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Dohms MC, Rocha A, Rasenberg E, Dielissen P, Thoonen B. Peer assessment in medical communication skills training in programmatic assessment: A qualitative study examining faculty and student perceptions. Med Teach 2023:1-9. [PMID: 38157436 DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2023.2285248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Current literature recommends assessment of communication skills in medical education combining different settings and multiple observers. There is still a gap in understanding about whether and how peers assessment facilitates learning in communication skills training. METHODS We designed a qualitative study using focus group interviews and thematic analysis, in a medical course in the Netherlands. We aimed to explore medical students' and teachers' experiences, perceptions, and perspectives about challenges and facilitating factors in PACST (Peer assessment in medical communication skills training). RESULTS Most of the participants reported that peer feedback was a valuable experience when learning communication skills. The major challenges for the quality and credibility of PACST reported by the participants are the question whether peer feedback is critical enough for learning and the difficulty of actually engaging students in the assessment process. CONCLUSION Teachers reviewing students' peer assessments may improve the quality and their credibility and the reviewed assessments can best be used for learning purposes. We suggest to pay sufficient attention to teachers' roles in PACST, ensuring a safe and trustworthy environment and additionally helping students to internalize the value of being vulnerable during the evaluation process.
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- M C Dohms
- Clinique Bouchard, Marseille, France
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- DASA (Diagnósticos da América S/A), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Medisch Centrum Onder de Linde, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Lorthe E, Santos C, Ornelas JP, Doetsch JN, Marques SCS, Teixeira R, Santos AC, Rodrigues C, Gonçalves G, Ferreira Sousa P, Correia Lopes J, Rocha A, Barros H. Using Digital Tools to Study the Health of Adults Born Preterm at a Large Scale: e-Cohort Pilot Study. J Med Internet Res 2023; 25:e39854. [PMID: 37184902 DOI: 10.2196/39854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Preterm birth is a global health concern. Its adverse consequences may persist throughout the life course, exerting a potentially heavy burden on families, health systems, and societies. In high-income countries, the first children who benefited from improved care are now adults entering middle age. However, there is a clear gap in the knowledge regarding the long-term outcomes of individuals born preterm. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the feasibility of recruiting and following up an e-cohort of adults born preterm worldwide and provide estimations of participation, characteristics of participants, the acceptability of questions, and the quality of data collected. METHODS We implemented a prospective, open, observational, and international e-cohort pilot study (Health of Adult People Born Preterm-an e-Cohort Pilot Study [HAPP-e]). Inclusion criteria were being an adult (aged ≥18 years), born preterm (<37 weeks of gestation), having internet access and an email address, and understanding at least 1 of the available languages. A large, multifaceted, and multilingual communication strategy was established. Between December 2019 and June 2021, inclusion and repeated data collection were performed using a secured web platform. We provided descriptive statistics regarding participation in the e-cohort, namely, the number of persons who registered on the platform, signed the consent form, initiated and completed the baseline questionnaire, and initiated and completed the follow-up questionnaire. We also described the main characteristics of the HAPP-e participants and provided an assessment of the quality of the data and the acceptability of sensitive questions. RESULTS As of December 31, 2020, a total of 1004 persons had registered on the platform, leading to 527 accounts with a confirmed email and 333 signed consent forms. A total of 333 participants initiated the baseline questionnaire. All participants were invited to follow-up, and 35.7% (119/333) consented to participate, of whom 97.5% (116/119) initiated the follow-up questionnaire. Completion rates were very high both at baseline (296/333, 88.9%) and at follow-up (112/116, 96.6%). This sample of adults born preterm in 34 countries covered a wide range of sociodemographic and health characteristics. The gestational age at birth ranged from 23+6 to 36+6 weeks (median 32, IQR 29-35 weeks). Only 2.1% (7/333) of the participants had previously participated in a cohort of individuals born preterm. Women (252/333, 75.7%) and highly educated participants (235/327, 71.9%) were also overrepresented. Good quality data were collected thanks to validation controls implemented on the web platform. The acceptability of potentially sensitive questions was excellent, as very few participants chose the "I prefer not to say" option when available. CONCLUSIONS Although we identified room for improvement in specific procedures, this pilot study confirmed the great potential for recruiting a large and diverse sample of adults born preterm worldwide, thereby advancing research on adults born preterm.
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- Elsa Lorthe
- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal
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- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal
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- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- NOVA Institute of Communication (ICNOVA), NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
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- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal
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- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal
- Departamento de Ciências da Saúde Pública e Forenses e Educação Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
- Department of Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal
- Departamento de Ciências da Saúde Pública e Forenses e Educação Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Fortier I, Wey TW, Bergeron J, Pinot de Moira A, Nybo-Andersen AM, Bishop T, Murtagh MJ, Miočević M, Swertz MA, van Enckevort E, Marcon Y, Mayrhofer MT, Ornelas JP, Sebert S, Santos AC, Rocha A, Wilson RC, Griffith LE, Burton P. Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2023; 14:190-198. [PMID: 35957574 DOI: 10.1017/s2040174422000460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Optimizing research on the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) involves implementing initiatives maximizing the use of the available cohort study data; achieving sufficient statistical power to support subgroup analysis; and using participant data presenting adequate follow-up and exposure heterogeneity. It also involves being able to undertake comparison, cross-validation, or replication across data sets. To answer these requirements, cohort study data need to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), and more particularly, it often needs to be harmonized. Harmonization is required to achieve or improve comparability of the putatively equivalent measures collected by different studies on different individuals. Although the characteristics of the research initiatives generating and using harmonized data vary extensively, all are confronted by similar issues. Having to collate, understand, process, host, and co-analyze data from individual cohort studies is particularly challenging. The scientific success and timely management of projects can be facilitated by an ensemble of factors. The current document provides an overview of the 'life course' of research projects requiring harmonization of existing data and highlights key elements to be considered from the inception to the end of the project.
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- Isabel Fortier
- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, England, UK
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- School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands
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- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, Portugal
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- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, UK
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK
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Oliveira D, Assis A, Hora JB, Moreira A, Melo J, Rocha A, Nahas S, Carnevale F. Abstract No. 40 Embolization of the Superior and Middle Rectal Arteries for the Treatment of Symptomatic Hemorrhoidal Disease using the Combination of Metallic Coils and Microspheres. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2022.12.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023] Open
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long D, Rice P, Sawyer T, Rocha A, Galvez D, Barton J, Heusinkveld J. Optical coherence tomography for the detection of thermal injury in an ex-vivo porcine ureter model. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.12.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/10/2023]
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Lima J, Rodrigues M, Eulálio M, Rocha A. Intermediate meals and the place of consumption - Which relationship? Int J Gastron Food Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgfs.2023.100719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Bieger A, Rocha A, Bellaver B, Machado L, Da Ros L, Borelli WV, Therriault J, Macedo AC, Pascoal TA, Gauthier S, Rosa-Neto P, Zimmer ER. Neuroinflammation Biomarkers in the AT(N) Framework Across the Alzheimer's Disease Continuum. J Prev Alzheimers Dis 2023; 10:401-417. [PMID: 37357281 DOI: 10.14283/jpad.2023.54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
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In the past years, neuroinflammation has been widely investigated in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Evidence from animal, in vivo and post-mortem studies has shown that inflammatory changes are a common feature of the disease, apparently happening in response to amyloid-beta and tau accumulation. Progress in imaging and fluid biomarkers now allows for identifying surrogate markers of neuroinflammation in living individuals, which may offer unprecedented opportunities to better understand AD pathogenesis and progression. In this context, inflammatory mediators and glial proteins (mainly derived from microglial cells and astrocytes) seem to be the most promising biomarkers. Here, we discuss the biological basis of neuroinflammation in AD, revise the proposed neuroinflammation biomarkers, describe what we have learned from anti-inflammatory drug trials, and critically discuss the potential addition of these biomarkers in the AT(N) framework.
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- A Bieger
- Dr. Eduardo R. Zimmer, PhD, BPharm, Assistant Professor Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 90035-003, e-mail: , Phone: +55 51 3308-5558, Website: www.zimmer-lab.org
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Amarti K, Schulte MHJ, Kleiboer A, Van Genugten CR, Oudega M, Sonnenberg C, Gonçalves GC, Rocha A, Riper H. Feasibility of Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depressed Older Adults With the Moodbuster Platform: Protocol for 2 Pilot Feasibility Studies. JMIR Res Protoc 2022; 11:e41445. [PMID: 36282565 PMCID: PMC9644251 DOI: 10.2196/41445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Revised: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Internet-based interventions can be effective in the treatment of depression. However, internet-based interventions for older adults with depression are scarce, and little is known about their feasibility and effectiveness. Objective To present the design of 2 studies aiming to assess the feasibility of internet-based cognitive behavioral treatment for older adults with depression. We will assess the feasibility of an online, guided version of the Moodbuster platform among depressed older adults from the general population as well as the feasibility of a blended format (combining integrated face-to-face sessions and internet-based modules) in a specialized mental health care outpatient clinic. Methods A single-group, pretest-posttest design will be applied in both settings. The primary outcome of the studies will be feasibility in terms of (1) acceptance and satisfaction (measured with the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8), (2) usability (measured with the System Usability Scale), and (3) engagement (measured with the Twente Engagement with eHealth Technologies Scale). Secondary outcomes include (1) the severity of depressive symptoms (measured with the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale), (2) participant and therapist experience with the digital technology (measured with qualitative interviews), (3) the working alliance between patients and practitioners (from both perspectives; measured with the Working Alliance Inventory–Short Revised questionnaire), (4) the technical alliance between patients and the platform (measured with the Working Alliance Inventory for Online Interventions–Short Form questionnaire), and (5) uptake, in terms of attempted and completed modules. A total of 30 older adults with mild to moderate depressive symptoms (Geriatric Depression Scale 15 score between 5 and 11) will be recruited from the general population. A total of 15 older adults with moderate to severe depressive symptoms (Geriatric Depression Scale 15 score between 8 and 15) will be recruited from a specialized mental health care outpatient clinic. A mixed methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative analyses will be adopted. Both the primary and secondary outcomes will be further explored with individual semistructured interviews and synthesized descriptively. Descriptive statistics (reported as means and SDs) will be used to examine the primary and secondary outcome measures. Within-group depression severity will be analyzed using a 2-tailed, paired-sample t test to investigate differences between time points. The interviews will be recorded and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results The studies were funded in October 2019. Recruitment started in September 2022. Conclusions The results of these pilot studies will show whether this platform is feasible for use by the older adult population in a blended, guided format in the 2 settings and will represent the first exploration of the size of the effect of Moodbuster in terms of decreased depressive symptoms. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) PRR1-10.2196/41445
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- Khadicha Amarti
- Clinical Psychology Section, Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Clinical Psychology Section, Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Clinical Psychology Section, Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Clinical Psychology Section, Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Amsterdam Universitair Medisch Centrum, Vrije Universiteit, Public Health Research Institute and Neuroscience Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Geestelijk Gezondheidszorg inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Amsterdam Universitair Medisch Centrum, Vrije Universiteit, Public Health Research Institute and Neuroscience Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Geestelijk Gezondheidszorg inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Clinical Psychology Section, Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Geestelijk Gezondheidszorg inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Institute of Telepsychiatry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Carvalho D, Rafael S, Monteiro A, Rodrigues V, Lopes M, Rocha A. How well have CMIP3, CMIP5 and CMIP6 future climate projections portrayed the recently observed warming. Sci Rep 2022; 12:11983. [PMID: 35835803 PMCID: PMC9283450 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-16264-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Despite the dire conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports in terms of global warming and its impacts on Earth’s climate, ecosystems and human society, a skepticism claiming that the projected global warming is alarmist or, at least, overestimated, still persists. Given the years passed since the future climate projections that served as basis for the IPCC 4th, 5th and 6th Assessment Reports were released, it is now possible to answer this fundamental question if the projected global warming has been over or underestimated. This study presents a comparison between CMIP3, CMIP5 and CMIP6 future temperature projections and observations. The results show that the global warming projected by all CMIPs and future climate scenarios here analyzed project a global warming slightly lower than the observed one. The observed warming is closer to the upper level of the projected ones, revealing that CMIPs future climate scenarios with higher GHG emissions appear to be the most realistic ones. These results show that CMIPs future warming projections have been slightly conservative up to 2020, which could suggest a similar cold bias in their warming projections up to the end of the current century. However, given the short future periods here analyzed, inferences about warming at longer timescales cannot be done with confidence, since the models internal variability can play a relevant role on timescales of 20 years and less.
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- D Carvalho
- CESAM-Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal.
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- CESAM-Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM-Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM-Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM-Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM-Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
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Barbosa da Silva J, Sousa A, Rocha A, Driusso P. 150 SELF-REPORTED URINARY INCONTINENCE DURING COVID-19 INFECTION AND AFTER RECOVERY: A PRELIMINARY REPORT WITH BRAZILIAN SURVIVORS. Continence 2022; 2:1-2. [PMID: 35822131 PMCID: PMC9263168 DOI: 10.1016/j.cont.2022.100262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- J Barbosa da Silva
- Federal University of São Carlos/Hochschule Osnabrück - University of Applied Sciences
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- Federal University of São Carlos
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- Federal University of São Carlos
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Pereira M, Stroom J, Rocha A, Greco C, Nijsten S. PD-0805 3D Portal Dosimetry for extreme hypofraction: pre-treatment and in vivo verification. Radiother Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(22)02946-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Gonçalves Correia J, Mesquita S, Rocha A, Mendes G, Fraga A, Silva-Ramos M. Does every suspicion of prostate cancer need imaging – a risk-based approach to reduce unnecessary mpMRI. Eur Urol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0302-2838(22)00817-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Morrell JM, Rocha A. A Novel Approach to Minimising Acute Equine Endometritis That May Help to Prevent the Development of the Chronic State. Front Vet Sci 2022; 8:799619. [PMID: 35071389 PMCID: PMC8770823 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.799619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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One of the most commonly encountered challenges in equine breeding is endometritis, which can be difficult to resolve and causes considerable economic losses to the industry. It is a multifactorial condition, developing as an exaggerated form of the normal physiological response to breeding. Seminal plasma proteins, spermatozoa, bacteria and debris initiate an inflammatory response; the resulting fluid and neutrophils are then cleared from the uterus along with the debris. However, in some mares, the response is prolonged or exaggerated, with much fluid formation and neutrophil infiltration leading to acute endometritis. A bacterial cause has been implicated, although in some cases no pathogenic organisms can be isolated on culture. It has been postulated that any one of a variety of bacteria could be involved, or dysbiosis of the uterine microbiome could be responsible. Repeated episodes of acute endometritis may lead to the pathology associated with chronic endometritis, with mucociliary dysfunction, vascular degeneration and plasma cell infiltration. This review examines the information that is currently available about equine endometritis, particularly about the role of the inseminate in the uterus, and its current treatment. There are some promising lines of research into treatment or prevention that may help to resolve the issue.
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- J M Morrell
- Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Immuno-Physiology and Pharmacology, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,Centro de Estudos de Ciência Animal, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Bamber D, Collins HE, Powell C, Gonçalves GC, Johnson S, Manktelow B, Ornelas JP, Lopes JC, Rocha A, Draper ES. Development of a data classification system for preterm birth cohort studies: the RECAP Preterm project. BMC Med Res Methodol 2022; 22:8. [PMID: 34996382 PMCID: PMC8742427 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-021-01494-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background The small sample sizes available within many very preterm (VPT) longitudinal birth cohort studies mean that it is often necessary to combine and harmonise data from individual studies to increase statistical power, especially for studying rare outcomes. Curating and mapping data is a vital first step in the process of data harmonisation. To facilitate data mapping and harmonisation across VPT birth cohort studies, we developed a custom classification system as part of the Research on European Children and Adults born Preterm (RECAP Preterm) project in order to increase the scope and generalisability of research and the evaluation of outcomes across the lifespan for individuals born VPT. Methods The multidisciplinary consortium of expert clinicians and researchers who made up the RECAP Preterm project participated in a four-phase consultation process via email questionnaire to develop a topic-specific classification system. Descriptive analyses were calculated after each questionnaire round to provide pre- and post- ratings to assess levels of agreement with the classification system as it developed. Amendments and refinements were made to the classification system after each round. Results Expert input from 23 clinicians and researchers from the RECAP Preterm project aided development of the classification system’s topic content, refining it from 10 modules, 48 themes and 197 domains to 14 modules, 93 themes and 345 domains. Supplementary classifications for target, source, mode and instrument were also developed to capture additional variable-level information. Over 22,000 individual data variables relating to VPT birth outcomes have been mapped to the classification system to date to facilitate data harmonisation. This will continue to increase as retrospective data items are mapped and harmonised variables are created. Conclusions This bespoke preterm birth classification system is a fundamental component of the RECAP Preterm project’s web-based interactive platform. It is freely available for use worldwide by those interested in research into the long term impact of VPT birth. It can also be used to inform the development of future cohort studies. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12874-021-01494-5.
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- Deborah Bamber
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal.,Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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Goncalves M, Henriques A, Costa A, Correia D, Severo M, Lucas R, Barros H, Santos AC, Ribeiro AI, Rocha A, Lopes C, Correia D, Ramos E, Gonçalves G, Barros H, Araújo J, Talih M, Tavares M, Severo M, Lunet N, Meireles P, Duarte R, Lucas R, Camacho R, Fraga S, Correia S, Silva S, Leão T. Insomnia and nightmare profiles during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: characterization and associated factors. Sleep Med 2022; 90:44-52. [PMID: 35093683 PMCID: PMC8744402 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.12.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Objective/background To describe and characterize insomnia symptoms and nightmare profiles in Portugal during the first six weeks of a national lockdown due to COVID-19. Patients/methods An open cohort study was conducted to collect information of the general population during the first wave of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. We analyzed data from 5011 participants (≥16 years) who answered a weekly questionnaire about their well-being. Two questions about the frequency of insomnia and nightmares about COVID-19 were consecutively applied during six weeks (March–May 2020). Latent class analysis was conducted and different insomnia and nightmare profiles were identified. Associations between individual characteristics and both profiles were estimated using odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results Five insomnia (No insomnia, Stable-mild, Decreasing-moderate, Stable-severe, Increasing-severe) and three nightmares profiles (Stable-mild, Stable-moderate, Stable-severe) were identified. Being female, younger, perceiving their income as insufficient and feelings of fear towards COVID-19 were associated with higher odds of insomnia (Women: OR = 6.98 95%CI: 4.18–11.64; ≥60 years: OR = 0.30 95%CI: 0.18–0.53; Insufficient income: adjusted OR (aOR) = 8.413 95%CI: 3.93–16.84; Often presenting fear of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 infection: aOR = 9.13 95%CI: 6.36–13.11), and nightmares (Women: OR = 2.60 95%CI: 1.74–3.86; ≥60 years: OR = 0.45 95%CI: 0.28–0.74; Insufficient income: aOR = 2.60 95%CI: 1.20–5.20; Often/almost always presenting fear of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 infection: aOR = 6.62 95%CI: 5.01–8.74). Having a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection was associated with worse patterns of nightmares about the pandemic. Conclusions Social and psychological individual factors are important characteristics to consider in the development of therapeutic strategies to support people with sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Martins De Carvalho M, Proenca T, Pinto RA, Torres S, Resende CX, Grilo P, Amador AF, Costa CM, Calvao J, Marques C, Cabrita A, Rodrigues JD, Rocha A, Dias P, Macedo F. Secondary prevention after acute coronary syndrome - can we achieve dyslipidemia guideline targets? Eur J Prev Cardiol 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwab061.267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Funding Acknowledgements
Type of funding sources: None.
Lipid control is one of the most important secondary cardiovascular prevention targets. The 4S trialin 1994 was the first study to demonstrate the benefit of statin therapy in coronary artery disease patients. More recently, the FOURIER trial (2017) and the ODYSSEY Outcomes (2018) demonstrated the cardiovascular benefit of adding a PCSK9 inhibitor to optimized antidyslipidemic therapy.
Owing to the growing number of evidence showing the importance of aggressive lipid control, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2019 Dyslipidemia Guidelines changed the recommendation of LDL targets from below 70 mg/dL to below 55 mg/dL in very high risk patients.
In the light of this new recommendation, we retrospectively analysed all patients who participated in a Coronary Rehabilitation Program (CRP) after an Acute Coronary Syndrome at a tertiary center from May 2008 to June 2019. The CRP consisted in a multi-disciplinary approach to these patients, including 8 to 12 weekly sessions of phase II rehabilitation, exercise prescription, nutrition counselling and life-style intervention, with Cardiology follow-up at the end of the CRP (3 months), 6 months and 12 months after the event. Lipid profile was requested at baseline, 3 months and 12 months after the event. Dyslipidemia was defined using the ESC Guidelines definition.
In total, 989 patients were enrolled: the mean age was 54 ± 10 years and 15% were female. Concerning to cardiovascular risk factors, 56.7% of patients had dyslipidaemia, 41.5% had hypertension, 18.1% were diabetic, 73.1% were smokers or previous smokers, 26.0% had family history of coronary disease and 14.0% had previous coronary disease.
At hospital admission, mean LDL concentration was 121,7 ± 38,8 mg/dL with 2,9% of the patients with values below 55 mg/dL and 7,6% below 70 mg/dL. The vast majority of patients were medicated with statin at hospital discharge and maintained the prescription during the follow-up (97.5% and 97.1%, respectively).
At the end of the CRP, there was a significant decrease of LDL values (p < 0.001) with 18.7% patients with LDL below 55 mg/dL and 46.3% below 70 mg/dL (mean LDL 76.6 ±23.6 mg/dL). At 1-year follow-up, the lipid control was better than at admission, but inferior than at the end of the rehabilitation program, both findings statistically significant (11.0% patients were below 55 mg/dL and 33.1% were below 70 mg/dL, with a mean LDL of 82.7 ± 28.3 mg/dL; p < 0.001).
In conclusion, our real-life observational cohort showed that guideline recommended LDL target is not achieved in most of very high-risk patients even in a structured coronary rehabilitation program. Of note, the number of patients at LDL-target decreased from 3 months to 1-year follow-up. This state the importance of a sustained healthy lifestyle and therapy adherence, with aggressive pharmacologic therapy.
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Porto, Portugal
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Guimarães T, Oliveira C, Crespo J, Porto B, Cunha R, Rocha A. Congenital stricture of the vestibulo‐vaginal fold in a mare with normal karyotype. EQUINE VET EDUC 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/eve.13425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- T. Guimarães
- Abel Salazar Biomedical Institute (ICBAS) University of Porto PortoPortugal
- Centre for the Study of Animal Sciences (CECA/ICETA) University of Porto PortoPortugal
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- Abel Salazar Biomedical Institute (ICBAS) University of Porto PortoPortugal
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- Abel Salazar Biomedical Institute (ICBAS) University of Porto PortoPortugal
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- Abel Salazar Biomedical Institute (ICBAS) University of Porto PortoPortugal
- Centre for the Study of Animal Sciences (CECA/ICETA) University of Porto PortoPortugal
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- Abel Salazar Biomedical Institute (ICBAS) University of Porto PortoPortugal
- Centre for the Study of Animal Sciences (CECA/ICETA) University of Porto PortoPortugal
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Provoost S, Kleiboer A, Ornelas J, Bosse T, Ruwaard J, Rocha A, Cuijpers P, Riper H. Improving adherence to an online intervention for low mood with a virtual coach: study protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Trials 2020; 21:860. [PMID: 33066805 PMCID: PMC7565359 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-020-04777-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2019] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Background Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (iCBT) is more effective when it is guided by human support than when it is unguided. This may be attributable to higher adherence rates that result from a positive effect of the accompanying support on motivation and on engagement with the intervention. This protocol presents the design of a pilot randomized controlled trial that aims to start bridging the gap between guided and unguided interventions. It will test an intervention that includes automated support delivered by an embodied conversational agent (ECA) in the form of a virtual coach. Methods/design The study will employ a pilot two-armed randomized controlled trial design. The primary outcomes of the trial will be (1) the effectiveness of iCBT, as supported by a virtual coach, in terms of improved intervention adherence in comparison with unguided iCBT, and (2) the feasibility of a future, larger-scale trial in terms of recruitment, acceptability, and sample size calculation. Secondary aims will be to assess the virtual coach’s effect on motivation, users’ perceptions of the virtual coach, and general feasibility of the intervention as supported by a virtual coach. We will recruit N = 70 participants from the general population who wish to learn how they can improve their mood by using Moodbuster Lite, a 4-week cognitive-behavioral therapy course. Candidates with symptoms of moderate to severe depression will be excluded from study participation. Included participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either (1) Moodbuster Lite with automated support delivered by a virtual coach or (2) Moodbuster Lite without automated support. Assessments will be taken at baseline and post-study 4 weeks later. Discussion The study will assess the preliminary effectiveness of a virtual coach in improving adherence and will determine the feasibility of a larger-scale RCT. It could represent a significant step in bridging the gap between guided and unguided iCBT interventions. Trial registration Netherlands Trial Register (NTR) NL8110. Registered on 23 October 2019.
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- Simon Provoost
- Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology Section, VU University and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology Section, VU University and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Location VU University Medical Centre, and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,GGZ inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology Section, VU University and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro- and Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology Section, VU University and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Location VU University Medical Centre, and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,GGZ inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Lima JPM, Viegas C, Afonso C, Tóth A, Illés CB, Bittsánszky A, Šatalić Z, Filipec SV, Fabijanić V, Rocha A. Children-menus in restaurants of Portuguese, Hungarian and Croatian shopping centres: A qualitative study. Eur J Public Health 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
Families to eat out frequently use shopping centres and, there is evidence that children's menus are poor nutritional quality. Obesity rates have increased all over the world, and it has been associated to the observed out of home food consumption. This study aimed to characterise children's menus in shopping center restaurants in Portugal, Hungary and Croatia, as a preliminary study to further develop strategies to intervene.
Methods
An observational cross-sectional study was carried out in shopping centres in Portugal, Hungary and Croatia. Only the ones providing a children's menu were selected. Data collection tool was developed by the research team, consisting of a three-section form to identify and characterise the restaurant and analyses the quality of children's menu.
Results
Researcher visited 295 restaurants, from which only 69 provided a children's menu. From these 12 restaurants offered gifts associated with it. The most frequently featured items on the menu were hamburgers (22%), grilled or fried chicken (19%), nuggets (17%) and pizza (12%). Potato chips were the most frequent side dish option (33%). Only 11 restaurants offered vegetable soup or vegetables. Although water was available, a variety of soft drinks and sugary fruit juices were also options. Sweet dessert is a common part of the menu. Nutritional information is present in only 13% of the menus. Menu prices do not differ much, Portugal having the higher average (x ̅ = €5.35±1.45). Hungary had the lower average (x ̅ = €4.30±1.50) and Croatia the lowest range (min=€3.00, max=€7.40).
Conclusions
Children's menu options have poor quality. Shifting foods offered to children in restaurants has the potential to improve diet quality, reduce excess energy intake and promote healthy eating habits.
Key messages
European strategies are needed to promote children healthy food environment. Following aim is to develop and test balanced menus for children among food chains.
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- J P M Lima
- GreenUPorto, Centro de Investigação em Produção Agroalimentar Sustentável, Porto, Portugal
- Escola Superior de Tecnologias de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra – Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- LAQV-Requimte, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Food Health and Science, Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal
- CITUR, Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Estoril, Portugal
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- FCNAUP, Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- EpiUnit, Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- GreenUPorto, Centro de Investigação em Produção Agroalimentar Sustentável, Porto, Portugal
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- InDeRe, Institute for Food System Research and Innovation Nonprofit Ltd, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Business Economics and Management, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Business Economics and Management, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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- InDeRe, Institute for Food System Research and Innovation Nonprofit Ltd, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Business Economics and Management, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- FCNAUP, Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- GreenUPorto, Centro de Investigação em Produção Agroalimentar Sustentável, Porto, Portugal
- LAQV-Requimte, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Christley S, Aguiar A, Blanck G, Breden F, Bukhari SAC, Busse CE, Jaglale J, Harikrishnan SL, Laserson U, Peters B, Rocha A, Schramm CA, Taylor S, Vander Heiden JA, Zimonja B, Watson CT, Corrie B, Cowell LG. The ADC API: A Web API for the Programmatic Query of the AIRR Data Commons. Front Big Data 2020; 3:22. [PMID: 33693395 PMCID: PMC7931935 DOI: 10.3389/fdata.2020.00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (AIRR) Community is a research-driven group that is establishing a clear set of community-accepted data and metadata standards; standards-based reference implementation tools; and policies and practices for infrastructure to support the deposit, curation, storage, and use of high-throughput sequencing data from B-cell and T-cell receptor repertoires (AIRR-seq data). The AIRR Data Commons is a distributed system of data repositories that utilizes a common data model, a common query language, and common interoperability formats for storage, query, and downloading of AIRR-seq data. Here is described the principal technical standards for the AIRR Data Commons consisting of the AIRR Data Model for repertoires and rearrangements, the AIRR Data Commons (ADC) API for programmatic query of data repositories, a reference implementation for ADC API services, and tools for querying and validating data repositories that support the ADC API. AIRR-seq data repositories can become part of the AIRR Data Commons by implementing the data model and API. The AIRR Data Commons allows AIRR-seq data to be reused for novel analyses and empowers researchers to discover new biological insights about the adaptive immune system.
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- Scott Christley
- Department of Population and Data Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal.,Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Division of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science (Healthcare Informatics), College of Professional Studies, St. John's University, New York, NY, United States
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- Division of B Cell Immunology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Division of Vaccine Discover, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, United States.,Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Population and Data Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States
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Oliveira J, Nunes R, Da Silva G, Nogueira I, Azevedo A, Baraliakos X, Rocha A. AB0968 DIAGNOSIS OF INFLAMMATORY BACK PAIN (IBP) IN A LOW-INCOME POPULATION USING ASAS IBP DEFINITION. Ann Rheum Dis 2020. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-eular.4260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Background:Inflammatory back pain (IBP) is an important entry criterion for identifying patients with axial spondyloarthritis. Due to the very frequent prevalence of chronic non-inflammatory back pain (CBP), IBP is difficult to differentiate and recognize in many clinical practices. CBP is a frequent diagnosis in populations with low socioeconomic status.Objectives:To investigate whether IBP ASAS definition help discriminate from CBP in a low-income population.Methods:A total of 202 consecutive individuals were directly interviewed in Fortaleza/Brazil, for the prevalence of IBP (ASAS definition), monthly family income (US$), school education [>/≤ 8 school-years(SY)], and smoking habit (present/absent). People from all social levels were included.Results:Mean age was 38.9±12.9 years, 100 (49.5%) were male and 36 (17.8%) were smokers; 135 (66.8%) declared less than 730US$ family earnings per month and 71 (35.1%) had less than 8 SY. Although 122 (60.3%) declared lumbar pain, in comparison, 29 (14.3%), 22 (10.9%) and 59 (29.2%) fulfilled ASAS, Berlin, and Calin’s IBP criteria, respectively. There were 39 (58.02%) vs. 83 (61.5%) with vs. without CBP and 9 (13.4%) vs. 20 (14.8%) fulfilling vs. not fulfilling the ASAS IBP definition among those with more or less than 730US$ earnings (P>0.05), respectively.Conclusion:This is the first report on the prevalence of IBP in a very low-income population. Over one-third had less than 8SY, revealing very low literacy. Smoking prevalence was also low if compared to 28% smoking prevalence WHO estimates across Europe*. These IBP prevalence data are similar to those reported in wealthier populations, living in higher latitude. Data suggest that ASAS IBP definition may be used to discriminate patients with IBP from those with CBP, regardless of income and literacy.References:This is the first report on the prevalence of IBP in a very low-income population. Over one-third had less than 8SY, revealing very low literacy. Smoking prevalence (17.8%) was also low if compared to 28% smoking prevalence WHO estimates across Europe*. These IBP prevalence data are similar to those reported in wealthier populations, living in higher latitude. Data suggest that ASAS IBP definition may be used to discriminate patients with IBP from those with CBP, regardless of income and literacy.Disclosure of Interests:Jobson Oliveira: None declared, Rodolfo Nunes: None declared, Guilherme da Silva: None declared, Igor Nogueira: None declared, Artur Azevedo: None declared, Xenofon Baraliakos Grant/research support from: Grant/research support from: AbbVie, BMS, Celgene, Chugai, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB and Werfen, Consultant of: AbbVie, BMS, Celgene, Chugai, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB and Werfen, Speakers bureau: AbbVie, BMS, Celgene, Chugai, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB and Werfen, Airton Rocha Speakers bureau: Not related to the present work
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Silva C, Mourão N, Landim J, Da Rocha L, Lacerda M, Rocha A. AB0967 OBESITY IMPACTS SURGICAL REPAIR OF ROTATOR CUFF TEAR IN A LOW-INCOME POPULATION. Ann Rheum Dis 2020. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-eular.3128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Background:Rotator cuff tears (RCT) rank high among causes of shoulder pain in primary care. Surgical repair of RCT is indicated when judged refractory to clinical treatment. Comorbidities and environmental issues may impact the surgical result of RCT repair.Objectives:to determine the impact of Obesity and Smoking in the outcome of low-income patients subjected to RCT repair.Methods:Low-income (<5500,00 US$ annualpib per capta*) patients living in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil were prospectively (2016-2018) evaluated in the Orthopedic and Rheumatology Services of the Hospital Geral de Fortaleza. Demographics and clinical data focusing Obesity (BMI >/≤ 30) and Smoking status (present/absent) were registered. Pain (0 – 10 cm VAS) and functional shoulder score evaluation by the University of California at Los Angeles Shoulder Score (UCLA) and American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) scoring systems following at least 2 years post-operative follow-up were recorded.Results:Thirty-nine individuals, 60.9±7.1 years-old, 30 female (68.3%) with 5.1 ± 1.9 years follow-up were evaluated; 21 (44.7%) were Smokers and 12 (25.5%) Obese (BMI >30). Other comorbidities included 16 arterial hypertension, 18 dyslipidemia, 17 osteoarthritis, 4 rheumatoid arthritis, 1 gout. Pain VAS values were 5.1 ± 2.6 vs 3.1 ± 2.8 in Obese vs Non-Obese (p=0.03) and 4 ± 2.8 vs 3.37 ± 2.99 in Smokers vs Non-Smokers (p=0.26), respectively. UCLA was 22.4 ± 8.2 vs. 28.79 ± 5.6 in Obese vs Non-Obese (p=0.004) and 26.2 ± 6.5 vs. 27.75 ± 7.18 (p=0.25) in Smokers vs. Non-smokers, respectively. ASES was 47.89 ± 28.3 vs. 68.1 ± 25.78 (p=0.021) in Obese vs. Non-obese and 58.98 ± 26.69 vs 65.3 ± 28.1 (p=0.243) in Smokers vs Non-Smokers, respectively.Conclusion:Using Patient Reported Outcome instruments, these long-term data show that Obesity negatively impacts the outcome of surgical repair of RCT in low-income patients. Smoking status was apparently irrelevant but the number of cigarettes smoked daily was not considered. Emphasis on weight reduction is a practical, affordable though hard to implement measure that could improve surgical results when repairing RCT.References:*https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_munic%C3%ADpios_do_Brasil_por_PIBDisclosure of Interests:Christine Silva: None declared, Natalia Mourão: None declared, Joaquim Landim: None declared, Leila da Rocha: None declared, Marco Lacerda: None declared, Airton Rocha Speakers bureau: Not related to the present work
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Santos D, Lima J, Figueiredo JP, Rocha A. Relationship of salt added during preparation and salt intake of cooks. Eur J Public Health 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa040.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Introduction The excessive consumption of sodium is one of the main problems in public health and responsible for the loss of years of a healthy life. The salt added to the meals represents a large part of the salt ingested, and the collaborators/cooks responsible for its addition need careful analysis, and intervention adjusted to the analysed reality, its salt consumption and its perception of saltiness may influence the amount of salt added.
Objectives This study had as main objective to perceive the relationship between the perception of salt of the employees of the Food and Nutrition Unit and the amount of salt added in the meals that were confectioned.
Methodology An observational, analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted, in which 6 selected cooks from the IPSS’s of Águeda participated. In order to estimate the amount of salt added to the meals, 20 samples of meals prepared by the cooks were taken, and a quantitative assessment of average salt per meal was made using Flame Photometry. The cooks were also subjected to two taste sensitivity tests. The data treatment was performed using the statistical software SPSS, and a statistical significance level of 5% was considered.
Results A better perception of the salty taste was observed in the cooks of Institution B. Although there were no differences with statistical significance in the quantity of salt of the meals between the two institutions, the mean and maximum addition of salt in the cooked meals was higher in institution B, regardless of the cook evaluated.
Conclusion The perception of the salty taste of the cooks does not seem to determine the amount of salt added to the meals.
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- D Santos
- FCNAUP – Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto
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- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, ESTeSC – Coimbra Health School, Portugal
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- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, ESTeSC – Coimbra Health School, Portugal
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- FCNAUP – Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto
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Rocha A, Assis A, Moreira A, Carnevale F. 3:00 PM Abstract No. 62 Advantages of using cone-beam computed tomography over digital subtraction angiography to identify prostatic arteries in prostatic artery embolization. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2019.12.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Rocha A, Proença M, Carvalho MA. Synthesis of 2-(aminophenyl)adenine derivatives: a simple protocol using the classical iron powder/acetic acid reduction methodology. CAN J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2019-0270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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2-(Nitrophenyl)adenine derivatives were isolated from the reaction of 5-amino-4-amidino-imidazoles with nitrobenzaldehydes. The conversion of the nitro derivatives to 2-(aminophenyl)adenine derivatives was performed using iron/acetic acid as reducing agent, in 70% aqueous ethanol. The products were isolated in good yield and the isolation protocol involves simple filtration and extraction procedures. This methodology is compatible with the presence of functional groups such as amines, ethers, halofluorides, and halochlorides.
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- A. Rocha
- Center of Chemistry, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal
- Center of Chemistry, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal
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- Center of Chemistry, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal
- Center of Chemistry, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal
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- Center of Chemistry, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal
- Center of Chemistry, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal
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Becker D, Bremer V, Funk B, Hoogendoorn M, Rocha A, Riper H. Evaluation of a temporal causal model for predicting the mood of clients in an online therapy. Evid Based Ment Health 2020; 23:27-33. [PMID: 32046990 PMCID: PMC10231483 DOI: 10.1136/ebmental-2019-300135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Revised: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Background Self-reported client assessments during online treatments enable the development of statistical models for the prediction of client improvement and symptom development. Evaluation of these models is mandatory to ensure their validity. Methods For this purpose, we suggest besides a model evaluation based on study data the use of a simulation analysis. The simulation analysis provides insight into the model performance and enables to analyse reasons for a low predictive accuracy. In this study, we evaluate a temporal causal model (TCM) and show that it does not provide reliable predictions of clients' future mood levels. Results Based on the simulation analysis we investigate the potential reasons for the low predictive performance, for example, noisy measurements and sampling frequency. We conclude that the analysed TCM in its current form is not sufficient to describe the underlying psychological processes. Conclusions The results demonstrate the importance of model evaluation and the benefit of a simulation analysis. The current manuscript provides practical guidance for conducting model evaluation including simulation analysis.
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- Dennis Becker
- Institute of Information Systems, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Luneburg, Germany
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- Institute of Information Systems, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Luneburg, Germany
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- Institute of Information Systems, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Luneburg, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro- & Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Pavani KC, Rocha A, Oliveira E, da Silva FM, Sousa M. Novel ultrastructural findings in bovine oocytes matured in vitro. Theriogenology 2019; 143:88-97. [PMID: 31862672 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2019.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The ultrastructural morphology of the bovine oocyte at different maturation stages has been previously analyzed but without detailed structural observations at the mature stage. The objective of the present study was thus to establish the ultrastructural characteristics of the mature bovine oocyte in full detail. Oocytes from Bos taurus (Holstein-Friesian) cows were aspirated from ovaries collected after being slaughtered at a local abattoir. After in vitro culture for 24 h, some of them were processed for electron microscopy. We described the ultrastructure of the zona pellucida, which presented three different regions, and novel cytoplasmic findings. There were two types of electron-lucent vesicles (heterogeneous and striated), which were suggested to give rise to lipid droplets, and presence of receptor-mediated endocytosis. In conclusion, our results indicate that although the mature bovine oocyte is devoid of evident yolk, it might be filled with an extensive lipid factory. In addition, even before fertilization, the mature oocyte seemed to absorb nutrients through receptor-mediated endocytosis, indicating active energy use or storage.
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- K C Pavani
- Department of Reproduction, Obstetrics and Herd Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, B-9820, Merelbeke, Belgium.
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- Department of Immuno-Physiology and Pharmacology, Center of Animal Science Studies (CECA/ICETA), Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto (UP), Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Microscopy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Multidisciplinary Unit for Biomedical Research (UMIB), University of Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal.
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- Department of Reproduction, Faculty of Agrarian Sciences and Environment, Center of Investigation of Agrarian Technologies of Açores (CITA-A), Animal Reproduction, University of Açores (UAc), 9700-042, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal.
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Microscopy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Multidisciplinary Unit for Biomedical Research (UMIB), University of Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal.
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Kemmeren LL, van Schaik A, Smit JH, Ruwaard J, Rocha A, Henriques M, Ebert DD, Titzler I, Hazo JB, Dorsey M, Zukowska K, Riper H. Unraveling the Black Box: Exploring Usage Patterns of a Blended Treatment for Depression in a Multicenter Study. JMIR Ment Health 2019; 6:e12707. [PMID: 31344670 PMCID: PMC6686640 DOI: 10.2196/12707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 06/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Blended treatments, combining digital components with face-to-face (FTF) therapy, are starting to find their way into mental health care. Knowledge on how blended treatments should be set up is, however, still limited. To further explore and optimize blended treatment protocols, it is important to obtain a full picture of what actually happens during treatments when applied in routine mental health care. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to gain insight into the usage of the different components of a blended cognitive behavioral therapy (bCBT) for depression and reflect on actual engagement as compared with intended application, compare bCBT usage between primary and specialized care, and explore different usage patterns. METHODS Data used were collected from participants of the European Comparative Effectiveness Research on Internet-Based Depression Treatment project, a European multisite randomized controlled trial comparing bCBT with regular care for depression. Patients were recruited in primary and specialized routine mental health care settings between February 2015 and December 2017. Analyses were performed on the group of participants allocated to the bCBT condition who made use of the Moodbuster platform and for whom data from all blended components were available (n=200). Included patients were from Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and France; 64.5% (129/200) were female and the average age was 42 years (range 18-74 years). RESULTS Overall, there was a large variability in the usage of the blended treatment. A clear distinction between care settings was observed, with longer treatment duration and more FTF sessions in specialized care and a more active and intensive usage of the Web-based component by the patients in primary care. Of the patients who started the bCBT, 89.5% (179/200) also continued with this treatment format. Treatment preference, educational level, and the number of comorbid disorders were associated with bCBT engagement. CONCLUSIONS Blended treatments can be applied to a group of patients being treated for depression in routine mental health care. Rather than striving for an optimal blend, a more personalized blended care approach seems to be the most suitable. The next step is to gain more insight into the clinical and cost-effectiveness of blended treatments and to further facilitate uptake in routine mental health care.
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- Lise L Kemmeren
- Department of Research and Innovation, GGZ inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Research and Innovation, GGZ inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Research and Innovation, GGZ inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Research and Innovation, GGZ inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Eceve, Unit 1123, Inserm, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Unité de Recherche en Economie de la Santé, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.,World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Lille, France
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- Eceve, Unit 1123, Inserm, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Unité de Recherche en Economie de la Santé, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.,World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Lille, France
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- Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Research and Innovation, GGZ inGeest Specialized Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Institute of Telepsychiatry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Aulestia-Viera P, Paiva G, Lopes M, Vargas P, Machado G, Bertotti M, Mariotto L, Rocha A. Juvenile ossifying fibroma of the maxilla: a case report. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2019.03.266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Blanco-Ward D, Ribeiro A, Barreales D, Castro J, Verdial J, Feliciano M, Viceto C, Rocha A, Carlos C, Silveira C, Miranda AA. Climate change potential effects on grapevine bioclimatic indices: A case study for the Portuguese demarcated Douro Region (Portugal). BIO Web Conf 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20191201013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In this work, bioclimatic parameters and indices relevant to the grapevine are estimated for the years 2000 (recent-pat), 2049 (medium-term future) and 2097 (long-term future), based on very high resolution (1 km × 1 km) MPI-WRF RCP8.5 climate simulations. The selected parameters and indices are the mean temperature during the grapevine growing season period (April to October, Tgs), the cumulative rainfall during the grapevine growing season period (Pgs), the Winkler index (WI), the Huglin heliothermic index (HI), the night cold index (CI) and the dryness index (DI). In general, a significant increase in mean temperature during the grapevine growing season period is observed, together with a significant decrease in precipitation. The recent-past WI is associated with the production of high-quality wines; the higher values predicted for the future represent intensive production of wines of intermediate quality. The HI shows the passage of a grapevine growing region considered as temperate-warm to a warm category of higher helio-thermicity. The recent-past CI indicates very cool conditions (associated with quality wines), while in the future there is a tendency for temperate or warmer nights. Finally, DI indicates an increase in water stress considered already high under the recent-past climate conditions. These results point to an increased climatic stress on the Douro region wine production and increased vulnerability of its vine varieties, providing evidence to support strategies aimed to preserve the high-quality wines in the region and their typicality in a sustainable way.
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Gardinal R, Roberti Filho F, Koch J, Oliveira C, Mazzer B, Rocha A, Cantarelli V. 449 Effect of different nucleotides supplementation source on performance of newly weaned piglets. J Anim Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/jas/sky404.507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- R Gardinal
- Biorigin Company, Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo,Brazil
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- Biorigin Company, Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo,Brazil
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- Biorigin Company, Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo,Brazil
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- Biorigin Company, Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo,Brazil
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- Biorigin Company, Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo,Brazil
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Lavras,Lavras, Brazil
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González-Fernández L, Sánchez-Calabuig MJ, Alves MG, Oliveira PF, Macedo S, Gutiérrez-Adán A, Rocha A, Macías-García B. Expanded equine cumulus-oocyte complexes exhibit higher meiotic competence and lower glucose consumption than compact cumulus-oocyte complexes. Reprod Fertil Dev 2018; 30:297-306. [PMID: 28679463 DOI: 10.1071/rd16441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Equine cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) are classified as compact (cCOC) or expanded (eCOC) and vary in their meiotic competence. This difference could be related to divergent glucose metabolism. To test this hypothesis in the present study, eCOCs, cCOCs and expanded or compact mural granulosa cells (EC and CC respectively) were matured in vitro for 30h, at which time maturation rate, glucose metabolism and the expression of genes involved in glucose transport, glycolysis, apoptosis and meiotic competence were determined. There were significant differences between eCOCs and cCOCs in maturation rate (50% vs 21.7% (n=192 and 46) respectively; P<0.001), as well as mean (±s.e.m.) glucose consumption (1.8±0.5 vs 27.9±5.9 nmol per COC respectively) and pyruvate (0.09±0.01 vs 2.4±0.8 nmol per COC respectively) and lactate (4.7±1.3 vs 64.1±20.6 nmol per COC respectively; P<0.05 for all) production. Glucose consumption in EC and CC did not differ significantly. Expression of hyaluronan-binding protein (tumour necrosis factor alpha induced protein 6; TNFAIP6) was increased in eCOCs and EC, and solute carrier family 2 member 1 (SLC2A1) expression was increased in eCOCs, but there were no differences in the expression of glycolysis-related enzymes and solute carrier family 2 member 3 (SLC2A3) between the COC or mural granulosa cell types. The findings of the present study demonstrate that metabolic and genomic differences exist between eCOCs and cCOCs and mural granulosa cells in the horse.
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- L González-Fernández
- Centro de Estudos de Ciência Animal/Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Campus Agrario de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Animal Reproduction, Instituto nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Ctra. De la Coruña,Km. 5.9, Madrid 28040, Spain
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- Department of Microscopy, Cell Biology Laboratory, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (UMIB), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Microscopy, Cell Biology Laboratory, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (UMIB), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Centro de Estudos de Ciência Animal/Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Campus Agrario de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Animal Reproduction, Instituto nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Ctra. De la Coruña,Km. 5.9, Madrid 28040, Spain
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- Centro de Estudos de Ciência Animal/Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Campus Agrario de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
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- Centro de Estudos de Ciência Animal/Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente; Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Campus Agrario de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
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Nunes A, Maia Araujo P, Nascimento H, Braga M, Pinto R, Tavares Silva M, Pestana G, Rocha A, Araujo V, Belchior Campelo M, Julia Maciel M. P2553The role of the cardiac rehabilitation program in improving functional capacity. Eur Heart J 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy565.p2553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- A Nunes
- Sao Joao Hospital, Cardiology Service, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Cardiology Service, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Cardiology Service, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Cardiology Service, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Cardiology Service, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Cardiology Service, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Porto, Portugal
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- Sao Joao Hospital, Cardiology Service, Porto, Portugal
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Mikus A, Hoogendoorn M, Rocha A, Gama J, Ruwaard J, Riper H. Predicting short term mood developments among depressed patients using adherence and ecological momentary assessment data. Internet Interv 2018; 12:105-110. [PMID: 30135774 PMCID: PMC6096213 DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2017.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Revised: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 10/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Technology driven interventions provide us with an increasing amount of fine-grained data about the patient. This data includes regular ecological momentary assessments (EMA) but also response times to EMA questions by a user. When observing this data, we see a huge variation between the patterns exhibited by different patients. Some are more stable while others vary a lot over time. This poses a challenging problem for the domain of artificial intelligence and makes on wondering whether it is possible to predict the future mental state of a patient using the data that is available. In the end, these predictions could potentially contribute to interventions that tailor the feedback to the user on a daily basis, for example by warning a user that a fall-back might be expected during the next days, or by applying a strategy to prevent the fall-back from occurring in the first place. In this work, we focus on short term mood prediction by considering the adherence and usage data as an additional predictor. We apply recurrent neural networks to handle the temporal aspects best and try to explore whether individual, group level, or one single predictive model provides the highest predictive performance (measured using the root mean squared error (RMSE)). We use data collected from patients from five countries who used the ICT4Depression/MoodBuster platform in the context of the EU E-COMPARED project. In total, we used the data from 143 patients (with between 9 and 425 days of EMA data) who were diagnosed with a major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV. Results show that we can make predictions of short term mood change quite accurate (ranging between 0.065 and 0.11). The past EMA mood ratings proved to be the most influential while adherence and usage data did not improve prediction accuracy. In general, group level predictions proved to be the most promising, however differences were not significant. Short term mood prediction remains a difficult task, but from this research we can conclude that sophisticated machine learning algorithms/setups can result in accurate performance. For future work, we want to use more data from the mobile phone to improve predictive performance of short term mood.
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- Adam Mikus
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
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- University of Porto, Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support, Porto, Portugal
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- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Psychology, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Psychology, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Otero-Rodiño C, Rocha A, Álvarez-Otero R, Ceinos RM, López-Patiño MA, Míguez JM, Cerdá-Reverter JM, Soengas JL. Glucosensing capacity of rainbow trout telencephalon. J Neuroendocrinol 2018; 30:e12583. [PMID: 29427522 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Revised: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
To assess the hypothesis of glucosensing systems present in fish telencephalon, we first demonstrated in rainbow trout, by in situ hybridisation, the presence of glucokinase (GK). Then, we assessed the response of glucosensing markers in rainbow trout telencephalon 6 hours after i.c.v. treatment with glucose or 2-deoxyglucose (inducing glucoprivation). We evaluated the response of parameters related to the mechanisms dependent on GK, liver X receptor (LXR), mitochondrial activity, sweet taste receptor and sodium-glucose linked transporter 1 (SGLT-1). We also assessed mRNA abundance of neuropeptides involved in the metabolic control of food intake (agouti-related protein, neuropeptide Y, pro-opiomelanocortin, and cocaine- and amphetamine-related transcript), as well as the abundance and phosphorylation status of proteins possibly involved in linking glucosensing with neuropeptide expression, such as protein kinase B (AkT), AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), mechanistic target of rapamycin and cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB). The responses obtained support the presence in the telencephalon of a glucosensing mechanism based on GK and maybe one based on LXR, although they do not support the presence of mechanisms dependent on mitochondrial activity and SGLT-1. The mechanism based on sweet taste receptor responded to glucose but in a converse way to that characterised previously in the hypothalamus. In general, systems responded only to glucose but not to glucoprivation. Neuropeptides did not respond to glucose or glucoprivation. By contrast, the presence of glucose activates Akt and inhibits AMPK, CREB and forkhead box01. This is the first study in any vertebrate species in which the response to glucose of putative glucosensing mechanisms is demonstrated in the telencephalon. Their role might relate to processes other than homeostatic control of food intake, such as the hedonic and reward system.
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- C Otero-Rodiño
- Laboratorio de Fisioloxía Animal, Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional e Ciencias da Saúde, Facultade de Bioloxía and Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisiología de Peces y Biotecnología, Instituto de Acuicultura Torre de la Sal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Castellón, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisioloxía Animal, Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional e Ciencias da Saúde, Facultade de Bioloxía and Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisioloxía Animal, Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional e Ciencias da Saúde, Facultade de Bioloxía and Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisioloxía Animal, Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional e Ciencias da Saúde, Facultade de Bioloxía and Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisioloxía Animal, Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional e Ciencias da Saúde, Facultade de Bioloxía and Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisiología de Peces y Biotecnología, Instituto de Acuicultura Torre de la Sal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Castellón, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Fisioloxía Animal, Departamento de Bioloxía Funcional e Ciencias da Saúde, Facultade de Bioloxía and Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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Aguiar-Santos A, Montenegro S, Medeiros Z, Rocha A, Morais C, Silva A, Bonfim C, Costa T, Sarinho E. Immunomodulation of allergic response in children and adolescents: What we can learn from lymphatic filarial infection. Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 2018; 46:167-174. [PMID: 29366523 DOI: 10.1016/j.aller.2017.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Revised: 08/17/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although it is well known that allergic diseases involve a strong Th2 immune response, with production of high levels of specific IgE allergen, knowledge on the association between filarial infection and allergies, among paediatric patients is scarce. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the allergic response patterns in cases of filarial infection by comparing peripheral eosinophils, total IgE levels, immediate hypersensitivity and cytokine levels in children and adolescents in Brazil. METHODS This was an exploratory study with three groups: (I) with filarial infection and without allergic diseases; (II) without filarial infection and with allergic diseases; and (III) without filarial infection and without allergic diseases. The prick test and specific IgE tests for aeroallergens were performed using five antigens. Peripheral eosinophils and total IgE were also evaluated. IL-4 and IL-5 were determined using whole-blood culture stimulated by three antigens. RESULTS Eosinophilia and elevated levels of total IgE (≥400IU/dl) were observed in all groups. The prick test was positive in 56.6% of the cases. Group I presented hypersensitive responses similar to the allergic disease groups. In the whole-blood culture stimulated by Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, average IL-4 production did not differ significantly among the groups, but IL5 production resulting from stimulation was greater in the allergic disease groups (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS The allergic response pattern in group with filarial infection was similar to that of the groups with and without allergic diseases, but the response to IL-5 in the culture stimulated by D. pteronyssinus was an exclusive characteristic of the allergic group.
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Trombley S, Rocha A, Björnsson BT, Borg B, Schmitz M. Effects of androgens on the leptin system in immature male Atlantic salmon parr. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2018; 257:122-129. [PMID: 28830748 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2017.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2017] [Revised: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Leptin modulates all levels of the reproductive endocrine axis in mammals, and in turn, both leptin and the leptin receptor are regulated by sex steroids. The aim of this study was to investigate if sex steroids regulate the leptin system also in fish. Immature one-year old male Atlantic salmon parr were implanted with Silclear capsules that were either empty or filled with 11-ketoandrostenedione (11KA) or testosterone (T) and the effects of 35-days treatment were investigated on measures of maturation, gene expression of leptin (lepa1, lepa2), leptin receptor (lepra1) and circulating plasma leptin. Both 11-KA and T stimulated the reproductive axis by increasing testes weight and up-regulated pituitary lh-β mRNA levels and for T also fsh-β. T up-regulated transcription levels of lepa1 and lepra1 in the pituitary, while 11-KA had no effect. Leptin receptor expression in the testis was unaltered by either androgen. T up-regulated lepa1 mRNA levels significantly also in the liver, but had no effect on lepa2, and 11KA did not affect hepatic gene expression of either lepa1 or lepa2. Plasma leptin levels did not differ significantly between treatments. The results indicate that androgens regulate gene expression of leptin and the leptin receptor in different tissues in fish and that the effects of leptin might be tissue specific considering plasma levels remained unaltered. Overall, the results suggest a role for leptin in fish reproduction, where sex steroids are able to regulate components of the leptin system differentially in liver and important tissues of the reproductive axis.
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- S Trombley
- Department of Organismal Biology, Comparative Physiology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Comparative Physiology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Zoology, University of Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Organismal Biology, Comparative Physiology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Macedo S, Bliebernicht M, Carvalheira J, Costa A, Ribeiro F, Rocha A. Effects of two freezing methods and two cryopreservation media on post-thaw quality of stallion spermatozoa. Reprod Domest Anim 2018; 53:519-524. [DOI: 10.1111/rda.13140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- S Macedo
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar; Universidade do Porto; Porto Portugal
- CECA- Centro de Estudos de Ciência Animal; CECA/ICETA; Universidade do Porto; Porto Portugal
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- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar; Universidade do Porto; Porto Portugal
- CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; Universidade do Porto; Porto Portugal
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- Embriovet, Lugar do Serradilho; Muge Portugal
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- Embriovet, Lugar do Serradilho; Muge Portugal
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- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar; Universidade do Porto; Porto Portugal
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Nascimento H, Rocha A, Braga M, Pestana G, Tavares-Silva M, Pinto R, Nunes A, Araujo P, Araujo V, Parada F, Maciel M. P2495Cardiac rehabilitation: don't forget the ones that went away. Eur Heart J 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx502.p2495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Braga M, Rocha A, Nascimento H, Pestana G, Pinto R, Tavares-Silva M, Araujo P, Nunes A, Araujo V, Parada-Pereira F, Maciel M. P3430Response to cardiac rehabilitation: does left ventricle ejection fraction matter? Eur Heart J 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx504.p3430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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van de Ven P, O’Brien H, Henriques R, Klein M, Msetfi R, Nelson J, Rocha A, Ruwaard J, O’Sullivan D, Riper H. ULTEMAT: A mobile framework for smart ecological momentary assessments and interventions. Internet Interv 2017; 9:74-81. [PMID: 30135840 PMCID: PMC6096290 DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2017.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Revised: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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In this paper we introduce a new Android library, called ULTEMAT, for the delivery of ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) on mobile devices and we present its use in the MoodBuster app developed in the H2020 E-COMPARED project. We discuss context-aware, or event-based, triggers for the presentation of EMAs and discuss the potential they have to improve the effectiveness of mobile provision of mental health interventions as they allow for the delivery of assessments to the patients when and where these are most appropriate. Following this, we present the abilities of ULTEMAT to use such context-aware triggers to schedule EMAs and we discuss how a similar approach can be used for Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMIs).
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- Pepijn van de Ven
- University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland,Corresponding author at: Main Building C2057, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
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Rafael S, Martins H, Marta-Almeida M, Sá E, Coelho S, Rocha A, Borrego C, Lopes M. Quantification and mapping of urban fluxes under climate change: Application of WRF-SUEWS model to Greater Porto area (Portugal). Environ Res 2017; 155:321-334. [PMID: 28264781 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.02.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Revised: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Climate change and the growth of urban populations are two of the main challenges facing Europe today. These issues are linked as climate change results in serious challenges for cities. Recent attention has focused on how urban surface-atmosphere exchanges of heat and water will be affected by climate change and the implications for urban planning and sustainability. In this study energy fluxes for Greater Porto area, Portugal, were estimated and the influence of the projected climate change evaluated. To accomplish this, the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) and the Surface Urban Energy and Water Balance Scheme (SUEWS) were applied for two climatological scenarios: a present (or reference, 1986-2005) scenario and a future scenario (2046-2065), in this case the Representative Concentration Pathway RCP8.5, which reflects the worst set of expectations (with the most onerous impacts). The results show that for the future climate conditions, the incoming shortwave radiation will increase by around 10%, the sensible heat flux around 40% and the net storage heat flux around 35%. In contrast, the latent heat flux will decrease about 20%. The changes in the magnitude of the different fluxes result in an increase of the net all-wave radiation by 15%. The implications of the changes of the energy balance on the meteorological variables are discussed, particularly in terms of temperature and precipitation.
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- S Rafael
- CESAM & Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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- CESAM & Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), SE-60176 Norrköping, Sweden
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- Centro Oceanográfico A Coruña, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, A Coruña, Spain
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- CESAM & Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM & Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM & Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM & Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- CESAM & Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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Rolo A, Germano S, Mascarenhas F, Almeida T, Miguel C, Machado C, Rocha A. Dosimetric advantage of Deep Inspiration Breath Hold in left breast radiotherapy: comparative analysis with free breathing. Eur J Cancer 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(17)30165-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Soares Teles A, Rocha A, José da Silva E Silva F, Correia Lopes J, O'Sullivan D, Van de Ven P, Endler M. Enriching Mental Health Mobile Assessment and Intervention with Situation Awareness. Sensors (Basel) 2017; 17:s17010127. [PMID: 28075417 PMCID: PMC5298700 DOI: 10.3390/s17010127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Revised: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Current mobile devices allow the execution of sophisticated applications with the capacity for identifying the user situation, which can be helpful in treatments of mental disorders. In this paper, we present SituMan, a solution that provides situation awareness to MoodBuster, an ecological momentary assessment and intervention mobile application used to request self-assessments from patients in depression treatments. SituMan has a fuzzy inference engine to identify patient situations using context data gathered from the sensors embedded in mobile devices. Situations are specified jointly by the patient and mental health professional, and they can represent the patient's daily routine (e.g., "studying", "at work", "working out"). MoodBuster requests mental status self-assessments from patients at adequate moments using situation awareness. In addition, SituMan saves and displays patient situations in a summary, delivering them for consultation by mental health professionals. A first experimental evaluation was performed to assess the user satisfaction with the approaches to define and identify situations. This experiment showed that SituMan was well evaluated in both criteria. A second experiment was performed to assess the accuracy of the fuzzy engine to infer situations. Results from the second experiment showed that the fuzzy inference engine has a good accuracy to identify situations.
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- Ariel Soares Teles
- Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Maranhão, 65080-805 São Luís, Brazil.
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers, Technology and Science, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
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- Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics, Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers, Technology and Science, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
- Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
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- Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland.
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- Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland.
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- Department of Informatics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Espigares F, Rocha A, Gómez A, Carrillo M, Zanuy S. Photoperiod modulates the reproductive axis of European sea bass through regulation of kiss1 and gnrh2 neuronal expression. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2017; 240:35-45. [PMID: 27641683 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Revised: 09/08/2016] [Accepted: 09/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The onset of puberty is characterized by activation of the brain-pituitary-gonad axis. However, the molecular and endocrine mechanism involved in the process of puberty and the influence of environmental conditions, such as photoperiod signalling, are not well understood in fish. In this study, 1-year-old male European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) were exposed to photoperiod manipulation in combination with size-sorting. Two treatment groups, a puberty accelerating photoperiod (AP) group and a continuous light (LL) group, were studied from August to February. Our results indicate that AP and LL are able to entrain the rhythms of both kiss1 and gnrh2 mRNA levels in the brain, while kiss2 and gnrh1 mRNA expression does not seem to be directly affected by the photoperiod, at least during testicular growth. It is likely that AP and LL photoperiod regimes affected both plasma Fsh and 11-KT profiles, which might explain, respectively, the phase shift and reduction of testes maturation seen under these conditions. We therefore hypothesize that the unbalanced production of this androgen regulated by circulating Fsh might be limiting the stimulation of germ cell proliferation in European sea bass males. In summary, our study establishes that photoperiod modulates the expression of kiss1 and gnrh2 in the forebrain-midbrain, which may be involved in the translation of the light stimulus to activate the reproductive axis.
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- F Espigares
- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal (IATS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 12595 Ribera de Cabanes, s/n, Castellón, Spain
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- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal (IATS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 12595 Ribera de Cabanes, s/n, Castellón, Spain
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- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal (IATS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 12595 Ribera de Cabanes, s/n, Castellón, Spain
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- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal (IATS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 12595 Ribera de Cabanes, s/n, Castellón, Spain.
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- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal (IATS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 12595 Ribera de Cabanes, s/n, Castellón, Spain.
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Perre P, Faria FA, Jorge LR, Rocha A, Torres RS, Souza-Filho MF, Lewinsohn TM, Zucchi RA. Toward an Automated Identification of Anastrepha Fruit Flies in the fraterculus group (Diptera, Tephritidae). Neotrop Entomol 2016; 45:554-558. [PMID: 27156899 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-016-0403-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In this study, we assess image analysis techniques as automatic identifiers of three Anastrepha species of quarantine importance, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann), Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart), and Anastrepha sororcula Zucchi, based on wing and aculeus images. The right wing and aculeus of 100 individuals of each species were mounted on microscope slides, and images were captured with a stereomicroscope and light microscope. For wing image analysis, we used the color descriptor Local Color Histogram; for aculei, we used the contour descriptor Edge Orientation Autocorrelogram. A Support Vector Machine classifier was used in the final stage of wing and aculeus classification. Very accurate species identifications were obtained based on wing and aculeus images, with average accuracies of 94 and 95%, respectively. These results are comparable to previous identification results based on morphometric techniques and to the results achieved by experienced entomologists. Wing and aculeus images produced equally accurate classifications, greatly facilitating the identification of these species. The proposed technique is therefore a promising option for separating these three closely related species in the fraterculus group.
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- P Perre
- Dept of Genectis and Evolutionary Biology, Univ of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
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- Institute of Science and Technology, Federal Univ of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil
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- Dept of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, Univ of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil
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- Institute of Computing, Univ of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil
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- Institute of Computing, Univ of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil
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- Economic Entomology Lab, Biological Institute, APTA, Campinas, SP, Brasil
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- Dept of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, Univ of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil
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- Dept of Genectis and Evolutionary Biology, Univ of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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Acramel A, Berrabah S, Postaire M, Lengliné H, Lambe C, Talbotec C, Poisson C, Rocha A, Goulet O. SUN-P192: Drugs Compatibility with Parenteral Nutrition. Clin Nutr 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5614(16)30535-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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García Páez JM, Jorge Herrero E, Millán I, Rocha A, Maestro M, Castillo-Olivares JL, Carrera Sanmartin A, Cordon A. Resistance to Tensile Stress of a Bioadhesive Utilized for Medical Purposes: Loctite 4011. J Biomater Appl 2016; 18:179-92. [PMID: 14871044 DOI: 10.1177/0885328204039654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Sutures are the materials presently employed to secure and give shape to the valve leaflets of cardiac bioprostheses. Their high resistance and low degree of elasticity in comparison with the calf pericardium of which the leaflets are made generates internal stresses that contribute to the failure of the bioprostheses. Biological adhesives are bonding materials that have begun to be utilized in surgery, although there is a lack of experience in their use with inert tissues or bioprostheses. We report our study of Loctite 4011, a biological glue composed of a cyano-acrylate that has been employed for medical purposes, in which samples of pericardium bonded with this adhesive were subjected to uniaxial tensile stress. The samples were glued in such a way as to leave an overlap of 1 cm2 between the surfaces of the tissue. The series included 83 samples: 12 tested 24 h after bonding, 17 after 45 days, 17 after 90 days, 19 after 106 days and 18 after 152 days. The samples subjected to deferred trials were preserved using three types of chemical substances: glutaraldehyde, glycerol or saline plus antibiotics. The mean resistance to rupture of the series tested 24 h after gluing was 0.15 MPa (1.47 machine kg). This resistance remained nearly unchanged, regardless of the preservation solution employed, for at least 152 days, the time at which the study ended. The stress strain curves demonstrated a high degree of elasticity throughout the 152 days, a finding that was not influenced by the preservation solution. This adhesive showed a considerable resistance to tensile stress, although probably insufficient to replace sutures. However, it maintained a surprisingly high degree of elasticity in the samples. Perhaps the time has come to combine these two elements, sutures and adhesives, to improve the elasticity of the structure without a loss of resistance, and increase the durability of bioprostheses.
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- J M García Páez
- Servicio de Cirugía Experimental, Clínica Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, España.
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Paéz JMG, Sanmartín AC, Herrero EJ, Millan I, Cordon A, Rocha A, Maestro MA, Téllez G, Castillo-Olivares JL. Resistance and Stability of A New Method for Bonding Biological Materials Using Sutures and Biological Adhesives. J Biomater Appl 2016; 19:215-36. [PMID: 15613381 DOI: 10.1177/0885328205046633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The valve leaflets of cardiac bioprostheses are secured and shaped by sutures which, given their high degree of resistance and poor elasticity, have been implicated in the generation of stresses within the leaflets, contributing to the failure of the bioprostheses. Bioadhesives are bonding materials that have begun to be utilized in surgery, although there is a lack of experience in their use with inert tissues or bioprostheses. Tensile testing is performed until rupture in samples of calf pericardium, a biomaterial employed in the manufacture of bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets. One hundred and thirty-two trials are carried out in three types of samples: intact or control tissue ( n = 12); samples transected and glued in an overlapping manner with a cyanoacrylate ( n = 60); and samples transected, sewn with a commercially available suture material and reinforced at the suture holes with the same cyanoacrylate ( n = 60). Seven days after their preparation, 12 samples from each group, including the controls, are subjected to tensile testing until rupture and the findings are compared. In the stability study, groups of 12 each of the remaining 48 glued and 48 sutured and glued samples underwent tensile testing until rupture on days 30, 60, 90, and 120, after their preparation. The results show that bonding with the adhesive provided a resistance ranging between 1.04 and 1.87 kg, probably insufficient for use in valve leaflets, but also afforded a high degree of elasticity. After 120 days, both the glued and the sutured and glued series show excellent elastic behavior, with no rigidity or hardening of the pericardium. These samples present reversible elongation, or strain, when they surpass their elastic limit at rupture. This finding may be due to a load concentration that is damaging to the pericardium, to the behavior of the tissue as an amorphous material, or perhaps to both circumstances. These results need to be confirmed in future studies as they may be of value in the design and manufacture of cardiac bioprostheses.
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- J M García Paéz
- Servicio de Cirugía Experimental, Clínica Puerta de Hierro, San Martín de Porres 4, 28035 Madrid, España.
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Lopes G, Ferreira P, Rocha A. Bull frozen semen accidentally exposed to room temperature for 5s presents reduced blastocyst formation after IVF. Anim Reprod Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2016.03.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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