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BIM em infraestruturas ferroviárias: modelação automática de túneis para monito...
Caetano, Inês; Pinto, Débora; Barbosa, Yessica; Silva, João; Amândio, Margarida; Patrício, Hugo; Azenha, Miguel; Sanhudo, Luís; Martins, João PoçasA necessidade de reduzir o impacte ambiental do setor da Arquitetura, Engenharia e Construção e acompanhar os princípios da Indústria 4.0, levou à adoção de metodologias como o Building Information Modelling (BIM), aumentando a eficiência do setor e melhorando a monitorização e manutenção de infraestruturas. Este artigo aborda atividades desenvolvidas no âmbito do projeto RoboShot@FRC, as quais visam integrar e...
Low-cost silicon neural probe: fabrication, electrochemical characterization an...
Rodrigues, José Artur Oliveira; Pimenta, Sara; Pereira, José P.; Gomes, Nuno M.; Souto, Márcio R.; Fernandes, Helena C.; Caetano, InêsThis paper presents the fabrication of a silicon neural probe using low-cost microfabrication technologies, such as thin-films deposition, blade dicing, and photolithography. The metal stack that forms the 9 microelectrodes of 50 × 50 µm2 area, the tracks and the pads were made of Ti and Pt, while the passivation stack was SiO2 and Si3N4. The fabricated probe was characterized using electrochemical impedance sp...
Presence of one ecto- and two endoparasite species of the black stork (Ciconia ...
Ramilo, David; Caetano, Inês; Brazio, Erica; Mira, Manuela; Antunes, Leonor; Pereira da Fonseca, Isabel; Cardoso, LuísBackgroundThe black stork (Ciconia nigra Linnaeus, 1758) is a recognized endangered species in Europe and most of the specimens from the Western Palearctic region breed in the Iberian Peninsula. Available works regarding parasites in black storks are scarce. This work reports the presence one ecto- and two endoparasite species from a black stork in Portugal.Case presentationA black stork was found in southern P...
Patients’ and tutors’ evaluations of medicine students’ consultations in genera...
Santiago, Luiz Miguel de Mendonça Soares; Caetano, Inês; Simões, José Augusto RodriguesBackground Undergraduate teaching of General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM) must ensure students acquire the necessary competencies and skills to perform an adequate GP/FM consultation with adequate annotations (the SOAP model) and classifications. So aimed to study and to correlate students’ evaluation by tutors and patients in specific consultations in the formal practical evaluation of GP/FM Curricular Uni...
Coccidian parasites from birds at rehabilitation centers in Portugal, with note...
Cardozo, Sergian Vianna; Berto, Bruno Pereira; Caetano, Inês; Thomas, André; Santos, Marcos; Pereira da Fonseca, Isabel; Gomes Lopes, Carlos WilsonABSTRACT - Portugal has some rehabilitation centers for wild animals, which are responsible for the rehabilitation and reintroduction of birds, among other animals, into the wild. Coccidian parasites of these wild birds in rehabilitation centers are especially important because these centers can introduce coccidian species into new environments through the reintroduction of their respective hosts. In this conte...
The role of astrocytic calcium signaling in the aged prefrontal cortex
Gomes, Sónia Isabel Nunes Guerra; Viana, João Filipe; Nascimento, Diana Sofia Marques; Correia, Joana Sofia Silva; Sardinha, Vanessa Alexandra MoraisAging is a lifelong process characterized by cognitive decline putatively due to structural and functional changes of neural circuits of the brain. Neuron-glial signaling is a fundamental component of structure and function of circuits of the brain, and yet its possible role in aging remains elusive. Significantly, neuron-glial networks of the prefrontal cortex undergo age-related alterations that can affect co...
Overview of the ASBGo++ Smart Walker
Alves, Joana; Seabra, Eurico; Caetano, Inês; Santos, CristinaThis paper introduces the latest prototype developed by the Adaptive System Behaviour Group, after six years of research and clinical trials. The prototype named ASBGo++ (Plus Plus) Smart Walker presents new mechatronic and ergonomic design improvements. This paper also presents a brief overview analysis through a mechatronic point of view with an analogy between the smart walkers developed in an academic envir...
Design considerations of ASBGo++ (Plus Plus) Smart Walker
Alves, Joana; Caetano, Inês; Seabra, Eurico; Santos, CristinaThe development of a gait disorder leads to the loss of the ability to walk and may cause dependence of others in daily life, which is a major determinant in life quality. Thus, devices that provide mobility assistance and ambulatory daily exercises are essential for the health and life quality of such individuals. The ASBGo Smart Walker is an academic project aimed to create a medical solution for rehabilitati...
Considerations and mechanical modifications on ASBGo Smart Walker
Alves, Joana; Seabra, Eurico; Caetano, Inês; Gonçalves, José; Serra, João; Maria Martins; Santos, CristinaIt is known that human mobility has the tendency to decrease, gradually, with age as a consequence of neurological, muscular and/or osteoarticular deterioration. Thus, in an aging society, devices that provide mobility assistance and ambulatory daily exercises are essential for the health and life quality of such individuals. Besides a brief introduction about gait aid devices, this paper presents and proposes ...