Background: The incidence of thyroid carcinoma (TC) in human population has been increasing worldwide, and it was estimated an incidence of 2.1% of cancer new cases in 2019 [1]. A smaller incidence is reported for canine population (1.1%) in 1995-2005 [2]. Diagnosis, prognosis, and management of human TC rely on mutation screening of BRAF, RAS genes, and TERT promoter. BRAF, NRAS, HRAS, and KRAS encode proteins...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:02:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-01-01; Anaerobic biological treatment of organic solid wastes can be an acceptable alter- native to current disposal strategies. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the anaerobic biodegradability potential of fruit and vegetable wastes (FVW) using different co-substrates. The FVW were shred...
This paper proposes a rule-based method for automatic polarity detection over economic news texts, which proved suitable for detecting the sentiment in Portuguese economic news. The data used in our experiments consists of 400 manually annotated sentences extracted from economic news, used for evaluation, and about 90 thousand Portuguese economic news, extracted from two well-known Portuguese newspapers, coveri...
Information concerning the critical variables of the bleaching process (transformation of a raw fabric into bleached) by pad-steam is scarce, since it is considered a recent process in the textile industry. One hundred percent fine cotton fabrics present great difficulties in the standardization of bleaching across different production batches, which is even more complex when the fabric composition provided by ...