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This work is funded by national funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the project UIDB/00460/2020.
Um dos fatores críticos de sucesso das organizações é a sua capacidade de entrega de soluções num time to market cada vez menor, dado o contexto volátil e complexo em que atualmente vivemos e a clientes cada vez mais informados e exigentes. Adicionalmente, e face ao exposto, um dos maiores desafios no desenvolvimento de produtos digitais, principalmente em organizações com vários produtos e marcas, é manter a c...
In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology, geodesy and cryospheric sciences. Many symbolic major events have celebrated these developments, e.g., in Venice, Italy, the 15th (2006) and 20th (2012) years of progress and more recently, in 2018, in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 25 Years of Pr...
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis is a methodology that has gained much popularity in our days, especially in Medicine, since through the ROC curves, it provides a useful tool to evaluate and specify problems in the performance of a diagnostic indicator. The area under empirical ROC curve (AUC) it’s an indicator that can be used to compare two or more ROC curves. This work arose from the necessit...
Schistosomiasis, caused by helminth flatworms of the genus Schistosoma, is an infectious disease mainly associated with poverty that affects millions of people worldwide. Since treatment for this disease relies only on the use of praziquantel, there is an urgent need to identify new antischistosomal drugs. Piplartine is an amide alkaloid found in several Piper species (Piperaceae) that exhibits antischistosomal...
The next generation Internet (also known as Internet-of-Things – IoT), will ubiquitously integrate trillions of computing devices of all kinds, shapes and sizes. For this ubiquity to materialize, a key aspect will certainly be interoperability, the capability of different technologies (e.g. different communication protocols at both horizontal and vertical levels, different hardware platforms, different operatin...
In his recent book collecting short notes and essays about music, Eduardo Lourenço gives an insightful poetic account of two pieces of Webern—Op. 10 and Op. 21—that stresses the fragmentary, directionless and discontinuous character of such compositions (LOURENÇO, 2012, 45-6), an approach that resonates fairly well with a number of analytical views on this composer. Drawing from BERRY (1976) and KRAMER (1988), ...