The aim of this paper is to analyse the demographic and migratory dynamics in the Portuguese island regions of Madeira and the Azores over the last two decades.The article begins with a brief overview of the historical and geographical context, which is essential for understanding the factors that shape population evolution and are reflected in the

Behavioral addictions such as gambling, video games, sex, and shopping share many clinical features with substance use addictions including etiology, course, and neurobiology.Yet, the treatment of behavioral and substance use addictions tends map to be separated.However, we argue that a more effective and efficient treatment approach is to conceptu

BACKGROUND: Genome sequencing projects have been completed for several species representing four highly diverged holometabolous insect orders, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, and Lepidoptera.The striking evolutionary diversity of insects argues a need for efficient methods to apply genome information from such models to genetically uncharacterize