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Coronavirus disease 2019 diagnostics: key to Africa's recovery

With the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) becoming a full-blown outbreak in Africa, coupled with many other challenges faced on the African continent, it is apparent that Africa continues to need diagnostics to enable case identification and recovery to this and future challenges. With the slow vaccination rates across the continent, reliable diagnostic tests will be in demand, likely for years to come. T...

One Dimensional Trim Loss Decision Support Tool

The topic Cutting & Packing (C & P) has been published in many papers, and its importance within many industrial sectors is undeniable. For these reasons, several studies have been carried out on the optimization of the cutting process in order to improve the utilization of the useful area or the useful length of the raw material. Thus, this work aims to develop a computational tool that resolves the problem of...

An industry 4.0 oriented tool for supporting dynamic selection of dispatching r...

Production scheduling is an optimizing problem that can contribute strongly to the competitive capacity of companies producing goods and services. A way to promote the survival and the sustainability of the organizations in this upcoming era of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is the efficient use of the resources. A complete failure to stage tasks properly can easily lead to a waste of time and resources, which could resul...

Atas das I Jornadas Lusófonas de Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação Geográfica

Canal wall-up mastoidectomy - Predictive factors of recurrence

Canal wall-up timpanoplasty is increasing its popularity as the preferred treatment for cholesteatoma. Nevertheless, the significant recurrence rate of this disease turns the choice for surgical treatment controversial and difficult. Aiming to analyze tympanomastoidectomy success rate in Hospital São José’s Otolaryngology Department, to establish eventual predictive factors for failure and to evaluate the compu...

Nasal obstruction in deep water diving

Introduction: Diving has become increasingly popular with time, with an increase of associated pathologies. This issue is especially important in deep diving, where there is less experience and absence of published data. The lack of information is even more concerning when dealing with professional military divers, who are at increased risk, given their higher exposure to diving and the specific nature of activ...

Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy – Recurrence predictive factors

Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is increasing its popularity as the preferred treatment for lachrymal duct blockage, due to its high success rate, fast healing and avoidance of facial scar.Aiming to analyse endoscopic DCR success rate in Hospital de São José’s Otolaryngology Department and to establish eventual predictive factors for failure, we present a retrospective study of the last four years.Our gl...

Deep neck infections – Survey from an ENT department

Given the complexity, deep location and significant morbidity of deep neck space infections, their diagnosis and treatment remain an important medico-surgical challenge. As these infections are frequently caused by tonsillar and pharyngeal infections, Otolaryngologists are often called to lead with difficult problems.Aiming to analyze deep neck space infections occurred during the last five years in Hospital de...

Effects of noise in the Portuguese Navy Personnel

Objective: To determine the prevalence of hearing loss in Navy personnel that was reveled between June of 2005 and June of 2006 at the Navy Disability Evaluation Council, categorizing these cases in accordance with: the causes of hearing loss, the year of enlistment in the Navy, the presence on expeditions in the Portuguese African war, the rate, the category, the rank and the degree of disability due to the he...

CRANIO-FACIAL FIBROUS DYSPLASIA - TWO CASE REPORT

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