A Central Bank Digital Currency (CDBC) is a form of fiat digital money created an managed by a central authority. [...]
Introdution: Aneurismal disease involving the thoracoabdominal segment adds significant complexity to endovascular aortic repair. Objective: Evaluate institutional experience of a tertiary center in fenestrated and branched aneurysm repair for throracoabdominal or juxtarenal aortic aneurysms Methods: Retrospective analysis of a consecutive series of patients treated by endovascular repair using fenestrate...
Introdution: Aneurismal disease of the iliac arteries is present in 11 to 43% of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Iliac branched devices (IBDs) enable the preservation of internal iliac arteries minimizing the risk for complications related to its intentional occlusion. Methods: Retrospective analysis of a consecutive series of patients selected for the endovascular repair of aneurysmatic disease using IBD...
"Synthetic cannabinoids are among the major psychoactive drugs widespread as safe and legal alternatives to cannabis. They are commercially available as herbal incense products intended for smoke. This has led most of developed countries to concentrate efforts in order to ban the so called “legal highs”. Despite of their increasing use, there is still a lack of information on both synthetic and natural ingredie...
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) has a high prevalence in Portugal, and the most common form of hereditary amyloidosis is caused by an amyloidogenic variant of transthyretin (TTR) with a substitution of methionine for valine at position 30 (V30M). Until now, the available efficient therapy is liver transplantation, when performed in an early phase of the onset of the disease symptoms. However, transpla...
In this paper is presented a WDM-ring TDM-tree passive optical network able to provide more than 1024 users spread over 100km with a symmetrical bandwidth of 100Mbps. A set of optically fed passive remote nodes are also presented able to provide increased efficiency and resiliency.