DEWI - Wirelessly into the Future

Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD2015), EPDSD - 3rd European Projects in Digital System Design, Funchal, Portugal.

Immediate effects of hip mobilization with movement in patients with hip osteoarthritis: A randomised controlled trial

Background Mobilization with movement (MWM) has been shown to reduce pain, increase range of motion (ROM) and physical function in a range of different musculoskeletal disorders. Despite this evidence, there is a lack of studies evaluating the effects of MWM for hip osteoarthritis (OA). Objectives To determine the immediate effects of MWM on pain, ROM and functional performance in patients with hip OA. Design Randomized controlled trial with immediate follow-up. Method Forty consenting patients (mean age 78 ± 6 years; 54% female) satisfied the eligibility criteria. All participants completed the study. Two forms of MWM techniques (n = 20) or a simulated MWM (sham) (n = 20) were applied. Primary outcomes: pain recorded by numerical rating scale (NRS). Secondary outcomes: hip flexion and internal rotation ROM, and physical performance (timed up and go, sit to stand, and 40 m self placed walk test) were assessed before and after the intervention. Results For the MWM group, pain decreased by 2 points on the NRS, hip flexion increased by 12.2°, internal rotation by 4.4°, and functional tests were also improved with clinically relevant effects following the MWM. There were no significant changes in the sham group for any outcome variable. Conclusions Pain, hip flexion ROM and physical performance immediately improved after the application of MWM in elderly patients suffering hip OA. The observed immediate changes were of clinical relevance. Future studies are required to determine the long-term effects of this intervention.

As superfícies e o comportamento das paredes de terra crua

IV SIACOT – Seminário Ibero-Americano de Construção em Terra e III Seminário Arquitectura de Terra em Portugal, Monsaraz, Outubro 2005 (CD-ROM)

Condicionantes da conservação de construções em terra

IV SIACOT – Seminário Ibero-Americano de Construção em Terra. Monsaraz, PROTERRA/CdT, Outubro 2005 (CD-ROM)

Contribuição para a caracterização de paredes de terra crua

IV SIACOT – Seminário Ibero-Americano de Construção em Terra. Monsaraz, PROTERRA/CdT, Outubro 2005 (CD-ROM)

Ensaios de caracterização laboratorial de solos com vista à sua utilização em arquitectura de terra crua

IV SIACOT – Seminário Ibero-Americano de Construção em Terra. Monsaraz, PROTERRA/CdT, Outubro 2005 (CD-ROM)

Caracterização de componentes pozolânicos para incorporação em argamassas de cal aérea e areia

VI Congresso Nacional de Geologia, FCT/UNL, Caparica, Junho 2003 (CD-ROM)

Análise comparativa de argamassas pré-doseadas para aplicação em rebocos de edifícios antigos

1º Congresso Nacional de Argamassas de Construção, Lisboa, APFAC, Novembro 2005 (CD-ROM)

Argamassas Correntes: Influência do Tipo de Ligante e do Agregado

2º Congresso Nacional de Argamassas de Construção, Lisboa, APFAC, Novembro 2007 (CD-ROM)

Argamassas com base em cal aérea e cinzas de casca de arroz para conservação do património construído

2º Congresso Nacional de Argamassas de Construção, APFAC, Lisboa, 2007 (CD-ROM)

Análise experimental de argamassas de terra com cais e fibras naturais

4º Congresso de Argamassas e ETICS, Coimbra, 2012 (CD-ROM)

Avaliação da introdução de resíduo da indústria têxtil em argamassas

4º Congresso Nacional de Argamassas e ETICS, Coimbra, 2012 (CD-ROM)

Range of motion measurements based on depth camera for clinical rehabilitation

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Biomédica

Influência da época de semeadura sobre o rendimento de grãos de grupos de genótipos de arroz irrigado.

2009

Pultrusion of fibre reinforced thermoplastic pre-impregnated materials

Fibre reinforced thermoplastic pre impregnated materials produced continuously by diverse methods and processing conditions were used to produce composites using pultrusion. The processing windows used to produce these materials and composites profiles were optimized by using the Taguchi / DOE (Design of Experiments) methods. Composites were manufactured by pultrusion and compression moulding and subsequently submitted to mechanical testing and microscopy analysis. The obtained results were compared with the expected theoretical ones predicted from the Rule of Mixtures (ROM) and with those of similar engineering conventional available materials. The results obtained shown that produced composites have adequate properties for applications in common and structural engineering markets.