- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Burn Injury Management and Outcomes
- Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Landslides and related hazards
- Health, Nursing, Elderly Care
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth
- Physical Education and Sports Studies
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Climate variability and models
University of Lisbon
2011-2019
Administração Regional de Saúde de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo
2000
Angiogenesis - the growth of new blood vessels from a pre-existing vasculature is key in both physiological processes and on several pathological scenarios such as cancer progression or diabetic retinopathy. For vascular networks to be functional, it required that growing sprouts merge either with an existing functional mature vessel another sprout. This process called anastomosis. We present systematic 2D 3D computational study tissue address capability angiogenic factor gradients drive...
The large number of floods and landslides that occurred on 5–16 February 1979 in Portugal was a major hydro-geomorphologic extreme event according to the DISASTER database terms displaced people. is top ranked episode total evacuated people (4244), (14,322) also days duration (12 days) for period 1865–2015. In this event, 62 damaging five causing eight fatalities were recorded Portugal. This driven by an unusually intense atmospheric forcing mechanism acting at different time scales. Despite...
It is essential that the family doctor be prepared to intervene with all tobacco users. If smoker motivated quit, physician must use five components of a brief intervention (5 "As") - ask, advise, assess, assist and arrange. For patient unwilling motivational counseling needed using "5 Rs" relevance, risks, rewards, roadblocks repetition. Brief treatment dependence effective. Family doctors have key role play in this area. This method spread trained.
Worldwide tourism revenues have tripled in the last decade. Yet, there is a gap our understanding of how distances shape peoples' travel choices. To understand global patterns we map flow tourists around world onto complex network and study impact two types distances, geographical through World Airline Network, major infrastructure for tourism. We find that although Network serves as infrastructural support International Tourism does not correlate strongly with extent flight connections...
Na sequencia do lancamento, pela Regiao de Saude Lisboa e Vale Tejo, em Marco 1996, dos denominados projectos Alfa, os autores fizeram a apresentacao um anteprojecto unidade prestacao cuidados saude, que denominaram Unidade Omega. Propunham-se nesse viabilizar constituicao uma Medicina Geral Familiar elevada qualidade grande acessibilidade na cidade Lisboa. A Omega teria como objectivos Familiar, o desenvolvimento actividades educacao pre pos graduada destinadas conjunto profissionais e ...