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The mineralogy and chemistry of the German and Portuguese tiles used to face a historic building in the Amazon region and their natural susceptibility to tropical weathering Mineralogia e química de azulejos Alemães e Portugueses de prédios históricos na região Amazônica e sua susceptibilidade natural à degradação tropical (intemperismo)

open access: yesActa Amazonica, 2013
During the 19th century, the most prominent buildings of the city of Belém were faced entirely with tiles manufactured in Portugal and Germany, which now exhibit distinct degrees of degradation.
Marcondes L. da Costa   +2 more
doaj  

Characterization of the ceramic Glazed tiles of the Palácio Almada (Lisboa) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study reports the mineralogical and chemical characterization of the ceramic body of tiles signed by Gabriel del Barco, which belong to the Palácio Almada in Lisbon [1].
Flor, Susana Varela   +6 more
core  

Herder in the lab: Maximizing “cultural density” in multilingual training data for an open‐science AI project

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 752-764, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparison of Automatic Summarizers of Texts in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Automatic Summarization (AS) in Brazil has only recently become a significant research topic. When compared to other languages initiatives, such a delay can be explained by the lack of specific resources, such as expressive lexicons and corpora that ...
Carlos Nascimento Silla   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Preventing Invasive Non‐Native Species: A Horizon Scanning for the Canary Islands

open access: yesDiversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim Oceanic islands host exceptional biodiversity and endemism but are highly vulnerable to biological invasions. We aimed to identify non‐native species with high potential to invade the Canary Islands within the next decade and to prioritise them based on their environmental and socioeconomic risks.
Ana Clara Sampaio Franco   +36 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sub‐Terahertz Memristor Switches Using MoS2 by Liquid–Liquid Interface Assembly

open access: yesAdvanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 49, 3 September 2026.
This work introduces application‐ready sub‐terahertz memristor switches fabricated from electrochemically exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets assembled at a liquid–liquid interface. The devices exhibit robust unipolar resistive switching, low insertion loss, and high isolation across 10–110 GHz.
Tomás Mingates   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Portuguese Constitutional Court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Portuguese Constitutional ...
Constitutional Court, Portuguese
core   +1 more source

PUBLICITY TILE PANELS IN PORTUGAL: A SINGULARITY WITHIN IDENTITY

open access: yesArt is on, 2018
In mid-19th century when tiles turn to the outside of the buildings, covering façades, a singularity in tile production came to light: their use as advertising or publicity support. From the third quarter of the 19th century on, very simple signs made of
Cristina Carvalho
doaj  

Comparative assessment of roof tiles’ environmental performance from cradle to cradle

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment
Roof plays an important protective role in a building, and claddings are the first element to collaborate in that function. In Portuguese architecture, ceramic roof tiles are the most common claddings in pitched roofs.
V. Durão   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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