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Wall and roof solutions for a retail building considering cost investment and l...

This study explored which envelope solutions in retail buildings led to cost-optimal levels considering the Energy Performance of Building Directive and Portuguese regulation. For such, energy simulations were run in BIM software based on the analysis of a case study in Portugal. Typical alternative solutions were tested against the original case study, and solutions with considerably lower U-value considering ...

Effects of exercise programs on phase angle in older adults: a systematic revie...

The purpose of this study was to calculate the effects of exercise programs on phase angle (PhA) in older people. A systematic review was undertaken in multiple electronic databases in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses statement guidelines for the purposes of selecting randomized controlled trials that measured the effects of the exercise programs on PhA in o...

Menthol mouth rinsing and performance in elite football referees in the heat: A...

Background: Within professional European competitions, matches can be played in extreme environmental temperatures, ranging from-5 degrees C to +30 degrees C in different countries. Furthermore, the World Cups are usually played in the summer months, when temperatures can exceed 35 degrees C, increasing physiological stress. Practical and cost-effective cooling strategies may be implemented to help players and ...

Obstáculos no tratamento da dor pediátrica no Brasil: visão das crianças, uma p...

Home-based cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19 pandemic: effectiveness of an...

Patient education is considered a core component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and nowadays, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, online education programs are critical. However, the best strategy for implementing these digital programs to increase patients’ adherence and learning is not fully established.

Mitral valve prolapse: American versus European guidelines : which one is better

According to the most recent recommendations of AHA, mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is defined as systolic displacement of the mitral leaflet into the left atrium (LA) of at least 2 mm from the mitral annular plane. The ESC recommendations define MVP, flail and billowing, according to the location of the leaflet tips in relation to the coaptation plan. Differences in outcomes considering these classifications are ...

Wells and Geneva decision rules to predict pulmonary embolism: can we use them ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a recognized complication of SARS-COV2 infection due to hypercoagulability. Before the COVID era, the need for computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to rule out PE was determined by clinical probability, based on Wells and Geneva scores, in association with D-dimer measurements. However, patients with SARS-COV2 infection have a pro-thrombotic and pro-inflammatory state whic...

Relating carbon and energy intensity of best-performing retailers with policy, ...

Retail stores are amongst the building typologies with the highest carbon (CI) and energy intensities (EI). However, previous studies have only explored best practice EI of food and non-food retailers, without identifying best practice CI threshold values. This paper presents a five-step analysis of CI and EI amongst the highest revenue retailers, benchmarking best and worst performing CI and EI retailers, anal...

Are we aiming for different metabolic targets in heart failure patients?

Introduction: Metabolic control plays an important role on major cardiovascular events (MACE) prevention. The 2019 ESC guidelines on dyslipidaemia management recommend tighter LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) control in order to prevent cardiovascular events. However, it is not yet proven that thigh control of dyslipidaemia, glycaemic levels and body mass index (BMI) in Heart Failure (HF) patients (pts) have an impact o...

Using optical tracking system data to measure team synergic behavior: Synchroni...

The ecological dynamics approach to interpersonal relationships provides theoretical support to the use of kinematic data, obtained with sensor-based systems, in which players of a team are linked mainly by information from the performance environment. Our goal was to capture the properties of synergic behavior in football, using spatiotemporal data from one match of the 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA, to explore t...