DNA barcodes de peixes marinhos da Europa: compilação de uma biblioteca de referência validada e investigação de padrões de divergência genética

Dissertação de mestrado em Ecologia

Ingestão de plásticos por aves marinhas na Costa Norte de Portugal

Dissertação de mestrado em Ecologia

Pervasive adaptive data acquisition gateway for critical healthcare

The data acquisition process in real-time is fundamental to provide appropriate services and improve health professionals decision. In this paper a pervasive adaptive data acquisition architecture of medical devices (e.g. vital signs, ventilators and sensors) is presented. The architecture was deployed in a real context in an Intensive Care Unit. It is providing clinical data in real-time to the INTCare system. The gateway is composed by several agents able to collect a set of patients’ variables (vital signs, ventilation) across the network. The paper shows as example the ventilation acquisition process. The clients are installed in a machine near the patient bed. Then they are connected to the ventilators and the data monitored is sent to a multithreading server which using Health Level Seven protocols records the data in the database. The agents associated to gateway are able to collect, analyse, interpret and store the data in the repository. This gateway is composed by a fault tolerant system that ensures a data store in the database even if the agents are disconnected. The gateway is pervasive, universal, and interoperable and it is able to adapt to any service using streaming data.

Requalificação do Palacete Manuel Rodrigues Alves: re – integração do Palacete no quotidiano da cidade

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Arquitectura