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Recycling and environmental issues of lithium-ion batteries: Advances, challeng...
Costa, Carlos Miguel Silva; Barbosa, J. C.; Gonçalves, Renato Ferreira; Castro, H.; Campo, F. J. D.; Lanceros-Méndez, S.Lithium-ion batteries, LIBs are ubiquitous through mobile phones, tablets, laptop computers and many other consumer electronic devices. Their increasing demand, mainly driven by the implementation of the electric vehicles, brings several environmental issues related to the mining, extraction and purification of scarce materials such as cobalt, nickel and lithium. This work provides an overview on the relevance ...
Electric vehicles: To what extent are environmentally friendly and cost effecti...
Costa, C. M.; Barbosa, J. C.; Castro, H.; Gonçalves, Renato Ferreira; Lanceros-Méndez, S.Energy and environmental issue are among the most relevant challenges to be solved in the near future. Electric vehicles (EVs) will play a key role in the solution by positively contribute to these two issues. The growth of the EV market both in Europe and the rest of the World in last years, arose a relevant question: to what extent are electric vehicles eco-friendly and cost effective in comparison with inter...
Chemical inhibition of β-glucocerebrosidase does not affect phagocytosis and ea...
Ribeiro, H.; Rocha, M. I.; Castro, H.; Macedo, M. F.Gaucher disease is a lysosomal storage disease in which a genetic deficiency in β-glucocerebrosidase leads to the accumulation of glycosphingolipids in lysosomes. Macrophages are amongst the cells most severely affected in Gaucher disease patients. One phenotype associated with Gaucher macrophages is the impaired capacity to fight bacterial infections. Here, we investigate whether inhibition of β-glucocerebrosi...
Long-term psychological outcome after discharge from intensive care
Pereira, S.; Cavaco, S.; Fernandes, J.; Moreira, I.; Almeida, E.; Seabra-Pereira, F.; Castro, H.; Malheiro, M.; Cardoso, A.; Aragão, I.; Cardoso, T.Objective: To investigate the longterm psychological outcome in survivors of critical illness after intensive care unit discharge. Methods: A prospective cohort of survivors admitted to a mixed intensive care unit between January and September 2010 was evaluated six months and five years after hospital discharge. The Dementia Rating Scale-2, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Posttraumatic stress sy...
Design and fabrication of multilayer inkjet-printed passive components for prin...
Correia, V.; Mitra, K. Y.; Castro, H.; Rocha, J. G.; Sowade, E.; Baumann, R. R.; Lanceros-Méndez, S.Printing electronic passive components suffer from the lack of a wide variety of appropriate materials for developing components with specific characteristics, for specific dimensions. This paper introduces a multilayer approach for the inkjet printing of resistors, inductors and capacitors, showing that it is possible to manufacture tailored passive circuit elements and therefore their implementation into func...
Polymer-based smart materials by printing technologies: Improving application a...
Oliveira, J.; Correia, V.; Castro, H.; Martins, Pedro Libânio Abreu; Lanceros-Méndez, S.Smart and functional materials processed by printing technologies reveal an increasing interest due to reduced cost of assembly, easy integration into devices and the possibility to obtain multifunctional materials over flexible and large areas. After introducing smart materials, printing technologies and inks, this review discusses the materials that are already being printed, mainly piezoelectric, piezoresist...
FHIRbox, a cloud integration system for clinical observations
Alves, N. F.; Ferreira, L.; Lopes, N.; Varela, M.L.R.; Castro, H.; Ávila, P. S.; Teixeira, H. A.; Putnik, Goran D.; Cruz-Cunha, M. M.With the recent technological developments new possibilities arise for the use of wearables and medical monitoring devices by patients and their respective integration into the digital health ecosystem. FHIRbox is a distributed system under development by the authors for integrating data from various diagnosis devices, complying with FHIR - the latest HL7 standard for exchanging clinical information. The innova...
Virtual Enterprise integration management based on a Meta-enterprise - A PMBoK ...
Ferreira, L.; Lopes, N.; Ávila, P. S.; Castro, H.; Varela, Maria Leonilde Rocha; Putnik, Goran D.; Martinho, R.; Rijo, R.; Miranda, I. M.A Virtual Enterprise (VE) can be viewed as a project, with a lifecycle corresponding to the period between its creation and integration of the constituting elements until its dissolution, comprehending its operation and including its reconfigurations. The authors propose that the VE lifecycle is aligned and can be managed using the frameworks provided by several bodies of knowledge, such as the PMBoK Guide. In ...
Virtual Enterprise integration management based on a Meta-enterprise – a PMBoK ...
Ferreira, L.; Lopes, N.; Ávila, P.S.; Castro, H.; Varela, M.L.R.; Putnik, G.D.; Martinho, R.; R. Rijo; Miranda, I.M.; Cruz-Cunha, M.M.A Virtual Enterprise (VE) can be viewed as a project, with a lifecycle corresponding to the period between its creation and integration of the constituting elements until its dissolution, comprehending its operation and including its reconfigurations. The authors propose that the VE lifecycle is aligned and can be managed using the frameworks provided by several bodies of knowledge, such as the PMBoK Guide. In ...
Cognition inspired format for the expression of computer vision metadata
Castro, H.; Monteiro, J.; Pereira, A.; Silva, D.; Coelho, G.; Carvalho, P.Over the last decade noticeable progress has occurred in automated computer interpretation of visual information. Computers running artificial intelligence algorithms are growingly capable of extracting perceptual and semantic information from images, and registering it as metadata. There is also a growing body of manually produced image annotation data. All of this data is of great importance for scientific pu...