Bruno Mota, Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Carlos Ramos, Zita Vale, Regina Correia,
The scheduling of tasks in a production line is a complex problem that needs to take into account several constraints, such as product deadlines and machine limitations. With innovative focus, the main constraint that will be addressed in this paper, and that usually is not considered, is the energy consumption cost in the production line. For that, an approach based on genetic algorithms is proposed and implemented. The use of local energy generation, especially from renewable sources, and the ...
Tópico(s): Energy Efficiency and Management
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Energies
Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Hugo Morais, Zita Vale, Carlos Ramos,
A distributed, agent-based intelligent system models and simulates a smart grid using physical players and computationally simulated agents. The proposed system can assess the impact of demand response programs.
Tópico(s): Optimal Power Flow Distribution
2014 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Intelligent Systems
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Sérgio Augusto Abrahão Morato, André Magnani Xavier de Lima, Daniele Cristina Pries Staut, Renato Gomes Faria, João Pedro Souza‐Alves, Sidney F. Gouveia, Michela Rossane Cavilha Scupino, Ramon Gomes, Marcelo José da Silva,
The Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest has high diversity levels of amphibians and reptiles, but there is a lack of richness survey at several areas, while a high level of deforestation is already known. The biome is highly endangered in northeastern Brazil, and few protected areas have been the main mechanism for providing the habitat conservation. We studied the Refúgio da Vida Silvestre Mata do Junco, a recently established conservation unit in this biome, at the Capela municipality, in the state ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
2011 - Pensoft Publishers | Check List
Helder Pereira, Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Zita Vale, C. S. C. R. Coelho,
Abstract The appearance of citizen energy communities demands the conception, development, and testing of new management models for the community and its end-users. Citizen energy communities promote the active participation of end-users, including them in the management of the community. End-users are incentivized to participate in demand response programs and share their energy among peers, enabling a decrease in their energy costs. In this paper, it is proposed a platform for the management of ...
Tópico(s): Electric Power System Optimization
2021 - Springer Nature | Energy Informatics
Fábio Trindade, Francisco Amado, Rui Oliveira-Silva, Ana L. Daniel‐da‐Silva, Rita Ferreira, Julie Klein, Ricardo Faría Almeida, Pedro S. Gomes, Rui Vitorino,
Chronic periodontitis (CP) is a complex immuno-inflammatory disease that results from preestablished gingivitis. We investigated potential differences in salivary peptidome in health and CP.Saliva was collected from nine CP patients and ten healthy subjects, from which five CP and five healthy were enriched following endoProteoFASP approach, separated and identified by nanoHPLC-MALDI-TOF/TOF. Protease prediction was carried out in silico with Proteasix. Parallel gelatin and collagen (I) zymographies ...
Tópico(s): Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions
2015 - Wiley | PROTEOMICS - CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Ubaid ur Rehman, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, Zita Vale,
Massive advancements have been noticed on the Internet of Things (IoT) integrating smart Homes Energy Management Systems (HEMSs). In the literature, many reviews have been carried out regarding the technological upgrades in the HEMSs. However, a comprehensive review of energy management technologies at the smart cities scale is lacking in the literature. In this paper, a detailed quantitative and Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been carried out regarding energy management technologies which ...
Tópico(s): Smart Parking Systems Research
2023 - Elsevier BV | Sustainable Cities and Society
Calvin Gonçalves, Rúben Barreto, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, Zita Vale,
Energy data measured on-site from buildings can help describe the consumption behavior of end-users and can be used to examine and prove certain theorems and models, that require a large volume of data to be gathered. However, the direct extraction of this data can often be a lengthily and costly process. As a result, a dataset of a residential community was constructed based on real data, where sample consumption and photovoltaic generation profiles were attributed to 50 residential households ...
Tópico(s): Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis
2022 - Elsevier BV | Data in Brief
Omid Abrishambaf, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, Zita Vale,
Center pivot systems are widely used to overcome the irrigation needs of agricultural fields. In this paper, an autonomous approach is proposed in order to improve the low efficiency of irrigation by developing a system based on the water requirement of the plantations, through field data. The data are local temperature, local wind, soil moisture, precipitation forecast, and soil evapotranspiration calculation. This information enables the system to calculate the real evapotranspiration for not ...
Tópico(s): Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
2020 - Elsevier BV | Energy Reports
Gabriel Santos, Zita Vale, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes,
Building energy management systems have been largely implemented, focusing on specific domains. When installed together, they lack interoperability to make them work correctly and to achieve a centralized user interface. The Building's Reasoning for Intelligent Control Knowledge-based System (BRICKS) overcomes these issues by developing an interoperable building management system able to aggregate different interest domains. It is a context-aware semantic rule-based system for intelligent management ...
Tópico(s): Data Stream Mining Techniques
2019 - Elsevier BV | Sustainable Cities and Society
Omid Abrishambaf, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, João Spínola, Zita Vale, Juan M. Corchado,
Demand response and distributed generation are key components of power systems. Several challenges are raised at both technical and business model levels for integration of those resources in smart grids and microgrids. The implementation of a distribution network as a test bed can be difficult and not cost-effective; using computational modeling is not sufficient for producing realistic results. Real-time simulation allows us to validate the business model’s impact at the technical level. This ...
Tópico(s): Smart Grid Security and Resilience
2017 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Energies
Carlos Ramos, Rúben Barreto, Bruno Mota, Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Zita Vale,
Considering the technological advances of the industrial sector today, it appears that the management of energy resources has become increasingly prominent. Thus, to make this management more efficient, it is necessary to take into account the production planning and scheduling concept, since it allows influencing the scheduling of production at the level of cost and efficiency. Thus, the objective of this paper is to present a methodology that allows making the best possible scheduling of a textile ...
Tópico(s): Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
2020 - Elsevier BV | Energy Reports
Daniel Ramos, Brígida Teixeira, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, Omid Abrishambaf, Zita Vale,
The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources led to the development of several energy management approaches. One of the main topics in this field is related to the load forecast in buildings, which can contribute to more intelligent and sustainable energy consumption. However, it is necessary to build a proper forecast model, capable of detecting an accurate consumption profile. The minimum effort to achieve this is to extract a historic with energy consumptions to use as input. Additional ...
Tópico(s): Smart Grid Energy Management
2020 - Elsevier BV | Energy Reports
Rúben Barreto, Calvin Gonçalves, Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Zita Vale,
In the energy sector, prosumers are becoming relevant entities for energy management systems since they can share energy with their citizen energy community (CEC). Thus, this paper proposes a novel methodology based on demand response (DR) participation in a CEC context, where unsupervised learning algorithms such as convolutional neural networks and k-means are used. This novel methodology can analyze future events on the grid and balance the consumption and generation using end-user flexibility. ...
Tópico(s): Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Energies
Nuno Teixeira, Rúben Barreto, Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Zita Vale,
Nowadays, internet of things devices are becoming more prominent since they can integrate energy management systems. However, data sharing between end-users and other external entities is a concern that must be addressed to ensure data privacy. Given the above, this paper proposes a trustworthy energy management system for energy communities to enable direct internet of things devices’ participation in demand response programs at the community level. This solution is based on a building energy management ...
Tópico(s): Smart Grid Security and Resilience
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Electronics
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Carsten Doerenkamp, Eduar Carvajal, Cláudio José Magon, Walter José Gomes Juste Faria, José Pedro Donoso, Y. Galvão Gobato, Andréa Simone Stucchi de Camargo, Hellmut Eckert,
Structure–property correlations in oxyfluoride glasses have been explored in a series of lead fluoroborate and lead fluorogermanate glasses with nominal compositions (50 – x – y – z)B2O3–40PbO–y(Al2O3)–(10 + x)PbF2–zREF3 and (50 – x – y)GeO2–40PbO–y(Al2O3)–(10 + x)PbF2–zREF3 (x, y = 0, 10, 0 ≤ z ≤ 0.5, RE = Eu, Yb). Starting from glasses with a fixed PbF2 content of 10 mol %, we explore the effects of (1) increasing PbF2 content to 20 mol % and (2) incorporating the intermediate oxide Al2O3 at the expense of GeO2 or B2O3. The ...
Tópico(s): Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
2019 - American Chemical Society | The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Patrícia Brasil, Mariano Zalis, Anielle de Pina-Costa, André M. Siqueira, Cesare Bianco Júnior, Sidnei Silva, André Luiz Lisboa Areas, Marcelo Pelajo‐Machado, Denise Anete Madureira de Alvarenga, Ana Carolina Faria da Silva Santelli, Hermano Gomes Albuquerque, Pedro Cravo, Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu, Cassio Peterka, Graziela Maria Zaniní, Martha Cecília Suárez-Mútis, Alcides Pissinatti, Ricardo Lourenço‐de‐Oliveira, Cristiana Ferreira Alves de Brito, Maria de Fátima Ferreira‐da‐Cruz, Richard Culleton, Cláudio Tadeu Daniel‐Ribeiro,
Malaria was eliminated from southern and southeastern Brazil over 50 years ago. However, an increasing number of autochthonous episodes attributed to Plasmodium vivax have recently been reported from the Atlantic Forest region of Rio de Janeiro state. As the P vivax-like non-human primate malaria parasite species Plasmodium simium is locally enzootic, we performed a molecular epidemiological investigation to determine whether zoonotic malaria transmission is occurring.We examined blood samples from ...
Tópico(s): Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
2017 - Elsevier BV | The Lancet Global Health
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Débora Gomes-Medeiros, Pedro Henrique de Faria, Gastão Wagner de Sousa Campos, Luís Fernando Tófoli,
The current status of policies on illicit drugs has implications for Collective Health that need to be discussed in depth. This essay aims to explore, in light of the best evidence, the public health impact of drug policies focused on the criminalization of growing, selling, and consuming psychoactive substances. Brazil provides the context for the main analysis. The principal points addressed in this work include drugs as a social issue and the definition of the prohibitionist paradigm, evidence ...
Tópico(s): Psychedelics and Drug Studies
2019 - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz | Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Pedro Gamito, Pedro Faria Lopes, Mário Rui Gomes,
This article presents a simple, fast and stable method for the animation and visualisation of turbulent gaseous fluids in two dimensions. We draw on well known methods from computational fluid dynamics to model the fluid using vorticity and velocity fields. While the vorticity is transported by a particle system, we use a uniform grid to compute velocities and displacements for each particle. This mixed approach where free particles move on a fixed grid requires little computational power, making ...
Tópico(s): Scientific Research and Discoveries
1995 - Springer Vienna | Eurographics
Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Zita Vale, Jorge Estrela da Silva,
Microgrids have been implemented all over the world in the last years. Several benefits are known for consumers and power grid management. As part of microgrids, the local energy management of renewable energy sources can prevent energy losses and support microgrid operation in islanded modes. Besides the success of the current microgrid implementations, improved components and models are required. This paper proposes two tools that support the implementation of microgrid demonstrations, namely ...
Tópico(s): Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
2018 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Daniel Ramos, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, Pedro Campos, Zita Vale,
The management of buildings responsible for the energy storage and control can be optimized with the support of forecasting techniques. These are essential on the finding of load consumption patterns being these last involved in decisions that analyze which forecasting technique results in more accurate predictions in each context. This paper considers two forecasting methods known as artificial neural network and k-nearest neighbor involved in the prediction of consumption of a building composed ...
Tópico(s): Energy Load and Power Forecasting
2022 - Elsevier BV | Energy Reports
Raquel Faria, Ana Magalhães, Pedro Monteiro, JOANA GOMES‐DA‐SILVA, Maria Amélia Ferreira, Teresa Summavielle,
Abstract: Long‐term behavioral consequences of the neurotoxicity produced by 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in the adolescent rat are still mostly unknown. Here, adolescent male rats (postnatal day 45 PND [45]) were exposed to 10 mg/kg of MDMA, intraperitoneally, every 2 h for 6 h. Controls were given 0.9% saline in the same protocol. Ten days after exposure, the behavioral effects of MDMA were assessed in the elevated plus‐maze ( n = 6 per group). After behavioral testing, animals were sacrificed ...
Tópico(s): Psychedelics and Drug Studies
2006 - Wiley | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Daniel Ramos, Brígida Teixeira, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, Omid Abrishambaf, Zita Vale,
The increase in sensors in buildings and home automation bring potential information to improve buildings’ energy management. One promissory field is load forecasting, where the inclusion of other sensors’ data in addition to load consumption may improve the forecasting results. However, an adequate selection of sensor parameters to use as input to the load forecasting should be done. In this paper, a methodology is proposed that includes a two-stage approach to improve the use of sensor data for ...
Tópico(s): Smart Grid Energy Management
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sensors
Aria Jozi, Daniel Ramos, Luís Gomes, Pedro Faria, Tiago Pinto, Zita Vale,
Due to the increment of the energy consumption and dependency of the nowadays lifestyle to the electrical appliances, the essential role of an energy management system in the buildings is realized more than ever. With this motivation, predicting energy consumption is very relevant to support the energy management in buildings. In this paper, the use of an energy management system supported by forecasting models applied to energy consumption prediction is demonstrated. The real-time automatic forecasting ...
Tópico(s): Neural Networks and Applications
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Ana Carolina Laus, Flávia Escremim de Paula, Marcos Alves de Lima, Carolina Dias Carlos, Izabela Natália Faria Gomes, Pedro De Marchi, Jenna Kadja Neves Valente, Ana Beatriz Maringolo Pioltini, José Elias Miziara, Carlos Maciel da Silva, Luciano de Souza Viana, Cristovam Scapulatempo‐Neto, Rui Manuel Reis,
Tópico(s): HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
2019 - Springer Nature | Molecular Biology Reports
T. Matos, C. L. Faria, M.S. Martins, Renato Henriques, Pedro Gomes, L.M. Gonçalves,
A cost-effective optical instrument for continuous in-situ monitoring applications is presented. With a production cost in raw materials of 38 €, a power consumption of 300 A in sleep mode and 100 mA in active mode (5 ms reading), and a capacity to monitor turbidity and sedimentary displacement at eight different depths in the water column, the sensor was developed for sediment monitoring in coastal areas. Due to the extent and dynamics of the processes involved in these areas, observations require ...
Tópico(s): Underwater Acoustics Research
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sensors
T. Matos, C. L. Faria, M.S. Martins, Renato Henriques, Pedro Gomes, L.M. Gonçalves,
A cost-effective optical sensor for continuous in-situ monitoring of turbidity and suspended particulate matter concentration (SPM), with a production cost in raw materials less than 20 €, is presented for marine or fluvial applications. The sensor uses an infrared LED and three photodetectors with three different positions related to the light source-135º, 90º and 0º-resulting in three different types of light detection: backscattering, nephelometry and transmitted light, respectively. This design ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal ecosystems
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sensors
Daniel Ramos, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes, Zita Vale,
The energy management of buildings plays a vital role in the energy sector. With that in mind, and targeting an accurate forecast of electricity consumption, in the present paper is aimed to provide decision on the best prediction algorithm for each context. It may also increase energy usage related with renewables. In this way, the identification of different contexts is an advantage that may improve prediction accuracy. This paper proposes an innovative approach where a decision tree is used to ...
Tópico(s): Energy Efficiency and Management
2022 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Access
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Túlio Teruo Yoshinaga, José Roberto Kfoury, Arno Juliano Butzge, Rennan Lopes Olio, Francisco Javier Hernandez‐Blazquez, Ana Cláudia Oliveira Carreira, Cristina de Oliveira Massoco Salles Gomes, Pedro Kastein Faria da Cunha Bianchi, Yara Aiko Tabata, Ricardo Shohei Hattori,
Germ cell transplantation and testis graft represent promising biotechnologies that can be applied for the reproduction of commercial or endangered species. However, mechanisms of rejection from the host immune system might remove the transplanted donor cells/tissues and limit the surrogate production of gametes. In this work, we administered emulsion containing-immunosuppressants to verify whether they are capable to prevent immune rejection and promote survival of testis allografts in rainbow ...
Tópico(s): Animal Genetics and Reproduction
2021 - Elsevier BV | Fish & Shellfish Immunology
Pedro N. Brito, Nuno L. Gomes, Marco P. Vieira, Pedro Alves Faria, Augusto V. Fernandes, Amândio Rocha‐Sousa, Fernando Falcão‐Reis,
In Brief Purpose: To study the potential association between fundus autofluorescence, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, and visual acuity in patients undergoing surgery because of epiretinal membranes. Methods: Prospective, interventional case series including 26 patients submitted to vitrectomy because of symptomatic epiretinal membranes. Preoperative evaluation consisted of a complete ophthalmologic examination, autofluorescence, and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. Studied ...
Tópico(s): Intraocular Surgery and Lenses
2013 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Retina
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
João Eduardo Gomes‐Filho, Max Dougals de Faria, Pedro Felício Estrada Bernabé, Mauro Juvenal Nery, José Arlindo Otoboni-Filho, Elói Dezan, Mariana Machado Teixeira de Moraes Costa, Mark Cannon,
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the subcutaneous response of rat connective tissue to light-cure MTA and Angelus MTA. These materials were placed in polyethylene and dentin tubes and implanted into dorsal connective tissue of Wistar rats for 30 and 60 days. The specimens were prepared to be stained with hematoxylin-eosin, Von Kossa, and without stain for polarized light and evaluated in an optic microscope. The Angelus MTA showed a mild inflammatory response at 30 days and none at 60 days, ...
Tópico(s): Dental Radiography and Imaging
2008 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Endodontics