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What matters for the decision to study abroad?

Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge comments from Toman Barsbai, Cara Ebert, Eliana La Ferrara, David Lagakos, Ben Marx, David McKenzie, Caroline Theoaharides and other participants at several seminars and conferences. We are grateful to our project coordinator Gon\u00E7alo Gameiro for superb work on all aspects of project implementation and data management, as well as to Isabel Gouveia, Mar...

Unveiling Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy

Understanding the private-public school performance gap in PISA

© The Author(s) 2024.; We analyse the PISA-reported convergence in the performance of private and public schools in Portugal. When PISA sampling weights are used, the number of students enrolled in those types of schools and specific grades/tracks of study differs significantly from official population figures. To account for those differences, we apply a post-stratification adjustment; however, sample sizes ar...

Diagnóstico da Doença Renal Crónica em Adultos em Portugal

Publisher Copyright: Copyright © Ordem dos Médicos 2025.; Chronic kidney disease represents a significant public health issue, affecting approximately 9.8% of the adult population in Portugal. Despite this figure, early diagnosis of this disease in high-risk groups remains limited. Although only two parameters are essential for its diagnosis – estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and albuminuria – in Por...

Cardiac magnetic resonance patterns of left ventricular remodeling in patients ...

Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy is a common finding in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS). Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold-standard technique to evaluate LV remodeling. Our aim was to assess the prevalence and describe the patterns of LV adaptation in AS patients before and after surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR). Prospective study of 130 c...

Materialisation and materiality in Almada's geometry

UIDB/00657/2020 UIDP/00657/2020; From an early age, Almada Negreiros developed a fascination for geometry that became manifest in several ways: as a tool for understanding and making art, as a subject for creation and even as the basis for a theory about art. Pervading most of his later work, Geometry is also key to some of his large-scale mural works. With this chapter, we intend to show examples of how the au...

Prevalence and significance of relative apical sparing in aortic stenosis

AIMS: This study aims to assess the prevalence of relative apical sparing pattern (RASP) in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS), referred for surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR), to evaluate its significance, possible relation to amyloid deposition, and persistence after surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS: Prospective study of 150 consecutive patients [age 73 (interquartile range: 68-77), 51% wo...

Valor preditivo da cintigrafia de perfusão miocárdica ou da ressonância magnéti...

Introduction and objectives: Randomized controlled trials comparing stress cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) suggest similar diagnostic accuracy for detecting obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). There are few data on whether this remains true in routine clinical practice. The aim of this study was to assess clinical and angiographic characteristics of...

Critical appraisal of a non-invasive model to derive pulmonary capillary wedge ...

Tailoring the synaptic properties of a-IGZO memristors for artificial deep neur...

UIDB/50025/2020-202 DFA/BD/8335/2020 No. PTDC/NAN-MAT/30812/2017 Grant Nos. EP/M006727/1 EP/S000259/1; Neuromorphic computation based on resistive switching devices represents a relevant hardware alternative for artificial deep neural networks. For the highest accuracies on pattern recognition tasks, an analog, linear, and symmetric synaptic weight is essential. Moreover, the resistive switching devices should ...