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Open AccessCOVID-Net Biochem: an explainability-driven framework to building machine learning models for predicting survival and kidney injury of COVID-19 patients from clinical and biochemistry data
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in 2020, the global community has faced ongoing challenges in controlling and mitigating the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as well as it...
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Changes in Organ Weight, Sperm Quality and Testosterone Levels After Aluminum (Al) and Indium (In) Administration to Wistar Rats
Aluminum and indium are widely used in industrial manufacturing, in pharmaceutical products, in medical treatments, and in food packaging, so they could reach organisms by different way. In order to clarify wh...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Role of Aggregators and Hubs in Collaborative Prosumer Networks
Prosumers are consumers that also produce goods, services, or information. Prosumers may form networks where they exchange goods, services, and information. They can use the network to share knowledge, resourc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Successful Knowledge Transfer – A Boost for Regional Innovation
Innovation is the only way the EU can maintain a strong, sustainable and competitive economy. However, at present there are large imbalances between degrees of innovation of EU countries. Statistics of 2018 an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimizing the Integration Area and Performance of VLIW Architectures by Hardware/Software Co-design
The cost and the performance are major concerns that the designers of embedded processors shall take into account, especially for market considerations. In order to reduce the cost, embedded systems rely on si...
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Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and TikTok: a proposal for health authorities to integrate popular social media platforms in contingency planning amid a global pandemic outbreak
In December 2019, a new severe respiratory coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was detected and has since spread across the globe to be ultimately declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11,...
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Improving the Training Methods for Designers of Flexible Production Cells in Factories of the Future
This work proposes a design method for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). The method reduces the learning curve by hel** employees to solve problems related to the design and optimization of the layout, o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers
This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed “Digital Engineer” skill profile (with a busine...
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Gold and Female Reproductive Organs: an Ultrastructural Study
Gold, a heavy yellow-colored metal, is usually found in nature as a metallic element or as salts. This noble metal historically had a reputation as an anti-inflammatory medicine for rheumatoid arthritis, a ner...
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Open AccessThe silent healer: miR-205-5p up-regulation inhibits epithelial to mesenchymal transition in colon cancer cells by indirectly up-regulating E-cadherin expression
EMT represents the dominant program within advanced stages of colon cancer, where cells acquire migratory characteristics in order to invade secondary tissues and form metastasis. Where the majority of the the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimal Partitioning of LLC in CAT-enabled CPUs to Prevent Side-Channel Attacks
Over the last years, timing channels that exploit resources shared at the microarchitectural level have attracted a lot of attention. The majority of such side-channel attacks target CPU caches. Cache-based si...
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Web prefetching through efficient prediction by partial matching
In this work we propose a prediction by partial matching technique to anticipate and prefetch web pages and files accessed via browsers. The goal is to reduce the delays necessary to load the web pages and fil...
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Open AccessPolyethylene Glycol-Mediated Synthesis of Cubic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with High Heating Power
Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (IOMNPs) have been successfully synthesized by means of solvothermal reduction method employing polyethylene glycol (PEG200) as a solvent. The as-synthesized IOMNPs are poly-d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Develo** Online Collaborative Games for e-Learning Environments
Based on our experience, we believe that games, competition and teamwork offer a pleasant and active way of learning. This is much more efficient when the learner has a smile on his face, when he is astonished...
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Open AccessDracaena arborea alleviates ultra-structural spermatogenic alterations in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Infertility is a common complication in diabetic men and experimental animals, mainly due to loss of germ cells by apoptotic cell death. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of aqueous and ethanol...
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Electrophysiological and Structural Aspects in the Frontal Cortex After the Bee (Apis mellifera) Venom Experimental Treatment
The aim of this study is to evaluate the bioelectrical and structural–functional changes in frontal cortex after the bee venom (BV) experimental treatments simulating both an acute envenomation and a subchroni...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Unbiased Branches: An Open Problem
The majority of currently available dynamic branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but they do not consider the impact...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding Prediction Limits Through Unbiased Branches
The majority of currently available branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but they do not consider the impact of unbi...
