the baluarte do cavaleiro is part of the stone masonry wall system existing in the city ofchaves of portugal and it is a construction dated from the xvii century. the baluarte docavaleiro is formed by three walls (north-east, ne; south-east, se; south-west, sw) andby two junction elements (designated here by cunhais). the se wall has suffered twocollapses recently. the main objective of this re...

This paper presents a method to assist in the tedious process of reconstructing ceramic vessels from excavated fragments. The method exploits vessel surface marking information (models) supplied by the archaeologists along with anchor points on the fragment borders for reconstruction. Marking models are based on expert historical knowledge of the period, provenance of the artifact, and site loc...

Available online public/governmental services requiring authentication by citizens have considerably expanded in recent years. This has hindered the usability and security associated with credential management by users and service providers. To address the problem, some countries have proposed nation-scale identification/authentication systems that intend to greatly reduce the burden of credent...

Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to infection. A common end-feature, these patients regularly suffer from is the so-called multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, an often fatal consequence of organ hypoperfusion, coagulopathy, immune dysregulation,and mitochondrial dysfunction. Microvascular dysfunction critically contributes to the morbidity and mortality of this disease. The angiopoie...

The novel discipline of nutriepigenomics integrates knowledge on nutrigenomics and the reciprocal effects that epigenetic changes exert on gene expression under the influence of nutritional factors. Mutual interactions among genes, nutrients and nutrition-induced epigenetic modifications configure the nutriepigenomic outcome. This trinomial interaction is highly complex and this field is still ...

Verbs fall into a variety of semantic classes. In particular, change of state verbs express events where an “affected” grammatical object undergoes a change of state. Properties of the object as expressed by adjectival modification hold true at the start of the event. The problem of determining if such properties are preserved at event culmination is a sub-case of the well-studied Frame Problem...