Modeling assembly program with constraints. A contribution to WCET problem

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Lógica Computacional

Fsp27/CIDEC is a CREB target gene induced during fasting and regulated by fatty acid oxidation rate

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Biotecnologia

Spatio-Temporal data modeling in response to deforestation monitoring (a case study of small region in Riau Province, Indonesia)

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

GIS capacity building for risk management to help developing countries:Case of climate change problem in Amhara rural region (Ethiopia)

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Stochastic modeling of the thermal and catalytic degradation of polyethylene using simultaneous DSC/TG analysis

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Química e Bioquímica

Compositional and functional analysis of polycomb target chromatin

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Molecular Biology

Strategic Noise Mapping with GIS for the Universitat Jaume I Smart Campus: best methodology practices

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

A cultura de segurança do doente em alunos do 4º ano dos cursos de tecnologias da saúde

RESUMO - O presente trabalho pretende estudar a cultura de segurança de doente em alunos do ensino superior, na área das tecnologias de diagnóstico e terapêutica. Esta problemática não tem sido abordada pela comunidade científica, pelo que o seu estudo é relevante. Os alunos que finalizam a licenciatura estão legalmente autorizados para intervir perante o doente, contudo, a sensibilidade que têm para as questões da segurança do doente deve ser analisada com o intuito de melhorar a sua preparação como futuros profissionais de saúde. Neste estudo participaram 180 alunos estratificados consoante o curso e sexo de modo a obter uma amostra representativa da população alvo. Foi constituído um questionário com 31 itens numa escala dicotómica que avaliam a cultura de segurança do doente em 7 dimensões – liderança, trabalho de equipa, a prática baseada na evidência científica, a comunicação, a aprendizagem, a justiça, e a prática clínica centrada no doente. Pode igualmente compor-se uma medida global de cultura de segurança do doente através do somatório das 7 dimensões. Os resultados evidenciam a existência de uma correlação positiva moderada entre as dimensões – Trabalho em equipa (0,660); Liderança (0,610); Prática baseada na evidência científica (0,627); Ambiente justo (0,570); Comunicação (0,501) e o Total.

Continente Choose&Drive

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Target-specific multiphysics modeling for thermal medicine applications

Dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering

Business model analysis of Mobitto: How to solve the chicken and egg problem of a multi-sided platform?

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

A nanopore-based stochastic detection method: Single molecule characterisation of nanoparticles using ()- hemolysin

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Chemistry.

New visualization model for large scale biosignals analysis

Benefits of long-term monitoring have drawn considerable attention in healthcare. Since the acquired data provides an important source of information to clinicians and researchers, the choice for long-term monitoring studies has become frequent. However, long-term monitoring can result in massive datasets, which makes the analysis of the acquired biosignals a challenge. In this case, visualization, which is a key point in signal analysis, presents several limitations and the annotations handling in which some machine learning algorithms depend on, turn out to be a complex task. In order to overcome these problems a novel web-based application for biosignals visualization and annotation in a fast and user friendly way was developed. This was possible through the study and implementation of a visualization model. The main process of this model, the visualization process, comprised the constitution of the domain problem, the abstraction design, the development of a multilevel visualization and the study and choice of the visualization techniques that better communicate the information carried by the data. In a second process, the visual encoding variables were the study target. Finally, the improved interaction exploration techniques were implemented where the annotation handling stands out. Three case studies are presented and discussed and a usability study supports the reliability of the implemented work.

the liver endoplasmic reticulum in malaria liver infection

Malaria, a disease caused by Plasmodium, represents a major health problem with a still disconcertingly high mortality rate (655 000 malaria deaths were estimated by the World Health Organization in 2012), mainly in Africa [1]. After a bite by an infected Anopheles mosquito occurs, Plasmodium sporozoites reach their target organ, the liver, within minutes. After traversing several hepatocytes, the parasite invades a final one and establishes a parasitophorous vacuole, where it replicates exponentially generating thousands of infective merozoites, the red blood cell infectious forms that are released in the blood stream. The liver stage is the first obligatory phase of malaria infection and, although no symptoms are associated with it, it is absolutely crucial to the establishment of a successful infection.(...)