Assessing Transportation Patterns in the Azores Archipelago by Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Ana Vulevic, Arian Behradfar, Gualter Couto

“…Thereby, through exploratory tools, the present research assumes to examine, using accessibility and connectivity indicators, the consequences across the social-economic dimension that the regional transportation and infrastructure should convey to the Azores Islands Archipelago populations. Therefore, this article allows us to set the present situation regarding this region’s accessibility and connectivity patterns, creating an additional tool for supporting the main actors’ design and implementation of these territories’ future plans and strategies. …”
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Learning Objects in the Educational Context: The Perspective of Teachers in the Azores by Ana Isabel Santos, Ana C. Costa, Andrea Z. Botelho, Manuela I. Parente, José Cascalho, Diana Freitas, André Behr, Ana Rodrigues, Armando B. Mendes

“…This paper seeks to identify the pedagogical resources used by kindergarten, primary and secondary teachers in Azores Islands. Additionally, an investigation will be made into how these resources are mobilized in teachers’ pedagogical practice, with the aim of understanding to what extent digital resources, particularly learning objects, are present in schools. …”
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The Influence of Test-Panel Orientation and Exposure Angle on the Corrosion Rate of Carbon Steel. Mathematical Modelling by Juan J. Santana, Víctor Cano, Helena C. Vasconcelos, Ricardo M. Souto

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Evolução da mortalidade por doença isquémica cardíaca e doenças cerebro-vasculares em Portugal, na década de 80. by P de Sá, J A Dias, J M Miguel

“…We also found striking differences between provinces: in the northern coast CVD predominates, whereas in the South and Azores islands IHD leads. At the end of the decade, CVD mortality rates in Portugal where the highest in Europe; on the contrary, IHD mortality was the second lowest, just after France. …”
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Capture, transport and husbandry of <i>Naucrates ductor</i> by Francisco De Vaissier Ferro Mauricio, Francisco De Vaissier Ferro Mauricio

“…Collection was done in the Azores Islands, approximately 20 nautical miles from Horta, using a standard fishing rod and hook, after attracting blue sharks with bait. …”
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CLIMATIC DATA COMPARISON BETWEEN MID-LATITUDE AZORES (NORTH ATLANTIC) AND TRISTAN DA CUNHA (SOUTH ATLANTIC) ISLANDS by Raularian RUSU

“… The Azores islands in the North Atlantic and the Tristan da Cunha islands in the South Atlantic are approximately located at the same latitude, stretching between 36 and 41 degrees North and South respectively. …”
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Characterizing and Quantifying Water Content in 14 Species of Bryophytes Present in Azorean Native Vegetation by Márcia C. M. Coelho, Rosalina Gabriel, Claudine Ah-Peng

“…Bryophytes are an important component of plant diversity, may be found from sea level to mountaintops, and are particularly conspicuous on the Azores islands. These plants rely on environmental water, which acquires intercepting rain and dew (liquid water) and uses fog (water vapor), and transports both externally, by capillary forces, and internally, in different cells (specialized or not). …”
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De novo assembly and annotation of Popillia japonica’s genome with initial clues to its potential as an invasive pest by Claudio Cucini, Sara Boschi, Rebecca Funari, Elena Cardaioli, Nicola Iannotti, Giovanni Marturano, Francesco Paoli, Mirella Bruttini, Antonio Carapelli, Francesco Frati, Francesco Nardi

“…Abstract Background The spread of Popillia japonica in non-native areas (USA, Canada, the Azores islands, Italy and Switzerland) poses a significant threat to agriculture and horticulture, as well as to endemic floral biodiversity, entailing that appropriate control measures must be taken to reduce its density and limit its further spread. …”
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Distribution and diversity of cyanobacteria in the Azores Archipelago: An annotated checklist by Rúben Luz, Rita Cordeiro, Amélia Fonseca, Pedro Miguel Raposeiro, Vítor Gonçalves

“…The dispersion and sometimes inaccessibility of this information hinder a deeper analysis and a better understanding of the biodiversity of the Azores Islands and more general ecological processes in oceanic islands. …”
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Incidence of uterine torsion during veterinary-assisted dystocia and singleton live births after vaginal delivery in Holstein-Friesian cows at pasture by N. Faria, J. Simões

“…Methods: A total of 119 veterinary-assisted dystocia, occurred in Holstein-Friesian cows, were accessed between September 2012 and February 2013 from Azores islands (Portugal). The general health status of dam, cause of dystocia, obstetric treatment choice, number and viability of fetus were evaluated. …”
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Maritime Transportation Dynamics in the Azores Region: Analyzing the Period 1998–2019 by Pedro Pimentel, Ana Vulevic, Gualter Couto, Arian Behradfar, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Rui Alexandre Castanho

“…In this regard, almost all the Azores Islands were used as a case study. The study results show that the distance–decay functions established the unique dominance of Faial Island, Pico Island, and São Jorge Island, all in the Azores central group; in addition, there was an increase in the number of passengers in those. …”
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MONICET: The Azores whale watching contribution to cetacean monitoring by Laura González García, Marc Fernández, José Azevedo

“…The Azores islands have been historically linked to cetaceans, becoming an example of a successful transition from whaling to whale watching. …”
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First Detection of <i>Meloidogyne luci</i> (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae) Parasitizing Potato in the Azores, Portugal by Leidy Rusinque, Filomena Nóbrega, Laura Cordeiro, Clara Serra, Maria L. Inácio

“…This is the first report of <i>M. luci</i> parasitizing potato in the Azores islands, contributing additional information on the distribution of this plant-parasitic nematode.…”
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Regression modeling of the North East Atlantic Spring Bloom suggests previously unrecognized biological roles for V and Mo by Nick J Klein, Aaron J Beck, David A Hutchins, Sergio A Sanudo-Wilhelmy, Sergio A Sanudo-Wilhelmy

“…The field data was obtained along a latitudinal transect from the Azores Islands to the North Atlantic, and best-fit models (determined by lowest predictive error) of up to three variables are presented. …”
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Matching energy storage to small island electricity systems : a case study of the Azores by Cross-Call, Daniel Frederick

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Taxonomic, structural diversity and carbon stocks in a gradient of island forests by Lurdes C. Borges Silva, Diogo C. Pavão, Rui B. Elias, Mónica Moura, Maria A. Ventura, Luís Silva

“…We assessed plant diversity, forest structure and carbon stocks in a gradient of three forest types (Natural Forest-NF; Exotic Woodland-EW and Production Forest-PF) in three of the Azores islands. We used biodiversity indices and found that NF harbored the highest plant diversity levels and PF the lowest. …”
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Insight into the cryptic diversity and phylogeography of the peculiar fried egg jellyfish Phacellophora (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Ulmaridae) by Carlos J. Moura, Nikolai Ropa, Bruno Ivo Magalhães, João M. Gonçalves

“…We report the first known occurrences of Phacellophora in the Azores Islands, which apparently become more frequent in recent years of the past decade. …”
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Synthetic tsunami waveform catalogs with kinematic constraints by M. A. Baptista, M. A. Baptista, J. M. Miranda, J. M. Miranda, L. Matias, R. Omira, R. Omira

“…In this study we present a comprehensive methodology to produce a synthetic tsunami waveform catalogue in the northeast Atlantic, east of the Azores islands. The method uses a synthetic earthquake catalogue compatible with plate kinematic constraints of the area. …”
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Volatile Profile of Portuguese Monofloral Honeys: Significance in Botanical Origin Determination by Alexandra M. Machado, Marília Antunes, Maria Graça Miguel, Miguel Vilas-Boas, Ana Cristina Figueiredo

“…Honeys of bell heather, carob tree, chestnut, eucalyptus, incense, lavender, orange, rape, raspberry, rosemary, sunflower and strawberry tree were collected from several regions from mainland Portugal and from the Azores Islands. When available, the corresponding flower volatiles were comparatively evaluated. …”
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Insights of warm-cloud biases in Community Atmospheric Model 5 and 6 from the single-column modeling framework and Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE... by Y. Wang, Y. Wang, X. Zheng, X. Dong, B. Xi, Y. L. Yung

“…In this study, the warm-cloud physics parameterizations in the singe-column configurations of NCAR Community Atmospheric Model version 6 and 5 (SCAM6 and SCAM5, respectively) are evaluated using ground-based and airborne observations from the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign near the Azores islands during 2017–2018. The 8-month single-column model (SCM) simulations show that both SCAM6 and SCAM5 can generally reproduce marine boundary layer cloud structure, major macrophysical properties, and their transition. …”
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