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Ambiências Educadoras: Ampliando Bagagens Artísticas/Culturais de Estudantes de...
Martins, Mirian; Lopes, MariaThe Educating Ambiances Project was started in 2019 in the Pedagogy course at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (São Paulo/Brazil). Its objective is to value the power of educational ambiences as a set of social, cultural, aesthetic conditions that can boost citizen social interaction and expand the cultural repertoire, articulating cultural mediation, art and educational practices. In 2022, with the partici...
Desenvolvimento e implementação de técnicas para deteção de alergénios nos alim...
Santos, Andreia; Rocha, Hugo; Lopes, Maria; Lamas, Maria Céu; Mota, Sandra; Gomes, António; Sousa, MariaOs alergénios alimentares são antigénios que provocam hipersensibilidades ou reações alérgicas nos indivíduos. Pequenas quantidades de um alergénio podem instigar uma cascata de reações imunológicas, mediadas por imunoglobulinas e, em casos graves, culminar na morte. Por esta razão, são considerados preponderantes para a segurança alimentar, dado que a frequência dessas reações tem aumentado a nível mundial. O ...
Análise dos valores da vitamina D em diferentes grupos populacionais
Mota, Sílvia; Lopes, Maria; Lamas, Maria Céu; Sousa, MariaA vitamina D é uma hormona que atua diretamente na saúde óssea, no crescimento celular saudável, na imunidade, na musculatura, no metabolismo e noutros sistemas, como o sistema cardiovascular e o sistema nervoso. A sua formação implica uma primeira hidroxilação no fígado, pela 25-hidroxilase, a 25-OHD. Assim, o nível sérico de 25-OHD é o melhor indicador do conteúdo corporal de vitamina D. Um número crescente d...
Coconut Sugar: Chemical Analysis and Nutritional Profile; Health Impacts; Safet...
Saraiva, Ariana; Carrascosa, Conrado; Ramos, Fernando; Raheem, Dele; Lopes, Maria; Raposo, AntónioConsumers often wish to substitute refined sugar with alternative sweeteners, such as coconut sugar, given growing interest in healthy eating and the public's negative perception of excess sugar intake. Coconut sugar is a healthier, sweetener option than the majority of other sugars that are commercially available. Sap is collected from trees to be transported, stored, and evaporated during processing, which ar...
Functionalization of gutta-percha surfaces with argon and oxygen plasma treatme...
Ferreira, Inês; Lopes, Cláudia; Rodrigues, Marco S.; Rodrigues, Pedro António Veiga; Castro, Cidália; Braga, Ana Cristina; Lopes, Maria; Vaz, FilipeGutta-percha's lack of adhesion has been presented as a drawback to avoid gaps at sealer/gutta-percha interface. Plasma treatments have been scarcely assessed on gutta-percha surfaces as a method of enhancing adhesiveness. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of low-pressure Argon and Oxygen plasma atmospheres on conventional and bioceramic gutta-percha standardized smooth discs, assessing their roughness, s...
A Machine Learning App for Monitoring Physical Therapy at Home
Pereira, Bruno; Cunha, Bruno; Viana, Paula; Lopes, Maria; Melo, Ana S. C.; Sousa, Andreia S. P.Shoulder rehabilitation is a process that requires physical therapy sessions to recover the mobility of the affected limbs. However, these sessions are often limited by the availability and cost of specialized technicians, as well as the patient’s travel to the session locations. This paper presents a novel smartphone-based approach using a pose estimation algorithm to evaluate the quality of the movements and ...
Supramolecular presentation of bioinstructive peptides on soft multilayered nan...
Lopes, Maria; Torrado, Marília; Barth, Daryl; Santos, Sofia D.; Sever-Bahcekapili, Melike; Tekinay, Ayse B.; Guler, Mustafa O.; Cleymand, FranckPeptide amphiphiles (PAs) have emerged as effective molecular building blocks for creating self-assembling nanobiomaterials for multiple biomedical applications. Herein, we report a straightforward approach to assemble soft bioinstructive platforms to recreate the native neural extracellular matrix (ECM) aiming for neuronal regeneration based on the electrostatic-driven supramolecular presentation of laminin-de...
Performance Comparison of Redis, Memcached, MySQL, and PostgreSQL: A Study on K...
Almeida, Dany; Lopes, Maria; Saraiva, Luzia; Abbasi, Maryam; Martins, Pedro; Silva, José; ANTUNES VAZ, PAULO JOAQUIMThis paper investigates and compares the performance of relational databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL) and key-value databases (Memcached and Redis) under various test loads. The study utilizes the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark to simulate diverse workloads and measure the behavior of these databases in different scenarios. The primary focus is on evaluating run time, throughput, and average latency metrics to un...
Smartphone-based video analysis for guiding shoulder therapeutic exercises: con...
Lopes, Maria; Melo, Ana S. C.; Cunha, Bruno; Sousa, Andreia S. P.Neuromuscular re-education through therapeutic exercise has a determinant role in chronic shoulder pain rehabilitation. Smartphones are an interesting strategy to extend the rehabilitation to a home-based scenario as it can increase the attraction and involvement of users by providing feedback. Objective: To analyze the concurrent validity of a smartphone’s application based on 2D video analysis against the gol...
Efficacy of Whey Protein Film Incorporated with Portuguese Green Tea (Camellia ...
Robalo, João; Lopes, Maria; Cardoso, O. M.; Silva, Ana Sanches; Ramos, FernandoFresh cheese composition favors the growth of microorganisms and lipid oxidation, leading to a short shelf life. Whey protein concentrates can be used to produce active films in which green tea (Camellia sinensis L.) extract, rich in bioactive compounds, namely catechins, can be incorporated. Thus, the main objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an edible active film, incorporated with green te...