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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Alleged (Un)regulation of AI Use in Brazil: The Impact Assessment as a Solution
Brazil, despite its recent advances in the regulatory sphere for Privacy and Data Protection, still remains unregulated regarding the use of artificial intelligence. In 2020, two years after the enactment of t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
3D Printing Using Natural Fibers – An Emerging Technology in Sustainable Manufacturing: A Review
The advent of 3D printing has revolutionized the manufacturing industry, granting access to previously unattainable components that traditional methods couldn’t achieve. However, most of the existing literatur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Powered Smart Textile-Based Exoskeleton for Human Support Movement
Industrial environments require people’s physical efforts related to excessive force, poor posture, and repetitive tasks that increase the risk of develo** musculoskeletal diseases. Due to the high prevalenc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Sectorization - Conceptualization and Application
Sectorization is the division of a large area, territory or network into smaller parts considering one or more objectives. Dynamic sectorization deals with situations where it is convenient to discretize the t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integer Programming Approach to Sectorization with Compactness and Equilibrium Constraints
The process of sectorization aims at dividing a dataset into smaller sectors according to certain criteria, such as equilibrium and compactness. Sectorization problems appear in several different contexts, suc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Two-Stage Method to Solve Location-Routing Problems Based on Sectorization
This paper deals with multi-objective location-routing problems involving distribution centres and a set of customers. It proposes a new two-stage solution method that comprehends the concept of sectorization....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Transparency and Public Policies: The Case of Facial Recognition Technologies in the Public Transportation System of Large Brazilian Municipalities
Reports of errors committed in public contexts by facial recognition systems based on machine learning techniques have multiplied. Still, these systems have been increasingly used by the Brazilian public admin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Application of Preference-Inspired Co-Evolutionary Algorithm to Sectorization
Sectorization problems have significant challenges arising from the many objectives that must be optimised simultaneously. Several methods exist to deal with these many-objective optimisation problems, but eac...
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Chapter
Mechanical Characterization of Adobe Bricks
The mechanical characterization of adobe bricks is an important first step in the study of the behaviour of adobe masonry. For this reason, in the last decades, different authors have conducted research on the...
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Article
Human Papillomavirus DNA Detection by Droplet Digital PCR in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tumor Tissue from Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients
High-risk human papillomavirus infection impacts staging and prognosis of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCCs). Determination of HPV status in tumor tissue by p16-immunohistochemistry (p16-IHC) can ...
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Mechanical Characterization of Adobe Masonry
The characterization of the mechanical properties and behaviour of adobe masonry is fundamental for the understanding of the structural behaviour of adobe constructions. Thus, in the last decades, experimental...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Map** Island Tourism Research
Tourism has been recognized as an essential industry to Islands’ development and growth. Islands’ diversity and uniqueness had posed various challenges and brought them to light in terms of relevance in the in...
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Article
Food craving and consumption evolution in patients starting treatment with clozapine
Antipsychotic-induced weight gain has been especially related to clozapine and olanzapine. Underlying mechanisms in relation to food preferences with an increased food craving and consumption of specific nutri...
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Article
Open AccessHaemophilia A: health and economic burden of a rare disease in Portugal
Haemophilia A is a hereditary bleeding disorder, which has been considered rare and chronic. The burden of this disease in Portugal remains unknown. The aim of this study was to estimate the annualized cost an...
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Chapter
Seismic Retrofit of Adobe Constructions
Earthen construction has been widely used since ancient times. Currently, this type of construction is used by approximately one third of the world population. In comparison to other, more modern building mate...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Logical Decision-Making Method Relating to Innovation Management
This paper is intended to serve as a support for decision in innovation management from the \( {\text{E}}\uptau \) Logic. We in...
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Chapter
Structural Behaviour and Retrofitting of Adobe Masonry Buildings
Earth is one of the most widely used building materials in the World. Different types of adobe dwellings are made to assure protection and wellbeing of the population according to the diverse zones needs. Ther...
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Article
Artificial neural networks for modeling in reaction process systems
This work is focused on develo** a more efficient computational scheme for estimation of process reaction rates based on NN models. Two scenarios are considered: (1) the kinetics coefficients of the process ...
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Article
Direct detection of Taphrina deformans on peach trees using molecular methods
The ascomycetous fungus Taphrina deformans is the agent of peach leaf curl, a worldwide disease of peach potentially devastating to both crop yields and tree longevity. Conspicuous leaf curl symptoms result from ...
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Article
RAPD Assessment for Identification of Clonal Identity and Genetic Stability of in vitro Propagated Chestnut Hybrids
Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was used as a tool to assess the clonal identity of four in vitro propagated chestnut rootstock hybrids (Castanea sativa × C. crenata) described as originally isolated fr...
