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We Belong and Connect When We Have a Voice: Towards a Learning Design for Inclusive Learning
When people have their voice heard and are willing to share their stories, they become empowered with a sense of belonging and social inclusion. This chapter proposes a learning design approach for online and ...
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Problems and Barriers during the Process of Clinical Coding: a Focus Group Study of Coders’ Perceptions
Coded data are the basis of information systems in all countries that rely on Diagnosis Related Groups in order to reimburse/finance hospitals, including both administrative and clinical data. To identify the ...
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Artificial Intelligence Gamified AAL Solution
GameAAL - Gamification Supporting Active and Assisted Living is an innovative system to monitor elderly daily life activities and provide neurocognitive stimulation games. The solution is focused at filling a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experimental Evaluation of Magnetostrictive Strain of Electrical Steel
Environmental noise pollution has gained increasing importance, over the past few years. Due to population growth along with a rapid urbanization and the increasing power supply needs, more and more electrical...
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Problems and Barriers in the Transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS: A Qualitative Study of Medical Coders’ Perceptions
Background. Clinical coding is the process of transforming the information about diseases or procedures recorded in the health records, into numeric or alphanumeric codes, using an international classification s...
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Open AccessMLPA analysis in a cohort of patients with autism
Autism is a global neurodevelopmental disorder which generally manifests during the first 2 years and continues throughout life, with a range of symptomatic variations. Epidemiological studies show an importan...
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The Use of Communication Technologies in Higher Education in Portugal: Best Practices and Future Trends
This chapter presents and discusses best practices and future trends in the use of Communication Technologies (CT) in Portuguese public Higher Education Institutions (HEI), from a literature review between 200...
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Urban Forest Governance: FUTURE—The 100,000 Trees Project in the Porto Metropolitan Area
The Porto Metropolitan Area is a region in northern Portugal with approximately 2000 km2. Almost 16 % of the Portuguese population lives in the area, which is structured around the municipality of Porto with 16 o...
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Open AccessCopy number variants prioritization after array-CGH analysis – a cohort of 1000 patients
Array-based comparative genomic hybridization has been assumed to be the first genetic test offered to detect genomic imbalances in patients with unexplained intellectual disability with or without dysmorphism...
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Open AccessA computational model for predicting the transport of compounds by ABCC2
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Open AccessX-chromosome terminal deletion in a female with premature ovarian failure: Haploinsufficiency of X-linked genes as a possible explanation
Premature ovarian failure (POF) has repeatedly been associated to X-chromosome deletions. FMR1 gene premutation allele's carrier women have an increased risk for POF. We intent to determine the cause of POF in a ...
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Molecular dynamics study of peptide segments of the BH3 domain of the proapoptotic proteins Bak, Bax, Bid and Hrk bound to the Bcl-xL and Bcl-2 proteins
Overexpression of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL proteins, both inhibitors of apoptosis or programmed cell death, is related to the generation and development of several types of cancer as well as to an elevated resistance to ...
