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Normalized City Analytics Based on a Semantic Interoperability Process
The City Catalyst project aims to enhance better urban management, implementing the concept of sustainability and enabling semantic interoperability in cities in Smart Cities. Therefore, this paper presents a ...
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The Influence of Social Media Marketing Activity on Purchase Intention in the Beer Sector: Case of SuperBock's Instagram
Over the last decade, social media has transformed the way brands interact with their audiences, forcing them to establish a digital presence based on consumer preferences and, at the same time, building a rel...
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Exploring the Potential of Digital Twins for New Product Design and Development: A Review of Research Gaps
A rapidly develo** technology, digital twins have the potential to completely change how products are designed and developed. Digital twins enable the simulation of the performance of various design concepts...
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An Interoperable Cloud Platform for the Garment Industry
The garment ecosystem is characterized by a diversity of production systems and equipment, which implies dealing with the integration of different domains, communication requirements, and technological heterog...
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Prediction of Solder Joint Reliability with Applied Acrylic Conformal Coating
The exposure of miniaturized components to the environment leads to new failure analysis as a result of environmental conditions and constant innovation of the component materials and dimensions. Generally, th...
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The Impact of Women’s Absenteeism on an Electric Components’ Industry
A common finding in absenteeism research is that women are, on average, more absent from work than men. Currently, there is a particular absence culture for women since gender inequality is still a problem in ...
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MHC-I presents: tumor surveillance in the epithelia by cell competition
When transformed cells emerge in an epithelium, their elevated class I MHC expression signals to normal neighboring epithelial cells, which respond by inducing their apical extrusion as a tumor-suppressive mec...
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Cell competition acts as a purifying selection to eliminate cells with mitochondrial defects during early mouse development
Cell competition is emerging as a quality-control mechanism that eliminates unfit cells in a wide range of settings from development to the adult. However, the nature of the cells normally eliminated by cell c...
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Open AccessDifferential inhibition of gelatinase activity in human colon adenocarcinoma cells by Aloe vera and Aloe arborescens extracts
Aloe’s reported bioactivities (anticancer, anti-inflammatory and wound healing) suggest they might inhibit a subgroup of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) called gelatinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9). The goal of the pres...
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of irrigation water quality under drought conditions in a large reservoir in Southern Portugal
Water is a scarce resource in the Mediterranean region where adverse climatic conditions promoting water shortages tend to increase with climate change. Under water scarcity conditions and high atmosphere evap...
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Open AccessSoft culture substrates favor stem-like cellular phenotype and facilitate reprogramming of human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (hMSCs) through mechanotransduction
Biophysical cues influence many aspects of cell behavior. Stiffness of the extracellular matrix is probed by cells and transduced into biochemical signals through mechanotransduction protein networks, strongly...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tailoring PMI and OGC Portfolio Frameworks
The strategy definition in organizations and its implementation by projects has been difficult to achieve. Project portfolio management processes provide the linkage between the organization’s strategic objec...
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Monitoring of the Visitors Impact at “Ponta da Ferraria e Pico das Camarinhas” Geosite (São Miguel Island, Azores UNESCO Global Geopark, Portugal)
“Ponta da Ferraria e Pico das Camarinhas” is a protected geosite in São Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. Due to its importance for the geoconservation strategy of the Azores UNESCO Global Geo...
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Dependency Analysis Between PMI Portfolio Management Processes
Software projects are no longer managed in isolation, but as a core business activity increasingly exposed to a high-level of rigor and responsibility. In this context, portfolio management efforts should be a...
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Map** Between Artefacts and Portfolio Processes from the PMI Standard for Portfolio Management
Among the decisions that software development organizations need to take is to define which projects should developed, as these are, ultimately, the reason for their existence. This decision is part of a broad...
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Using the NIST Reference Model for Refining Logical Architectures
The emergence of the Internet as a ubiquitous means of communication fostered the growth of new business and service models based on Cloud Computing. Information and Communication Technology companies use refe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Map** CMMI and RUP Process Frameworks for the Context of Elaborating Software Project Proposals
To improve quality, organizations are widely using Software Process Improvement (SPI) models and in particular CMMI. Nevertheless, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are reluctant in adopting CMMI since the c...
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Metal Signaling in Plants: New Possibilities for Crop Management Under Cadmium-Contaminated Soils
Metal stress restricts plant growth and distribution and has become a widespread problem. Plants can respond to toxic metals in a variety of ways, but the most important of them is the production of phytochela...
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Open AccessSaccharomyces cerevisiae glycerol/H+ symporter Stl1p is essential for cold/near-freeze and freeze stress adaptation. A simple recipe with high biotechnological potential is given
Freezing is an increasingly important means of preservation and storage of microbial strains used for many types of industrial applications including food processing. However, the yeast mechanisms of tolerance...
