Enquadramento: A produção de proteínas plasmáticas anormais e em concentrações que excedem os limites fisiológicos como acontece no Mieloma Múltiplo (MM) é uma importante fonte de interferência nos testes laboratoriais [1,2,3]. Estudos mais recentes demonstraram que as paraproteínas podem causar resultados falso-positivos para bilirrubina direta (BD) [4]. Descrição do caso clínico: Mulher de 65 anos de idade, c...
This article aims to describe the work conducted at VoiceInteraction, a company specialized in speech processing solutions, with a particular focus on automatic transcription using a Hybrid Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR). The primary objective revolved around studying the phonetic characteristics of the Russian language, encompassing four main tasks: describing the phonetic-phonological inventory, validating...
This paper describes the design, manufacturing and range measurement of an UHF (ultra high frequency) RFID (radio frequency identification) tag to apply on a glass bottle filled with water. To achieve this, a free-space matched RFID antenna is studied and modifications are made in order reduce its size drastically and to turn it functional when applied to a bottle with water. Later, range measurement tests are ...
A metallic artefact recorded in a LBA/EIA context in Northern Portugal, which can be one of the first known material representations of the so-called Southwestern Bronze Age “anchoriform” or “anchor idol”, is presented. The artefact comes from an intrusive LBA/EIA context into a MBA level at the hilltop settlement of Fraga dos Corvos (Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança, Northern Portugal). It is made of a ternary b...
This paper aims to present a new performance measurement tool dedicated to mobile cellular networks, focussed on the new C-ITS applications and challenges. Called ISEL QoS-Network Performance Evaluation (IQ-NPE), developed under the European Union 5G-MOBIX project, it is a measurement performance tool that is able to extract a wide range of performance parameters at different levels: radio, network layers and a...
A criação de Universidades Sénior (US) surge devido a profundas transformações sociais e tecnológicas com impacto na melhoria de condições de saúde e bem-estar, com o aumento da esperança de vida e consequente envelhecimento da população. As sociedades contemporâneas procuram propostas de envelhecimento ativo, entre as quais se enquadram as US, como paradigma de educação de adultos a partir dos 50 anos no Ocide...
This paper presents a complete and detailed description of the fabrication and measurement of the electromagnetic properties of water-based semi-solid phantoms with emphasis on the analysis of the time evolution of the complex permittivity of several samples stored in different conditions. A known recipe for a 2/3 muscle equivalent phantom is used as test material, and the several phantom sample properties are ...
The path loss established between several wearable antenas placed on a tissue-equivalent phantom is investigated through numerical simulations and measurements. The on-body performance of a previously proposed dual-mode wearable textile antenna, designed to operate in the 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific and medical band, is evaluated and compared with a wearable textile patch antenna. Simulation results of a _/...