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3D printing is a revolutionary manufacturing and prototyping technology that has altered the outlooks of numerous industrial and scientific fields since its introduction. Recently, it has attracted attention for its potential as a manufacturing ...

In the medical field, the visualization of several body parts is essential to understanding the internal functions of the anatomical framework of the body. We start with a review of medical visualization techniques for medical applications. We ...

Lameness is a major issue in dairy cattle and its early and automated detection offers animal welfare benefits together with potentially high commercial savings for farmers. Current advancements in automated detection have not achieved a sensitive ...

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are potential artificial muscle candidates within patientassistive devices. Their stimuli-responsive, shape-morphing properties can be controlled by various processes to produce a wide range of actuation behaviors. ...

This study researched absenteeism in the healthcare setting among paraprofessionals. The study explored workers' absenteeism as examined in a general contextual investigation as a survey of the healthcare paraprofessionals. Using the Person-...

One in five (20%) children and youth meet diagnostic criteria for a mental disorder which has been shown to be associated with functional impairment at home, school, and community. Between 75-80% of children and youth do not receive mental health ...

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related difficulties face a high level of stress. Interventions aimed at helping parents learn to manage these stressors are beginning to emerge in the literature. The vast majority of ...

Children who present with externalizing behaviors are some of the most challenging to treat and support academically in school settings. Literature suggests that effective treatment with this population both in clinical settings and school ...

In the present thesis accurate charge densities of several amino acids and peptides have been reconstructed by the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) to study chemical bonds. The MEM model-independently determines the most probable electron density, ...

Os Suplementos Alimentares (SA) são produtos químicos ou naturais, de composição simples ou composta, destinados a complementar a dieta alimentar normal, tendo como objetivo colmatar determinada falha ou melhorar alguma condição. Estes são ...

Sleep apnea is a chronic respiratory disorder that is characterized by recurrent reductions in breathing during sleep. The gold standard diagnosis of sleep apnea is an overnight sleep study with polysomnography (PSG), which is expensive and time-...

Nos dias de hoje, grande parte dos alimentos são processados e fabricados industrialmente e a troca de alimentos a nível global é cada vez maior, aumentando as probabilidades de contaminação se não forem tomadas as medidas adequadas. De forma a ...

Pyroptosis is a regulated mode of lytic inflammatory cell death that promotes anti-microbial host defense but may contribute to sepsis. Pyroptosis requires canonical inflammasome assembly to mediate caspase-1 activation. Active caspase-1 cleaves ...

A capacidade de mover os membros inferiores é crucial para a maioria das atividades diárias pelo que há uma necessidade permanente de desenvolver novos métodos para melhorar a mobilidade das pessoas. Esta dissertação retrata uma ferramenta de ...

Activity recognition in monitored environments where the occupants are elderly or disabled is currently a popular research topic and is being proposed as a possible solution that may help maintain the independence of an aging population within ...

Trasfondo: A través de la literatura se evidencia una alta prevalencia de los trastornos ansiedad en niños y adolescentes de los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico. Del mismo modo se ha identificado que niños y adolescentes puertorriqueños con algún ...

Mathematical modelling of mental health risks is a laborious task, since assessment records contain diverse combinations of variables and a huge amount of missing data. In addition, risk judgements made by assessors are not clearly formulated from ...

Along with the development of contemporary computer science the limitations of sequential "von Neumann" machines have become more apparent. It is now becoming clear that to handle projected needs in speed and throughput, massively parallel architectures ...