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Preparation of medicines by three dimensional printing and personalization of t...

Leveraging deep neural networks for automatic and standardised wound image acqu...

Wound monitoring is a time-consuming and error-prone activity performed daily by healthcare professionals. Capturing wound images is crucial in the current clinical practice, though image inadequacy can undermine further assessments. To provide sufficient information for wound analysis, the images should also contain a minimal periwound area. This work proposes an automatic wound image acquisition methodology t...

Functions of identity in the context of being a student: Development and valida...

Corresponding Author: Paulo Moreira, Centro de Investigação em Psicologia para o Desenvolvimento (CIPD), Universidade Lusíada - Porto, Rua Dr. Lopo de Carvalho, 4369-006,Porto, Portugal, email: paulomoreira@por.ulusiada.pt; Published article at: Identity; A promising approach to the understanding of identity is the identity functions framework. However, its developmental specificities associated with adolescenc...

Functions of Identity in the Context of Being a Student: Development and Valida...

ABSTRACT A promising approach to the understanding of identity is the identity functions framework. However, its developmental specificities associated with adolescence remain unexplored. The aim of this study was to develop and test a new measure of the functions of identity as they relate to being a student. Consistent with the theoretical framework, an exploratory analysis with a subsample of high school stu...

Improving workflows in a hospital through the application of lean thinking prin...

This paper focuses on the external consultation and internment services in a hospital from Northern Portugal. The main goal was to improve the patient and hospital technical assistant's flows at these services applying principles of Lean HealthCare, i.e., principles of Lean Thinking adapted to the health care services. Several problems were identified in these services. Examples are deficient information and si...

Smartphone-based Transport Mode Detection for Elderly Care

Smartphones are everywhere, and they are a very attractive platform to perform unobtrusive monitoring of users. In this work, we use common features of modern smartphones to build a human activity recognition (HAR) system for elderly care. We have built a classifier that detects the transport mode of the user including whether an individual is inactive, walking, in bus, in car, in train or in metro. We evaluate...

Undergraduate Teaching in Geriatrics and Pediatrics in Portuguese Medical Schoo...

Introduction: Motivated by the contracting nature of the Portuguese age pyramid, and thereby the ever increasing geriatric population, the aim of this study was to compare the number of European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System Credits dedicated to Geriatrics with Pediatrics in Portuguese Medical Schools.Material and Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted and inclu...

Co-designed FreeRTOS deployed on FPGA

Most embedded systems are bound to real-time constraints. Two of the critical metrics presented in these systems are determinism and latency. Due to growing in complexity of embedded applications, real time operating systems (RTOS) are needed, not only to hide the increasingly complex hardware, but also to provide services to the system’s running tasks. Unfortunately, this new layer on an embedded system puts m...

An efficient distributed algorithm for computing minimal hitting sets

Computing minimal hitting sets for a collection of sets is an important problem in many domains (e.g., Spectrum-based Fault Localization). Being an NP-Hard problem, exhaustive algorithms are usually prohibitive for real-world, often large, problems. In practice, the usage of heuristic based approaches trade-off completeness for time efficiency. An example of such heuristic approaches is STACCATO, which was prop...

Enhancing reasoning approaches to diagnose functional and non-functional errors

Most approaches to automatic software diagnosis abstract the system under analysis in terms of component activity and correct/incorrect behaviour (colectivelly known as spectra). While this binary error abstraction has been shown to be capable of diagnosing functional errors, when diagnosing non-functional errors it yields suboptimal accuracy. The main reason for this limitation is related to the lack of mechan...