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- Eye tracker, binocular vision and oculomotor balance: exploratory studyPublication . Mendanha, Luís; Oliveira, Manuel; Pereira, Leonor MonizIntroduction: It is not clearly determined if vision provokes movement or if it is movement itself that provokes and propitiates the visual search and exploration. Lack of concentration phenomena, localization mistakes, and excessive visual effort is associated with binocular function alterations and therefore they can restrict or even turn the daily routine in the different areas of human activity impossible. The study of visual tracking will enable us to characterize the fixation and saccadic movement. Aim of the study: The study aims to analyze the eye tracking of individuals with alterations of oculomotor balance or of the binocular vision, by comparing them with individuals without these alterations.
- Vertex component analysis: a fast algorithm to unmix hyperspectral dataPublication . Nascimento, Jose; Bioucas-Dias, José M.Given a set of mixed spectral (multispectral or hyperspectral) vectors, linear spectral mixture analysis, or linear unmixing, aims at estimating the number of reference substances, also called endmembers, their spectral signatures, and their abundance fractions. This paper presents a new method for unsupervised endmember extraction from hyperspectral data, termed vertex component analysis (VCA). The algorithm exploits two facts: (1) the endmembers are the vertices of a simplex and (2) the affine transformation of a simplex is also a simplex. In a series of experiments using simulated and real data, the VCA algorithm competes with state-of-the-art methods, with a computational complexity between one and two orders of magnitude lower than the best available method.
- Reabilitação cardíacaPublication . Dias, Hermínia BritesResposta cardiovascular ao exercício físico. Adaptações cardiovasculares ao exercício físico. Resposta ao exercício físico na patologia cardiovascular.
- Syntheses and properties of Re(III) complexes derived from hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)methanes: molecular structure of [ReCl2(HCpz3)(PPh3)][BF4]Publication . Alegria, Elisabete; Martins, Luisa; Guedes Da Silva, M. Fátima C.; Pombeiro, ArmandoThe complexes [ReCl2{N2C(O)Ph}(Hpz)(PPh3)2] (1) (Hpz = pyrazole), [ReCl2{N2C(O)Ph}(Hpz)2(PPh3)] (2), [ReCl2(HCpz3)(PPh3)][BF4] (3) and [ReCl2(3,5-Me2Hpz)3(PPh3)]Cl (4) were obtained by treatment of the chelate [ReCl2{η2-N,O–N2C(O)Ph}(PPh3)2] (0) with hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)methane HCpz3 (1,3), pyrazole Hpz (1,2), hydrotris(3,5-dimethyl-1-pyrazolyl)methane HC(3,5-Me2pz)3 (4) or dimethylpyrazole 3,5-Me2Hpz (4). Rupture of a C(sp3)–N bond in HCpz3 or HC(3,5-Me2pz)3, promoted by the Re centre, has occurred in the formation of 1 or 4, respectively. All compounds have been characterized by elemental analyses, IR and NMR spectroscopy, FAB-MS spectrometry, cyclic voltammetry and, for 1 · CH2Cl2 and 3, also by single crystal X-ray analysis. The electrochemical EL Lever parameter has been estimated, for the first time, for the HCpz3 and the benzoyldiazenide NNC(O)Ph ligands.
- Micro-analytical GO/HRP bioreactor for glucose determination and bioprocess monitoringPublication . Vojinović, V.; Calado, Cecília; Silva, A. I.; Mateus, M.; Cabral, J. M. S.; Fonseca, Luís P. P.A bi-enzymatic micro-analytical bioreactor integrated in a FIA system for glucose measurements is described. Its robustness and small dimensions (working volume of about 70 μl containing approximately 1.2 mg GO and 0.26 mg HRP) make it easy to operate. The column is based on immobilisation of glucose oxidase (GO) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) on alkylamine controlled pore glass (CPG) beads. The column has excellent shelf life (no significant loss of activity after 1 year if kept at 4 °C), and a very high operational stability that was demonstrated through extensive usage for glucose determinations over 1 year period during which the column retained almost all of its activity. More importantly, this operational stability allows glucose monitoring in the culture media without a decay of signal over the experiment time and consequently no signal correction or re-calibration is needed. This high operational stability was also confirmed by continuous glucose conversion with 30% activity loss after converting quantity of glucose equivalent to 21600 FIA injections of 20 μl with 1.7 mM glucose. Such good performance is a result of an optimised immobilisation method and moreover of the implementation of in situ enzyme stabilisation strategy which consisted on promoting the instantaneous H2O2 consumption produced by the GO. This strategy has the additional advantage of allowing concomitant assay of the H2O2 based on the HAP catalysed co-oxidation of phenol-4-sulphonic acid (PSA) in the presence of 4-aminoantipyrine (4-AAP). The glucose measurements are reproducible with high precision against the standard HPLC method. Linear range and sensitivity depend on sample injection volume; the upper limit is about 1.1 g/l. Lower detection limit is 10 mg/l. The column performance has been validated for E. coli and S. cerevisiae fermentation monitoring, and glucose measurements in an animal cell culture (rat Langerhans islets).
- Tuning the spectral distribution of p-i-n a-SiC : H devices for colour detectionPublication . Vieira, Manuela; Louro, Paula; Fantoni, Alessandro; Fernandes, MiguelZnO:Al/p (SiC:H)/i (Si:H)/n (SiC:H) large area image and colour sensor are analysed. Carrier transport and collection efficiency are investigated from dark and illuminated current-voltage (I-V) dependence and spectral response measurements under different optical and electrical bias conditions. Results show that the carrier collection depends on the optical bias and on the applied voltage. By changing the electrical bias around the open circuit voltage it is possible to filter the absorption at a given wavelength and so to tune the spectral sensitivity of the device. Transport and optical modelling give insight into the internal physical process and explain the bias control of the spectral response and the image and colour sensing properties of the devices.