Publications by authors named "Maria Ines Carvalho"
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- The aging process involves complex changes that require individuals to continuously adapt, emphasizing the need for active aging strategies.
- The review aimed to identify and analyze existing intergenerational programs in Portugal that encourage interaction between children and older adults, focusing on promoting active aging.
- Six programs were highlighted, addressing cognitive, motor, emotional, and communication aspects, and indicating potential benefits for senior mental health, including improvements in self-esteem and reductions in loneliness and depression.
Part of the optical clearing study in biological tissues concerns the determination of the diffusion characteristics of water and optical clearing agents in the subject tissue. Such information is sufficient to characterize the time dependence of the optical clearing mechanisms—tissue dehydration and refractive index (RI) matching. We have used a simple method based on collimated optical transmittance measurements made from muscle samples under treatment with aqueous solutions containing different concentrations of ethylene glycol (EG), to determine the diffusion time values of water and EG in skeletal muscle.
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