This study investigates the semantic alignment between Airbnb property descriptions and guest reviews. Word2Vec embeddings and affinity propagation clustering are used to identify granular semantic concepts, enabling a detailed comparison of the two text types. A new metric, concept coverage ratio, is introduced to measure the extent to which the guest review content is reflected in property descriptions. Resul...
In this article, we investigate in different scenarios the feasibility of using massive multiple-input–multiple-output (mMIMO) with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to increase the throughput and coverage with high energy efficiency, considering sub-6 GHz, mmWave, and THz bands. With that objective, a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) suitable for beyond fifth-generation (B5G) systems is consid...
Robotic systems are increasingly being used in healthcare. These systems improve patient care both by freeing healthcare professionals from repetitive tasks and by assisting them with complex procedures. This analysis examines the development and implementation of the use of robotic systems in healthcare. It also examines the application of artificial intelligence (AI), which focuses on the autonomy of robotic ...
One of the key technologies of 6G communications relies on large intelligent surfaces (LIS), which can be viewed as a near-field beamformer that is supportive of extremely high symbol rates and enables a high level of interference avoidance. This article focuses on LIS systems, analysing the impact of the use of a whole LIS system or a subset of an antenna array. We analyse an LIS system associated with a singl...
Background: As one of the most important food production sectors worldwide, aquaculture is now invested in developing tools to study fish immunity. Fish health relies heavily on hematopoietic organs (head kidney), but also on intestine. The wide knowledge-gap of the fish immune system coupled with the lack of cell lines to perform in vitro studies poses a barrier to the development of efficient tools to enhance...
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are considered to be a key enabling technology for 6G as they can potentially provide a boost in performance with a high energy efficiency. RISs rely on the use of arrays with a large number of low-cost quasi-passive reflecting elements which can be individually tuned in order to shape the radio wave propagation. This can effectively enable the implementation of smart ...
This study was developed to understand how tourists feel after dreamed travel experiences ended up cancelled. The orchestra model that considers experiences as an intermingled process was applied to analyse the negative feelings experienced by tourists during these pandemic times. Through web scraping, over 40 thousand comments from 600 threads discussing the pandemic impact on tourists’ inability to concretize...
Today, the internet is fundamental to social inclusion. There are many people that live in remote areas, and the only way to supply internet services is through the use of microwave terrestrial and satellite systems. Thus, it is important to have efficient tools to design and optimize these systems. In this paper, a tool with the objective to shorten the time spent in the design process of microwave terrestrial...
The InCarbon project aims to evaluate the potential for storage of captured CO2 using in-situ mineral carbonation in mafic and ultramafic plutonic rocks in Alentejo, Portugal. The Sines massif appears to be the most promising massif for mineral carbonation and its geochemistry, petrography, mineralogy, volume and extension are characterized. Its offshore volume and extension are evaluated through reinterpretati...