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Assessment of flood hazard potential in the Este River basin using precipitatio...
Machado, João; Henriques, Renato F.; Veloso, Rui; Marinho Reis, A. PaulaWith increasing urbanization and climate variability, flood risk has become a pressing concern for cities like Braga, located in northwest Portugal, where natural factors such as irregular topography and the presence of the Este River intersect with dense urban development. The Este River basin, characterized by low slope gradients and extensive impermeable surfaces, is particularly prone to sudden flood events...
Evaluation of Probable Sarcopenia’s Prevalence in Hospitalized Geriatric Patien...
Cavalheiro, Ana; Afonso, Sara; Silva, Marta; Ramalhão, Nuno; Machado, João; Magalhães, SandraBackground: Sarcopenia is defined as a progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength related to age and comorbidities. Worldwide sarcopenia's prevalence varies between 10-40%, being associated with functional impairment, lower quality of life, and higher mortality. Sarcopenia can be estimated based on age, calf circumference, and handgrip strength (Ishii's formula). Early diagnosis is essential because ...
Alteração do Comportamento de Etiologia Não Psiquiátrica: Um Caso Clínico sobre...
Teixeira, David; Isidoro, Luís; Machado, João; Cabreira, Verónica; Borges, SandraIntrodução: A Doença de Wilson – também denominada de degenerescência hepatolenticular – é uma doença genética rara associada ao metabolismo do cobre e tem uma transmissão autossómica recessiva. Reconhecida pelos seus efeitos sistémicos e neurológicos dramáticos, esta doença tem sintomatologia psiquiátrica muito relevante, frequentemente subvalorizada. Objetivos: Descrever um caso clínico neuropsiquiátrico de D...
Comunicação no futebol de formação
Machado, JoãoCommunication departments have been increasingly recognised for the value they can attribute to a company or institution. However, this use of communication has not yet been fully understood by football clubs. Marked by their weak financial resources, these clubs do not feel the need to invest in an organised communication, not only because they do not believe in its necessity, but also because of the lack of s...
Confirmatory Evaluation of the Modified Medical Research Council Questionnaire ...
Ribeiro, Soraia; Cardoso, Carlos Seiça; Valério, Margarida; Machado, João; Costa, José; Rodrigues, Cidália; Rebelo-Marques, AlexandreThe Modified British Medical Research Council Questionnaire is considered an adequate and simple measure of breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is widely used in clinical practice in Portugal, but it still lacks confirmatory evaluation for the Portuguese setting. The aim of this study was to perform a cultural adaptation and validation of the Modified British Medical Research Council Que...
Ultrassosnografia em Medicina Veterinária: princípios básicos e exploração abdo...
Faustino-Rocha, Ana Isabel; Machado, João; Moreira, Juliana; Ginja, MárioEste livro foi elaborada com o intuito de reunir informação sobre os princípios básicos da ultrassonografia, os procedimentos técnicos mais comuns para executar a exploração abdominal dos animais de companhia, bem como a ilustração do padrão ultrassonográfico normal e das principais doenças. Consideramos as matérias abordadas neste trabalho essenciais para uma correta obtenção e interpretação dos diagnósticos u...
European Portuguese Language and Cultural Validation of the Chronic Obstructive...
Pimenta Valério, Margarida; Ribeiro, Soraia; Seiça Cardoso, Carlos; Machado, João; Costa, José; Rodrigues, Cidália; Rebelo-Marques, AlexandreIntroduction: The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test (CAT) is a self-administered questionnaire that measures health-related quality of life. GOLD proposes using this questionnaire, since it provides thorough coverage of the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on well-being. This questionnaire has been widely used in daily clinical practice in Portugal, but it lacks validat...
Confirmatory Evaluation of the Modified Medical Research Council Questionnaire ...
Ribeiro, Soraia; Cardoso, Carlos Seiça; Valério, Margarida; Machado, João; Costa, José; Rodrigues, Cidália; Rebelo-Marques, AlexandreIntroduction: The Modified British Medical Research Council Questionnaire is considered an adequate and simple measure of breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is widely used in clinical practice in Portugal, but it still lacks confirmatory evaluation for the Portuguese setting. The aim of this study was to perform a cultural adaptation and validation of the Modified British Medical Resear...
Power electronics technologies for renewable energy sources
Coelho, Sergio; Machado, João; Monteiro, Vítor Duarte Fernandes; Afonso, João L.Over the last decades, power grids are facing significant improvements mainly due to the integration of more and more technologies. In particular, renewable energy sources (RES) are contributing to moving from centralized energy production to a new paradigm of distributed energy production. Analyzing in more detail the requirements of the diverse technologies of RES, it is possible to identify a common and key ...
Procura-PALavras (P-PAL): A web-based interface for a new european portuguese l...
Soares, Ana Paula; Iriarte, Álvaro; Almeida, José João; Simões, Alberto; Costa, Ana; Machado, João; França, Patrícia; Comesaña, MontserratIn this article, we present Procura-PALavras (P-PAL), a Web-based interface for a new European Portuguese (EP) lexical database. Based on a contemporary printed corpus of over 227 million words, P-PAL provides a broad range of word attributes and statistics, including several measures of word frequency (e.g., raw counts, per-million word frequency, logarithmic Zipf scale), morpho-syntactic information (e.g., pa...