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Alejandro Fernandez
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Open AccessSubsidies or green taxes? Evaluating the distributional effects of housing renovation policies among Dutch households
Despite persistent housing affordability issues, energy policy and housing renovation are usually investigated separately from housing costs other than energy. Researchers have examined the financial viability...
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An Approach to Cluster Scenarios According to Their Similarity Using Natural Language Processing
Scenarios are ideal to capture knowledge in human computer interface software engineering. Requirements engineering is a fundamental part of software development. If errors appear in this stage, it will be exp...
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Immigration and Health Systems in Argentina. The Case of the Spanish Hospital of Buenos Aires
This is a history of the Spanish Hospital of Buenos Aires sponsored by immigrants, throughout the last three decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th, with archival primary sources. The...
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Scenarios, Shared Understanding, and Group Decision Support to Foster Innovation Networks
Collaborative innovation is a dynamic process that involves diverse individuals and organizations pooling resources and working together to develop new ideas, products, or services. Successful collaboration in...
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A Case Study on Teaching HCI to Interactive Art Practitioners (and Learning from Them)
The fields of HCI and interactive art have long maintained an increasingly fruitful relationship of dialogue, exchange, cross-pollination, and complementation. From an art perspective, HCI knowledge and strate...
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Fits Like a Game: A Multi-criteria Adaptive Gamification for Collaborative Location-Based Collecting Systems
This article proposes an adaptive gamification approach based on a Multi-Criteria Recommendation System (MCRS) for Collaborative Location-based Collecting Systems, adapting the gamification to each user, takin...
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Local Pluralistic Homophily in Networks: A New Measure Based on Overlap** Communities
Pluralistic homophily is an important phenomenon in social network analysis as nodes tend to associate with others that share their same communities. In this work, we present the concept of local pluralistic h...
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Open AccessLow skeletal muscle mass assessed directly from the 3rd cervical vertebra can predict pharyngocutaneous fistula risk after total laryngectomy in the male population
Skeletal muscle mass (SMM) loss and sarcopenia have been identified as risk factors for postoperative complications. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between pharyngocutaneous fistula ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bootstrap** Safe IVIS Development with an Affordable Testing Suite
In-vehicle information systems (IVIS) represent a growing industry. IVIS were originally built and deployed by car manufacturers, which ensured that they complied with the safety regulations of the car industr...
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An Approach to Model Haptic Awareness in Groupware Systems
Awareness is of paramount importance to effective collaboration. Groupware systems have traditionally implemented awareness in the form of visual cues. With the advent of alternatives user interface strategies...
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A Model of Adaptive Gamification in Collaborative Location-Based Collecting Systems
Gamification is a widely used resource to engage and retain users. It is about the use of game elements and mechanics in systems and domains that are not naturally games. Nevertheless, the usage of gamificati...
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Supporting multi-criteria decision-making across websites: the Logikós approach
Online customers frequently conduct activities that involve multi-criteria decision-making. They analyze and compare alternatives considering a set of shared characteristics. Websites present the information o...
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Web-Augmentation, Design Thinking, and Collaboration Engineering to Foster Innovation in DSS for Agriculture: A Case Study
Decision making in agriculture increasingly relies on software, for example to gather important information or to weight alternatives. Information systems innovation in agriculture is a challenging and very ac...
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A User Interface for Consistent AHP Pairwise Comparisons
Decision Makers generally reason on several criteria, aiming to obtain a total consistency or partial order of several alternatives. MultiCriteria analysis is based on the assumption that such ordering exists....
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Optimizing a Gamified Design Through Reinforcement Learning - a Case Study in Stack Overflow
Gamification can be used to foster participation in knowledge sharing communities. While designing and assessing the potential impact of a gamification design in such a context, it is important to avoid work d...
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Correction to: Superior performance of 18F-fluorocholine digital PET/CT in the detection of parathyroid adenomas
The correct administered activity of 18F-FCH is 0.1–0.14 mCi/Kg, which is equivalent to 3.7–5.2 MBq/kg.
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Superior performance of 18F-fluorocholine digital PET/CT in the detection of parathyroid adenomas
To compare detectability of hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue (HPT) by digital and analog 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and negative/inconclusive 99mTc-MIBI scintigrap...
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Striking neurologic 18F-FDG PET/CT pattern in Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Atmospheric Corrosion Behaviors of Reinforcement Steel in Reinforced Concrete in a Coastal City as Havana, Cuba
Atmospheric corrosion behaviors of reinforcement steel in reinforced concrete in a coastal city as Havana was carried out. Concrete quality was characterized before to expose the reinforced concrete specimens ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Approach to Build P2P Web Extensions
Web extensions are currently the most frequently used mechanism for end-users to externally adapt and enrich the web. While most functionality offered by extensions runs on the browser, extensions that offer c...
