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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrating Explainable AI: Breakthroughs in Medical Diagnosis and Surgery
The challenge of explaining the results generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is a significant obstacle to their widespread acceptance, which is why increased attention has been paid to the explainability ...
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Learning of Linear Transformations Involving Mathematical Modelling Supported by Technology: A Study with Undergraduate Students
This chapter reports part of an ongoing study based on a linear algebra course taking place at a Costa Rican university, which aims i) to of linear algebra concepts through introducing modelling tasks, ii) t...
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Article
A sco** review on studies about the quality of life of informal caregivers of stroke survivors
To assess the available evidence regarding the quality of life (QoL) of informal caregivers of stroke survivors, by identifying the instruments used to assess QoL, and its associated characteristics.
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Article
Col6a1+/CD201+ mesenchymal cells regulate intestinal morphogenesis and homeostasis
Intestinal mesenchymal cells encompass multiple subsets, whose origins, functions, and pathophysiological importance are still not clear. Here, we used the Col6a1Cre mouse, which targets distinct fibroblast subse...
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Article
Undergraduate Students’ Learning of Linear Algebra Through Mathematical Modelling Routes
Mathematical modelling has acquired relevance at all educational levels in the last decades since integrating this activity in instruction provides significant contexts for improving students’ learning, includ...
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Parents’ perceptions and dissatisfaction with child silhouette: associated factors among 7-year-old children of the Generation XXI birth cohort
We compared parent’s perceived child’s silhouette, and investigated predictors of their dissatisfaction.
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Paracrine orchestration of intestinal tumorigenesis by a mesenchymal niche
The initiation of an intestinal tumour is a probabilistic process that depends on the competition between mutant and normal epithelial stem cells in crypts1. Intestinal stem cells are closely associated with a di...
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An intrinsic role of IL-33 in Treg cell–mediated tumor immunoevasion
Regulatory T (Treg) cells accumulate into tumors, hindering the success of cancer immunotherapy. Yet, therapeutic targeting of Treg cells shows limited efficacy or leads to autoimmunity. The molecular mechanisms ...
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Chapter
Promoting a Learning Scenario for an Integrated Approach to STEM: Prospective Teachers’ Perspectives in Portugal
This chapter reports on a teacher education project aiming to prepare Portuguese prospective teachers (PTs) of mathematics and of physics for develo** STEM integration activities in school. This study aims t...
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Article
Open AccessFCC Physics Opportunities
We review the physics opportunities of the Future Circular Collider, covering its e+e-, pp, ep and heavy ion programmes. We describe the measurement capabilities of each FCC component, addressing the study of ele...
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Chapter
Teachers’ Perspectives About Statistical Reasoning: Opportunities and Challenges for Its Development
This study concerns the perspectives of 11 mathematics teachers about the potential and the challenges of develo** a learning environment targeting students’ statistical in a Developmental Research Project...
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Improving hydrophobic and oleophobic performances of high-pressure laminates
High-pressure laminates are decorative materials that are widely used in furnishing and building industries. One of their major handicaps, especially in the case of high gloss laminates, is the ease of stainin...
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Article
Research on teaching practice in a Portuguese initial secondary mathematics teacher education program
In teacher education, a key issue is how prospective teachers learn. At the University of Lisbon, based on an inquiry-based approach to mathematics learning, we developed a secondary school mathematics teacher...
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Article
Subset-specific alterations in frequencies and functional signatures of γδ T cells in systemic sclerosis patients
Here, we evaluated the distribution and functional profile of circulating CD27+ and CD27− γδ T-cell subsets in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients to assess their potential role in this disorder.
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Article
CD38, CD81 and BAFFR combined expression by transitional B cells distinguishes active from inactive systemic lupus erythematosus
In view of its heterogeneous presentation and unpredictable course, clinical management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is difficult. There is a need for biomarkers and diagnostic aids to monitor SLE di...
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Chapter
Students’ Difficulties in Understanding of Confidence Intervals
There is substantial evidence that university students have considerable difficulties with basic concepts in understanding of statistical inference. This chapter presents the results of a study aiming to analy...
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Chapter
Develo** Statistical Literacy (DSL): Student Learning and Teacher Education
Recent mathematics curriculum orientations stress the importance of develo** students’ statistical literacy at different school levels. Many students can read and understand tables, charts, and graphs and pe...
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Article
Social Trajectory and Body Image Satisfaction in Childbearing Women
Advantaged socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with lower body image satisfaction (BIS) among women. However, motherhood and social trajectory (an individual’s path from childhood SEP to adulthood SEP) ...
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Open AccessSera from patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus patients enhance the toll-like receptor 4 response in monocyte subsets
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an auto-immune disease whose complex pathogenesis remains unraveled. Here we aim to explore the inflammatory ability of SLE patients’ sera upon peripheral blood (PB) monoc...
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Alterations on peripheral blood B cell subsets induced by allergic rhinitis
Here we evaluated whether allergic rhinitis to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus induces alterations on circulating B cell subsets.
