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Open AccessDepressive symptomatology, temperament and oxytocin serum levels in a sample of healthy female university students
Depressive symptomatology is prevalent among female university students with adverse effects on their quality of life and academic performance. Previous research suggested associations between depressive sympt...
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Crenobalneotherapy for low back pain: systematic review of clinical trials
Crenobalneotherapy is a treatment commonly used in Europe and Middle East. It uses mineral water sometimes combined with different hydrotherapy techniques. Most patients treated in spa centers suffer from low ...
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Investigating relationships between biomarkers of exposure and environmental copper and manganese levels in house dusts from a Portuguese industrial city
This study reports on data obtained from a pilot survey focusing on house dust and toenail metal(loids) concentrations in residents living in the industrial city of Estarreja. The study design hereby describe...
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Open AccessPursuing nurses’ work effectiveness and better hand-hygiene compliance in a intensive care unit (ICU) ward: application of lean methodologies
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Assessment of Essential Elements and Heavy Metals Content on Mytilus galloprovincialis from River Tagus Estuary
Trace elemental content was analysed in edible tissues of Mytilus galloprovincialis collected in five different sampling areas near the mouth of river Tagus estuary in Lisbon. The concentrations of essential elem...
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Morphological and statistical analysis of the impact of breakwaters under construction on a sand spit area (Douro River estuary)
The area of Cabedelo sand spit, located at the mouth of Douro River estuary (Porto, Portugal), reduced in recent decades. In order to study its evolution and also the impact of two breakwaters built to fix the...
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Modeling of defects, dopant diffusion and clustering in silicon
Ion implantation is a very well established technique to introduce dopants in semiconductors. This technique has been traditionally used for junction formation in integrated circuit processing, and recently al...
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Clinical Test for Validation of a New Optical Probe for Hemodynamic Parameters Assessment
The assessment of the cardiovascular system condition based on multiple parameters allows a more precise and accurate diagnosis of the heart and arterial tree condition. For this reason, the interest in non-in...
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Open AccessLong-term outcomes of switching to fixed-dose abacavir/lamivudine (ABC/3TC) or tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC): 3-year results of the BICOMBO study
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Open AccessSustained virological response in HIV/HCV co-infected patients without rapid virological response (RVR) on peginterferon-ribavirin therapy
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Open AccessCD4 response, lipid changes and liver outcome in 506 patients receiving nevirapine-based regimens for a median of 9 years
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Distribution and characterization of Listeria monocytogenes clinical isolates in Portugal, 1994–2007
In recent years, the number of cases of listeriosis has increased worldwide. Ninety-five isolates of Listeria monocytogenes recovered from Portuguese human cases of listeriosis have been characterized by biotypin...
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Front-end process modeling in silicon
Front-end processing mostly deals with technologies associated to junction formation in semiconductor devices. Ion implantation and thermal anneal models are key to predict active dopant placement and activati...
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In vitro selection of salt tolerant cell lines in Solanum tuberosum L.
Cell lines able to grow on media containing 50, 100, 150 or 200 mM NaCl were established from potato callus cultures by direct recurrent selection or gradual selection. In callus subjected to direct selection ...
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Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Octadecaborane Implantation into Si
We have carried out molecular dynamics simulations of monatomic B and octadecaborane cluster implantations into Si in order to make a comparative study and determine the advantages and drawbacks of each approa...
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Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus disease in a portuguese hospital: Characterization of clonal types by a combination of DNA ty** methods
Fifteen pediatric patients as well as the five nursing staff of the Burn Unit of the Hospital D. Estefania in Lisbon, Portugal, were assayed at weekly intervals over a five-month period in order to identify th...
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Fiberoptic bronchoscopic diagnosis of pulmonary disease in 151 HIV-infected patients with pneumonitis
In a prospective study the efficacy of fiberoptic bronchoscopy was evaluated in the diagnosis of infections with opportunistic pathogens, Kaposi's sarcoma and nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis in 171 episod...
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Coupling of a sheep anti-T3 IgG to a solid phase for a triiodothyronine radioimmunoassay
Optimal conditions for coupling sheep anti-T3 IgG to a solid phase are presented. We found that the optimal activation of microcrystalline cellulose was achieved with 0.15M 1,1′-carbonyldiimidazol (CDI) in aceton...
