... 2018): 506.https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9100506Isabel Alves, Miguel Arenas, Mathias Currat, Anna Sramkova Hanulova, Vitor C. ...
Tópico(s): Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
1991 - University of Chicago Press | Current Anthropology
Nils Hütten, Miguel Alves Gomes, Florian Hölken, Karlo Andricevic, Richard Meyes, Tobias Meisen,
Quality assessment in industrial applications is often carried out through visual inspection, usually performed or supported by human domain experts. However, the manual visual inspection of processes and products is error-prone and expensive. It is therefore not surprising that the automation of visual inspection in manufacturing and maintenance is heavily researched and discussed. The use of artificial intelligence as an approach to visual inspection in industrial applications has been considered ...
Tópico(s): Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
2024 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Applied System Innovation
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Fernando Teruhiko Hata, Maurício Ursi Ventura, Mateus Gimenez Carvalho, André Luís Alves Miguel, Mariana Sayuri de Jesus de Souza, Maria Tereza de Paula, Maria Aparecida Cassilha Zawadneak,
The effect of aromatic plants on number of twospotted spider mite (TSSM), Tetranychus urticae Koch, when intercropped with strawberry were assessed in the field. During the first year, chives (Allium schoenoprasum L.), coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.), garlic (Allium sativum L.), oregano (Origanum vulgare L.), or sweet marjoram (Origanum majorana L.) were intercropped with strawberry. Assessments were performed on TSSM populations by taking six samples from July 20 to ...
Tópico(s): Insect Pest Control Strategies
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Experimental and Applied Acarology
Sam Erlinge, Görgen Göransson, Göran Högstedt, Goran Jansson, Olof Liberg, Jon Loman, Ingvar N. Nilsson, Torbjörn von Schantz, Magnus Sylvén,
... Mateos, Heiko G. Rödel, Carlos Rouco, Paulo Célio Alves, Miguel Carneiro, Rafael Villafuerte European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
1984 - University of Chicago Press | The American Naturalist
Rosa Montes, Sandra Méndez, Julio Cobas, N. Carro, Teresa Neuparth, Nélson Alves, Miguel M. Santos, José Benito Quintana, Rosario Rodil,
This work investigated, during one year, the occurrence and fate of 52 contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in transnational river basins and coastal areas of the North of Portugal and Galicia (NW Spain) and the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) discharging on these environments. The different CECs investigated included pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial chemicals, among others, of which ca. 90 % would fulfill the persistence, mobility and toxicity criteria proposed by the German ...
Tópico(s): Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
2023 - Elsevier BV | The Science of The Total Environment
Joel M. Alves, Miguel Carneiro, Jonathan P. Day, John J. Welch, Janine A. Duckworth, Tarnya Cox, Mike Letnic, Tanja Strive, Nuno Ferrand, Francis M. Jiggins,
Biological invasions are a major cause of environmental and economic disruption. While ecological factors are key determinants of their success, the role of genetics has been more challenging to demonstrate. The colonization of Australia by the European rabbit is one of the most iconic and devastating biological invasions in recorded history. Here, we show that despite numerous introductions over a 70-y period, this invasion was triggered by a single release of a few animals that spread thousands ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2022 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Catarina Gonçalves, João P. Honrado, João Cerejeira, Rita Sousa, Paulo M. Fernandes, Ana Sofia Vaz, M Fátima Alves, Miguel B. Araújo, Cláudia Carvalho‐Santos, André Fonseca, Hélder Fraga, João Gonçalves, Ângela Lomba, Eva Pinto, Joana R. Vicente, João A. Santos,
Climate change is expected to have strong social-ecological implications, with global but especially regional and local challenges. To assess the climatic vulnerability of a given territory, it is necessary to evaluate its exposure to climate change and its adaptive capacity. This study describes the development of an Action Plan for Adapting to Climate Change in the Tâmega and Sousa Region, a mountainous inter-municipal community in the North of Portugal. The goals were to identify the main impacts ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2021 - Elsevier BV | The Science of The Total Environment
Bernardo Marques, João Alves, Miguel Santos Neves, Inês Justo, André Santos, Raquel Rainho, Rafael Maio, Dany Costa, Carlos Ferreira, Paulo Dias, Beatriz Sousa Santos,
Assembly procedures are a common task in several domains of application. Augmented Reality (AR) has been considered as having great potential in assisting users while performing such tasks. However, poor interaction design and lack of studies, often results in complex and hard to use AR systems. This paper considers three different interaction methods for assembly procedures (Touch gestures in a mobile device; Mobile Device movements; 3D Controllers and See-through HMD). It also describes a controlled ...
Tópico(s): Interactive and Immersive Displays
2020 - Association for Computing Machinery | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Diana Alves, Miguel A. Cerqueira, Lorenzo Pastrana, Sanna Sillankorva,
Notwithstanding the implementation of good processing practices in food companies and appropriate washing of food products by the consumer, Salmonella and Escherichia coli outbreaks continue to occur. In this study, different combinations of bacteriophages (phages) and cinnamaldehyde (CNMA) were incorporated on sodium alginate emulsion-based films to impart them with antimicrobial activity towards S. Enteritidis and E. coli. Films were prepared by casting and they were characterized in terms of CNMA ...
Tópico(s): Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
2019 - Elsevier BV | Food Research International
Mónica Lopes‐Marques, André M. Machado, Luís Q. Alves, Miguel M. Fonseca, Susana Barbosa, Mikkel‐Holger S. Sinding, Marianne H. Rasmussen, Maria Iversen, Mads F. Bertelsen, Paula F. Campos, Rute R. da Fonseca, Raquel Ruivo, L. Filipe C. Castro,
Abstract Genomes are dynamic biological units, with processes of gene duplication and loss triggering evolutionary novelty. The mammalian skin provides a remarkable case study on the occurrence of adaptive morphological innovations. Skin sebaceous glands (SGs), for instance, emerged in the ancestor of mammals serving pivotal roles, such as lubrication, waterproofing, immunity, and thermoregulation, through the secretion of sebum, a complex mixture of various neutral lipids such as triacylglycerol, ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
2019 - Oxford University Press | Molecular Biology and Evolution
Joel M. Alves, Miguel Carneiro, Jade Yu Cheng, Ana Lemos de Matos, Masmudur M. Rahman, Liisa Loog, Paula F. Campos, Nathan Wales, Anders Eriksson, Andrea Manica, Tanja Strive, Stephen C. Graham, Sandra Afonso, Diana Bell, Laura Belmont, Jonathan P. Day, Susan Fuller, Stéphane Marchandeau, William J. Palmer, Guillaume Queney, Alison K. Surridge, Filipe Garrett Vieira, Grant McFadden, Rasmus Nielsen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Pedro J. Esteves, Nuno Ferrand, Francis M. Jiggins,
Locating myxomatosis resistance Myxomatosis is a viral infection that was deliberately introduced from American cottontail rabbits into European rabbit populations to control their population. Over the past 60 years or so, similar resistance variants have emerged in parallel in the United Kingdom, France, and Australia. Alves et al. discovered that the basis for this resistance is polygenic, with selection converging on several host immunity and proviral alleles (see the Perspective by Miller and ...
Tópico(s): Microbial infections and disease research
2019 - American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science
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Tiane C. Finimundy, Lillian Barros, Ricardo C. Calhelha, Maria José Alves, Miguel A. Prieto, Rui M.V. Abreu, Aldo José Pinheiro Dillon, João Antônio Pêgas Henriques, Mariana Roesch‐Ely, Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira,
A study with Pleurotus sajor-caju was conducted to: evaluate the nutritional and chemical composition of the fruiting bodies; optimize the preparation of bioactive phenolic extracts; and characterize the optimized extract in terms of bioactive compounds and properties. P. sajor-caju revealed an equilibrated nutritional composition with the presence of hydrophilic (sugars and organic acids) and lipophilic (tocopherols and PUFA) compounds. p-Hydroxybenzoic, p-coumaric and cinnamic acids were identified ...
Tópico(s): Phytochemical compounds biological activities
2017 - Elsevier BV | Food Chemistry
Isabel Craveiro, Daniela Alves, Miguel Amado, Zélia Santos, Argentina Fortes, António Delgado, Artur Correia, Luzia Gonçalves,
Urbanization processes are intertwined with nutritional transition because there is easier access to food of low nutritional quality at reduced prices, changing dietary patterns and leading to an increase of non-communicable chronic diseases. This study aims to understand the perceptions for high blood pressure, obesity, and alcoholism, describing some interactions of these dimensions in the problem of food security in the city of Praia. A qualitative study was carried out under the framework of ...
Tópico(s): Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
2016 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Giovanna Esposito, António P. Ribeiro, Daniela Alves, Miguel M. Gonçalves, Maria Francesca Freda,
This study discusses a model of group counseling, the narrative mediation path (NMP), which is a unique narrative, multimodal approach that combines four narrative modes (metaphoric, iconographic, writing, and bodily) and the narrative group. The purpose of the NMP is to foster reflexive processes with underachieving university students and to improve their academic performance. The study analyzes a single case of group counseling for seven underachieving economics students at an Italian university ...
Tópico(s): Counseling Practices and Supervision
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Constructivist Psychology
Joel M. Alves, Miguel Carneiro, Sandra Afonso, Susana Lopes, Hervé Garreau, Samuel Boucher, Daniel D. Allain, Guillaume Queney, Pedro J. Esteves, Gérard Bolet, Nuno Ferrand,
Over thousands of years humans changed the genetic and phenotypic composition of several organisms and in the process transformed wild species into domesticated forms. From this close association, domestic animals emerged as important models in biomedical and fundamental research, in addition to their intrinsic economical and cultural value. The domestic rabbit is no exception but few studies have investigated the impact of domestication on its genetic variability. In order to study patterns of ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2015 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
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Cauê Soares Câmara, Arnaud Azevêdo Alves, Miguel Arcanjo Moreira Filho, Bruno Spíndola Garcez, Danielle Maria Machado Ribeiro Azevêdo,
Com o intuito de avaliar dietas para cabras Anglo-Nubianas do tipo misto em lactação, foram utilizadas oito cabras com peso médio 37,9 ± 1,72 kg, entre a 2ª e 4ª ordem de lactação, no terço médio da lactação, distribuídas em duplo quadrado latino 4 x 4. A ordenha foi realizada as 7 e 16 h. Os tratamentos consistiram de quatro dietas formuladas com diferentes volumosos (silagem de capim-elefante associada ou não aos fenos de leucena ou de estilosantes) e milho em grão, acrescidas ou não do farelo de ...
Tópico(s): Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health
2015 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ | Ciência Agronômica/Revista ciência agronômica
Isabel Alves, Miguel Arenas, Mathias Currat, Anna Šrámková Hanulová, Vítor C. Sousa, Nicolas Ray, Laurent Excoffier,
Most previous attempts at reconstructing the past history of human populations did not explicitly take geography into account or considered very simple scenarios of migration and ignored environmental information. However, it is likely that the last glacial maximum (LGM) affected the demography and the range of many species, including our own. Moreover, long-distance dispersal (LDD) may have been an important component of human migrations, allowing fast colonization of new territories and preserving ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
2015 - Oxford University Press | Molecular Biology and Evolution
C. J. A. P. Martins, Ana Marta Pinho, R.F.C. Alves, Miguel Pino, C.I.S.A. Rocha, M. von Wietersheim,
Astrophysical tests of the stability of fundamental couplings, such as the fine-structure constant α, are becoming an increasingly powerful probe of new physics. Here we discuss how these measurements, combined with local atomic clock tests and Type Ia supernova and Hubble parameter data, constrain the simplest class of dynamical dark energy models where the same degree of freedom is assumed to provide both the dark energy and (through a dimensionless coupling, ζ, to the electromagnetic sector) the ...
Tópico(s): Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
2015 - Institute of Physics | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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Marcelo Marinho de Figueiredo, Ana Clara Tude Rodrigues, Monique Bueno Alves, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Gisele Sampaio Silva,
OBJECTIVE: Atrial fibrillation is a common arrhythmia that increases the risk of stroke by four-to five-fold.We aimed to establish a profile of patients with atrial fibrillation from a population of patients admitted with acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack using clinical and echocardiographic findings.METHODS: We evaluated patients consecutively admitted to a tertiary hospital with acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack.Subjects were divided into an original set (admissions ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
2014 - Elsevier BV | Clinics
Leonor M. Sarmento, Vanda Póvoa, R. Nascimento, Gonçalo Real, Inês Antunes, Leila R. Martins, Catarina Moita, Paula M. Alves, Miguel Abecasis, Luís F. Moita, R. M. E. Parkhouse, Jules P.P. Meijerink, João T. Barata,
Checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1) is a key component of the ATR (ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and Rad3-related)-dependent DNA damage response pathway that protect cells from replication stress, a cell intrinsic phenomenon enhanced by oncogenic transformation. Here, we show that CHK1 is overexpressed and hyperactivated in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). CHEK1 mRNA is highly abundant in patients of the proliferative T-ALL subgroup and leukemia cells exhibit constitutively elevated levels of the ...
Tópico(s): Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
2014 - Springer Nature | Oncogene
Manuela Sanches‐Ferreira, Pedro Lopes dos Santos, Sílvia Alves, Miguel Santos, Mónica Silveira-Maia,
The Individualised Education Programme (IEP) is a fundamental document that describes all educational responses to the additional support needs of students, setting up the guideline for their learning and developmental experiences. Specifically, the IEP goals represent the personal destination translated into desirable behaviours and skills that will enable students with additional support needs to meet their educational and functional needs. This paper analysis the quality of the 2497 IEP goals ...
Tópico(s): Family and Disability Support Research
2013 - Taylor & Francis | European Journal of Special Needs Education
Produção Nacional
João D. A. S. Pereira, Regina C.T. Camargo, José Carlos Silva Camargo Filho, Neri Alves, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez‐Pérez, Carlos J. L. Constantino,
The development of polymeric blends to be used as matrices for bone regeneration is a hot topic nowadays. In this article we report on the blends composed by corn starch and poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, or poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene), P(VDF-TrFE), to obtain biocompatible materials. Blends were produced by compressing/annealing and chemically/structurally characterized by micro-Raman scattering and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) absorption spectroscopies, dynamic mechanical ...
Tópico(s): Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
2013 - Elsevier BV | Materials Science and Engineering C
Beatriz Sánchez‐Espiridión, Ana M. Martín‐Moreno, Carlos Montalbán, Vianihuini Figueroa-Vazquez, Francisco Vega, Anas Younes, L. Jeffrey Medeiros, Francisco Javier Alves, Miguel Canales, Mónica Estévez, Javier Menárguez, P. Sabín, María C. Ruiz‐Marcellán, Andrés López, Pedro Sánchez‐Godoy, Fernando Burgos, Carlos Santonja, J. López, Miguel Á. Piris, Juan F. Garcı́a,
Summary Although specific microRNA (miRNA) signatures in classical Hodgkin lymphoma ( cHL ) have been proposed, their relationship with clinical outcome remains unclear. Despite treatment advances, a substantial subset of patients with advanced cHL are refractory to standard therapies based on adriamycin and its variants. Global miRNA expression data of 29 advanced cHL patients and five cHL ‐derived cell lines were used to identify profiles from Hodgkin‐Reed‐Sternberg (HRS) cells and their non‐tumoural ...
Tópico(s): Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
2013 - Wiley | British Journal of Haematology
B. Gonçalves, J. Sousa, B.B. Carvalho, A.J.N. Batista, A. Neto, B. Santos, A. Duarte, D. Valcárcel, D. Alves, Miguel Correia, A.P. Rodrigues, Paulo F. Carvalho, M. Ruíz, J. Vega, R. Castro, Juan Manuel López, N. Utzel, P. Mäkijärvi,
The ITER fast plan system controllers (FPSC) are based on embedded technologies. The FPSCs [1] will be devoted to data acquisition tasks (sampling rates >1 kSPS) and control purposes in closed-control loops whose cycle times are below 1 ms. Fast controllers will be dedicated industrial controllers with the ability to supervise other fast and/or slow controllers and interface to actuators, sensors and high performance networks. This contribution presents an FPSC prototype, specialized for data acquisition, ...
Tópico(s): Fusion materials and technologies
2012 - Elsevier BV | Fusion Engineering and Design
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Flávio Augusto de Carvalho, Lee H. Schwamm, Gustavo W. Kuster, Monique Bueno Alves, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Gisele Sampaio Silva,
Stroke is the fourth leading killer in the US, the first in Brazil and a leading cause of adult long-term disability in both countries. In spite of widespread recommendation, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect on changing physician behavior. Recognizing that both knowledge and acceptance of guidelines do not necessarily imply guideline adherence, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) developed a national stroke quality improvement program, the 'Get ...
Tópico(s): Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
2012 - Karger Publishers | Cerebrovascular Diseases Extra
Filipa L. Sousa, Renato Alves, Miguel Ribeiro, José B. Pereira‐Leal, Miguel Teixeira, Manuela M. Pereira,
Heme-copper oxygen reductases (HCO) reduce O(2) to water being the last enzymatic complexes of most aerobic respiratory chains. These enzymes promote energy conservation coupling the catalytic reaction to charge separation and charge translocation across the prokaryotic cytoplasmatic or mitochondrial membrane. In this way they contribute to the establishment and maintenance of the transmembrane difference of electrochemical potential, which is vital for solute/nutrient cell import, synthesis of ATP ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
2011 - Elsevier BV | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
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Gustavo W. Kuster, Monique Bueno Alves, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Gisele Sampaio Silva,
Emergency medical services (EMS) plays a key role in the recognition and treatment of stroke. This study evaluates the determinants of EMS use in a Brazilian population with acute ischemic stroke. We performed a post hoc analysis of prospectively collected data of consecutive patients admitted to a Brazilian tertiary hospital with acute ischemic stroke. Groups were compared according to their mode of arrival to the hospital: those brought by EMS and those arriving at the hospital by their own means. ...
Tópico(s): Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
2011 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Paulo Alves, Miguel A. Ferreira,
In this research paper we examine the determinants of capital structure using a large panel of firms from 31 countries, all with different legal systems and different levels of investor protection. Our results confirm that institutional variables play an important role in a firm's capital structure, although firm-level determinants seem to be similar around the world. The most important conclusion of this research concerns the negative impact of the interaction between shareholder rights and profitability ...
Tópico(s): Firm Innovation and Growth
2011 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Multinational Financial Management
Daniel Martín-Pérez, Esther Sánchez, Lorena Maestre, Javier Suela, Pierfrancesco Vargiu, Lorena Di Lisio, Nerea Martı́nez, Javier Alves, Miguel Á. Piris, Margarita Sánchez‐Beato,
Polycomb proteins are known to be of great importance in human cancer pathogenesis. SUZ12 is a component of the Polycomb PRC2 complex that, along with EZH2, is involved in embryonic stem cell differentiation. EZH2 plays an essential role in many cancer types, but an equivalent involvement of SUZ12 has not been as thoroughly demonstrated. Here we show that SUZ12 is anomalously expressed in human primary tumors, especially in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), pulmonary carcinomas and melanoma, and is associated ...
Tópico(s): RNA modifications and cancer
2010 - Elsevier BV | American Journal Of Pathology
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Renata Aparecida Nedel Pértile, Fábia Karine Andrade, Clodomiro Alves, Miguel Gama,
Bacterial cellulose (BC) membranes were modified with nitrogen plasma in order to enhance cell affinity. The surface properties of the untreated and plasma modified BC (BCP) were analyzed through contact angle measurements, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The effect of the plasma treatment on the adhesion of microvascular (HMEC-1), neuroblast (N1E-115) and fibroblast (3T3) cell lines was analyzed. The nitrogen plasma treatment did not increase the wettability ...
Tópico(s): Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
2010 - Elsevier BV | Carbohydrate Polymers