John Huxley, George Darby, Stephen Dodgson, Victoria Glendinning, Richard Brooks Communications Correspondent, Harold Hobson, Martin Redfern, Frank Barber, Chris Ryder, Ann Gould, John Peter, Bemard Cafferty, Jonathan Miller, Patrick Bishop, David Hatton, J. W. Lambert, Nick Pitt, Mary Anne Weaver, Jason Tomas, Mark Hosenball, Dr M Reynolds, John Coates, Angela Carter's, Iain Johnstone, Deene Park, Peter Godwin, Robert Hewison, Mick Brown, Keith Botsford, David Dougill, Joe Irving, Veronica Horwell, Jane Bird, Maria Laura Avignolo, George Armstrong, Tim Glover, Michael Daly, Dr G. A. Lee, David Cairns, Julian Desser, John Ballantine, Lyndon Jones, Norman Harris, Donald Macintyre, Geoff Whitten, Jeannette Kupfermann, Lionel Barber, Michael Jones, Jenny Glew, George Perry, Lady Holland, John Sheppard, Dinah Morrison, Joyce Hopkirk, Brian Moynahan, Arthur Scargill, A Mills, Michael Jacobson, Nicholas Anderson, John Keegan, Roger Eglin, Frank Chapple, Peter Shearlock, Rick Shearman, Sean French, Ian MacEwan, Richard Brooks, T Roe, Garret Fitzgerald, Muriel Bowen Local Government Correspondent, Robin Marler, Joe Bradshaw, David Lister, Nick Gilbert, John Hopkins, Compton Miller, Simon de Bruxelles, John Barnes, Jill Neville, Tom Dove, Eric Marsden, Robert Taylor, Jean Price, Bryan Silcock, Mark Rosselli, Gareth Huw Davies, Patricia Connor, Simon Frith, Angela Wilkes, Loyd Grossman, Stephen Jones, Hirsh Goodman, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Brian Deer, N Hodges, Meriel McCooey, Norman Lebrecht, Andrew Neil, Michael Wood, Roger Boyes, K. Bibby, Dilys Powell, Brough Scott, Adam Geldman, Caroline McGhie, Tony Osman, J. G. Ballard, Linda Colley, Kim Fletcher, Tim Brown, Felix Aprahamian, Sue Summers, Michael Jones Political Editor, Lewis Chester, Peter Shearlock City Editor, Mihir Bose, Godfrey Smith, Sarah Jane Checkland, Brian Glanville, Misha Donat, Nicholas Harman, Caroline Silver, Peter Dunn, D Lemon, Derrick Carter, George Steiner, Michael Green, Colin Clifford, Arthur Jacobs, Douglas Bell, Marina Vaizey, S Milne, Robert Whymant, Susie Cornfield, David Black, Penelope Leach, J Blatherwick, Nicholas Kenyon, Sandy Gall, Nigel Horne, Jon Connell, Leslie Geddes-Brown, Boris Schapiro,
... Hon Mrs Marian Brudenell The Hon Mrs Ana Ines Astor A cottage, Wiltshire Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire ...
1984 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Wei‐Hua Hu, Carlos Moutinho, Elsa Caetano, Filipe Magalhães, Álvaro Cunha,
... continuously collected by the dynamic monitoring system of Pedro e Inês footbridge since 2007. Few works describe real data, ... was verified using 3 years of measurements at Pedro e Inês footbridge under operational conditions and simulating several realistic ...
Tópico(s): Concrete Corrosion and Durability
2012 - Elsevier BV | Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
Elsa Caetano, Álvaro Cunha, Filipe Magalhães, Carlos Moutinho,
The construction in Portugal of a relatively long and slender footbridge prone to vertical and lateral vibrations induced by the action of pedestrians motivated the full assessment of the corresponding dynamic behaviour with the purpose of installing a control system. The current paper describes the studies undertaken at a design stage and the results of a thorough experimental assessment of the constructed bridge properties. This experimental test allowed in particular the identification of modal ...
Tópico(s): Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
2010 - Elsevier BV | Engineering Structures
Álvaro Cunha, Elsa Caetano, Filipe Magalhães, Carlos Moutinho,
... different purposes: the Millau Viaduct, in France, the Pedro e Inês footbridge and the Infante D. Henrique Bridge, in ...
Tópico(s): Concrete Corrosion and Durability
2012 - Wiley | Structural Control and Health Monitoring
Elsa Caetano, Álvaro Cunha, Carlos Moutinho, Filipe Magalhães,
Abstract The construction in Portugal of a relatively long and slender footbridge prone to pedestrian-induced vertical and lateral vibrations motivated an extensive study for the design and implementation of a control system based on a set of lateral and vertical tuned mass dampers (TMDs). This paper discusses the strategy adopted in the design and assessment of the efficiency of this control system, pointing out particular problems with the lateral TMDs that suggest that the currently adopted design ...
Tópico(s): Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
2010 - Elsevier BV | Engineering Structures
Enrique Miranda, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
Tópico(s): Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
2009 - Elsevier BV | Information Sciences
Enrique Miranda, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
Random intervals constitute one of the classes of random sets with a greater number of applications. In this paper, we regard them as the imprecise observation of a random variable, and study how to model the information about the probability distribution of this random variable. Two possible models are the probability distributions of the measurable selections and those bounded by the upper probability. We prove that, under some hypotheses, the closures of these two sets in the topology of the ...
Tópico(s): Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems
2005 - Elsevier BV | Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Enrique Miranda, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
Given a random set coming from the imprecise observation of a random variable, we study how to model the information about the probability distribution of this random variable. Specifically, we investigate whether the information given by the upper and lower probabilities induced by the random set is equivalent to the one given by the class of the probabilities induced by the measurable selections; together with sufficient conditions for this, we also give examples showing that they are not equivalent ...
Tópico(s): Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
2005 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Enrique Miranda, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
Several authors have pointed out the relationship between consonant random sets and possibility measures. However, this relationship has only been proven for the finite case, where the inverse Möbius of the upper probability induced by the random set simplifies the computations to a great extent. In this paper, we study the connection between both concepts for arbitrary referential spaces. We complete existing results about the lack of an implication in general with necessary and sufficient conditions ...
Tópico(s): Fuzzy Systems and Optimization
2004 - Elsevier BV | Information Sciences
Susana Montes, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
In this paper, the concept of a fuzzy δ–ε-partitions of any fuzzy subset of the universe Ω is introduced as a generalization of that of a classical partition. The approach is based on four observations: the first one is that for any two members of a classical partition, their intersection is the empty set if they are not equal; the second one is that the union of all members of a classical partition is equal to the partitioned set; the third one is that this definition has to be applicable for any ...
Tópico(s): Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic
2003 - Elsevier BV | Information Sciences
Enrique Miranda, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
The characterization of the extreme points constitutes a crucial issue in the investigation of convex sets of probabilities, not only from a purely theoretical point of view, but also as a tool in the management of imprecise information. In this respect, different authors have found an interesting relation between the extreme points of the class of probability measures dominated by a second order alternating Choquet capacity and the permutations of the elements in the referential. However, they ...
Tópico(s): Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
2003 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Enrique Miranda, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
Different authors have observed some relationships between consonant random sets and possibility measures, specially for finite universes. In this paper, we go deeply into this matter and propose several possible definitions for the concept of consonant random set. Three of these conditions are equivalent for finite universes. In that case, the random set considered is associated to a possibility measure if and only if any of them is satisfied. However, in a general context, none of the six definitions ...
Tópico(s): Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic
2002 - World Scientific | International Journal of Uncertainty Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
Enrique Miranda, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
We investigate the probabilistic information given by a random set when it represents the imprecise observation of a random variable. We compare the information given by the distributions of the selectors with that provided by the upper and lower probabilities induced by the random set. In particular, we model the knowledge on both the probability of an event and the probability distribution of the original random variable. Some characterizations and examples are given for the case of a finite final ...
Tópico(s): Fuzzy Systems and Optimization
2002 - Springer Science+Business Media | Advances in intelligent and soft computing
Ricardo Passos, Ana Patrícia Correia, Inês Ferreira, Pedro Pires, Damiana Pires, E.T. Gomes, Beatriz do Carmo, Paulo Santos, Marco Simões, Clélia Afonso, Teresa Baptista,
Aquaculture intensification turns the reared populations prone to disease outbreaks, leading the industry to use antibiotics and chemotherapeutics. As the industry is searching for solutions, the development of sustainable aquafeeds with immunostimulant properties is emerging. This work aimed to assess the health benefits of Gracilaria gracilis as a supplement in Sparus aurata feed as well as its protective effect in a bacterial challenge. G. gracilis supplementation improved growth performance ...
Tópico(s): Aquatic life and conservation
2020 - Elsevier BV | Aquaculture
Alejandro Cervantes, Inés M. Galván, Pedro Isasi,
Nearest prototype methods can be quite successful on many pattern classification problems. In these methods, a collection of prototypes has to be found that accurately represents the input patterns. The classifier then assigns classes based on the nearest prototype in this collection. In this paper, we first use the standard particle swarm optimizer (PSO) algorithm to find those prototypes. Second, we present a new algorithm, called adaptive Michigan PSO (AMPSO) in order to reduce the dimension of ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
2009 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics)
Inês R. Violante, Maria José Ribeiro, Richard A.E. Edden, Pedro Guimarães, Inês Bernardino, José Rebola, Gil Cunha, Eduardo Silva, Miguel Castelo‐Branco,
Alterations in the balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission have been implicated in several neurodevelopmental disorders. Neurofibromatosis type 1 is one of the most common monogenic disorders causing cognitive deficits for which studies on a mouse model (Nfl(+/-)) proposed increased γ-aminobutyric acid-mediated inhibitory neurotransmission as the neural mechanism underlying these deficits. To test whether a similar mechanism translates to the human disorder, we used magnetic resonance ...
Tópico(s): Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
2013 - Oxford University Press | Brain
Alejandro Cervantes, Inés M. Galván, Pedro Isasi,
Nearest Prototype methods can be quite successful on many pattern classification problems. In these methods, a collection of prototypes has to be found that accurately represents the input patterns. The classifier then assigns classes based on the nearest prototype in this collection. In this paper we develop a new algorithm (called AMPSO), based on the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, that can be used to find those prototypes. Each particle in a swarm represents a single prototype in ...
Tópico(s): Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
2007 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Susana Montes, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil,
Tópico(s): Advanced Algebra and Logic
2001 - Elsevier BV | Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Werner Apt, Ximena Aguilera, A Arribada, Claudio F. Pérez, C. Miranda, Gina Sánchez, Inés Zulantay, Pedro Cortés, Jorge Rodríguez, Daniel E. Juri,
Four hundred four patients with chronic Chagas' disease were treated with itraconazole (6 mg/kg of body weight/day for 120 days), allopurinol (8.5 mg/kg of body weight/day for 60 days), or with a placebo of pure starch. Patients were monitored over a period of four years by clinical examination, serology, xenodiagnosis, hemoculture, and electrocardiogram. Drug tolerance was good, with only four treatments discontinued due to side effects that subsided after suspension of treatment. Parasitologic cure ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical and Molecular Research
1998 - American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Santiago Cuevas, Yanrong Zhang, Yu Yang, Crisanto Escano, Laureano D. Asico, John E. Jones, Inés Armando, Pedro A. José,
The D(2) dopamine receptor (D(2)R) is important in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension. We have already reported that systemic deletion of the D(2)R gene in mice results in reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent hypertension, suggesting that the D(2)R has antioxidant effects. However, the mechanism of this effect is unknown. DJ-1 is a protein that has antioxidant properties. D(2)R and DJ-1 are expressed in the mouse kidney and colocalize and coimunoprecipitate in mouse renal proximal tubule ...
Tópico(s): Renin-Angiotensin System Studies
2012 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Hypertension
Laureano D. Asico, Xiaojie Zhang, Jifu Jiang, David Cabrera, Crisanto Escano, David R. Sibley, Xiaoyan Wang, Yu Yang, Roslyn B. Mannon, John E. Jones, Inés Armando, Pedro A. José,
Disruption of the dopamine D(5) receptor gene in mice increases BP and causes salt sensitivity. To determine the role of renal versus extrarenal D(5) receptors in BP regulation, we performed cross-renal transplantation experiments. BP was similar between wild-type mice and wild-type mice transplanted with wild-type kidneys, indicating that the transplantation procedure did not affect BP. BP was lower among D(5)(-/-) mice transplanted with wild-type kidneys than D(5)(-/-) kidneys, demonstrating that ...
Tópico(s): Stress Responses and Cortisol
2010 - American Society of Nephrology | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Inês M. Tavares, Hera E. Schlagintweit, Pedro Nobre, Natalie O. Rosen,
The transition to parenthood encompasses several psychological and relational changes that might contribute to couples' high levels of stress postpartum. Although common across the postpartum, couples' sexual changes are frequently overlooked.We surveyed 255 mixed-sex new parent couples to examine the associations between sexual well-being-sexual satisfaction, desire, and postpartum sexual concerns-and perceived stress postpartum. Couples completed self-report questionnaires assessing perceived ...
Tópico(s): Sexual function and dysfunction studies
2019 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
Mariana Temido‐Ferreira, Diana G. Ferreira, Vânia L. Batalha, Inês Marques-Morgado, Joana E. Coelho, Pedro Pereira, Rui Gomes, Andreia Pinto, Sara Carvalho, Paula M. Canas, Laëtitia Cuvelier, Valérie Buée‐Scherrer, Émilie Faivre, Younis Baqi, Christa E. Müller, José Pimentel, Serge N. Schiffmann, Luc Buée, Michael Bäder, Tiago F. Outeiro, David Blum, Rodrigo A. Cunha, Hélène Marie, Paula A. Pousinha, Luı́sa V. Lopes,
Synaptic dysfunction plays a central role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), since it drives the cognitive decline. An association between a polymorphism of the adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR) encoding gene-ADORA2A, and hippocampal volume in AD patients was recently described. In this study, we explore the synaptic function of A2AR in age-related conditions. We report, for the first time, a significant overexpression of A2AR in hippocampal neurons of aged humans, which is aggravated in AD patients. A similar ...
Tópico(s): Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
2018 - Springer Nature | Molecular Psychiatry
Zehan Wang, Chenguang Li, Yunsheng Li, Xinxin Wei,
... London Millennium Bridge (UK), T-bridge (Japan) and Pedro e Inês footbridge (Portugal). With varying step frequencies and pedestrian ...
Tópico(s): Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
2024 - Elsevier BV | Applied Mathematical Modelling
Luı́s Somoza, Teresa Medialdea, Javier González, Sara Machancoses, Jose A. Candón, Constantino Cid, António Calado, Andreia Afonso, L. P. Ribeiro, Iker Blasco, Mónica Albuquerque, María Asensio‐Ramos, Renato Bettencourt, Cristina de Ignacio, Enrique López-Pamo, Bruno Ramos, Blanca Rincón-Tomás, Esther Santofimia, Miguel Souto, Inês Tojeira, Cláudia Viegas, Pedro Madureira,
This work presents a new high-resolution multibeam bathymetric map of a segment of active deep sea-floor spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) at 45–46º N. New high-resolution bathymetry data were acquired using an Atlas multibeam echosounder onboard the research vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa during the EXPLOSEA-2 survey in 2019. The final map of the MAR (50 m cell grid size) at the original scale of 1:200,000 shows a segment of 140 × 35 km of the MAR, at water depths from ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Maps
A. Hildenbrand, Pedro Madureira, F.O. Marques, Inês Cruz, Bernard Henry, Pedro Silva,
New K/Ar dating and geochemical analyses have been carried out on the WNW–ESE elongated oceanic island of S. Jorge to reconstruct the volcanic evolution of a linear ridge developed close to the Azores triple junction. We show that S. Jorge sub-aerial construction encompasses the last 1.3 Myr, a time interval far much longer than previously reported. The early development of the ridge involved a sub-aerial building phase exposed in the southeast end of the island and now constrained between 1.32 ± ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
2008 - Elsevier BV | Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Inés Couso, Luciano Sánchez, Pedro Gil,
Some different extensions to random sets of the most common parameters of a random variable share a common rationale: a random set represents the imprecise observation of a random variable, hence the generalized parameter contains the available information about the respective parameter of the imprecisely observed variable. Following the same principles, in this paper it is proposed a new definition of the distribution function of a random set. This definition is simpler in its formulation and it ...
Tópico(s): Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
2003 - Elsevier BV | Information Sciences
Inés Couso, Susana Montes, Pedro Gil,
Tópico(s): Optimization and Variational Analysis
2002 - Elsevier BV | Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Inés Couso, Susana Montes, Pedro Gil,
Random sets and fuzzy random variables are commonly used to model situations where two different types of uncertainty (imprecision/vagueness and randomness) appear simultaneously. In this context, the meaning of random sets is clear. The same does not happen for the case of fuzzy random variables. The meaning depends on the particular interpretation of fuzzy sets chosen. In this paper, we consider the possibilistic interpretation introduced by Zadeh (1978) and show some situations where the imprecise ...
Tópico(s): Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems
2002 - Springer Nature | Studies in fuzziness and soft computing
Susana Montes, Inés Couso, Pedro Gil, Carlo Bertoluzza,
In this paper we propose a way of measuring the difference between two fuzzy sets by means of a function which we will call divergence. We define this concept by means of a group of natural axioms and we study in detail the most important classes of such measures, those which have the local property.
Tópico(s): Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems
2002 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Approximate Reasoning