A5059118513- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Medical Imaging and Analysis
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Occupational health in dentistry
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Ergonomics and Human Factors
- Quality and Supply Management
- Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Random lasers and scattering media
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
- Hip disorders and treatments
- Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
- Gait Recognition and Analysis
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Effects of Vibration on Health
- Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2012-2024
University of Lisbon
2015-2022
Healthcare professionals are exposed to multiple physical risk factors related the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSD), which significantly affect their quality life. Several ergonomic methods have been developed for identifying in workplace. Among these, wearable devices that perform direct measurements demonstrated outstanding potential recent years provide reliable, non-invasive, and continuous exposure assessment. Therefore, this systematic review aims describe...
Organisations seek to adopt strategies increase their productivity and quality in highly competitive markets. For this purpose, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is often used. It frequently combined with other scientific areas such as Ergonomics. Integrating LSS Ergonomics may improve while preserving workers' health safety. This study presents a systematic literature review clarify the impacts of integrating on organisations. Also, it seeks assess main limitations answering defined research questions....
Faced with globalization, high competition, and the demands of a market in constant dynamism, companies strive to adopt measures for increasing their productivity, among which Lean Manufacturing stands out. Although this set strategies allows optimizing production by reducing waste, literature review showed that, several organizations, implementation does not reflect positive impacts on productivity. It is frequently related superficial nature approach: tools methods are applied, but...
Photothermal response of plasmonic nanomaterials can be utilized for a number therapeutic applications such as the ablation solid tumors.Gold nanoparticles were prepared using different methods. After optimization, we applied an aqueous plant extract reducing and capping agent gold maximized near-infrared absorption (650-900 nm). Resultant showed good biocompatibility when tested in vitro human keratinocytes yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gold easily activated by controlled temperature with...
Although light has long being used in medicine, scattering always hindered its use. This study intends to evolve into three different frontlines: development of methodologies concentrate inside biological tissues, an optical tissue phantom and multifunctional gold nanoparticles with therapeutic potential for targeting anticancer drug delivery. The impact the agent (milk) concentration measured wavefront spot radius is analyzed. Wavefront correction proves be efficient overcoming effect...
While performing orthopedic surgeries, surgeons stand for long hours, carrying out repetitive and/or forceful movements, in sustained awkward postures, increasing the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSD). Nonetheless, literature addressing factors, prevalence and symptoms lower limb WRMSD remains dispersed lacks a comprehensive synthesis. However, considering critical role limbs maintaining surgical stability balance, affecting could significantly compromise precision motor...
Back pain is regularly associated with biomechanical changes in the spine. The traditional methods to assess spine biomechanics use ionising radiation. Vertebral Metrics (VM) a non-invasive instrument developed by authors previous research that assesses spinous processes’ position. However, model used VM not accurate. To overcome it, present paper proposes pioneering and simple articulated of built through data collected VM. based on spring–mass system uses Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm find...
Lower limb exoskeletons are wearable mechanical or mechatronic equipment developed as augmentative devices that work in concert with the user's movements to provide physical assistance through torques structural support. The exoskeleton moves user and can act actively passively, adding strength wearer. In addition, they allow maintaining human dexterity, agility, adaptability (Bär et al., 2021). Depending on field of application, these be separated into two main categories: assistive...
Back pain is a major health problem in modern society. It known that the main responsible for this symptom are biomechanical changes spinal column. Thus, it important to develop an instrument that evaluates global way column standing position. For purpose, complete innovative and non-invasive system â Vertebral Metrics has been built. The a semi-automatic equipment designed identify spatial position of each process from first cervical first sacral vertebra. Using camera...
Radiation therapy is one of many common treatments applied to breast cancer. Most usual radiation sources are ionizing radiation, such as g-rays and X-rays, non-ionizing ultraviolet radiation. The possibility using near infrared light photoactivate a drug inside an 8 cm diameter biological object discussed in this work via Monte Carlo simulations. Two simulation setups performed the Geant4/GAMOS framework presented order study viability photoactivating by several sources. The overall...