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Portuguese Firefighters Anthropometrics: A Preliminary Comparison with Portuguese Workers

2021
Personal Protective Equipment protects firefighters against multiple hazards. The fit and comfort of such equipment are directly related to proper sizing systems which in turn depend on accurate anthropometric data. To present design solutions to the equipment used by Portuguese firefighters, a study designated as Size FF Portugal – Anthropometric ...
Moraes, Anna S.P.   +5 more
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Playing Portuguese: Constructing Identity in Malaysia’s Portuguese Community [PDF]

open access: possibleDiaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 2002
This paper is concerned with one of the less familiar outposts of the Portuguese diaspora—Malaysia. Almost five centuries after the great Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque sailed into Malacca, there is still a small village on the outskirts of the city known as the “Portuguese Settlement” (Kampung Portugis or Kampung Serani2 in Malay).
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The Portuguese Empire: An Introduction

2017
The editors of Media and the Portuguese Empire offer in this introduction an overview of the historical circumstances and communication processes which marked the Portuguese expansion into Asia, Brazil and Africa. They provide a concise report on the dynamic processes which allowed a small country on the edge of Western Europe to govern the first of ...
Garcia, José Luís de Oliveira   +3 more
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Portuguese Migration Studies

International Migration Review, 1983
In this research note it is intended to give both, a survey and an evaluation of the research work that has been carried out in Portugal on the economic aspects of one of the most characteristic and persistent phenomena that have been marking the life of Portuguese people: emigration.
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Portuguese Immigrants and Portuguese Culture in France

Museum International, 2007
Dominique Stoenesco   +1 more
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The expansion of European Portuguese

2005
The expansion of Portuguese in the world illustrates what can happen when a segment of a speech community moves out of its original territory to settle down thousands of miles away. There is an approximate parallel with the spread of Latin in the territories conquered by the Roman Empire, or, more recently, with the spread of English in the British ...
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Portuguese Banks and Their Expansion in Portuguese-Language Countries

2016
Several Portuguese banks have been established in Portuguese-language countries for a long time, with different strategies and aims. These banks are Banco BIC; Montepio, under the brand of Finibanco Angola; Millennium bcp (Banco Comercial Portugues); BPI (Banco Portugues de Investimentos), under the brand of Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA); and CGD ...
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