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Standardization of radiograph readings during bowel management week
During “bowel management week,” abdominal radiographs are used to monitor the amount and location of stool. A radiologist familiar with the treatment plan can provide an improved interpretation. The goal of th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Handy Orthotics: Considerations on User-Centered Methodology During Development Stages of Myoelectric Hand Orthosis for Daily Assistance
This paper presents an analysis on recently (2017–2019) developed myoelectric hand orthosis for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and Stroke patients. The analysis was based on concepts of Interaction Design, User Expe...
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Open AccessEncapsulation of a TRPM8 Agonist, WS12, in Lipid Nanocapsules Potentiates PC3 Prostate Cancer Cell Migration Inhibition through Channel Activation
In prostate carcinogenesis, expression and/or activation of the Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 8 channel (TRPM8) was shown to block in vitro Prostate Cancer (PCa) cell migration. Because of their localiz...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Use of Factorial Kriging to Incorporate Meteorological Information in Estimation of Air Pollutants
A monitoring campaign for several airborne pollutants was conducted in Portugal, covering the entire country. Static samples (diffusion tubes) of SO2, NO2 and O3 were collected in a regular grid of 20 □ 20 km. In...
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Chapter
CONTRALTO: Constraint Reasoning Applied to Logistics for Transport Organisations
This paper presents an attempt to apply the constraint reasoning paradigm to a real life problem. It has involved three types of skill: that of road freight transport operators, the transport logicist, and the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A foreground-background time sharing queue with general service times
A foreground-background queue with Poisson arrivals and independent and identically distributed service times with a general distribution H(x) is analysed using the method of the imbedded Markov chain. The gen...
