The proceedings of the First Symposium on Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Applied to Health (1st SBBAH) highlight the convergence of innovation and health sciences, presenting research and developments in the field. On May 3, we welcomed participants for an engaging day of discussions, beginning with an opening session that set the stage for the day’s presentations. The Symposium was organized with a diverse s...
The best way to prevent influenza infection is through vaccination. Evaluating vaccine performance is essentially done through two types of study: clinical trials and the test negative design, an observational study derived from the case control. While in clinical trials the sources of bias are perfectly identified and there are specific tools for assessing them, in test negative design we find very varied sour...
This study evaluated the 10-year consumption and economic patterns of classical analgesics, adjuvants and opioids in Portugal (2012-2022), and conducted a comparative analysis between Portugal, Spain and Denmark to explore the consumption patterns among these countries for 2022. Data on sales and national health service (NHS) costs were obtained from the Portuguese National Authority of Medicines and Health Pro...
Beer is considered one of the most consumed beverages worldwide and a potential vehicle for probiotics. However, there are several technical challenges to overcome during the production and storage of beers, as probiotics must remain viable until the moment of consumption. Therefore, this work aims to discuss how the incorporation of probiotics improves or adds value to beer and which variables influence the vi...
Influenza is a respiratory disease caused by the influenza virus, which is highly transmissible in humans. This paper presents a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and test-negative designs (TNDs) to assess the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of seasonal influenza vaccines (SIVs) in humans aged 15 to 64 years. An electronic search to identify all relevant studies was performed...
For the history of furniture of the twentieth century in Portugal it is important to study health premises. Hospitals, sanatoriums, preventoria, dispensaries, educational and research institutions, all of them promoted the use of furniture which at that moment was considered appropriate to their functions. Through the use of industrially produced objects, or designed from scratch for each building, health conte...
TCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Tecnológico. Sistemas de Informação.; Atualmente as empresas enfrentam grandes dificuldades para cumprir a legislação relativa à contratação de pessoas com deficiência, muitas vezes gerando multas e penalidades em razão do descumprimento. Um fator crítico para esse acontecimento é falta de fontes de informação de pessoas com deficiência, ou seja, a...
FOOD and interdisciplinary research are the central focus of the 1st International Conference on Food Design and Food Studies: Experiencing Food, Designing Dialogues, reflecting on interdisciplinarity as not limited to the design of objects or services, but seeking awareness towards new lifestyles and innovative approaches to food. Albeit the social sciences, through Food Studies researchers have continuously l...
Pooling individual samples for batch testing is a common procedure for reducing costs. The recent use of multidimensional array algorithms, due to the emergence of robotic pooling, is an innovative way of pooling. We show that the two-dimensional array- based group tests can provide accurate estimates for the prevalence rate even for situations in which the traditional estimators, applied to one-dimensional arr...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior; Liquid-liquid equilibrium data of aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) composed by F68 + lithium sulfate, F68 + sodium sulfate, F68 + magnesium sulfate and L35 + magnesium sulfate were determined at 298,15K. It was noticed that systems formed by F68 and sulfates presented the following sequence of phase seggregation: MgSO4 > Na2SO4 > Li2SO4. Systems forme...