A type system for value-dependent information flow analysis

Information systems are widespread and used by anyone with computing devices as well as corporations and governments. It is often the case that security leaks are introduced during the development of an application. Reasons for these security bugs are multiple but among them one can easily identify that it is very hard to define and enforce relevant security policies in modern software. This is because modern applications often rely on container sharing and multi-tenancy where, for instance, data can be stored in the same physical space but is logically mapped into different security compartments or data structures. In turn, these security compartments, to which data is classified into in security policies, can also be dynamic and depend on runtime data. In this thesis we introduce and develop the novel notion of dependent information flow types, and focus on the problem of ensuring data confidentiality in data-centric software. Dependent information flow types fit within the standard framework of dependent type theory, but, unlike usual dependent types, crucially allow the security level of a type, rather than just the structural data type itself, to depend on runtime values. Our dependent function and dependent sum information flow types provide a direct, natural and elegant way to express and enforce fine grained security policies on programs. Namely programs that manipulate structured data types in which the security level of a structure field may depend on values dynamically stored in other fields The main contribution of this work is an efficient analysis that allows programmers to verify, during the development phase, whether programs have information leaks, that is, it verifies whether programs protect the confidentiality of the information they manipulate. As such, we also implemented a prototype typechecker that can be found at http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/DIFTprototype/.

In-situ X-ray diffraction studies during growth of Ni-Ti shape memory alloy films and their complementary ex-situ characterization

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Ni-Ti films have attracted much interest as functional and smart materials due to their unique properties. However, there are still important issues unresolved like formation of film texture and its control as well as substrate effects. Thus, the main challenge is not only the control of the microstructure, including stoichiometry and precipitates, but also the identification and control of the preferential orientation since it is a crucial factor in determining the shape memory behaviour. The aim of this PhD thesis is to study the optimisation of the deposition conditions of films of Ni-Ti in order to obtain the material fully crystallized at the end of the deposition, and to establish a clear relationship between the substrates and texture development. In order to achieve this objective, a two-magnetron sputter deposition chamber has been used allowing to heat and to apply a bias voltage to the substrate. It can be mounted into the six-circle diffractometer of the Rossendorf Beamline (ROBL) at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France, enabling an in-situ characterization by X-ray diffraction(XRD) of the films during their growth and annealing. The in-situ studies enable us to identify the different steps of the structural evolution during deposition with a set of parameters as well as to evaluate the effect of changing parameters on the structural characteristics of the deposited film. Besides the in-situ studies, other complementary ex-situ characterization techniques such as XRD at a laboratory source, Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy(RBS), Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (X-TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and electrical resistivity (ER) measurements during temperature cycling have been used for a fine structural characterization. In this study, mainly naturally and thermally oxidized Si(100) substrates, TiN buffer layers with different thicknesses (i.e. the TiN topmost layer crystallographic orientation is thickness dependent) and MgO(100) single crystals were used as substrates. The chosen experimental procedure led to a controlled composition and preferential orientation of the films. The type of substrate plays an important role for the texture of the sputtered Ni-Ti films and according to the ER results, the distinct crystallographic orientations of the Ni-Ti films influence their phase transformation characteristics.

Contribuição para o estudo da hidrólise enzimática acelerada da b-lactoglobulina por meio de ultra-sons

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Tecnologia e Segurança Alimentar área de especialização Segurança Alimentar

Estudo dos efeitos da irradiação ultra-sónica na inibição do crescimento de cianobactérias do género Microcytis spp

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente,Perfil Engenharia Sanitária

Caracterização do crescimento de filmes ultra-finos e nano-estruturas em superfícies

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Engenharia Física, especialidade de Engenharia de Superfícies, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Comparative analysis of time-frequency methods estimating the time-varying microstructure of sleep EEG spindles

Proceedings of the Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Ioannina - Epirus, Greece, October 26-28, 2006

Potential dementia biomarkers based on the time-varying microstructure of sleep EEG spindles

Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS Cité Internationale, Lyon, France August 23-26, 2007

Impacto clínico da tecnologia em ultra-sonografia

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

Correlation between the mechanical cycling behavior and microstructure in laser welded joints using NiTi memory shape alloys

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia de Materiais

Pozzolanic components in lime mortars: correlating behaviour, composition and microstructure.

Int. J. for Restoration of Buildings and Monuments, vol.11, nº 2 (2005), p.111-118

Avaliação da técnica de injecção de grout recorrendo ao ensaio de ultra-sons e tomografia ultra-sónica

CONSTRUÇÃO 2012, Universidade de Coimbra, Dez. 2012

Classificação de tumores de cancro na mama através de radar de banda ultra-larga de microondas

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

Impacto clínico da tecnologia em ultra-sonografia

Recentemente, a tecnologia em Ultra-sons (US) tem sofrido grandes avanços tecnológicos e, como resultado, novas técnicas e aplicações clínicas são introduzidas frequentemente. Estas técnicas inovadoras apresentam o potencial de assistir os médicos na caracterização de entidades clínicas e de melhorar a qualidade do diagnóstico clínico. No entanto, a implementação destas técnicas requer uma avaliação objectiva das suas potencialidade e limitações, assim como da sua performance clínica para permitir a sua adopção na prática clínica. Este projecto aborda duas patologias particulares: a Cardiomiopatia Cirrótica (CC) e lesões oncológicas mamárias. Considerando a primeira, é aplicada a tecnologia disponível, em especial a Aplicação Clínica VVI de modo a detectar anormalidades que possam não ser visíveis com recurso à ecocardiografia convencional, com o objectivo de definir critérios de diagnóstico precisos. Para a segunda, pretende-se efectuar uma avaliação da performance clínica de um novo método de quantificação em Elastografia - o Strain Ratio (SR) - que analisa a rigidez das lesões mamárias, permitindo assim um diagnóstico clínico mais completo e rigoroso. Para atingir estes objectivos, é efectuada uma análise extensiva, utilizando testes estatísticos como a One-Way ANOVA, permitindo que diferenças estatisticamente relevantes sejam encontradas nos parâmetros considerados. Outros testes foram usados em cada estudo clínico, tendo em conta as suas características específicas – a análise ROC é utilizada para quantificar o acréscimo que o SR poderá potencialmente trazer em relação às técnicas convencionais. Embora não tenha sido possível reunir todas as condições necessárias para validar a contribuição dos US para o diagnóstico da CC, foi possível encontrar evidências que corroboram tratar-se uma patologia clinicamente latente. Os resultados do segundo estudo evidenciam que o SR poderá ser introduzido nos workflows clínicos a curto prazo, tendo no entanto em consideração que este produz resultados mais fidedignos quando utilizado como ferramenta complementar de apoio à decisão clínica do que como um método de quantificação absoluta.

Automatic delimitation of the clinical region of interest in ultra-wide field of view images of the retina

Retinal ultra-wide field of view images (fundus images) provides the visu-alization of a large part of the retina though, artifacts may appear in those images. Eyelashes and eyelids often cover the clinical region of interest and worse, eye-lashes can be mistaken with arteries and/or veins when those images are put through automatic diagnosis or segmentation software creating, in those cases, the appearance of false positives results. Correcting this problem, the first step in the development of qualified auto-matic diseases diagnosis programs can be done and in that way the development of an objective tool to assess diseases eradicating the human error from those processes can also be achieved. In this work the development of a tool that automatically delimitates the clinical region of interest is proposed by retrieving features from the images that will be analyzed by an automatic classifier. This automatic classifier will evaluate the information and will decide which part of the image is of interest and which part contains artifacts. The results were validated by implementing a software in C# language and validated through a statistical analysis. From those results it was confirmed that the methodology presented is capable of detecting artifacts and selecting the clin-ical region of interest in fundus images of the retina.