Cardiovascular diseases are the first leading cause of death and morbidity in developed countries. The use of animal models have contributed to increase our knowledge, providing new approaches focused to improve the diagnostic and the treatment of these pathologies. Several models have been developed to address cardiovascular complications, including atherothrombotic and cardiac diseases, and t...

Most people around the world eat meat and billions of animals are slaughtered each year to meet that demand. For many, eating is a biocultural activity steeped in tradition formative cuisines identity. Eating meat, however, comes with myriad ethical practical considerations. In tandem animal rights environmental sustainability concerns surrounding impact slaughter for welfare science has identi...

Abstract Context Animal movement through the landscape is essential to several ecological processes, assuring genetic flow, reproductive success and population dynamics. In fragmented landscapes, species change their patterns according sensitivity cover configuration. Increased habitat loss fragmentation affects resource distribution availability, compelling move more frequently anthropized mat...

The recent 100-year anniversary of the Flexner review and the release of the Australian Medical Education Study have stimulated vigorous debate about the role of bioscience knowledge in medical education. Two critical questions define debate in this area: does bioscience learning assist in educating medical students to become competent doctors, and, if so, what are the most effective teaching a...

Software developers have been successfully tailoring software development methods according the project situation and more so in small scale software development organizations. There is a need to propagate this knowledge to other developers who may be facing the same project situation so that they can benefit from other people experiences. In this paper, use of situational method engineering in...

Abstract — Many applications in a clinical information system can benefit from the incorporation of medical knowledge to provide patient-specific, point-of-care decision support. These include computer-based provider order entry, referral, clinical result interpretation, consultation, adverse event monitoring, scheduling, shared patient-doctor decision-making, and generation of alerts and remin...

In the software engineering (SE) domain the EU challenge on semantic systems and services motivates better support of knowledge creation as well as better access of SE stakeholders to the knowledge they need to perform their activities. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the coordination of development lifecycle activities by process automation, management of relationships between artifa...