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EVALUATION OF THE COSTS OF COLORECTAL CANCER TREATMENT ACCORDING TO PHASE OF CA...

Background: Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in Portugal, which imposes an economic burden in the restricted health care budget. The aim of this study was to estimate the effects of age, stage, gender, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, Charlson Comorbidity Index and category of health care activity on the average colorectal cancer treatment costs based on hospital records ...

Arte e Cultura Visual, N.º4 (dez. 2024)

Comparison of shoulder and trunk muscle activation between different pullover e...

Objective: To quantify and compare the electromyographic activity of 10 muscles in three pullover exercises. Methods: 15 healthy men, with at least two years of experience in resistance training, executed in random order six repetitions with 60% of 1 Maximum Repetition for three different pullover exercises: lying on a step with a barbell, grip 100% biacromial (E1); lying on a step with a barbell, grip 150% (E2...

A near real-time economic activity tracker for the Brazilian economy during the...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers needed to assess the impact of large monetary and fiscal policy interventions in as close to real time as possible—yet existing survey-based indicators are usually released monthly or quarterly. The use of high-frequency data to track economic activity has become widespread. This paper constructs a near real-time economic activity indicator for the Brazilian economy du...

An electricity indicator and early economic impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19) pandemic imposes a new reality on society and governments with extremely short time frames for decision making. Policies and measures are adopted under a significant level of uncertainty and will have a huge impact. The only conviction is that the economic and social costs of social isolation and distance policies will be enormous.

Arte e cultura visual, Nº1 (Dez.2020)

Tomo-GPU: a problem-solving environment for analysing tomographic data of struc...

The micro-structural characterization of composite materials uses X-ray tomography to collect information about the internal characteristics of the samples, in order to educate the researcher about their intrinsic properties. The raw tomographic data, need to go through several steps of computational processing, starting with the elimination of noise and other artifacts. The experience gained by the authors has...

Endogenous Endophthalmitis and Urosepsis by Escherichia coli: An Unexpected Ass...

Endophthalmitis is a pathology that requires a high degree of suspicion for the diagnosis, especially in immunocompromisedpatients. The rapid establishment of diagnosis and prompt initiation of treatment may avoid amaurosis. The authorspresent a case of a 70-year-old woman with bilateral lung metastatic disease of a poorly differentiated large cells neuroendocrine carcinoma under chemotherapy (carboplatin and d...

A heterogeneous runtime environment for scientific desktop computing

Heterogeneous architectures encompassing traditional CPUs with two or more cores, GPUs and other accelerators like the Intel Xeon Phi, are available off the shelf at an affordable cost in a desktop computer. This paper describes work towards the definition, implementation and assessment of an environment that will empower scientists and engineers to develop and run their demanding applications in such personal ...

Heterogeneous personal computing: a case study in materials science

The HRTE Platform (Heterogeneous Run-Time Environment) Enables The Construction Of Problem Solving Environments Dedicated To A Specific Area (PSE) That Exploit The Heterogeneous Processing Resources Available In A Desktop Computer (Eg GPU). The HRTE-Enabled PSE Supports The Inter-Operation Between Existing Processing Modules And New Ones (Hmodules), Optimizing The Typical Communication Patterns Of A PSE. Hmodul...