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Open AccessUse of Self-Efficacy Scale in Mass Casualty Incidents During Drill Exercises
Medical First Responders (MFRs) in the emergency department SUMMA 112 are tasked with handling the initial management of Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) and building response capabilities. Training plays a cruci...
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Muography Applied in Underground Geological Surveys: Ongoing Work at the Lousal Mine (Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal)
The LouMu Project is an ongoing collaboration between the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP), the Institute of Earth Sciences—University of Évora and the Lousal Ciência Viva ...
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Open AccessSealed (zero gas flow) resistive plate chambers
The phase-out of hydro-fluorocarbons, due to their high Global Warming Potential (GWP), affecting the main gas used in Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), tetrafluoroethane C
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Open AccessData mining analyses for precision medicine in acromegaly: a proof of concept
Predicting which acromegaly patients could benefit from somatostatin receptor ligands (SRL) is a must for personalized medicine. Although many biomarkers linked to SRL response have been identified, there is n...
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Open AccessGreen synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Lysiloma acapulcensis exhibit high-antimicrobial activity
The scientific community is exploiting the use of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in nanomedicine and other AgNPs combination like with biomaterials to reduce microbial contamination. In the field of nanomedicine...
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Experimental Dynamic Behavior of Historical Buildings at Scale Model: San Raymundo Church, Guatemala
Guatemala has an enormous set of churches of colonial architecture dating from the fifteenth century....
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Advances in Geoconservation in Cuba: Assessment of the Guaniguanico Range and Guanahacabibes Plain (Pinar del Río)
The application of geoconservation concepts in Cuba is very recent, despite the wide body of knowledge accumulated through the study of Cuban geology. Recently, the establishment and consolidation of a Nationa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distance Computation between Two Private Preference Functions
We consider the following problem: two parties have each a private function, for example one that outputs the party’s preferences on a set of alternatives; they wish to compute the distance between their funct...
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Resistive plate chambers in positron emission tomography
Resistive plate chambers (RPC) were originally deployed for high energy physics. Realizing how their properties match the needs of nuclear medicine, a LIP team proposed applying RPCs to both preclinical and cl...
