Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.; After a consensus meeting including experts from all over the country (more than 6 years of experience, at least 50 procedures and their center perform more than 30 procedures/year), several recommendations were issued. Main recommendations: (1) Single-operator digital chol angioscopy is indicated in cases of undetermined biliary stri...
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Funding Information: This work was supported under the TExTOUR (Social Innovation and TEchnologies for sustainable growth through participative cultural TOURism) project, EU 2020 program (reference H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020-101004687). Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.; The enhancement of cultural heritage for tourism can greatly benefit from the opportunities offered by Information and Communica...
Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Energy communities serve as vital stakeholders within contemporary power grids. Nevertheless, managing these communities presents formidable challenges, owing to the intricate nature of the task, the presence of uncertainties, and competing objectives. This paper aims to demonstrate the positive impact of incorporating a storage system into an energy community, ensuri...
Funding: We are grateful to the Genomics Unit, Bioinformatics, and the Animal House at IGC. We thank Margarida Gama-Carvalho for the critical revision of the manuscript. This work was supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 (ERC-2014-CoG 647888-iPROTECTION) and by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT: PTDC/BIM-MEC/4665/2014 and EXPL/MED-IMU/0620/2021). SW is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemei...
This work was partially funded by FCT project REPLACE (PTDC/EEIAUT/32107/2017) which includes Lisboa 2020 and PIDDAC funds, project CAPTURE (PTDC/EEIAUT/1732/2020).; This paper addresses two complementary problems of spacecraft formation flying, namely spacecraft platooning and on-orbit spacecraft servicing, using Model Predictive Control (MPC). With the proposed solutions, these space formation scenarios can b...
A Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) is a novel paradigm of cyber-physical and cyber-social systems with a highly inhomogeneous and distributed nature integrating dynamic stochastic hybrid systems including computation, communication, sensing and actuation, and social systems.Their usage can be traced to homes such as smart homes, manufacturers in Industry 5.0, critical infrastructures, smart cities, medicines...
The work of AB has been supported by the ALAN‐X, PALEOGIANTS, and CAMBIACLIMA projects (University of Genova, Italy). Fieldwork was partially conducted with the financial support of Naturtejo, E.IM. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; The Cabeço da Ladeira paleontological site in central Portugal became known as the “Jurassic Beach”. Formerly an active quarry, the sit...
Funding Information: Acknowledgments: The authors acknowledge the infrastructure and support of the Department of Electrical and Computer—NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), and of the Centre of Technology and Systems, CTS—UNINOVA. Funding Information: Funding: This research was funded by “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (FCT), grant number UIDB/00066/2020. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the...
UIDB/00066/2020.; This article presents a 10-year experience of soft and transferable skills acquisition through the involvement of PhD students in the organization of an international conference. Soft and transferable skills acquisition is currently perceived as a core component of doctoral studies. Examples include writing and communication, teamwork, time management, leadership, resource management, negotiat...