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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). The present study aimed to provide an in-depth assessment of the commuting patterns of scholar communities of southwestern European countries and to identify measures to improve their sustainable performance regarding mobility. The adopted methodology characterised the mobility pattern of students as a sustainability indicator and the availability of related infrastructures and local public transport network. Data were gathered by qualitative (behavioural questionnaires) and quantitative (technical audits) approaches, based on measurable indicators (key performance indicators and scores (ranging between 0–5)). Overall, French schools showed the best sustainable performance regarding mobility (2.0) and Gibraltar had the lowest (1.2). The existence of bike parking and electric car charging points were the main weaknesses founds (with their related mean scores being 0.6 and 0.2, respectively). The score associated with annual CO2 emissions due to students’ mobility had the best performance, where all countries managed to obtain an average of 3.1. The global score, which assessed the sustainable performance of scholar communities regarding mobility, had a mean value of 1.5 for all studied countries, which highlights the potential for improvement of the studied schools, mainly targeting the public transport network optimisation and the enhancement of scholar infrastructures concerning bicycle parking and electric cars.

Comunicação oral apresentada em 25th International Clean Air and Environment Conference CASANZ 2021, 17-21 de maio 2021, online This work aims to evaluate the temporal evolution of the concentrations of pollutants PM10, NO2 and O3, from 2001 to 2020, and to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the levels of these atmospheric pollutants, in an urban-industrial zone (Paio Pires-Seixal, Portugal). The results showed that a significant improvement in air quality resulted from the large restriction of anthropogenic activities that occurred due to the pandemic, namely the March-May 2020 lockdown. The mean concentrations of PM10, NO2 and O3 in 2020 were compared with the average concentrations measured from 2014 to 2019. The most expressive reduction in NO2 (-43.9%, p=0.000) was found in April 2020, when a very expressive PM10 reduction was also registered (- 40.0%, p=0.000) and significant reductions of both pollutants were found in the months thereafter. N/A

FCT_SFRH/BPD/102944/2014. FCT_UID/Multi/04349/2013. FCT_UID/AMB/50017/2013. Projecto E2Sleep_711030‐IPL/2017/E2SLEEP_ESTeSL. LIFE Index‐Air (LIFE15ENV/PT/000674). Submitted by Maria da Luz Antunes (mluz.antunes@estesl.ipl.pt) on 2019-01-08T12:18:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Será que o ar que respiramos enquanto dormimos condiciona a qualidade do nosso sono.pdf: 323271 bytes, checksum: 453a232ac77c21ae82b19814378d13a6 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2019-01-08T12:18:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Será que o ar que respiramos enquanto dormimos condiciona a qualidade do nosso sono.pdf: 323271 bytes, checksum: 453a232ac77c21ae82b19814378d13a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Projeto IPL/2017/E2SLEEP/ESTeSL/711030 Os humanos passam um terço da sua vida a dormir, sendo do conhecimento geral que o sono desempenha um papel fundamental no bem-estar e desempenho físico e cognitivo. Nas últimas décadas, o estudo do impacto da qualidade do ar interior (QAI) na saúde dos ocupantes tem aumentado significativamente, porém, a investigação nesta área tem sido direcionada principalmente para microambientes onde os indivíduos realizam as suas atividades durante o dia. Apesar de limitadas, existem algumas evidências relacionadas com o impacto da QAI nalguns parâmetros do sono, no entanto, estudos com uma caracterização abrangente dos contaminantes ambientais, nomeadamente microbiológicos, são ainda inexistentes. O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de avaliar os efeitos da exposição microbiológica na estrutura do sono. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Projeto IPL/2017/E2SLEEP/ESTeSL/711030 Os efeitos da poluição ambiental na saúde estão amplamente documentados, havendo evidências dos efeitos a longo e a curto prazo que se relacionam com maiores taxas de morbilidade e mortalidade, principalmente de causa cardiovascular e respiratória. No entanto, as evidências sobre os efeitos da qualidade do ar interior (QAI) no sono são ainda limitadas. Durante o sono NREM e REM existem diferentes mediadores ao nível da função autonómica, podendo conduzir a características distintas ao nível da frequência cardíaca (FC), respiratória (FR) e pressão arterial. O presente estudo tem o objetivo de avaliar a existência de correlações entre determinados parâmetros cardiorrespiratórios durante o sono e a QAI. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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