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RolRoad – LCA: A Web-Based Application for Estimating the Excess Fuel Consumption and Environmental Impacts Due to the Rolling Resistance of Passenger Cars
This paper presents RolRoad – LCA, a web-based application for estimating rolling resistance (RR) and its effect on excess fuel consumption (EFC) of passenger cars driving on flexible road pavement. RolRoad – ...
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Improving Change Management in Large Engineering Projects: A Case Study
Engineering change management is an essential component in the development of products, requiring many resources and time. A usual problem is the lack of standardized activities and the inexistence of activity...
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SmartHealth: Artificial Intelligence for Lifelong Personalized Health Care
This paper documents the design of a mobile application developed to help people with anxiety disorders or who suffer from mild general anxiety symptoms. The conceived mobile application has several useful fea...
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Railway Bridges Health Monitoring Supported by Artificial Intelligence
This chapter discusses the detection of damages in railway bridges based on vibration responses induced by traffic and using bridge health monitoring systems. To achieve this goal, an innovative data-driven Ar...
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Lisfranc Lesion
Lisfranc injury is named after Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin, a French field surgeon during the Napoleonic wars, and refers to an injury to the tarsometatarsal (TMT) joints of the midfoot. Thus, lesions of ...
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Open AccessPan-genome inversion index reveals evolutionary insights into the subpopulation structure of Asian rice
Understanding and exploiting genetic diversity is a key factor for the productive and stable production of rice. Here, we utilize 73 high-quality genomes that encompass the subpopulation structure of Asian rice (
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Interpreting cumulative displacement in a suspension bridge with a physics-based characterisation of environment and roadway/railway loads
In long-span suspension bridges, premature failure of bearings or expansion joints has been a concern during the bridge service life. To implement a reasonable inspection strategy of these critical components,...
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Adaptive Multi-category Train Scheduling Validation Based on Fatigue Reliability of a Long-Span Suspension Bridge
Fatigue is an important issue in the durability of long-span cable-supported bridges. These structures are submitted repetitively to loads such as strong winds, varying temperatures, and increasing roadway or ...
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On the joint-effect of class imbalance and overlap: a critical review
Current research on imbalanced data recognises that class imbalance is aggravated by other data intrinsic characteristics, among which class overlap stands out as one of the most harmful. The combination of th...
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Investigation of potential behavioral and physiological effects of caffeine on D. magna
With the ever-increasing consumption of pharmaceutical compounds, their presence in the environment is now an undisputable reality. The majority of these compounds are released into the wild after their therap...
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Diversity and pathogenicity of pestalotioid fungi associated with blueberry plants in Portugal, with description of three novel species of Neopestalotiopsis
Blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum) have been increasingly cultivated in Portugal. Although blueberry is known to be susceptible to twig blight and dieback caused by pestalotioid fungi, there is still scarce infor...
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Develo** a Checklist for Evaluating Virtual Learning Environments Through the Analysis of Evaluation Reports from an Educational Organization
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and online educational resources have emerged as proposals for popularizing and democratizing learning by promoting access and inclusion of all types of users. There are se...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identifying Requirements and Quality Attributes from the Point of View of Users of Mobile Digital Libraries
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a significant growth in the adoption of online educational resources, including mobile digital libraries. Thus, several quality attributes have been indicated by bot...
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Using Emergent Technologies on the Structural Health Monitoring and Control of Critical Infrastructures
Nowadays, organizations are embracing digital transformation, investing in the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) tools and solutions. Advanced ICT technologies converge with operati...
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Real-Time Unsupervised Detection of Early Damage in Railway Bridges Using Traffic-Induced Responses
This chapter addresses unsupervised damage detection in railway bridges by presenting a novel AI-based SHM strategy using traffic-induced dynamic responses. To achieve this goal a hybrid combination of wavelet...
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Progressive numerical model validation of a bowstring-arch railway bridge based on a structural health monitoring system
This paper presents a progressive numerical model validation of a bowstring-arch railway bridge based on the analysis of experimental data from different structural response measurements, namely, static deform...
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Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass and Upgrading of Bio-Products to Produce Fuels and Chemicals
The considerable growth in energy demands and limited fossil fuel sources, together with environmental concerns, have forced the study of renewable, green and sustainable energy sources. Biomass and its residu...
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Using deep learning techniques in medical imaging: a systematic review of applications on CT and PET
Medical imaging is a rich source of invaluable information necessary for clinical judgements. However, the analysis of those exams is not a trivial assignment. In recent times, the use of deep learning (DL) te...
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Assessing the Impact of Distance Functions on K-Nearest Neighbours Imputation of Biomedical Datasets
In healthcare domains, dealing with missing data is crucial since absent observations compromise the reliability of decision support models. K-nearest neighbours imputation has proven beneficial since it takes...
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An IoT-Based Healthcare Ecosystem for Home Intelligent Assistant Services in Smart Homes
Home Intelligent Assistants (HIAs) typically integrate several types of healthcare and well-being solutions that include mobile applications, sensors or wearables. These solutions are usually connected to the ...
