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Review on the electrochemical processes for the treatment of sanitary landfill leachates: Present and future by Fernandes, A., Pacheco, M.J., Ciríaco, L., Lopes, A.

“…[Display omitted] •Electrocoagulation, electro-Fenton and electro-oxidation for leachate treatment.•Influence of reactor design, electrode material, current…”
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The role of fractional calculus in modeling biological phenomena: A review by Ionescu, C., Lopes, A., Copot, D., Machado, J.A.T., Bates, J.H.T.

“…•An up to date review with the latest scientific results of fractional calculus in both science and engineering fields.•The use of fractional calculus in…”
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A Survey of Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning: Standard and Natural Policy Gradients by Grondman, I., Busoniu, L., Lopes, G. A. D., Babuska, R.

“…Policy-gradient-based actor-critic algorithms are amongst the most popular algorithms in the reinforcement learning framework. Their advantage of being able to…”
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Electroactive phases of poly(vinylidene fluoride): Determination, processing and applications by Martins, P., Lopes, A.C., Lanceros-Mendez, S.

“…Poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, and its copolymers are the family of polymers with the highest dielectric constant and electroactive response, including…”
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Potential nutritional and functional improvement of extruded breakfast cereals based on incorporation of fruit and vegetable by-products - A review by Santos, Diva, Pintado, Manuela, Lopes da Silva, José A.

“…There is a need to improve the nutritional and functional characteristics of breakfast cereal products (BCP) consumed worldwide, namely by increasing the…”
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Battery energy storage systems as a way to integrate renewable energy in small isolated power systems by Branco, Hugo, Castro, Rui, Setas Lopes, A.

“…Isolated power systems present high levels of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) curtailment as intermittency and isolation impose challenging difficulties…”
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Immune cell trafficking across the barriers of the central nervous system in multiple sclerosis and stroke by Lopes Pinheiro, Melissa A., Kooij, Gijs, Mizee, Mark R., Kamermans, Alwin, Enzmann, Gaby, Lyck, Ruth, Schwaninger, Markus, Engelhardt, Britta, de Vries, Helga E.

“…Each year about 650,000 Europeans die from stroke and a similar number lives with the sequelae of multiple sclerosis (MS). Stroke and MS differ in their…”
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Physical Exercise-Induced Myokines and Muscle-Adipose Tissue Crosstalk: A Review of Current Knowledge and the Implications for Health and Metabolic Diseases by Leal, Luana G, Lopes, Magno A, Batista, Jr, Miguel L

“…Physical exercise has beneficial effects on metabolic diseases, and a combined therapeutic regimen of regular exercise and pharmaceutical treatment is often…”
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Integration of Electric Vehicles in the Electric Power System by Lopes, João A. Peças, Soares, Filipe Joel, Almeida, Pedro M. Rocha

“…This paper presents a conceptual framework to successfully integrate electric vehicles into electric power systems. The proposed framework covers two different…”
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Role of the coinhibitory receptor cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen‐4 on apoptosis‐Prone CD8 T cells in persistent hepatitis B virus infection by Schurich, Anna, Khanna, Pooja, Lopes, A. Ross, Han, Ki Jun, Peppa, Dimitra, Micco, Lorenzo, Nebbia, Gaia, Kennedy, Patrick T.F., Geretti, Anna‐Maria, Dusheiko, Geoffrey, Maini, Mala K.

“…An excess of coinhibitory signals has been proposed to drive the T‐cell exhaustion characteristic of persistent viral infections. In this study we examined the…”
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The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Spectrographs by Wilson, J. C., Hearty, F. R., Skrutskie, M. F., Majewski, S. R., Holtzman, J. A., Eisenstein, D., Gunn, J., Blank, B., Henderson, C., Smee, S., Nelson, M., Nidever, D., Arns, J., Barkhouser, R., Barr, J., Beland, S., Bershady, M. A., Blanton, M. R., Brunner, S., Burton, A., Carey, L., Carr, M., Colque, J. P., Crane, J., Damke, G. J., Davidson, J. W., Dean, J., Di Mille, F., Don, K. W., Ebelke, G., Evans, M., Fitzgerald, G., Gillespie, B., Hall, M., Harding, A., Harding, P., Hammond, R., Hancock, D., Harrison, C., Hope, S., Horne, T., Karakla, J., Lam, C., Leger, F., MacDonald, N., Maseman, P., Matsunari, J., Melton, S., Mitcheltree, T., O'Brien, T., O'Connell, R. W., Patten, A., Richardson, W., Rieke, G., Rieke, M., Roman-Lopes, A., Schiavon, R. P., Sobeck, J. S., Stolberg, T., Stoll, R., Tembe, M., Trujillo, J. D., Uomoto, A., Vernieri, M., Walker, E., Weinberg, D. H., Young, E., Anthony-Brumfield, B., Bizyaev, D., Breslauer, B., Lee, N. De, Downey, J., Halverson, S., Huehnerhoff, J., Klaene, M., Leon, E., Long, D., Mahadevan, S., Malanushenko, E., Nguyen, D. C., Owen, R., Sánchez-Gallego, J. R., Sayres, C., Shane, N., Shectman, S. A., Shetrone, M., Skinner, D., Stauffer, F., Zhao, B.

“…We describe the design and performance of the near-infrared (1.51-1.70 m), fiber-fed, multi-object (300 fibers), high resolution (R = λ/Δλ ∼ 22,500)…”
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Incidence and risk factors of injuries in Brazilian elite handball players: A prospective cohort study by Giroto, N., Hespanhol Junior, L. C., Gomes, M. R. C., Lopes, A. D.

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence and risk factors for handball injuries in Brazilian elite handball players. Overall, 339 athletes from…”
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Characterisation of metal carboxylates by Raman and infrared spectroscopy in works of art by Otero, Vanessa, Sanches, Diogo, Montagner, Cristina, Vilarigues, Márcia, Carlyle, Leslie, Lopes, João A., Melo, Maria J.

“…This work introduces the complementary use of μ‐Raman and μ‐Fourier transform infrared (IR) spectroscopy for the detection of specific carbon chains and…”
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Downregulation of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-Related Factor and Associated Antioxidant Genes Contributes to Redox-Sensitive Vascular Dysfunction in Hypertension by Lopes, Rhéure A, Neves, Karla B, Tostes, Rita C, Montezano, Augusto C, Touyz, Rhian M

“…Oxidative stress is implicated in vascular dysfunction in hypertension. Although mechanisms regulating vascular pro-oxidants are emerging, there is a paucity…”
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Tailoring structure and technological properties of plant proteins using high hydrostatic pressure by Queirós, Rui P, Saraiva, Jorge A, da Silva, José A Lopes

“…The demand for proteins is rising and alternatives to meat proteins are necessary since animal husbandry is expensive and intensive to the environment. Plant…”
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An update on enzymatic cocktails for lignocellulose breakdown by Lopes, A.M., Ferreira Filho, E.X., Moreira, L.R.S.

“…Alternative energy sources have received increasing attention in recent years. The possibility of adding value to agricultural wastes, by producing biofuels…”
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A Review on the Applications of Portable Near-Infrared Spectrometers in the Agro-Food Industry by dos Santos, Cláudia A. Teixeira, Lopo, Miguel, Páscoa, Ricardo N.M.J., Lopes, João A.

“…Industry has created the need for a cost-effective and nondestructive quality-control analysis system. This requirement has increased interest in near-infrared…”
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Local inhomogeneous state in multiferroic SmCrO3 by Oliveira, G. N. P., Teixeira, R. C., Moreira, R. P., Correia, J. G., Araújo, J. P., Lopes, A. M. L.

“…Rare-earth orthochromites with distorted perovskite structure (e.g. RCrO 3 , R = Sm, Gd) have been under strong debate with respect to the origin of their…”
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Laser spectroscopy of muonic deuterium by Pohl, Randolf, Nez, François, Fernandes, Luis M. P., Amaro, Fernando D., Biraben, François, Cardoso, João M. R., Covita, Daniel S., Dax, Andreas, Dhawan, Satish, Diepold, Marc, Giesen, Adolf, Gouvea, Andrea L., Graf, Thomas, Hänsch, Theodor W., Indelicato, Paul, Julien, Lucile, Knowles, Paul, Kottmann, Franz, Le Bigot, Eric-Olivier, Liu, Yi-Wei, Lopes, José A. M., Ludhova, Livia, Monteiro, Cristina M. B., Mulhauser, Françoise, Nebel, Tobias, Rabinowitz, Paul, dos Santos, Joaquim M. F., Schaller, Lukas A., Schuhmann, Karsten, Schwob, Catherine, Taqqu, David, Veloso, João F. C. A., Antognini, Aldo

“…The deuteron is the simplest compound nucleus, composed of one proton and one neutron. Deuteron properties such as the root-mean-square charge radius rd and…”
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Modulation Strategy for a Single-Stage Bidirectional and Isolated AC–DC Matrix Converter for Energy Storage Systems by Varajao, Diogo, Araujo, Rui Esteves, Miranda, Luis Miguel, Lopes, Joao A. Pecas

“…This paper presents a new modulation and control strategies for the high-frequency link matrix converter (HFLMC). The proposed method aims to achieve…”
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