Background: The Montreal classification has been widely used in Crohn's disease since 2005 to categorize patients by the age of onset (A), disease location (L), behavior (B), and upper gastrointestinal tract and perianal involvement. With evolving management paradigms in Crohn's disease, we aimed to assess the performance of gastroenterologists in applying the Montreal classification. Methods: An online survey ...
Purpose - This paper presents the development of a new organizational excellence tool specifically for use by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) while implementing business excellence models. A literature review was conducted to analyse the current state of business excellence models and their content and application around the world, including the identification of key principles that drive their creatio...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to understand the current state of quality management practices in Small and Medium Enterprises. The main concepts of Quality Management and its practices in Small and Medium Enterprises were reviewed from the literature in order to understand the key practices in these organizations, and a data analysis on their use was performed. Design/methodology/approach - Analysis wa...
The security of lattice-based cryptography relies on the hardness of problems based on lattices, such as the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) and the Closest Vector Problem (CVP). This paper presents two parallel implementations for the SE++ with and without extreme pruning. The SE++ is an enumeration-based CVP-solver, which can be easily adapted to solve the SVP. We improved the SVP version of the SE++ with an op...
No sistema educativo português, persistem estereótipos ou preconceitos relativamente à abordagem das áreas da Educação Artística (EA) em contexto curricular. Vários estudos, nacionais e internacionais, vêm atestando ao longo dos anos a relevância da EA no desenvolvimento integral da criança, embora os dados que vão sendo conhecidos sobre a realidade do ensino nacional demonstrem que as áreas do currículo que lh...
A espondilopatia cervical uma patologia de etiologia multifactorial, que leva a um estreitamento do canal vertebral e consequentemente compressão da medula espinhal cervical caudal e das raízes nervosas, devido a alterações anatómicas e posicionais ao nível das vértebras cervicais (C5, C6 e C7). Os animais afectados, mais frequentemente raças grandes (Dobermen e Dogue Alemão) podem apresentar ataxia dos membros...