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Background: Congenital extrahepatic portosystemic shunts (CEPS) are rare shunts connecting the extrahepatic portal system with the inferior vena cava. Shunt dimensions and the risk of portal hypertension determines the closure strategy. Endovascular treatment is indicated for single stage occlusion of longer length shunts, whereas the remaining shunt types are preferentially surgically occluded. Herein we descr...
A 4-year-old male child presented was referred to our department with a history of an incidental finding reported on an abdominal ultrasound which was performed during the diagnostic workup of an interauricular communication.
A 4-year-old male child presented was referred to our department with a history of an incidental finding reported on an abdominal ultrasound which was performed during the diagnostic workup of an interauricular communication. The patient was asymptomatic. For further characterization of the aforementioned finding, a contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) with multiplanar and maximum intensity projection ...
Lap2Go is the portuguese timekeeping leader for sport events (e.g. running, trail running, MTB). The company manages more than 150 events by year, with thousands of participants using chips to sort out the results of all the participants for each event. Sometimes the road running events use start waves as segmentation. Each wave is based on the running rythm of each participant (e.g. under 40 minutes in a 10 Km...
Lap2go is a Portuguese timekeeping for several types of sport events. The challenge posed by this company is how to better manage the starting waves for mass running events in order to avoid congestions, taking into account each participant natural running pace, the total number of participants and, if possible, the topography and width of the road. As a case study the group has received the time each participa...
Order picking consists in retrieving products from storage locations to sat- isfy independent orders from multiple customers. It is generally recognized as one of the most significant activities in a warehouse (Koster et al, 2007). In fact, order picking accounts up to 50% (Frazelle, 2001) or even 80% (Van den Berg, 1999) of the total warehouse operating costs. The critical issue in today’s business environ- me...
In the last two decades, small strain shear modulus became one of the most important geotechnical parameters to characterize soil stiffness. Finite element analysis have shown that in-situ stiffness of soils and rocks is much higher than what was previously thought and that stress-strain behaviour of these materials is non-linear in most cases with small strain levels, especially in the ground around retaining ...
In the last two decades, small strain shear modulus became one of the most important geotechnical parameters to characterize soil stiffness. Finite element analysis have shown that in-situ stiffness of soils and rocks is much higher than what was previously thought and that stress-strain behaviour of these materials is non-linear in most cases with small strain levels, especially in the ground around retaining ...