Multifuncionalidade dos espaços florestais usando a análise espacial multicritério : caso de estudo numa freguesia do centro interior de Portugal.

Comunicação da qual só está disponível o resumo.Os espaços florestais, pela diversidade de funções de uso múltiplo que desempenham, devem ser encarados como fontes de serviços ecológicos, não só pela vertente produtiva e económica mas também pela conservação da biodiversidade, pela salvaguarda e recriação de paisagens, e pelo recreio e qualidade ambiental. O objetivo do estudo consistiu no desenvolvimento de uma metodologia de análise espacial com recurso à análise espacial multicritério em ambiente SIG para a definição da multifuncionalidade dos espaços florestais. A área de estudo considerada foi uma freguesia localizada no centro interior de Portugal. Para a abordagem multifuncional consideram-se as seguintes cinco funções: 1) produção; 2) proteção; 3) conservação de habitats, de espécies da fauna e da flora e de geomonumentos; 4) silvopastorícia, caça e pesca nas águas interiores; e 5) recreio, enquadramento e estética da paisagem. Produziram-se as cartas relativas à aptidão florestal de 21 espécies florestais. Obtiveram-se as cartas para cada uma das funções identificadas. Determinou-se a aptidão da área para as funções referidas, de forma a proceder à hierarquização multifuncional dos espaços florestais aplicando a análise espacial multicritério pelo processo hierárquico analítico. Os resultados demonstraram que a metodologia desenvolvida constitui uma ferramenta importante no âmbito do planeamento e ordenamento florestal.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Assessing forest species biogeophysical suitability by spatial multicriteria analysis: a study case for the Centro region of Portugal.

It is generally agreed that the choice of the most suitable uses based in soil and climatic factors, complemented with socio-economic criteria, promotes sustainable use of rural land. There are, however, different methodologies for defining soil suitability to agroforestal systems or natural and seminatural ecosystems, including agricultural uses, forest plantations, agroforestry areas and priority areas for conservation. Many of these methods rely on decision support systems based on multicriteria spatial analysis. In this study it was intended to determine the different levels of suitability for the most representative forest species in the central region of Portugal. For that purpose a set of climatic, soil and topographic variables based in a geographic information system, soil and biogeographic mapping were used. A stochastic approach was undertaken in order to estimate several bioclimatic indices and the associated spatial uncertainty. Results were duly discussed and addressed in this framework. In the end, forest species suitability evaluation was performed using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), methodology that allows the exploitation of natural fitness of the territory, contributing to a reflection on the adequacy of current and future occupations face the carrying capacity of the environment. The use of this methodology will be important as a supporting tool to public administration agents that work in forestry planning and management.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Meaningful results for Information Retrieval in the MEANING project

The goal of the MEANING project (IST-2001-34460) is to develop tools for the automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge that will help Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). The acquired lexical knowledge from various sources and various languages is stored in the Multilingual Central Repository (MCR) (Atserias et al 04), which is based on the design of the EuroWordNet database. The MCR holds wordnets in various languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Catalan and Basque), which are interconnected via an Inter-Lingual-Index (ILI). In addition, the MCR holds a number of ontologies and domain labels related to al

Preface

In the Iberian Peninsula, five official languages co-exist: Basque, Catalan,Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Fostering multi-linguality and establishingstrong links among the linguistic resources developed for each language of theregion is essential. Additionally, a lack of published resources in some of theselanguages exists. Such lack propitiates a strong inter-relation between themand higher resourced languages, such as English and Spanish.In order to favour the intra-relation among the peninsular languages as wellas the inter-relation between them and foreign languages, different purposemultilingual NLP tools need to be developed.Interesting topics to beresearched include, among others, analysis of parallel and comparable corpora,development of multilingual resources, and language analysis in bilingualenvironments and within dialectal variations.With the aim of solving these tasks, statistical, linguistic and hybrid ap-proaches are proposed. Therefore, the workshop addresses researchers fromdifferent fields of natural language processing/computational linguistics: textmining, machine learning, pattern recognition, information retrieval andmachine translation.The research in this proceedings includes work in all of the official languages ofthe Iberian Peninsula. Moreover, interactions with English are also included.Wikipedia has shown to be an interesting resource for different tasks and hasbeen analysed or exploited in some contributions.Most of the regions of the Peninsula are represented by the authors of thecontributions. The distribution is as follows: Basque Country (2 authors),Catalonia (7 authors), Galicia (4 authors), Portugal (2 authors) and Valencia(5 authors). Interestingly, those regions where Spanish is the only officiallanguage are not represented. It is worth noting that authors working beyondthe Peninsula have also contributed to this workshop, including: Argentina (3authors), Finland (1 author), France (2 authors), Mexico (1 author), Singapore(1 author), and USA (6 authors)

Cardiac resynchronization therapy and valvular cardiomyopathy after corrective surgery

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been shown to have clinical benefits in certain groups of patients with advanced heart failure (HF). However, patients with valvular cardiomyopathy are underrepresented in randomized clinical studies. The aim of this study was to assess the medium-term (i.e., at 6 months) effects of CRT in patients with HF exclusively due to valvular disease. The study included 40 consecutive patients who underwent CRT device implantation. At 6 months, there were improvements in functional class, left ventricular remodeling, and intraventricular dyssynchrony parameters in treated patients. In this particular subgroup of patients, the benefits of CRT were similar to those observed in patients with HF due to other etiologies

Efecto de la localización del electrodo ventricular izquierdo sobre los parámetros ecocardiográficos de asincronía en pacientes sometidos a terapia de resincronización cardíaca

Introduction and objectives. Cardiac resynchronization therapy has been shown to be an option in the treatment of patients with congestive heart failure. The current indication for this treatment is based on clinical and electrocardiographic criteria, although echocardiography has also been shown to be a useful tool for the diagnosis of ventricular dyssynchrony. The aim of this study was to assess left ventricular dyssynchrony by echocardiography and to evaluate the effect of the stimulation site on the magnitude of resynchronization. Patients and method. We studied 25 patients with biventricular stimulation (left ventricular lead located in a lateral position in 13 patients, and in an anterior position in 12). A complete echo-Doppler evaluation, including left ventricular ejection fraction, ventricular diameters and parameters of inter- and intraventricular dyssynchrony, was performed before implantation and 3 months after the procedure, with the device connected and disconnected. Results. Left ventricular ejection fraction increased significantly from 23.7 (6.5) to 27.8 (5.5) (P=.007) at 3 months. In the group as a whole, biventricular pacing was associated with a significant decrease in all intraventricular dyssynchrony parameters (septal-to-lateral wall motion delay and septal-to-posterior wall motion delay). This decrease in septal-to-posterior wall motion delay and septalto- lateral wall motion delay was significantly greater in patients with the electrode implanted in the lateral position (58.1 ms vs 118 ms; P=.02) than with the lead in the anterior position (39.5 ms vs 86.5 ms; P=.04). Three patients, all with the electrode in an anterior location, were considered non-responders. Conclusions. Left lateral free wall stimulation provided significantly better intraventricular resynchronization compared to stimulation at an anterior site. Echocardiography is a useful tool to evaluate changes in intra- and interventricular synchrony related to the pacing site

Patentometric: monitoring the scientific and technological trends of Additive Manufacturing in Medical Applications

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