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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hydrostatic Stability of Marine Tagging Devices
The field of biotelemetry, encompassing diverse techniques for remotely measuring the physiology, behavior, and energetic status of free-living animals, has revolutionized ecological research. Among these inno...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design Concept of a Non-invasive Tagging Device for Blue Sharks
This work describes the design concept process taken to develop a non-intrusive tagging device for blue sharks. The identification of the more important aspects involved in its accomplishment gave origin to th...
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Article
Regenerative succession of Azorean peatlands after grazing: vegetation path to self-recovery
The study central goal was to analyze secondary succession in a degraded peatland: (1) Sphagnum distribution trends and (2) successional patterns. Main study sites were adjacent abandoned pastures, where grazing ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Friction Properties of Polyoxymethylene (POM) Materials in Dry and Lubricated Conditions
This work is based on dry and lubricated friction properties of Polyoxymethylene (POM) plastics widely used in multimedia and electronic sector of automotive industries. The results show that lubrication does ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Application to Promote Emotional Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This paper presents an approach regarding the use of a serious game with a playware object to improve the development of emotional skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The playware object is...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Digital Divide in Higher Education Students’ Digital Literacy
This article explores the Internet-use attitudes behaviors, and skills associated with digital literacy amongst students in higher education. A survey was administered using a sample of 148 first-year students...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Obtaining the Inverse Distance Map from a Non-SVP Hyperbolic Catadioptric Robotic Vision System
The use of single viewpoint catadioptric vision systems is a common approach in mobile robotics, despite the constraints imposed by those systems. A general solution to calculate the robot centered distances m...
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Chapter
Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography and Inflammatory Response
In recent years, myocardial contrast echocar diography (MCE) has undergone many advances through remarkable developments in echocardiographic contrast agents pharmacodynamics and ultrasound technology [1–7]. T...
