Medium-short-term and repetition effects of advergames on children consumer behaviour

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

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

CONSTRUÇÃO 2012, Universidade de Coimbra, Dez. 2012

Polycystic hydatid disease in Brazil: report of five new human cases and a short review of other published observations

This paper describes five additional Brazilian human cases of polycystic hydatid disease due to Echinococcus vogeli, reviews the previous cases reported in Brazil, including one report of E. oligarthus (20 in total), and some epidemiological aspects of this disease which is no longer a curiosity but rather a problem that is not medically easy to handle. Its presence should be expected in any rural area of the New World where humans have not eliminated wild felids/canids, bush dogs, pacas, agoutis and other wild rodents.

A short review of the previous and current epidemiological situation of schistosomiasis in China

Schistosomiasis japonica has long been endemic in the People's Republic of China. In the 1950s, the number of the infected persons was estimated at 10 million; infected snail habitats were estimated at more than 14 billion square metres and infected cattle at 1.2 million. After schistosomiasis control measures were carried out, it was a great success. According to the survey of 1989, infected persons were estimated at 0.95 million; infected snails at 3.47 billion and infected cattle at about 0.1 million.These results compared with those of the 1950s show big reductions in prevalence rates 90.5%, 75.2% and 91.6%, respectively. At present, the disease is a threat in the marshland and lake regions and the high mountainous regions. To maintain the success achieved in effective control and to bring the yet endemic marshland and lake regions and mountainous areas under control are hard and long-term tasks confronting the People's Republic of China.

Mansfield and Lewis: impressionism and vorticism in the short story

The affinities of the short story with the style of painting dominating the period in which it is produced have often been debated by critics. The effects of the application of impressionist and vorticist principles in painting turns out differently in Katherine Mansfield and Wyndham Lewis’ short stories structure and strategies, according to their conceptions of Art and Life and to his career as a painter.

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

Native american women in sherman Alexie's short stories: stereotypical representations

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas

Machine learning Gaussian short rate

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Estatística e Gestão do Risco

Molecular regulation of secondary gorwth: searching for SHORT-ROOT function in cork formation

The analysis of molecular regulators involved in controlling the maintenance and function of plant meristems has been the subject of many studies. Some master regulators of these processes have been identified in Arabidopsis benefiting from the array of tools available for genetic and molecular analysis in this model plant. However, aspects such as secondary growth that are more extensively observed in woody plants, have been less studied. Secondary growth is responsible for the enlargement of the plant stems and roots and results from the activity of the lateral (secondary) meristems, vascular cambium and cork cambium (phellogen), which produce two important renewable natural resources, wood and cork, respectively.(...)

Risky behavior regarding drug use and HIV infection: an Internet questionnaire coupled with short education texts for Portuguese speakers

Surveys of risky behavior relating to HIV/AIDS are generally made for groups at risk of infection, for which HIV/AIDS prevalence is usually expected to be higher than in the general population. Therefore, an educational homepage in Portuguese was created on the Internet to inform/ask internauts regarding knowledge and behavior. The internauts were classified as adolescents (13 to 25 years) and adults (>25 years). The number of STDs was reported as 1. 8 ± 2. 6 infections (range: 1 to 20 infections); 43% used condoms during sexual intercourse. Alcohol consumption was reported by 63% and illicit drug use by 32% (marijuana 24% and inhalants 15%). Among the adolescents, 31% did not classified alcohol as a drug. The adults more frequently reported homosexuality, anal intercourse and STDs, although the adolescents also presented high rates of risky behavior. These results show the need to reach out to internauts through better control strategies. Different types of strategies must be encouraged, in order to reach people that use this means of communication and entertainment.

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.