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Using CDR Data to Understand Post-pandemic Mobility Patterns
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the measures imposed to slow the spread of the virus had a profound impact on population dynamics around the world, producing unprecedented changes in mobility. Spatial data on hu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generating the Users Geographic Map Using Mobile Phone Data
Spatial data on human activity, including mobile phone data, has the potential to provide patterns of how the citizens use the urban space. The availability of this data boosted research on city dynamics and h...
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Maritime Pine Genomics in Focus
The advent of next-generation genome sequencing technologies has allowed approaching the sequencing and analysis of large and complex conifer genomes. Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) is an economically and ec...
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Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Potential of Sulphated Polysaccharides from Algae
In recent years, sulphated polysaccharides (SPs) have emerged as an increasingly important class of biopolymers with potential innovative applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields due to their d...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Potential of Sulphated Polysaccharides from Algae
In recent years, sulphated polysaccharides (SPs) have emerged as an increasingly important class of biopolymers with potential innovative applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields due to their d...
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Open AccessThe experience of health and welfare workers in identifying and responding to domestic abuse among military personnel in the UK
Awareness of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) as a problem among military personnel (serving and veterans) has grown in recent years, and there is a need for research to inform improvements in the identificat...
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Improving spatial synchronization between X-ray and near-infrared spectra information to predict wood density profiles
Wood density is one of the most important physical properties of the wood, used in improvement programs for wood quality of major timber species. Traditional core sampling of standing trees has been widely use...
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Physical, chemical and mechanical wood properties of Pinus nigra growing in Portugal
The wood of Pinus nigra populations planted in Portugal, comparatively to Pinus pinaster , has higher total extractive co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploring Portuguese Word Embeddings for Discovering Lexical-Semantic Relations
Word2vec-like word embeddings are known for kee** linguistic regularities and thus good for solving analogies. Following this, we explore such embeddings for Portuguese in the discovery of lexical-semantic ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Leveraging on Semantic Textual Similarity for Develo** a Portuguese Dialogue System
We describe an IR-based dialogue system that, in order to match user interactions with FAQs on a list, leverages on a model for computing the semantic similarity between two fragments of Portuguese text. It w...
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microRNAs in Plant Embryogenesis
In higher plants, the development of a mature embryo from the zygote follows a synchronized sequence of cell division, growth and differentiation events ultimately regulated by a highly coordinated gene expres...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Urban Mobility: Mobile Crowdsensing Applications
Mobility has become one of the most difficult challenges that cities must face. More than half of world’s population resides in urban areas and with the continuously growing population it is imperative that ci...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterization of Individual Mobility for Non-routine Scenarios from Crowd Sensing and Clustered Data
Demand for leisure activities has increased due to some reasons such as increasing wealth, ageing populations and changing lifestyles, however, the efficiency of public transport system relies on solid demand ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recognizing Humor in Portuguese: First Steps
Within the domain of Artificial Intelligence, humor has been a research topic for some time, but the automatic recognition of its verbal expression has never been tackled for Portuguese. This work aims to chan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic POI Matching Using an Outlier Detection Based Approach
Points of Interest (POI) are widely used in many applications nowadays mainly due to the increasing amount of related data available online, notably from volunteered geographic information (VGI) sources. Being...
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Establishment and biochemical characterization of tamarillo (Solanum betaceum Cav.) embryogenic cell suspension cultures
Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is an important biotechnological tool with great potential for large-scale cloning. In Solanum betaceum Cav. (tamarillo), embryogenic (EC) and non-embryogenic (non-EC) cells can be obta...
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Open AccessImpact of RAV1-engineering on poplar biomass production: a short-rotation coppice field trial
Early branching or syllepsis has been positively correlated with high biomass yields in short-rotation coppice (SRC) poplar plantations, which could represent an important lignocellulosic feedstock for the pro...
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Eucalyptus Cell Wall Architecture: Clues for Lignocellulosic Biomass Deconstruction
The architecture, composition, and chemical properties of wood cell walls have a direct influence on the process that occurs prior to fermentation in second-generation biofuel production. The understanding of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mobile Crowd Sensing for Solidarity Campaigns
We present an ongoing project (This work is partially supported by the InfoCrowds project-PTDC/ECM-TRA/1898/2012 This work is supported by CISUC, via national funding by the FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards the Improvement of a Topic Model with Semantic Knowledge
Although typically used in classic topic models, surface words cannot represent meaning on their own. Consequently, redundancy is common in those topics, which may, for instance, include synonyms. To face this...
