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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Parcel Delivery Services: A Sectorization Approach with Simulation

    Sectorization problems, also known as districting or territory design, deal with grou** a set of previously defined basic units, such as points or small geographical areas, into a fixed number of sectors or ...

    Cristina Lopes, Ana Maria Rodrigues, Elif Ozturk in Operational Research (2023)

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    An Interoperable Cloud Platform for the Garment Industry

    The garment ecosystem is characterized by a diversity of production systems and equipment, which implies dealing with the integration of different domains, communication requirements, and technological heterog...

    Francisco Morais, Nuno Soares, Rui Ribeiro in Intelligent Systems and Applications (2023)

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    Safe Session-Based Concurrency with Shared Linear State

    We introduce \(\textsf{CLASS}\) CLASS , a session-typed, higher-order, core language that su...

    Pedro Rocha, Luís Caires in Programming Languages and Systems (2023)

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    Dynamic expression of Schlafen 11 (SLFN11) in circulating tumour cells as a liquid biomarker in small cell lung cancer

    Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy with no established biomarkers. Schlafen 11(SLFN11), a DNA/RNA helicase that sensitises cancer cells to DNA-damaging agents, has emerged as a promising...

    Bingnan Zhang, C. Allison Stewart, Qi Wang, Robert J. Cardnell in British Journal of Cancer (2022)

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    Identification and Classification of Human Body Parts for Contactless Screening Systems: An Edge-AI Approach

    Continuous monitoring of vital signs like body temperature and cardio-pulmonary rates can be critical in the early prediction and diagnosis of illnesses. Optical-based methods, i.e., RGB cameras and thermal im...

    Diogo Rocha, Pedro Rocha, Jorge Ribeiro in Science and Technologies for Smart Cities (2022)

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    CrossLog: Automatic Mixed-Palletizing for Cross-Docking Logistics Centers

    The CrossLog project aims to investigate, study, develop and implement an automated and collaborative cross-docking system (aligned with Industry 4.0) capable of moving and managing the flow of products within...

    Pedro Rocha, António G. Ramos, Elsa Silva in Computational Logistics (2022)

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    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...

    Elif Öztürk, Pedro Rocha, Filipe Sousa in Innovations in Mechatronics Engineering II (2022)

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    Correction to: CD73 expression defines immune, molecular, and clinicopathological subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma

    The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake.

    Pedro Rocha, Ruth Salazar, Jiexin Zhang, Debora Ledesma in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (2021)

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    CD73 expression defines immune, molecular, and clinicopathological subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma

    CD73 is a membrane-bound enzyme crucial in adenosine generation. The adenosinergic pathway plays a critical role in immunosuppression and in anti-tumor effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). Here, we i...

    Pedro Rocha, Ruth Salazar, Jiexin Zhang, Debora Ledesma in Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (2021)

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    An Intelligent Decision Support System for Production Planning in Garments Industry

    In this paper, we propose an Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) that combines prediction and optimization for production planning. We worked with a company that provides software for the garments Indus...

    Rui Ribeiro, André Pilastri, Hugo Carvalho in Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated… (2021)

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    Changes in grassland management and linear infrastructures associated to the decline of an endangered bird population

    European grassland birds are experiencing major population declines, mainly due to changes in farmland management. We analyzed the role of habitat availability, grazing management and linear infrastructures (r...

    Ana Teresa Marques, Francisco Moreira, Rita Alcazar, Ana Delgado in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Mobile Application to Support Children with Anxiety Disorders

    This paper describes WEBECOOL, a hybrid web/mobile application with the purpose of improving the self-management of anxiety disorders. The development of WEBECOOL was driven by a multidisciplinary collaborati...

    Nuno Fonseca, Ana Almeida, Maria Moreno in XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and… (2020)

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    Spatial behaviour of Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti juveniles during the dependence period revealed by high-resolution GPS tracking data

    During the post-fledging dependence period, young raptors are particularly vulnerable as they are still develo** flying, hunting and social skills, and collecting spatial environmental information required f...

    Rita F. Ramos, João P. Silva, Carlos Carrapato, Pedro Rocha in Journal of Ornithology (2019)

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    Constraint Aggregation in Non-linear Programming Models for Nesting Problems

    The Nesting problem is a complex problem that arises in industries where sets of pieces or space must be efficiently placed or allocated in order to minimize wasted space or wasted raw materials, without overl...

    Pedro Rocha, A. Miguel Gomes, Rui Rodrigues in Computational Management Science (2016)

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    GPU-Based Computing for Nesting Problems: The Importance of Sequences in Static Selection Approaches

    In this paper, we address the irregular strip packing problem (or nesting problem) where irregular shapes have to be placed on strips representing a piece of material whose width is constant and length is virt...

    Pedro Rocha, Rui Rodrigues, A. Miguel Gomes in Operations Research and Big Data (2015)

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    Progesterone Enhances Transthyretin Expression in the Rat Choroid Plexus In Vitro and In Vivo via Progesterone Receptor

    Depletion of ovarian hormones 17β-estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P) after menopause may contribute to the decline in cognitive performance and increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in women, strikin...

    Telma Quintela, Isabel Gonçalves, Ana Martinho in Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (2011)

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    Reduction in the endogenous arginine decarboxylase transcript levels in rice leads to depletion of the putrescine and spermidine pools with no concomitant changes in the expression of downstream genes in the polyamine biosynthetic pathway

    We investigated whether down-regulation of arginine decarboxylase (ADC) activity and concomitant changes in polyamine levels result in changes in the expression of downstream genes in the polyamine pathway. We...

    Pham Trung-Nghia, Ludovic Bassie, Gehan Safwat, Pham Thu-Hang, Olivia Lepri in Planta (2003)