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“You get out of the house, you talk to each other, you laugh…And that’s fantast...

Background Social prescribing (SP) is a non-clinical approach, most commonly based in healthcare units, that aims to address non-medical health-related social needs by connecting individuals with community-based services. This qualitative study explores the perception of Portuguese older adults regarding the benefits of SP and their willingness to participate in SP initiatives. Methods Three face-to-face focus ...

Social prescribing for older adults in mainland Portugal: Perceptions and futur...

Background In order to address health inequalities, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and promote older adults’ quality of life, it is necessary to explore non-medical approaches such as social prescribing. Social prescribing is a person-centered approach that allows health professionals to refer patients to services provided by the social and community sectors. This study aimed to explore o...

Monitoring sensors for urban air quality: The case of the municipality of Lisbon

Air pollution is a global issue that impacts environmental inequalities, and air quality sensors can have a decisive role in city policymaking for future cities. Science and society are already aware that during the most challenging times of COVID-19, the levels of air pollution in cities decreased, especially during lockdowns, when road traffic was reduced. Several pollution parameters can be used to analyse c...

Environmental inequalities in the municipality of Lisbon: Spatial analysis of c...

Some inducing factors of climate change can be attributed to a set of pollution indicators, and the territorial distribution of pollution has repercussions on environmental inequalities. Based on the case study of Lisbon, we map some environmental inequalities and how they relate to the location of transport infrastructures, green spaces, and mobility practices. How is air pollution distributed inside Lisbon? W...

A Model for Planning TELCO Work-Field Activities Enabled by Genetic and Ant Col...

Telecommunication Company’s (TELCO) are continuously delivering their efforts on the effectiveness of their daily work. Planning the activities for their workers is a crucial sensitive, and time-consuming task usually taken by experts. This plan aims to find an optimized solution maximizing the number of activities assigned to workers and minimizing the inherent costs (e.g., labor from workers, fuel, and other ...

DNA methylation in diabetic macular edema: first report

Envelhecimento humano e estilos de vida tem contribuído para aumento da DM. Edema macular diabético (EMD), uma das manifestações oculares da RD, é a principal causa de perda de visão em pessoas diabéticas. 30-40% casos EMD não respondem da melhor forma aos AVEGF (loading phase). Resistência pode persistir após 12 meses tratamento (+/50%). Objetivo do estudo: Desenvolver uma caracterização multimodal não invasiv...

Identidade europeia: Intersecção entre desigualdades de escolaridade e económicas

Pretende-se aprofundar o conhecimento das relações entre um sentimento de pertença europeu e o capital educacional, privilegiando a influência combinada deste último com o efeito de factores macrossociais, tais como a riqueza entre países e dentro dos países. Recorrendo a uma metodologia quantitativa, e a dados do Eurobarómetro, não é possível afirmar que a estrutura de distribuição de capital educacional dentr...

Validation of a similarity measurement method for clustering cardiac signals

Development of personalized cardiovascular management systems involves automatic identification of the current data as normal or pathological; considering cardiac data as time-series, the illness identification may be performed by seeking similarity between the current patient's time-series data and a reference signal and then proceeding to illness stratification (clustering). Seven of the most common methods o...

Comparison of different methods of measuring similarity in physiologic time series

Searching for similarity between time series plays an important role when large amounts of information need to be clustered to integrate intelligent supported personal health care diagnosis systems. The performance of classification, clustering and disease prediction are influenced by the prior stage where similarity between time series is performed. Physiologic signals vary even within the same patient, so an ...

Coxiella burnetii screening in pets