Search Results - "Pereira, M. C."

Wildfire selectivity for land cover type: does size matter? by Barros, Ana M G, Pereira, José M C

“…Previous research has shown that fires burn certain land cover types disproportionally to their abundance. We used quantile regression to study land cover…”
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Complex small-world regulatory networks emerge from the 3D organisation of the human genome by Brackley, C. A., Gilbert, N., Michieletto, D., Papantonis, A., Pereira, M. C. F., Cook, P. R., Marenduzzo, D.

“…The discovery that overexpressing one or a few critical transcription factors can switch cell state suggests that gene regulatory networks are relatively…”
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Causal relationships versus emergent patterns in the global controls of fire frequency by Bistinas, I, Harrison, S. P, Prentice, I. C, Pereira, J. M. C

“…Global controls on month-by-month fractional burnt area (2000–2005) were investigated by fitting a generalised linear model (GLM) to Global Fire Emissions…”
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Biometric Recognition: A Systematic Review on Electrocardiogram Data Acquisition Methods by Pereira, Teresa M C, Conceição, Raquel C, Sencadas, Vitor, Sebastião, Raquel

“…In the last decades, researchers have shown the potential of using Electrocardiogram (ECG) as a biometric trait due to its uniqueness and hidden nature…”
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Relationships between human population density and burned area at continental and global scales by Bistinas, Ioannis, Oom, Duarte, Sá, Ana C L, Harrison, Sandy P, Prentice, I Colin, Pereira, José M C

“…We explore the large spatial variation in the relationship between population density and burned area, using continental-scale Geographically Weighted…”
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Modelling fire frequency in a Cerrado savanna protected area by Pereira Júnior, Alfredo C, Oliveira, Sofia L J, Pereira, José M C, Turkman, Maria Antónia Amaral

“…Covering almost a quarter of Brazil, the Cerrado is the world's most biologically rich tropical savanna. Fire is an integral part of the Cerrado but current…”
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Blood biomarkers associated with inflammation predict poor prognosis in cerebral venous thrombosis : a multicenter prospective observational study by Aguiar de Sousa, Diana, Pereira Santos, M. C., Caetano, Ana, Lucas Neto, Lia, Sousa, A. L., Gabriel, D., Correia, M., Gil-Gouveia, Raquel, Oliveira, Renato, Penas, Sara, Carvalho Dias, Mariana, Correia, M. A., Carvalho, M., Sousa, Ana E., Canhão, Patrícia, Morão Cabral Ferro, José Manuel

“…Copyright © 2020 European Academy of Neurology Background and purpose: Experimental studies suggest inflammation can contribute to blood barrier disruption and…”
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Anti-inflammatory potential of Portuguese thermal waters by Silva, A., Oliveira, A. S., Vaz, C. V., Correia, S., Ferreira, R., Breitenfeld, L., Martinez-de-Oliveira, J., Palmeira-de-Oliveira, R., Pereira, C. M. F., Palmeira-de-Oliveira, A., Cruz, M. T.

“…In light of Medical Hydrology, thermal waters (TW) are all-natural mineral waters that emerge inside a thermal resort and have therapeutic applications. Their…”
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Physiological changes induced by the quaternary ammonium compound benzyldimethyldodecylammonium chloride on Pseudomonas fluorescens by FERREIRA, C, PEREIRA, A. M, PEREIRA, M. C, MELO, L. F, SIMOES, M

“…Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health concern, particularly in hospitals and other healthcare settings. For the rational design of disinfection…”
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Global wildland fire emissions from 1960 to 2000 by Schultz, Martin G., Heil, Angelika, Hoelzemann, Judith J., Spessa, Allan, Thonicke, Kirsten, Goldammer, Johann G., Held, Alexander C., Pereira, Jose M. C., van het Bolscher, Maarten

“…In many regions of the world, fires are an important and highly variable source of air pollutant emissions, and they thus constitute a significant if not…”
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Understanding the Impact of Different Landscape-Level Fuel Management Strategies on Wildfire Hazard in Central Portugal by Akli Benali, Ana C. L. Sá, João Pinho, Paulo M. Fernandes, José M. C. Pereira

“…The extreme 2017 fire season in Portugal led to widespread recognition of the need for a paradigm shift in forest and wildfire management. We focused our study…”
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A conserved tooth resorption mechanism in modern and fossil snakes by LeBlanc, A. R. H., Palci, A., Anthwal, N., Tucker, A. S., Araújo, R., Pereira, M. F. C., Caldwell, M. W.

“…Whether snakes evolved their elongated, limbless bodies or their specialized skulls and teeth first is a central question in squamate evolution. Identifying…”
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Role of Recombinant Parvalbumin Gad c 1 in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Fish Allergy by Carvalho, S, Marcelino, J, Cabral Duarte, MF, Costa, C, Barbosa, MA, Pereira Dos Santos, MC

“…Background: The prevalence of fish allergy has increased in recent years. The parvalbumin Gad c 1 is a major cod allergen that is used as a follow-up marker in…”
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Lattice Location of Mg in GaN: A Fresh Look at Doping Limitations by Wahl, U, Amorim, L M, Augustyns, V, Costa, A, David-Bosne, E, Lima, T A L, Lippertz, G, Correia, J G, da Silva, M R, Kappers, M J, Temst, K, Vantomme, A, Pereira, L M C

“…Radioactive ^{27}Mg (t_{1/2}=9.5  min) was implanted into GaN of different doping types at CERN's ISOLDE facility and its lattice site determined via β^{-}…”
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Seasonality of vegetation fires as modified by human action: observing the deviation from eco-climatic fire regimes by Le Page, Yannick, Oom, Duarte, Silva, João M. N., Jönsson, Per, Pereira, José M. C.

“…In any region affected, fires exhibit a strong seasonal cycle driven by the dynamic of fuel moisture and ignition sources throughout the year. In this paper we…”
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Analysis fire patterns and drivers with a global SEVER-FIRE v1.0 model incorporated into dynamic global vegetation model and satellite and on-ground observations by Venevsky, Sergey, Le Page, Yannick, Pereira, Jose M. C, Wu, Chao

“…Biomass burning is an important environmental process with a strong influence on vegetation and on the atmospheric composition. It competes with microbes and…”
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Electrochemical detection of cardiac biomarker myoglobin using polyphenol as imprinted polymer receptor by Ribeiro, J.A., Pereira, C.M., Silva, A.F., Sales, M. Goreti F.

“…An electrochemical biosensor was developed by merging the features of Molecular Imprinting technique and Screen-Printed Electrode (SPE) for the simple and fast…”
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Natural and Anthropogenic Hybridization in Two Species of Eastern Brazilian Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus and C. penicillata) by Malukiewicz, Joanna, Boere, Vanner, Fuzessy, Lisieux F, Grativol, Adriana D, de Oliveira E Silva, Ita, Pereira, Luiz C M, Ruiz-Miranda, Carlos R, Valença, Yuri M, Stone, Anne C

“…Animal hybridization is well documented, but evolutionary outcomes and conservation priorities often differ for natural and anthropogenic hybrids. Among…”
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The gut microbiome of exudivorous marmosets in the wild and captivity by Malukiewicz, Joanna, Cartwright, Reed A., Dergam, Jorge A., Igayara, Claudia S., Kessler, Sharon E., Moreira, Silvia B., Nash, Leanne T., Nicola, Patricia A., Pereira, Luiz C. M., Pissinatti, Alcides, Ruiz-Miranda, Carlos R., Ozga, Andrew T., Quirino, Adriana A., Roos, Christian, Silva, Daniel L., Stone, Anne C., Grativol, Adriana D.

“…Mammalian captive dietary specialists like folivores are prone to gastrointestinal distress and primate dietary specialists suffer the greatest gut microbiome…”
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A Planning Model for Fire-Resilient Landscapes in Portugal Is Riddled with Fallacies: A Critical Review of “FIRELAN” by Magalhães et al., 2021 by Guiomar, Nuno G., Pereira, José M. C., Fernandes, Paulo M.

“…FIRELAN was developed as a model expected to foster the resilience to fire and sustainability of a landscape that is based on a number of premises about fire…”
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