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Determinants of corporate indebtedness in Portugal: An analysis of financial be...

Corporate indebtedness is a powerful tool in determining a company’s financial health with impacts on its image and reputation. The main objective of this research is to study the determining factors in corporate indebtedness in Portugal. It also has the secondary objectives of creating clusters of companies’ behaviour in relation to the use of credit and verifying their differences in relation to the character...

Raça suína Large White – avaliação genética 2023

Creating community of microbiology-related professionals through the MIRRI Coll...

MIRRI-ERIC supports the biosciences scientific community and bioindustries by providing a single point of access to microbial related services, the MIRRI Collaborative Working Environment (CWE, www.mirri.org). The CWE facilitates the access to the broadest range of high-quality microorganisms, their derivatives, associated data and services, and it is complemented with a forum of experts created to share and ge...

Did telework confined wellbeing and creativity?

What about if buildings respond to my mood?

This work analyzes the possibilities of interaction between the built environment and its users, focused on the responsiveness of the first to the emotions of the latter. Transforming the built environment according to the mood, feelings, and emotions of users, moment by moment, is discussed and analyzed. The main goal of this research is to define a responsive model by which the built environment can respond i...

Anomalies Identification in Images from Security Video Cameras Using Mask R-CNN

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T17:31:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-03-01; In this work we developed a system to identify anomalies in images from video security cameras in an urban environment. Initially people are detected in the images using Mask R-CNN. From the binary mask are extracted characteristics of the people so that the anomalies can be detected. In order to facial...

Predictors and outcomes of disseminated tuberculosis in an intermediate burden ...

Setting: University-affiliated hospital located in Porto, North Portugal, an area with a low to intermediate incidence of tuberculosis (TB). Objective: To identify predictors and outcomes of disseminated TB (dTB). Design: A cohort of patients diagnosed with TB between 2007 and 2013 was retrospectively analysed. Patients with dTB criteria were characterized and compared to single organ TB cases. Factors independ...

Automatic Detection and Recognition of Text-Based Traffic Signs from Images

Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-04T12:15:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-12-01; Detection and recognition of texts in traffic signs has been widely studied and with the advance in image capture technology has helped to improve or to create new methods to achieve this issue. In this work, we presented a method for detection, segmentation and recognition of text-based traffic signs f...

Health-Related Quality of Life in Pulmonary Hypertension and Its Clinical Corre...

BACKGROUND: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) impairment is common in pulmonary hypertension (PH), but its clinical predictors are not well established. This study aims to characterize the HRQoL of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and other precapillary forms of PH (pcPH) and to explore its clinical correlates. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional, observational study of patients wit...

The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry: Development, Features, and Data Sharing ...

The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry (Registo de Asma Grave Portugal, RAG) was developed by an open collaborative network of asthma specialists. RAG collects data from adults and pediatric severe asthma patients that despite treatment optimization and adequate management of comorbidities require step 4/5 treatment according to GINA recommendations. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation ...