Robust iris recognition under unconstrained settings

Tese de mestrado integrado. Bioengenharia. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 201

Diagnóstico e tratamento da reabsorção radicular externa – A propósito de 3 casos clínicos

Poster apresentado no XXXV Congresso Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária (SPEMD), 9-10 Outubro 2015, Centro de Congressos do Lagoas Park, Oeiras, Lisboa.Under a Creative Commons license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Tertiary treatment of dairy industry wastewater with production of Chlorella vulgaris biomass: evaluation of effluent dilution

Efluentes secundários da indústria de laticínios, quando não tratados adequadamente, podem provocar eutrofização de corpos d’água, principalmente por conter nutrientes como fósforo e nitrogênio. O tratamento terciário empregando microalgas poderia ser uma solução adequada para o estado de Minas Gerais, maior produtor brasileiro de leite, contribuindo na redução de impactos ambientais, bem como fornecendo biomassa para extração de óleos e obtenção de compostos ativos e insumos (incluindo proteínas) para nutrição animal. Neste trabalho, avaliaram-se diluições (com água destilada) do efluente secundário da indústria de laticínios para cultivo de Chlorella vulgaris em fotobiorreator tubular em escala de bancada. Os resultados encontrados indicam a viabilidade do uso de efluente de indústria de laticínios, pós tratamento secundário, para o cultivo de microalgas, apresentando crescimento similar àquele obtido em cultivos padrões (meio basal Bold). O efluente secundário sem diluição (100% efluente) foi o que apresentou melhor desempenho na produção de biomassa. Além disso, a biomassa obtida em efluentes não apresentou diferenças em relação àquela obtida em meio basal Bold (controle), no que se refere a teores de proteínas, lipídios ou perfil de ácidos graxos.Secondary wastewaters from the dairy industry may cause eutrophication of water bodies when not properly treated, mainly because they contain nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen. Tertiary treatment using microalgae could be an adequate solution for Minas Gerais State, the largest Brazilian milk producer, contributing to the reduction of environmental impacts, as well as providing biomass for oil extraction, and obtaining active compounds and inputs (including proteins) for animal feeding. In this work, dilutions (with distilled water) of the secondary wastewater from the dairy industry were evaluated to cultivate Chlorella vulgaris in a bench-scale tubular photobioreactor. Theresults indicate the feasibility of using wastewater from the dairy industry, after secondary treatment, to cultivate microalgae, showing cell growth like that obtained in control cultures (Bold basal medium). The secondary wastewater without dilution (100% wastewater) provided the best condition for biomass production. The biomass obtained in wastewater showed no differences from the biomass obtained in the Bold basal medium (control) in terms of protein, lipid content, or fatty acid profile

I Directriz de la Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia sobre procesos y competencias para la formación en cardiología en el Brasil: resumen ejecutivo

This article summarizes the 1st Guidelines of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology on Processes and Skills for Education in Cardiology in Brazil, which can be found in full at: . The guideline establishes the education time required in Internal Medicine and Cardiology with Specialization through theoretical and practical training. These requirements must be available at the center forming Specialists in Cardiology and the Cardiology contents.Este artículo resume la I Directriz de la Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia sobre Procesos y Competencias para la Formación en Cardiología en el Brasil, que puede ser encontrada completa en la siguiente dirección: . Son establecidos el tiempo de formación en el prerrequisito de Clínica Médica y en Cardiología, con Especialización mediante entrenamiento teórico y práctico, los recursos mínimos que deben estar disponibles en el centro formador de Especialistas en Cardiología y el contenido del conocimiento en Cardiología.Este artigo resume a I Diretriz da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia sobre Processos e Competências para a Formação em Cardiologia no Brasil, que pode ser encontrada na íntegra no seguinte endereço: . São estabelecidos o tempo de formação no pré-requisito de Clínica Médica e em Cardiologia, com Especialização mediante treinamento teórico e prático, os recursos mínimos que devem estar disponíveis no centro formador de Especialistas em Cardiologia e o conteúdo do conhecimento em Cardiologia.Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Curso de Pós Graduação em Ciências Aplicadas à Saúde do AdultoUniversidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)Escola Paulista de MedicinaHospital São PauloUniversidade Luterana do BrasilEscola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde PúblicaSanta Casa de Misericórdia da Bahia Hospital Santa IzabelInstituto de Cardiologia de Santa CatarinaUniversidade do Sul de Santa CatarinaFMUSP HC Instituto do CoraçãoHospital Anis RassiComissão Julgadora do Título de Especialista em CardiologiaUNIFESPEscola Paulista de MedicinaHospital São PauloSciEL

Sistema de controle interno da administração pública na União Europeia e no Brasil

- Divulgação dos SUMÁRIOS das obras recentemente incorporadas ao acervo da Biblioteca Ministro Oscar Saraiva do STJ. Em respeito à Lei de Direitos Autorais, não disponibilizamos a obra na íntegra.- Localização na estante: 351.9(81+4) S622

Prevalence, Awareness, and Treatment of Hypertension in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Nationwide Multicenter Study in Brazil

Objective. This study evaluated the prevalence, awareness, and type of treatment for hypertension in Brazil in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Methods. This was a cross-sectional, multicenter study that was conducted from December 2008 to December 2010 in 28 public clinics located in 20 Brazilian cities. Results. A total of 3,591 patients were studied, 56% female, average age 21.2±11.7 years, with a median duration of diabetes 9.6±8.1 years. Blood pressure levels were available for a total of 3,323 patients and 689 (19.2%) patients were hypertensive. Hypertensive patients were older, exhibited longer duration of diabetes, and had higher body mass index (BMI), total cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL-C values (P<0.001, for all comparisons), but only 370 (53.7%) received treatment. Patient awareness of hypertension was documented in 453 (65.5%) patients. However, only 76 (22.9%) of the treated patients attained the target systolic (sBP) and diastolic blood pressures (dBP). Conclusions. Our results demonstrate that a large number of T1D patients with hypertension do not receive appropriate treatment; few of the treated T1D patients achieved the target sBP and dBP values. Greater attention should be paid to blood pressure evaluation, hypertension diagnosis, and treatment of T1D patients in Brazil

SARS-CoV-2 introductions and early dynamics of the epidemic in Portugal

Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal was rapidly implemented by the National Institute of Health in the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic, in collaboration with more than 50 laboratories distributed nationwide. Methods By applying recent phylodynamic models that allow integration of individual-based travel history, we reconstructed and characterized the spatio-temporal dynamics of SARSCoV-2 introductions and early dissemination in Portugal. Results We detected at least 277 independent SARS-CoV-2 introductions, mostly from European countries (namely the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, and Switzerland), which were consistent with the countries with the highest connectivity with Portugal. Although most introductions were estimated to have occurred during early March 2020, it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 was silently circulating in Portugal throughout February, before the first cases were confirmed. Conclusions Here we conclude that the earlier implementation of measures could have minimized the number of introductions and subsequent virus expansion in Portugal. This study lays the foundation for genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal, and highlights the need for systematic and geographically-representative genomic surveillance.We gratefully acknowledge to Sara Hill and Nuno Faria (University of Oxford) and Joshua Quick and Nick Loman (University of Birmingham) for kindly providing us with the initial sets of Artic Network primers for NGS; Rafael Mamede (MRamirez team, IMM, Lisbon) for developing and sharing a bioinformatics script for sequence curation (https://github.com/rfm-targa/BioinfUtils); Philippe Lemey (KU Leuven) for providing guidance on the implementation of the phylodynamic models; Joshua L. Cherry (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health) for providing guidance with the subsampling strategies; and all authors, originating and submitting laboratories who have contributed genome data on GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org/) on which part of this research is based. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the view of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the United States government. This study is co-funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (234_596874175) on behalf of the Research 4 COVID-19 call. Some infrastructural resources used in this study come from the GenomePT project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022184), supported by COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), Lisboa Portugal Regional Operational Programme (Lisboa2020), Algarve Portugal Regional Operational Programme (CRESC Algarve2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A list of land plants of Parque Nacional do Caparaó, Brazil, highlights the presence of sampling gaps within this protected area

Brazilian protected areas are essential for plant conservation in the Atlantic Forest domain, one of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots. A major challenge for improving conservation actions is to know the plant richness, protected by these areas. Online databases offer an accessible way to build plant species lists and to provide relevant information about biodiversity. A list of land plants of “Parque Nacional do Caparaó” (PNC) was previously built using online databases and published on the website "Catálogo de Plantas das Unidades de Conservação do Brasil." Here, we provide and discuss additional information about plant species richness, endemism and conservation in the PNC that could not be included in the List. We documented 1,791 species of land plants as occurring in PNC, of which 63 are cited as threatened (CR, EN or VU) by the Brazilian National Red List, seven as data deficient (DD) and five as priorities for conservation. Fifity-one species were possible new ocurrences for ES and MG states