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Becker Muscular Dystrophy in Pediatric Population: Diagnosis, Genetic Variabili...

Introduction: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is an X-linked neuromuscular disease caused by variants in the DMD gene that leads to progressive muscle weakness, dilated cardiomyopathy, and neurodevelopmental issues. Objective: To characterize patients with BMD from a pediatric neuromuscular disease center. Methods: Retrospective and descriptive study of BMD patients diagnosed between January 1995 and May 2024. ...

Retinal thinning of inner sub-layers is associated with cortical atrophy in a m...

Background: It has been claimed that the retina can be used as a window to study brain disorders. However, concerning Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it still remains controversial whether changes occurring in the brain and retina are associated. We aim to understand when changes start appearing in the retina and brain, how changes progress, and if they are correlated. Methods: We carried out a unique longitudinal st...

Predicting Diabetic Foot Maturing Through Evolutionary Computation

It is a twenty-first-century disease, its numbers are still growing exponentially. This brings one to the subject of this work, the Maturing of Diabetic Foot which, like diabetes, rises to values never seen before. It is envisaging the development of an ImageJ plug-into extract relevant feature from diabetic foot images and, in conjunction with the patient's clinical and lifelong data, a computational system to...

Predicting diabetic foot maturing through evolutionary computation

It is a twenty-first-century disease, its numbers are still growing exponentially. This brings one to the subject of this work, the Maturing of Diabetic Foot which, like diabetes, rises to values never seen before. It is envisaging the development of an ImageJ plug-into extract relevant feature from diabetic foot images and, in conjunction with the patient’s clinical and lifelong data, a computational system to...

Urban effects of NGOs. The experiences of urban management and microcredit in M...

The field of action of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), especially their development version (NGDOs), has traditionally been rural. The identity of these organisations, strongly marked by the social and political contexts of the 1960s and 1970s in Western Europe and the development model prevailing at the time (which was also strongly ideological), determined this localised option to the detriment of the ...

Treat me well : affective and physiological feedback for wheelchair users

This work reports a electrocardiograph and skin conductivity hardware architecture, based on E-textile electrodes, attached to a wheelchair for affective and physiological computing. Appropriate conditioning circuits and a microcontroller platform that performs acquisition, primary processing, and communication using Bluetooth were designed and implemented. To increase the accuracy and repeatability of the skin...

Efeitos Urbanos das ONGs. As experiências da gestão Urbana e do microcrédito em...

O campo de acção das organizações não-governamentais (ONGs), principalmente a sua versão desenvolvimento (ONGDs) foi tradicionalmente o rural. A natureza identitária destas organizações fortemente marcada pelos contextos sociais e políticos dos anos 60 e 70 na Europa Ocidental e pelo modelo de desenvolvimento prevalecente na altura (também ele fortemente ideológico) determinou esta opção localizada em detriment...

A Cooperação da Sociedade Civil Portuguesa na Área da Solidariedade Social