The main purpose of this article is to highlight the potential of the Instagram social network as a didactic resource for teaching and learning languages. To do so, it presents a pilot study titled #aveiroenossople (Aveiro is ours PLE) about the use of Instagram in complementary activities in the teaching of Portuguese for Chinese students of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) of the University of Aveiro, whose products were advertised on the page Of the # AveiroeNosso-PLE project on the Wix platform. In order to study whether the Instagram social tool can contribute to the development of discursive skills of Chinese learners, both in the oral and written modalities, the study proposal was anchored in a conception of language as process and interaction, from which one understands the production and comprehension of text – oral or written – as social practice. In the methodological path, three stages were accomplished in the development of the work, namely: (i) planning, (ii) implementation, and (iii) evaluation. In general terms, the results point to contributions from the use of Instagram for the development of competences related to textual and multimodal production and comprehension, the cultural competences necessary and intrinsic to the learning of a foreign language, as well as for the formation of learning communities by means of the interactions between the participants.

Although introducing social media in a Foreign Language classroom is nothing new in the academic world, studies regarding Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) in fact has been insufficiently studied, particularly in the case of Chinese learners. We implemented two interventions with a duration of 14 weeks and the participation of 10 Chinese students in total by using a Chinese microblogging platform, Weibo. Although obtained some evident positive results from a test performed after the activities, the participants revealed in the interview some differences brought by this tool during the learning process might not even correspond effectively to their learning expectation due to the learning strategy usually applied in daily routine, which indicates some challenges existing in PFL teaching model reform in China and in the integration of these technologies in actual didactic practice based mainly on the passive memorization by students. Therefore, before applying social media in PFL classroom, it's urgently necessary to help students to build awareness about a full-scale learning system of Portuguese language, which does not be confined solely to the memorization of vocabulary and grammar rules, and emphasize the importance of the social nature and communicative practicability of languages in real-life occasions.

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The present study aimed to investigate the ownership and usage of Tablets among Chinese foreign language students. Adopted a quantitative approach, this research was considered a case study with exploratory nature. The data were collected from a self-reported questionnaire between May 31 st and June 6 th , and 276 valid responses were analyzed utilizing SPSS. Independent samples t-test and Fisher's exact tests were carried out to perform inferential and descriptive analyses. Findings revealed that augmented ownership of tablets did not result from the implementation of online courses after the outbreak of COVID-19. However, some students demonstrated preferences for paperless learning, whose learning style might have changed during the intensive distance learning process for more than one semester. Still, students' opinions towards the introduction of tablets into pedagogical practice weren't overall positive; those who did not have or were not willing to purchase tablet devices were more likely to be unsupportive.

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Prostate cancer (PCa) kills one man in forty five and represents the most frequently diagnosed cancer in American men. As is true with cancer, early detection through digital rectal exam and serum testing for prostate specific antigen have greatly reduced the number of fatalities yet these same methods sometimes lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Previous studies have highlighted the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and cancer. In our studies, we sought to find correlations between SNPs on chromosome 8 and PCa. Normal and PCa patient sequencing data was obtained from the Sequence Read Archive and then analysis pipelines were constructed to map the sequences against chromosome 8 followed by indexing and variant calling. Our studies were able to identify four SNPs specific to DNA sequences isolated from prostate cancer tissues but that were absent in normal tissues. We hope that our findings might help improve personalized medicine and possibly reduce the incidences of overdiagnosis and overtreatment of PCa.

Green building is becoming the main trend in current construction industry due to its main characteristics: energy saving, low carbon emission and environmental protection. Exist evaluation systems of green residential districts have little consideration on social and humanity demand. Based on the methods of social impact assessment and social life cycle assessment, and by considering the Chinese situation, an evaluation framework on the green residential districts from view of social and humanity demand was established. A series of indexes were included in this framework. An evaluation program was developed to make the evaluation more convenient. In the end, a case study was carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework and the developed program.

O presente estudo tem como principal escopo evidenciar a importância e as limitações existentes no ensino do Mandarim em Portugal com base num estudo específico referente aos estudantes do segundo ano do curso de Línguas e Relações Empresariais da Universidade de Aveiro. À visto disso, um questionário elementar foi aplicado com os objetivos principais de conceber o motivo de aprendizagem dos estudantes, investigar a possibilidade do uso da língua-alvo na sua rotina quotidiana e compreender a sua consciência do uso de múltiplas estratégias. Os resultados indicaram que o domínio do Mandarim é importante para a empregabilidade em Portugal no contexto de hoje. Contudo, a sua aprendizagem ainda se mantém na memorização da gramática e caracteres e muitos estudantes não estão conscientes da importância do uso da língua-alvo no contexto social, relevando, portanto, a necessidade de prestar atenção à criação das competências orais no ensino e inovação dos materiais didáticos.