Search Results - "Rebello, F."
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On closing the inopportune gap with consistency transformation and iterative refinement
Published in PloS one (13-07-2023)“…The problem of aligning multiple biological sequences has fascinated scientists for a long time. Over the last four decades, tens of heuristic-based Multiple…”
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Chronic kidney disease induces inflammation by increasing Toll-like receptor-4, cytokine and cathelicidin expression in neutrophils and monocytes
Published in Experimental cell research (15-04-2018)“…TLR expression in neutrophils and monocytes is associated with increased cytokine synthesis, resulting in increased inflammation. However, the inflammatory…”
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Survival Rate of Resin and Ceramic Inlays, Onlays, and Overlays: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Published in Journal of Dental Research (01-08-2016)“…This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the survival rate of ceramic and resin inlays, onlays, and overlays and to identify the complication…”
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An autonomic parallel strategy for exhaustive search tree algorithms on shared or heterogeneous systems
Published in Concurrency and computation (10-03-2024)“…Summary Backtracking branch‐and‐prune (BP) algorithms and their variants are exhaustive search tree techniques widely employed to solve optimization problems…”
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Monte Carlo simulation of photoneutrons streaming inside radiotherapy treatment rooms as a function of gantry angles
Published in Progress in nuclear energy (New series) (01-04-2010)“…This work describes Monte Carlo simulations of neutron production and the consequently transport inside the maze of a medical linear accelerator bunker,…”
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Mycobacterium leprae DNA associated with type 1 reactions in single lesion paucibacillary leprosy treated with single dose rifampin, ofloxacin, and minocycline
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (01-11-2007)“…Leprosy affects skin and peripheral nerves, and acute inflammatory type 1 reactions (reversal reaction) can cause neurologic impairment and disabilities…”
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Evaluating urban resilience in a disruptive radioactive event
Published in Progress in nuclear energy (New series) (01-05-2022)“…Environments that have been contaminated by radiation are complex, and when such contamination occurs over an inhabited urban area the complexity increases…”
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MCNPX computational modeling applied to the potential dose rates calculation of cargo scanning
Published in Applied radiation and isotopes (01-12-2021)“…This study focusses on the risk of potential exposure to radiation for personnel driving a truck as well as illegal individuals being transported in cargo…”
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Influence of radiotherapy room shielding on ambient dose equivalent due to photons H(10)p and neutrons H(10)n in the patient’s plane
Published in Applied radiation and isotopes (01-03-2022)“…This study discusses a computer simulation for the equivalent ambient dose due to photons, H*(10)p, and neutrons, H*(10)n, in the patient's plane undergoing…”
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Radiological Risk Assessment by Convergence Methodology Model in RDD Scenarios
Published in Risk analysis (01-11-2016)“…A radiological dispersal device (RDD) is a simple weapon capable of causing human harm, environmental contamination, disruption, area denial, and economic…”
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Shielding implications on secondary radiation doses in prostate cancer treatment
Published in Applied radiation and isotopes (01-09-2020)“…Medical linear accelerators (linacs) require a physical structure designed to provide adequate structural support which ensures the safety of patients,…”
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Study on radiation dosimetry and radioprotection applied to Seaport Cargo Inspection Activity
Published in Applied radiation and isotopes (01-06-2020)“…•Radiation dosimetry was performed at cargo inspection facility by using calibrated equipment.•Dosimetry measurements evaluate possible deleterious effects to…”
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Brazilian regulatory authority contribution to the shielding dimensioning model of radiotherapy rooms proposed by the NCRP 151
Published in Biomedical physics & engineering express (01-11-2020)“…The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) Report No. 151 is an essential document for bunker design commonly applied for…”
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Static job scheduling for environments with vertical elasticity
Published in Concurrency and computation (10-10-2020)“…Summary In virtualized environments, such as Clouds, allocating a fixed amount of resources to a job a priori, may result in underutilization of the shared…”
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A security and performance analysis of proof-based consensus protocols
Published in Annales des télécommunications (01-08-2022)“…Blockchain is a disruptive technology that will revolutionize the Internet and our way of living, working, and trading. However, the consensus protocols of…”
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A Survey on Blockchain Scalability: From Hardware to Layer-Two Protocols
Published in IEEE Communications surveys and tutorials (2024)“…Despite the great success of blockchain systems in recent years, blockchains still struggle to provide the same level of latency and throughput as centralized…”
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Effect of external shielding for neutrons during radiotherapy for prostate cancer, considering the 2300 CD linear accelerator and voxel phantom
Published in Radiation physics and chemistry (Oxford, England : 1993) (01-02-2014)“…Photoneutron production occurs when high energy photons, greater than 6.7MeV, interact with linear accelerator head structures. In Brazil, the National Cancer…”
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On the parallelization of Hirschberg's algorithm for multi‐core and many‐core systems
Published in Concurrency and computation (25-09-2019)“…Summary Finding the longest common subsequence between two strings in acceptable time frames is crucial to solving various problems in different fields of…”
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ProfitPilot: Enabling Rebalancing in Payment Channel Networks Through Profitable Cycle Creation
Published in IEEE eTransactions on network and service management (01-06-2024)“…Payment Channel Networks (PCNs) have successfully replaced slow global consensus mechanisms with local cryptographic agreements between nodes. As PCN payments…”
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DFedForest: Decentralized Federated Forest
Published in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain) (01-11-2020)“…The effectiveness of machine learning systems depends heavily on the relevance of the training data. Usually, the collected data is sensitive and private…”
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