Análise de terapias coadjuvantes de intervenção terapêutica na funcionalidade em doentes com acidente vascular encefálico

Projeto de Graduação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Licenciado em FisioterapiaObjectivo: Analisar as diferentes terapias coadjuvantes de intervenção terapêutica na funcionalidade de doentes com Acidente Vascular Encefálico (AVE). Metodologia: Foi realizada uma pesquisa nas bases de dados PubMed e PEDro. Foram utilizadas as palavras-chave: “stroke”, “physical therapy” e “outcome FIM”. Resultado: Obtiveram-se 144 estudos, após aplicados os critérios de selecção, ficaram 10 estudos com qualidade média metodológica de 7 na escala de PEDro. Dos 10 estudos recolhidos, foram reunidos um total de 439 participantes, cuja amostra variou de um mínimo de 20 a um máximo de 63 participantes. Foram encontradas diversas terapias durante a pesquisa tais como: electroestimulação neuromuscular, electroacupunctura, treino de marcha suspensa no tapete com electroestimulação funcional, marcha suspensa no tapete com auxílio do fisioterapeuta ou mecanicamente, terapia de espelho e aprendizagem motora em ambiente virtual. Conclusão: A nível do membro superior lesado a electroestimulação neuromuscular passiva ou activa e a terapia de espelho e obtiveram bons resultados. A nível do membro inferior lesado, a terapia de espelho e o treino de marcha suspensa obteve bons resultados. As outras terapias necessitam de mais pesquisa.Objective: To analyze the different adjuvant therapies for therapeutic intervention in the functionality of patients with stroke. Methods: Research for articles in the databases PubMed and PEDro. Were used the Keywords: "stroke", "physical therapy" and "outcome FIM". Results: 144 studies were obtained after the selection criteria were 10 studies with methodological quality average of 7 on the scale of PEDro. Of the 10 collected studies were combined total of 439 participants whose sample ranged from a minimum of 20 to a maximum of 63 participants. Various therapies were found during the search such as neuromuscular electrical stimulation, electroacupuncture, gait training treadmill with functional electrical stimulation, gait training treadmill with physical therapist assistance or mechanically, mirror therapy and motor learning in a virtual environment. Conclusion: The upper injured limb were passive or active neuromuscular electro-stimulation and the mirror therapy. In the injured leg, was also the mirror therapy and gait training suspended that achieved good results

Diagnosis of an EPS module

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e ComputadoresThis thesis addresses and contextualizes the problem of diagnostic of an Evolvable Production System (EPS). An EPS is a complex and lively entity composed of intelligent modules that interact through bio-inspired mechanisms, to ensure high system availability and seamless reconfiguration. The actual economic situation together with the increasing demand of high quality and low priced customized products imposed a shift in the production policies of enterprises. Shop floors have to become more agile and flexible to accommodate the new production paradigms. Rather than selling products enterprises are establishing a trend of offering services to explore business opportunities. The new production paradigms, potentiated by the advances in Information Technologies (IT), especially in web related standards and technologies as well as the progressive acceptance of the multi-agent systems (MAS) concept and related technologies, envision collections of modules whose individual and collective function adapts and evolves ensuring the fitness and adequacy of the shop floor in tackling profitable but volatile business opportunities. Despite the richness of the interactions and the effort set in modelling them, their potential to favour fault propagation and interference, in these complex environments, has been ignored from a diagnostic point of view. With the increase of distributed and autonomous components that interact in the execution of processes current diagnostic approaches will soon be insufficient. While current system dynamics are complex and to a certain extent unpredictable the adoption of the next generation of approaches and technologies comes at the cost of a yet increased complexity.Whereas most of the research in such distributed industrial systems is focused in the study and establishment of control structures, the problem of diagnosis has been left relatively unattended. There are however significant open challenges in the diagnosis of such modular systems including: understanding fault propagation and ensuring scalability and co-evolution. This work provides an implementation of a state-of-the-art agent-based interaction-oriented architecture compliant with the EPS paradigm that supports the introduction of a new developed diagnostic algorithm that has the ability to cope with the modern manufacturing paradigm challenges and to provide diagnostic analysis that explores the network dimension of multi-agent systems

Ripples: a tool for supervision and control of remote assets

We describe the Ripples cloud-based software for coordination and control of multiple remote assets. Ripples can ingest and disseminate data coming from multiple sources such as physical models, drifting sensors, marine traffic (AIS) and unmanned vehicles deployed in remote areas. On top of data dissemination and awareness, Ripples can also be used for planning the autonomous assets using satellite communications, maintaining the operators in the loop.Peer Reviewe

Studying the Pacific Subtropical Front with multiple assets

We describe a novel approach to physical oceanography by coordinating remote sensing, multiple autonomous vehicles and ship borne sensors. In contrast with conventional oceanography where ships are the single point of sampling in the middle of a big ocean or are used simply as the base of operations from where autonomous vehicles are deployed, we propose a new approach where ship and autonomous vehicles are coordinated together via satellite communications. We conclude with results and lessons learned from a real-world deployment of the R/V Falkor oceanographic ship together with multiple autonomous vehicles to study the Pacific's Subtropical Front, 800 miles off the coast of San Diego

REP18 Atlantic: a large scale exercise using unmanned systems

We present the REP18 exercise in which were operated heterogeneous unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles. This large scale exercise organized together with the PO Navy and with the participation of key players in the area, served to test the large scale use of unmanned vehicles in real-world operations both in defence and scientific areas. This work showcases how the LSTS Toolchain for Autonomous Systems enables all this.Peer Reviewe

An IPtel architecture based on the SIP protocol

More and better accesses to the Internet increase the interest in using it to carry not only data but also voice and video. The IP Telephony (IPTel) was born in this context and offers a framework to create multimedia communication systems. The Session Initiation Protocol, used in the IPTel architecture, is a protocol for signaling and call control between two or more participants. This paper presents telephony over IP service. Different protocols typically used in IPtel are analyzed and the architecture and functionality of SIP protocol are explained. Different mobility modes provided by SIP through the application layer are described. Finally we present the sIPtel, a Java application that supports real audio and video communications and uses the SIP protocol for call signaling

Análise de terapias coadjuvantes de intervenção terapêutica na funcionalidade em doentes com acidente vascular encefálico

Projeto de Graduação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Licenciado em FisioterapiaObjectivo: Analisar as diferentes terapias coadjuvantes de intervenção terapêutica na funcionalidade de doentes com Acidente Vascular Encefálico (AVE). Metodologia: Foi realizada uma pesquisa nas bases de dados PubMed e PEDro. Foram utilizadas as palavras-chave: “stroke”, “physical therapy” e “outcome FIM”. Resultado: Obtiveram-se 144 estudos, após aplicados os critérios de selecção, ficaram 10 estudos com qualidade média metodológica de 7 na escala de PEDro. Dos 10 estudos recolhidos, foram reunidos um total de 439 participantes, cuja amostra variou de um mínimo de 20 a um máximo de 63 participantes. Foram encontradas diversas terapias durante a pesquisa tais como: electroestimulação neuromuscular, electroacupunctura, treino de marcha suspensa no tapete com electroestimulação funcional, marcha suspensa no tapete com auxílio do fisioterapeuta ou mecanicamente, terapia de espelho e aprendizagem motora em ambiente virtual. Conclusão: A nível do membro superior lesado a electroestimulação neuromuscular passiva ou activa e a terapia de espelho e obtiveram bons resultados. A nível do membro inferior lesado, a terapia de espelho e o treino de marcha suspensa obteve bons resultados. As outras terapias necessitam de mais pesquisa. Objective: To analyze the different adjuvant therapies for therapeutic intervention in the functionality of patients with stroke. Methods: Research for articles in the databases PubMed and PEDro. Were used the Keywords: "stroke", "physical therapy" and "outcome FIM". Results: 144 studies were obtained after the selection criteria were 10 studies with methodological quality average of 7 on the scale of PEDro. Of the 10 collected studies were combined total of 439 participants whose sample ranged from a minimum of 20 to a maximum of 63 participants. Various therapies were found during the search such as neuromuscular electrical stimulation, electroacupuncture, gait training treadmill with functional electrical stimulation, gait training treadmill with physical therapist assistance or mechanically, mirror therapy and motor learning in a virtual environment. Conclusion: The upper injured limb were passive or active neuromuscular electro-stimulation and the mirror therapy. In the injured leg, was also the mirror therapy and gait training suspended that achieved good results

Towards a platform for a supplier quality management system

Today any OEM automotive industry that wants a status of a world-class organization has to follow a proper supplier quality management based on the worldwide recognized international standards. With this, the customer within a supply chain should have the sureness that the company has supplier capabilities in place to provide a service that consistently meets its needs and expectations. Although some of this Supplier Quality Management Systems (SQMS) are deeply integrated and used inside of an organization, sometimes they are implemented using inappropriate or limited tools, making the work of employees harder and acting often as entropy sources in those systems. Having the right tools to handle Inspections as well as Nonconformance, Complaint, Corrective Action and Concession processes is key to successfully track the supplier performance. This paper presents a platform to support a SQMS, that fits the technical specification ISO/TS 16949 requirements.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

An indoor navigation architecture using variable data sources for blind and visually impaired persons

Contrary to outdoor positioning and navigation systems, there isn’t a counterpart global solution for indoor environments. Usually, the deployment of an indoor positioning system must be adapted case by case, according to the infrastructure and the objective of the localization. A particularly delicate case is related with persons who are blind or visually impaired. A robust and easy to use indoor navigation solution would be extremely useful, but this would also be particularly difficult to develop, given the special requirements of the system that would have to be more accurate and user friendly than a general solution. This paper presents a contribute to this subject, by proposing a hybrid indoor positioning system adaptable to the surrounding indoor structure, and dealing with different types of signals to increase accuracy. This would permit lower the deployment costs, since it could be done gradually, beginning with the likely existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to get a fairy accuracy up to a high accuracy using visual tags and NFC tags when necessary and possible.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Uma arquitectura para a composição dinâmica de serviços dependentes do contexto

A difusão das ligações sem fios nos locais de trabalho, de lazer e mesmo em casa, juntamente com a proliferação dos dispositivos móveis abrem novos cenários para o fornecimento de serviços aos utilizadores. Além dos serviços tradicionais de Internet devem por isso, ser disponibilizados novos serviços que de uma forma transparente se adeqúem e se adaptem ao contexto do utilizador. Os utilizadores teriam ainda mais flexibilidade e escolha se, para além do fornecimento de destes serviços, lhes fosse dada a possibilidade de eles próprios comporem novos serviços com base em serviços já existentes. Este artigo discute os componentes essenciais de um sistema context-aware que permite a composição dinâmica de serviços sensíveis ao contexto e propõe uma arquitectura possível para implementação desses serviços