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Stress among Portuguese Medical Students: the EuStress Solution.

Journal of medical systems
There has been an increasing attention to the study of stress. Particularly, college students often experience high levels of stress that are linked to several negative outcomes concerning academic functioning, physical, and mental health. In this pa...

Combining string and phonetic similarity matching to identify misspelt names of drugs in medical records written in Portuguese.

Journal of biomedical semantics
BACKGROUND: There is an increasing amount of unstructured medical data that can be analysed for different purposes. However, information extraction from free text data may be particularly inefficient in the presence of spelling errors. Existing appro...

Importance of coding co-morbidities for APR-DRG assignment: Focus on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia
BACKGROUND: The All Patient-Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups (APR-DRGs) system has adjusted the basic DRG structure by incorporating four severity of illness (SOI) levels, which are used for determining hospital payment. A comprehensive report of all...

Application of fuzzy logic tools for the biogeochemical characterisation of (un)contaminated waters from Aljustrel mining area (South Portugal).

Chemosphere
Aljustrel mining area (South Portugal) belongs to the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB). It is classified of high environmental risk due to its large tailings and to the Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) affected waters, generated by sulphides' oxidation. Integrating...

Sex determination from the femur in Portuguese populations with classical and machine-learning classifiers.

Journal of forensic and legal medicine
The assessment of sex is of paramount importance in the establishment of the biological profile of a skeletal individual. Femoral relevance for sex estimation is indisputable, particularly when other exceedingly dimorphic skeletal regions are missing...

Evolution of Collective Behaviors for a Real Swarm of Aquatic Surface Robots.

PloS one
Swarm robotics is a promising approach for the coordination of large numbers of robots. While previous studies have shown that evolutionary robotics techniques can be applied to obtain robust and efficient self-organized behaviors for robot swarms, m...

Sex estimation from the tarsal bones in a Portuguese sample: a machine learning approach.

International journal of legal medicine
Sex estimation is extremely important in the analysis of human remains as many of the subsequent biological parameters are sex specific (e.g., age at death, stature, and ancestry). When dealing with incomplete or fragmented remains, metric analysis o...

Beyond the Hype: The potential and challenges of semi-solid extrusion 3D Printing in pharmaceutical applications through the lens of Portuguese 3D experts.

International journal of pharmaceutics
In recent years, the technological landscape has experienced a notable surge in the exploration of 3D Printing technologies (3DPT), particularly as an additive manufacturing method. Among the various 3DPT available, semi-solid extrusion 3DP (SSE-3DP)...

Overview of Master's Theses in Medical Informatics in Portugal: An 18-Year Synthesis.

Studies in health technology and informatics
This study analyzes 159 master's theses in Medical Informatics from the University of Porto, spanning 2006 to 2023, to identify key trends, thematic focuses, and research gaps. Frequent topics include application and system development, database mana...