The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) is celebrating this year its 75th anniversary. Being a jubilee occasion, a full program of events took place, including a two-day Symposium on the research at UTL. This Symposium addressed the state-of-art in major areas of excellence at UTL. Science, technology and innovation and the way universities and society in general, create, use and disseminate knowledge have gained a growing signi?cance over the last decades. UTL no doubt embeds a relevant potential of excellence in different areas of research in basic and applied sciences, which bears its development on the basis of a ¿research university¿ model. This book contains the edited version of the invited lectures that were delivered by prominent researchers at UTL. This book brings together in a review manner a comprehensive summary of high quality research contri- tions across basic and applied sciences. The contributing papers are organized around the following major areas: ¿ Emergent areas (Nanosciences, Quantic Computations and Infor- tion, Risk and Volatility in Financial Markets); ¿ Basic Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Materials); ¿ Social Sciences, Economics and Management Sciences; ¿ Life Sciences and Biotechnology; ¿ Engineering and Technologies ¿ Nature, Environment and Sustainability; ¿ Public Health, Food Quality and Safety; ¿ Health and Sport Sciences; ¿ Urbanism, Transports, Architecture, Arts and Design. The transdisciplinary nature of most areas aims to stress a compelling sense of purpose in the work developed.

Preface; PART I ¿ Emergent Areas: Nanotechnology and the Detection of Biomolecular Recognition Using Magnetoresistive Transducers, by Paulo P. Freitas, Hugo A. Ferreira, Filipe Cardoso, Susana Cardoso, Ricardo Ferreira, Jose Almeida, Andre Guedes, Virginia Chu, João P. Conde, Veronica Martins, Luis Fonseca, Joaquim S. Cabral, José Gerinano, Leonel Sousa, Moisés Piedade, Bertinho Silva, José M. Lemos, Luka A. Clarke and Margarida D. Amaral; Financial Econometric Models, by João Nicolau; Quantum Computation and Information, by Amilcar Sernadas, Paulo Mateus and Yasser Omar; PART II ¿ Basic Sciences: An Overview of Some Mathematical Models of Blood Rheology, by Adélia Sequeira and João Janela; Mathematical Models in Finance, by Maria do Rosário Grossinho More Sustainable Synthetic Organic Chemistry Approaches Based on Catalyst Reuse, by Carlos A.M. Afonso, Luis C. Branco, Nuno R. Candeias, Pedro M.P. Gois, Nuno M.T. Lourenço, Nuno M.M. Mateus and João N. Rosa; Simulation and Modeling in Computational Chemistry: A Molecular Portfolio, by José N.A. Canongia Lopes; Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics, by M. Pimenta; Frontiers on Extreme Plasma Physics, byLuis Oliveira e Silva; Nuclear Fusion: An Energy for the Future, by Carlos Varandas and Fernando Serra; PART III ¿ Social Sciences, Economics and Management Sciences: Regulation Policies in Portugal, by João Bilhim, Luis Landerset Cardoso and Eduardo Lopes Rodrigues; The Growing Relevance of Africa in Chinese Foreign Policy: The Case of Portuguese Speaking Countries, by Ana Alves and Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha; Economy Growth Theory, Fifty Years Later, by Paulo B. Brito; PART IV ¿ Life Sciences and Biotechnology: DNA Vaccines, by Duarte Miguel F Prazeres and Gabriel Amara Monteiro; Biotechnology of the Bacterial Gellan Gum: Genes and Enzymes of the Biosynthetic Pathway, by Arsénio M. Fialho, Leonilde M. Moreira, Ana Teresa Granja, KarenHoffinann, Alma Popescu and Isabel Sá-CorreiaEpigenetics: The Functional Memory of Ribosomal Genes, by Wanda S. Viegas, Manuela Silva and Nuno Neves; Biotechnology of Reproduction and Jopnint: From the Biomedical Model to Enterprise Innovation, by Luis Lopes da Costa, Antonio Freitas Duafle and José Robalo Silva; PART V ¿ Engineering and Technologies: Evolution and Challenges in Multimedia Representation Technologies, by Fernando Pereira, João Ascenso, Catarina Brites, Pedro Fonseca, Pedro Pinho and Joel Baltazar; Bioinformatics: A New Approach for the Challenges of Molecular Biology, by Arlindo L. Oliveira, Ana T. Freitas and Isabel Sá-Correia; Research and Development in Metal Forming Technology at the Technical University of Lisbon, by Jorge M.C. Rodrigues and Paulo A.F Martins; Agronomy: Tradition and Future, by Pedro Aguiar Pinto; Towards a Clean Energy for the Future The Research Group on Energy and Sustainable Development of 1ST, by Maria da Graça Carvalho and Luis Manuel Alves; PART VI ¿ Nature, Environment and Sustainability: Industrial Ecology: A Step towards Sustainable Development, by Paulo Manuel Cadete Ferrão; Forests for the 21st Century?, by Jodo Santos Pereira, Helena Martins and José G. C. Borges; The Role of Emergent Technologies towards an Integrated Sustainable Environment, by Elizabeth Duarte, Maria N. Pinho and Miguel Minhalma; Integrated Water Management, by Ramiro Neves, José S. Matos, Luis Fernandes and Filipa S. Ferreira; PART VII ¿ Public Health, Food Quality and Safety: Food Safety Crisis Management and Risk Communication, by Virgilio Almeida; Debaryomyces hansenii, A Salt Loving Spoilage Yeast, by Catarina Prista and Maria C. Loureiro-Dias; The New Disease and the Old Agents, by Yolanda Vaz and Telmo Nunes; The Sharing of Urban Areas by Man and Animals, by Armando C. Louzã; PART VIII ¿ Health and Sport Sciences: Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness, by Luis