Database Survey of Anti-Inflammatory Plants in South America: A Review [PDF]
, 2011 Inflammation is a complex event linked to tissue damage whether by bacteria, physical trauma, chemical, heat or any other phenomenon. This physiological response is coordinated largely by a variety of chemical mediators that are released from the ...
Abad +236 more
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Water Microbiology. Bacterial Pathogens and Water [PDF]
, 2010 Water is essential to life, but many people do not have access to clean and safe drinking water and many die of waterborne bacterial infections. In this review a general characterization of the most important bacterial diseases transmitted through water ...
Alam +131 more
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Economic Growth, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Renewable Energy and Globalization [PDF]
, 2014 This article investigates the correlation between economic growth, carbon dioxide emissions, renewable energy and globalization for the period 1970-2010, using time series (OLS, GMM, unit root test, VEC model, and Granger causality) to Portuguese economy.
Nuno Carlos Leitão
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Retrieval and Encoding Interference: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Anaphor Processing [PDF]
, 2017 The main goal of this paper was to disentangle encoding and retrieval interference effects in anaphor processing and thus to evaluate the hypothesis predicting that structurally inaccessible nouns (distractors) are not considered to be potential anaphor ...
Anna Laurinavichyute +7 more
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Energy Consumption and Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Data Analysis for Portugal [PDF]
, 2014 This research considers the relationship between energy consumption and foreign direct investment (FDI) for the period 1990-2011. As econometric strategy, we use unit root test and panel data.
Nuno Carlos Leitão
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Edge Preserving Image Reconstruction: Experimental Applications to Thoracic EIT [PDF]
, 2014 Tomographic image reconstruction is an inverse problem, where unknown parameters describing an internal volume are estimated from a set of known measurements (observations).
Rahmati, Peyman
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Análise do potencial impacto de uma espécie invasora em albufeiras do Alentejo: o ganso do Egito Alopochen aegyptiaca [PDF]
, 2019 A introdução de espécies exóticas é um dos principais problemas de conservação a nível global. É assim urgente a realização de análises de risco para espécies como o ganso do Egito.
Freitas, Pedro Miguel Gomes de
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Hemocyte-pericardial cell interaction during the growth of the dorsal vessel [PDF]
, 2016 Drosophila melanogaster has a tubular heart called the dorsal vessel, which is composed of contractile cardiomyocytes and hemolymph filtering pericardial cells.
Cevik, Duygu
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User requirements for monitoring the evolution of stratospheric ozone at high vertical resolution (‘Operoz’: Operational ozone observations using limb geometry) [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of the Operoz study has been threefold: (i) To establish the user requirements for an operational mission targeting ozone profiles at high vertical resolution, (ii) To identify the observational gaps with respect to these user requirements ...
Engelen, Richard +10 more
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Investigating centering, scan length, and arm position impact on radiation dose across 4 countries from 4 continents during pandemic: Mitigating key radioprotection issues [PDF]
, 2021 Purpose: Optimization of CT scan practices can help achieve and maintain optimal radiation protection. The aim was to assess centering, scan length, and positioning of patients undergoing chest CT for suspected or known COVID-19 pneumonia and to ...
Alberto Moscatelli, A. +17 more
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