects. She argues that the rare cases of root null subjects can be analyzed as instances of null expletives. The aim of this paper is to show that in Capeverdean there is an asymmetry in the d…
Subject-object asymmetries in the acquisition of Portuguese relative clauses: Adults vs. children
Pb E Pe: Orientação para o discurso importa? (BP and EP: does discourse orientation matter?)
As diferenças sintácticas existentes entre as variedades europeia e brasileira do português têm recebido muita atenção na literatura recente no quadro do modelo de Princípios e Parâmetros. De acordo com alguns autores, a variedade brasileira tornou-se uma língua orientada para o discurso e de proeminência de tópico. Defende-se neste artigo que algumas das construções tradicionalmente utilizadas como argumento a favor da ideia de que o português b…
The child heard a coordinated sentence and wondered: On children's difficulty in understanding coordination and relative clauses with crossing dependencies
The Brotherhoods (Confrarias) and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan
By the end of the sixteenth century, the Japanese mission had become the largest overseas Christian community that was not under the rule of a European power. Its uniqueness was emphasized by Alessandro Valignano since 1582, who promoted a deeper accommodation to Japanese culture. It was also understood by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who issued the first national anti-Christian laws while he was unifying the Japanese empire. The main reason the religious…
The child heard a coordinated sentence and wondered: On children's difficulty in understanding coordination and relative clauses with crossing dependencies
A multifactorial approach to adverb placement: Assumptions, Facts, and Problems
Physical education student teachers’ wellbeing during Covid-19: Resilience resources and challenges from school placement
The coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has given rise to significant global challenges across education, and specifically in the physical education teacher education (PETE) community. Students attending teacher education programmes during the Covid-19 pandemic have experienced an abrupt and unprecedented pedagogical transition from a face-to-face capacity to remote teaching, learning, and assessment environments. Crucially, student teachers' sc…
Subject-object asymmetries in the acquisition of Portuguese relative clauses: Adults vs. children
Input variability and late acquisition: Clitic misplacement in European Portuguese
Mapping the Conceptual Terrain Avoiding Common Conflations: Tentative Guide to Fruitful Discussion about Sexes and Genders
Embedded null subjects in Capeverdean
The status of Capeverdean as a pro -drop language is controversial. Baptista (2002) contends that this Portuguese-based creole has null referential subjects with some types of predicates, while Pratas (2002, 2007) proposes that it has only expletive null subjects. She argues that the rare cases of root null subjects can be analyzed as instances of null expletives. The aim of this paper is to show that in Capeverdean there is an asymmetry in the d…
Spec, IP ou deslocado: Prós e contras das duas análises dos sujeitos pré-verbais
O objectivo deste artigo é apresentar argumentos que mostram que as duas análises dos sujeitos pré-verbais em Português Europeu, como movidos para Spec, IP ou deslocados à esquerda, não se excluem necessariamente. São apresentados vários argumentos mostrando que, em frases declarativas simples contextualmente não-marcadas, a análise tradicional, de acordo com a qual os sujeitos são deslocados para Spec, IP, não encontra alguns problemas identific…
Violent and Nonviolent Schizophrenic Patients: Clinical and Developmental Characteristics
The purpose of the present study was to examine clinical and developmental indices of violent and nonviolent schizophrenic patients. Included in the study were 20 treatment-resistant male schizophrenic patients on fixed doses of neuroleptics; treatment-resistance was determined on the basis of documented failure to respond adequately to treatment with at least three drugs from two different neuroleptic classes. Comparisons of t tests yielded sign…
On the behavior of adverbs in sentence-final context
This paper provides evidence in favor of the non-existence of base right-adjunction for adverbs. The argument comes from asymmetries in the interpretation of ambiguous adverbs depending on their position (sentence-internal or sentence-final). The apparent right-adjonction effects will be derived by leftward movement of the modifiees of the adverbs, according to the framework outlined in Barbiers (1995). Prosodic effects that improve some otherwis…
Directionality and Logical Form
The meaning of topic and focus: The 59th street bridge accent
Portuguese syntax: New Comparative Studies
Introduction 1. Infinitives vs. Participles 2. Clitics: A Window into the Null Subject Property 3. Word Order and Discourse Configurationality in European Portuguese 4. Romance Clitics and the Minimalist Program 5. Agreement, Predication, and Pronouns in the History of Portuguese 6. A Minimalist Approach to Clitic Climbing 7. 1st Person Plural Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese: Chains and Constraint Interaction in Binding 8. Distributive Universal…
The Emergence of Unmarked Word Order
Postverbal subjects and agreement in unaccusative contexts in European Portuguese
This article discusses some cases of partial agreement in colloquial European Portuguese, relating it with different patterns of word order in unmarked contexts. It is shown that postverbal subjects of unaccusative verbs may display partial agreement with the verb. It is proposed that postverbal subjects of unaccusative verbs are not necessarily assigned nominative Case. The contrast in behavior between subjects of intransitive verbs and subjects…
Spec, IP ou deslocado: Prós e contras das duas análises dos sujeitos pré-verbais
O objectivo deste artigo é apresentar argumentos que mostram que as duas análises dos sujeitos pré-verbais em Português Europeu, como movidos para Spec, IP ou deslocados à esquerda, não se excluem necessariamente. São apresentados vários argumentos mostrando que, em frases declarativas simples contextualmente não-marcadas, a análise tradicional, de acordo com a qual os sujeitos são deslocados para Spec, IP, não encontra alguns problemas identific…
Ensaios sobre as gramáticas do português
A obra Ensaios sobre as gramáticas do português, de Charlotte Galves, consiste numa compilação dos vários artigos que a linguista produziu entre 1983 e 1987.Este livro é de extrema utilidade para todos os linguistas interessados em compreender os fenómenos sintácticos que constituem as principais diferenças entre o português europeu (PE) e o português do Brasil (PB).Quem conhece o trabalho de Charlotte Galves sabe já que esta linguista se disting…
A multifactorial approach to adverb placement: Assumptions, Facts, and Problems
The Brotherhoods (Confrarias) and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan
By the end of the sixteenth century, the Japanese mission had become the largest overseas Christian community that was not under the rule of a European power. Its uniqueness was emphasized by Alessandro Valignano since 1582, who promoted a deeper accommodation to Japanese culture. It was also understood by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who issued the first national anti-Christian laws while he was unifying the Japanese empire. The main reason the religious…
Pb E Pe: Orientação para o discurso importa? (BP and EP: does discourse orientation matter?)
As diferenças sintácticas existentes entre as variedades europeia e brasileira do português têm recebido muita atenção na literatura recente no quadro do modelo de Princípios e Parâmetros. De acordo com alguns autores, a variedade brasileira tornou-se uma língua orientada para o discurso e de proeminência de tópico. Defende-se neste artigo que algumas das construções tradicionalmente utilizadas como argumento a favor da ideia de que o português b…
The child heard a coordinated sentence and wondered: On children's difficulty in understanding coordination and relative clauses with crossing dependencies
Subject-object asymmetries in the acquisition of Portuguese relative clauses: Adults vs. children
Embedded null subjects in Capeverdean
The status of Capeverdean as a pro -drop language is controversial. Baptista (2002) contends that this Portuguese-based creole has null referential subjects with some types of predicates, while Pratas (2002, 2007) proposes that it has only expletive null subjects. She argues that the rare cases of root null subjects can be analyzed as instances of null expletives. The aim of this paper is to show that in Capeverdean there is an asymmetry in the d…
The delusion of processing
Preview this article: The delusion of processing, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lab.3.3.04cos-1.gif
A Gente: Pronominal status and agreement revisited
The status of the expression a gente (lit. the people) in European Portuguese is the topic of this paper. We revisit its classical analysis, treating it as a pronoun, and the explanation for the patterns of agreement it may trigger on the inflected verb. In particular, the paper addresses Taylor's (2009) argument against the pronominal status of a gente, and argues that it can be analyzed as a regular DP. We compare a gente with other pronouns, s…
The boy that the chef cooked: Acquisition of PP relatives in European Portuguese and Hebrew
Input variability and late acquisition: Clitic misplacement in European Portuguese
How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 different languages, and 7 language (sub-)families. The study investigated the effects of two factors …
Effectiveness of needle and syringe Programmes in people who inject drugs – An overview of systematic reviews
An Analysis of Consumer Protection for Gamblers Across Different Online Gambling Operators in Ireland: A Descriptive Study
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the responsible gambling tools which are available to online gamblers at Irish online gambling websites. The present study used a similar methodology to a recent study carried out on the world’s most popular websites (Bonello and Griffiths Gaming Law Review and Economics, 21, 278–285, 2017), where 50 of the most advertised online gambling websites were evaluated in relation to their responsible gamblin…
Implications for European Physical Education Teacher Education during the Covid-19 pandemic: A cross-institutional SWOT analysis
The present study, using a sample of Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) representatives from five Higher Education European institutions (England, Finland, Greece, Ireland, and Portugal) sought to investigate the proposed measures of change required for programme delivery during the academic year of 2020–21. Each team completed a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) examination through inductive cross-analysis, using a…
Hedonic, emotional and willingness-to-pay response to beers of a different type in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the differences between common Brazilian beer and pure malt beer in the responses of hedonic scaling, willingness to pay and emotional response. Design/methodology/approach Two types of beer were selected to be tested – a common beer: Pilsen Skol and pure malt beer: Pilsen Eisenbahn. All the analysis was conducted under three labeling conditions: blind; labeled; inverted label with 70 participants…
A Comparative Study of Participation in Physical Education Classes among 170,347 Adolescents from 54 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries
Given the need for comparative research on the participation of adolescents in physical education (PE) classes as a privileged space for physical activity (PA) promotion, this study sought to estimate, analyse and compare the prevalence of participation in PE classes among adolescents from 54 countries and to examine sex, age, country income and world regions disparities. Data from the Global Students Health Survey (2010-2015) were used, comprisi…
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