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Insufficient sleep is a major public health issue that harms both body and brain, with the hippocampus—critical for memory—being especially vulnerable. This study tests whether subliminal cues can restore access to sleep-deprived memories.  

By combining the theoretical and methodological life course perspective with the contributions from the debate around structure and agency, thisproject intends to provide a panoramic (across countries and populations), longitudinal (for the duration of the project) and narrative (through qualitative data on the use of time) view on the use of time. To do so it will have a quantitative and a qualitative component. The quantitative component will be based on the analysis of secondary time use data from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS). For this analysis, a group of countries with contrasting social, cultural, and policy contexts will be selected based on data availability. The qualitative component will be based on a qualitative case-based approach. Case studies will be conducted in up to three different countries, using biographical interviews and time use diaries will be used as data collection instruments.

  AI-driven facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are rapidly proliferating across domains once thought distinct—public security, digital governance, and increasingly, health and medicine. As facial classification becomes a tool for both surveillance and diagnosis, we face urgent ethical questions: Who is visible and on what terms? What forms of consent, care, or control are made possible or foreclosed? How do we ensure public trust and accountability in technologies that encode bias and social hierarchies? The originality of this project lies in its cross-pollination of empirical ethics and critical social science to address AI’s sociotechnical entanglements. Rather than treating ethics as an external check on technology, this approach foregrounds ethics as co-produced with technical design, social imaginaries, and institutional power. Its impact potential spans multiple arenas: enhancing public participation in AI governance; shaping debates on AI in health; informing inclusive regulatory frameworks; and contributing to the emerging field of AI ethics with grounded, cross-national perspectives.    

The Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Políticos (ECFP), of the Tribunal Constitucional, attributes to CEI-Iscte the studies of evidences carried out by groups of monitors in municipalities, with the objective of validating the campaign expenses of political parties, comparing these spending with the budgets submitted to the ECFP, and eventually highlight the differences between budgets and campaign acts put into practice by the different candidacies during the 2025 municipal election campaign. The study intends to analyse scientifically the type and evolution of the campaign actions in municipal elections and also serves the purpose of evaluating these campaign actions.