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Estudo paramétrico das características das ações do vento para o dimensionament...
Carvalho, Márcio; Oliveira, Rui; Rodrigues, Hugo; Rodrigues, Fernanda; Silva, TiagoO comportamento estrutural de torres metálicas é maioritariamente influenciado pela ação do vento, sendo a principal carga externa atuante para esse tipo de estrutura. Por isso, compreender e entender como as diferentes condições do vento afetam esse tipo de estrutura é essencial. Ainvestigação realizada envolve modelação e análise de resultados obtidos na realização de um estudo paramétrico da influência de di...
Acute Cerebellitis or Post-Infectious Cerebellar Ataxia? Approach to Paradigmat...
Nunes, Beatriz; Diogo, Rui; Costa, Mariana; Pereira, Cristina; Ribeiro, Joana Afonso; Palavra, Filipe; Rodrigues, Fernanda; Amaral, JoanaAcute cerebellitis is a rare disease resulting from dysfunction of the cerebellum or its connections, with infectious or inflammatory causes, varied clinical manifestations, and evidence of predominantly cerebellar inflammation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It belongs to the spectrum of acute post-infectious cerebellar ataxia, a self-limited disease whose therapeutic approach is individualized. Three cli...
The Cost of Meningococcal Meningitis in Portugal
Rodrigues, Fernanda; Pinheiro, Bernardete; Guerreiro, Rita; Gouveia, Miguel; Eloi, João; Alves, Cristina; Castela, Guilherme; Oliveira, AlexandraIntroduction: Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is an infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, and a major cause of meningitis (MM) and/or septicemia (MS). The aim of this study is to estimate the costs of IMD (MM and MS) for Portuguese state.Methods: To estimate the costs associated with IMD, a model was developed, where patients can have one of three outcomes: survive without sequelae, sur...
International adaptation and validation of the Pro-VC-Be: measuring the psychos...
Garrison, Amanda; Karlsson, Linda; Fressard, Lisa; Fasce, Angelo; Rodrigues, Fernanda; Schmid, Philipp; Taubert, Frederike; Holford, DawnBackground: Healthcare professionals (HCPs) play an important role in vaccination; those with low confidence in vaccines are less likely to recommend them to their patients and to be vaccinated themselves. The study’s purpose was to adapt and validate long- and short-form versions of the International Professionals’ Vaccine Confidence and Behaviors (I-Pro-VC-Be) questionnaire to measure psychosocial determinant...
Healthcare professionals' attitudes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination: Cross-se...
Karlsson, Linda C.; Garrison, Amanda; Holford, Dawn; Fasce, Angelo; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Taubert, Frederike; Schmid, Philipp; Betsch, CorneliaMandatory vaccinations are widely debated since they restrict individuals' autonomy in their health decisions. As healthcare professionals (HCPs) are a common target group of vaccine mandates, and also form a link between vaccination policies and the public, understanding their attitudes toward vaccine mandates is important. The present study investigated physicians' attitudes to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in fo...
Endorsement of alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy among physicians: A c...
Fasce, Angelo; Karlsson, Linda; Verger, Pierre; Mäki, Otto; Taubert, Frederike; Garrison, Amanda; Schmid, Philipp; Holford, Dawn LiuVaccine hesitancy has become a threat to public health, especially as it is a phenomenon that has also been observed among healthcare professionals. In this study, we analyzed the relationship between endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccination attitudes and behaviors among healthcare professionals, using a cross-sectional sample of physicians with vaccination responsibilities fr...
Sustained increase of paediatric invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infections dom...
Gouveia, Catarina; Bajanca-Lavado, Maria Paula; Mamede, Rafael; Araújo Carvalho, Ana; Rodrigues, Fernanda; Melo-Cristino, José; Ramirez, MarioSince autumn 2022, observed numbers of paediatric invasive group A Streptococcus infections in Portugal (n = 89) were higher than in pre-COVID-19 seasons. Between September 2022 and May 2023, the dominant diagnoses were pneumonia (25/79), mostly with empyema (20/25), and sepsis (22/79). A number of cases required admission to intensive care (27/79) and surgery (35/79), and the case fatality rate was 5.1% (4/79)...
BIM-FM integrated solution resourcing to digital techniques
Matos, Raquel; Rodrigues, Hugo; Costa, Aníbal; Rodrigues, FernandaThe facility management (FM) has been suffering significant changes since the introduction of building information modeling (BIM) in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operation (AECO) sector. However, there are still challenges in BIM implementation during the building use phase, such as the difficulties related to the personalization of the maintenance management information for each case, and mo...
Convolutional neural networks and regression algorithms supporting buildings fa...
Matos, Raquel; Rodrigues, Hugo; Costa, Aníbal; Rodrigues, FernandaFacility Management is a multi-disciplinary task in which coordination is key to attaining success during the building life cycle and for which technology assumes an increasing role. This sector is demanding more available and accurate tools to optimize the management process, decrease the probability of failure, and reduce the time spent on anomaly analysis. So, the present paper presents work developed to imp...
Facility manager perspectives on building condition assessment for Portuguese h...
Matos, Raquel; Rodrigues, Hugo; Costa, Aníbal; Requejo, Cristina; Rodrigues, FernandaThis study aims to provide an overview of the building condition assessment at the facility management stage in higher education buildings in Portugal. A questionnaire survey containing 188 questions was developed and was responded to by experts in the facility management departments of 19 higher education institutions (HEIs) in Portugal. The data analysis, using analytic hierarchy process, showed the difficult...