Objective: The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was comparing diagnostic performance of ultrasound elastography (UE), strain UE and shear wave elastography (SWE), with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in differentiating benign and malignant breast lesions. Methods: Literature search of MEDLINE, Web of Science, SCOPUS and Google Scholar was performed in June 2023. Included studies used Breast ...
Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy (LVNC) is characterized by excessive trabeculation of the left ventricle. To date, mutations in more than 40 genes have been associated with LVNC, however the exact mechanisms underlying the disease remain unknown. Here, we describe an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line (UALGi001-A) from a LVNC patient (LVNC-iPSC) that does not present mutations in the genes ...
Os sistemas educativos são hoje confrontados, um pouco por todo o lado, com um mundo em profunda e rápida mudança. Invocando a expressão de Pierre Nora, vivemos um novo período de "aceleração da historia", em que a ligação entre o legado e o dever se torna cada mais ténue e contingente. A educação, intendida como instituição mundial, é cada vez mais atraída por esse vórtice de mudança e questionada nos seus pri...
Análise das feiras de Estremoz entre finais do século XVIII e início do século XIX como contributo para o estudo da constituição do mercado interno em Portugal.
This article presents provisional results from a research project, the purpose of which is to elaborate retrospective series for the main national accounting aggregates. The earliest estimates of Portuguese GNP per capita, published by Paul Bairoch, are confronted in this article with new indirect estimates based either on new sources or on alternative methods, namely the main component analysis. Although the n...