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Monitoring System Implemented to Evaluate the Kinematics of an Instability Zone at Flores Island
Taking into account its geology, morphology and hydrology, the island of Flores (Azores archipelago) is susceptible to the occurrence of slow slope movements. These situations of instability have been more stu...
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Performance Evaluation of an OOK-Based Visible Light Communication System for Transmission of Patient Monitoring Data
The absence of interference by radio waves, due to the use the unlicensed light spectrum provided by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) sources, is one of the main advantages of visible light communication (VLC) sys...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
QuantiDOPA: A Quantification Software for Dopaminergic Neurotransmission SPECT
Quantification of neurotransmission Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) studies of the dopaminergic system can be used to track, stage and facilitate early diagnosis of the disease. The aim of t...
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Spectroscopic Characterization of Humic Substances Isolated from Sediment of an Area of Sugarcane Cultivation
Humic substances (HS) have an important environmental property, interacting with metal species and influencing their transport, accumulation, and bioavailability. In this study, the HS of sediment from an area...
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Extraction of the Coronary Artery Tree in Cardiac Computer Tomographic Images Using Morphological Operators
Quantitative measurements of the coronary artery tree substructures from Cardiac Multislice-CT data sets is an important goal to improve the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease. This paper prese...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Open Source Web Service Based Platform for Heterogeneous Clusters
We present our joint effort to develop a web based interface for the GNU Scientific library and its parallelization. The interface has been developed using standard web services technology to enable the use of...
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Does an Increase in Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Always Mean a Better Oxygenated Brain? A Study in Head-Injured Patients
The adequate management of cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) continues to be a controversial issue in head-injured patients. The purpose of our study was to test two hypotheses. The first was that in patients ...
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False Autoregulation (Pseudoautoregulation) in Patients with Severe Head Injury. Its Importance in CPP Management
False autoregulation has been described as an alteration of autoregulation in which the apparent maintenance of a constant cerebral blood flow (CBF) when increasing cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) is due to ...
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Retrospective Post-Mortem Study of 118 Pedestrians
Deaths of pedestrians have been considered one of the most common cause of death in road fatalities. The kind of vehicle, the speed, its design and the characteristics of the victims (child or adult) makes a d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cooperative Street-Lighting Simulation by Multi-Disciplinary Users
Two of the recent areas of research in Computer Graphics are street-lighting simulation and cooperative work. In the first, the user can generate images that give information about the perceptibility of street...
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Null and Rare Alleles in Paternity Testing
The iron-binding protein of human plasma transferrin (Tf) was discovered in 1946 by Schade and Caroline and the polymorphism of human red esterase D was first demonstrated by Hopkinson et al. (1973). But only ...
