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CRISPR/Cas13 for the Control of Plant Viruses
Ribeiro, J. A.; Varanda, C.M.R.; Materatski, P.; Campos, M.D.; Patanita, M.; Albuquerque, A.; Garrido, N.; Monteiro, T.; Santos, F.; Félix, M.R.F.Plant viruses are one of the main threats to crops and food security worldwide, being very difficult to monitor and control. Since there are no effective chemical products against plant viruses, using virus-resistant plants is often the only option. Many promising strategies have been developed to engineer virus resistance however, several setbacks have hampered their utility in agriculture. In prokaryotes, clu...
Influence of Sex and a High-Fiber Diet on the Gut Microbiome of Alentejano Pigs...
Albuquerque, A.; Garrido, N.; Charneca, R.; Egas, C.; Martin, L.; Ramos, A.; Costa, F.; Marmelo, C.; Martins, J.M.This study investigates the influence of sex and a dietary transition on the gut microbiota of a local Portuguese pig breed. Three groups of male Alentejano pigs (n = 10 each) were raised between ~40 and 160 kg LW. Group C included pigs that were surgically castrated, while the I group included intact ones; both were fed with commercial diets. The third group, IExp, included intact pigs that were fed commercial...
Backfat transcriptome of castrated and intact Alentejano pigs fed commercial an...
Garrido, N.; Albuquerque, A.; Martins, J.M.; Charneca, R.; Costa, F.; Marmelo, C.; Ramos, A.; Martin, L.This work, included in the framework of the ECO-PIG Project, aims to reveal the differences in the backfat transcriptome of 30 male Alentejano pigs (AL) raised outdoors and divided equally into surgically castrated (C), intact (I) and intact pigs consuming an experimental diet (IE). These animals were fed ad libitum with commercial diets from 40 to 130 kg body weight. From 130 to 160 kg (slaughter weight) C and...
Port request classification automation through NLP
Martins, S.; Garrido, N.; Sebastião, P.This project describes a suggested prototype to carry out the automatic classification of requests from a Port Help Desk. It intents to ascertain if the implementation of this framework is viable for this sector. For this purpose different models were employed, such as SVM, Decision Tree, Random Forest, LSTM, BERT and a SVM hierarchical model. To verify their efficiency these models were evaluated using Precisi...
Examination of unremitting kidney illness by utilizing machine learning classif...
Sarwar, F.; Garrido, N.; Sebastião, P.; Rehan, A.Chronic kidney disease is a rising health issue that affects millions of people worldwide. Early detection and characterization of this disease is essential for effective management and control. This disease is associated with several serious health risks, such as cardiovascular disease, increased risk of stroke, and end-stage renal disease, which can be effectively prevented by early detection and treatment. M...
Sprinter: A didactic linter for structured programming
Alfredo, F.; Santos, A. L.; Garrido, N.Code linters are tools for detecting improper uses of programming constructs and violations of style issues. Despite that professional linters are available for numerous languages, they are not targeted to introductory programming, given their prescriptive nature that does not take into consideration a didactic viewpoint of learning programming fundamentals. We present Sprinter, a didactic code linter for struc...
Jask: Generation of questions about learners’ code in Java
Santos, A. L.; Soares, T.; Garrido, N.; Lehtinen, T.We present Jask, a system capable of generating questions about a learner's code written in Java. Given Java code as input, Jask provides a set of meaningful questions formulated in terms of the actual code (using its constructs and identifiers) and the corresponding correct answers. We integrated Jask in a web-based system where students submit their code (e.g., from lab exercises), answer questions about it, ...
An interactive visiting system using BLE devices
Garrido, N.; Serrão, C.; Coitos, B.This chapter presents a use case based on the development of an interactive, integrated and adaptable visiting system for complex buildings and surrounding grounds (smart places). The system features a mobile application that allows the user to access information from several smart places in a single application, and an Indoor Location and Tracking System that infers the user location during the smart place vis...
MOG - A smart mobile system for interactive museum visits
Coitos, B.; Serrão, C.; Garrido, N.In this work we propose an integrated system to manage and enhance the museums visiting experience for the general public, providing a more comfortable, intelligent and interactive way to visit multiple museums without the need for several mobile applications, whilst giving a tool to museum curators that allows them to easily manage and extend the content displayed to each individual visitor. For that purpose, ...
An interactive location system for smart places
Coitos, B.; Serrao, C.; Garrido, N.In this work, we describe a prototype that was developed as an inte- grated system that provides relevant information in an interactive way when in- side of complex buildings, such as museums, hospitals, shopping malls, amongst others. To accomplish this, the system uses an Indoor Location and Tracking System taking advantage of BLE devices and Bluetooth capabilities of mobile devices. This prototype is also co...