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Lossless Compression of Medical Images Using 3-D Predictors by Lucas, Luis F. R., Rodrigues, Nuno M. M., da Silva Cruz, Luis A., de Faria, Sergio M. M.

“…This paper describes a highly efficient method for lossless compression of volumetric sets of medical images, such as CTs or MRIs. The proposed method,…”
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Plant-associated symbiotic Burkholderia species lack hallmark strategies required in mammalian pathogenesis by Angus, Annette A, Agapakis, Christina M, Fong, Stephanie, Yerrapragada, Shailaja, Estrada-de los Santos, Paulina, Yang, Paul, Song, Nannie, Kano, Stephanie, Caballero-Mellado, Jésus, de Faria, Sergio M, Dakora, Felix D, Weinstock, George, Hirsch, Ann M

“…Burkholderia is a diverse and dynamic genus, containing pathogenic species as well as species that form complex interactions with plants. Pathogenic strains,…”
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Lossless Coding of Light Fields based on 4D Minimum Rate Predictors by Santos, Joao M., Thomaz, Lucas A., Assuncao, Pedro A. A., Da Silva Cruz, Luis A., Tavora, Luis, Faria, Sergio M. M.

“…Common representations of light fields use four-dimensional data structures, where a given pixel is closely related not only to its spatial neighbours within…”
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Melanoma classification using light-Fields with morlet scattering transform and CNN: Surface depth as a valuable tool to increase detection rate by Pereira, Pedro M. M., Thomaz, Lucas A., Tavora, Luis M. N., Assuncao, Pedro A. A., Fonseca-Pinto, Rui M., Paiva, Rui Pedro, Faria, Sergio M. M. de

“…•Skin lesion classification using light-field data•Melanoma discrimination using Scattering Wavelet Transform features•CNN model using residual blocks on…”
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Illegal trade of songbirds: an analysis of the activity in an area of northeast Brazil by de Oliveira, Wallisson Sylas Luna, Borges, Anna Karolina Martins, de Faria Lopes, Sérgio, Vasconcellos, Alexandre, Alves, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega

“…This study aimed to analyze the chain and dynamics of the trade of wild birds between keepers and traders in an area of northeast Brazil. Profit from the…”
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Harvesting Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. in a western Amazon rural community: local ecological knowledge and meaning to "nut-crackers" by Souza, Arlene Oliveira, Santos, Alessandra Rufino, de Faria Lopes, Sergio, Soares, Tathyna Rodrigues

“…The collection of Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. (castanha-da-Amazônia; Brazil nuts) seeds make up part of the everyday activities of the traditional populations…”
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Burkholderia phymatum is a highly effective nitrogen-fixing symbiont of Mimosa spp. and fixes nitrogen ex planta by Elliott, Geoffrey N, Chen, Wen-Ming, Chou, Jui-Hsing, Wang, Hui-Chun, Sheu, Shih-Yi, Perin, Liamara, Reis, Veronica M, Moulin, Lionel, Simon, Marcelo F, Bontemps, Cyril, Sutherland, Joan M, Bessi, Rosana, Faria, Sergio M. de, Trinick, Michael J, Prescott, Alan R, Sprent, Janet I, James, Euan K

“…• The ability of Burkholderia phymatum STM815 to effectively nodulate Mimosa spp., and to fix nitrogen ex planta, was compared with that of the known Mimosa…”
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Attention-driven tile splitting method for improved efficiency of omnidirectional versatile video coding by Carreira, J., de Faria, Sergio M. M., Tavora, Luis M. N., Navarro, Antonio, Assuncao, Pedro A.

“…A common approach used in omnidirectional video coding is based on frame splitting into tiles, allowing partial delivery of only the subset of tiles that is…”
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Integer DCT Approximation With Arbitrary Size and Adjustable Precision by Thomaz, Lucas A., Assuncao, Pedro A. A., Tavora, Luis M. N., Faria, Sergio M. M. de

“…This letter proposes a method to obtain integer reversible discrete cosine transforms for generic transform-based coding schemes. The novelty of the proposed…”
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Scalable Coding of 360-degree Video for Streaming Adaptation at 5G Network Edges by Carreira, J., de Faria, Sergio M. M., Tavora, Luis M. N., Navarro, Antonio, Assuncao, Pedro A. A.

“…The huge amount of data that is necessary to capture the full field-of-view (FoV) in omnidirectional video, i.e., 360°, imposes the use of highly efficient…”
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Versatile Video Coding Of 360° Video Using Adaptive Resolution Change by Carreira, J., de Faria, Sergio M. M., Tavora, Luis M. N., Navarro, Antonio, Assuncao, Pedro A.

“…Encoding 360° video with ultra high spatial resolution requires high bitrates to guarantee acceptable QoE in video delivery services. However, since in general…”
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Proof that Burkholderia Strains Form Effective Symbioses with Legumes: a Study of Novel Mimosa-Nodulating Strains from South America by Chen, Wen-Ming, Faria, Sergio M. de, Straliotto, Rosângela, Pitard, Rosa M, Simões-Araùjo, Jean L, Chou, Jui-Hsing, Chou, Yi-Ju, Barrios, Edmundo, Prescott, Alan R, Elliott, Geoffrey N, Sprent, Janet I, Young, J. Peter W, James, Euan K

“…Twenty Mimosa-nodulating bacterial strains from Brazil and Venezuela, together with eight reference Mimosa-nodulating rhizobial strains and two other…”
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Functional Traits Drive the Selection of Plant Species Used by Agropastoralists in the Brazilian Semiarid Region by Ramos, Maiara Bezerra, de Almeida, Humberto Araújo, da Cunha, Sonaly Silva, Maciel, Maria Gracielle Rodrigues, Pedrosa, Kamila Marques, Meave, Jorge A., de Faria Lopes, Sérgio

“…Biodiversity is crucial for human well-being and sustenance, especially for rural communities that directly depend on plant resources. We investigated the…”
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Error Concealment-Aware Encoding for Robust Video Transmission by Carreira, Joao F. M., Assuncao, Pedro A., de Faria, Sergio M. M., Ekmekcioglu, Erhan, Kondoz, Ahmet

“…In this paper an error concealment (EC)-aware encoding scheme is proposed to improve the quality of decoded video in broadcast environments subject to…”
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Local ecological knowledge of shellfish collectors in an extractivist reserve, Northeast Brazil: implications for co-management by da Silva Mourão, José, Baracho, Rossyanne Lopez, Martel, Guy, Barboza, Raynner Rilke Duarte, de Faria Lopes, Sergio

“…The Local Ecological Knowledge of shellfish harvesters in a Northern Brazil estuary was recorded to provide socio-ecological information for the development of…”
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Burkholderia mimosarum sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of Mimosa spp. from Taiwan and South America by Chen, Wen-Ming, James, Euan K, Coenye, Tom, Chou, Jui-Hsing, Barrios, Edmundo, de Faria, Sergio M, Elliott, Geoffrey N, Sheu, Shih-Yi, Sprent, Janet I, Vandamme, Peter

“…1 Department of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, No. 142, Hai-Chuan Road, Nan-Tzu, Kaohsiung City 811, Taiwan 2 School of Life Sciences,…”
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Burkholderia nodosa sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of the woody Brazilian legumes Mimosa bimucronata and Mimosa scabrella by Chen, Wen-Ming, de Faria, Sergio M, James, Euan K, Elliott, Geoffrey N, Lin, Kuan-Yin, Chou, Jui-Hsing, Sheu, Shih-Yi, Cnockaert, M, Sprent, Janet I, Vandamme, Peter

“…1 Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung Marine University, 142 Hai-Chuan Rd, Nan-Tzu, Kaohsiung City 811, Taiwan 2…”
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Burkholderia species are ancient symbionts of legumes by Bontemps, Cyril, Elliott, Geoffrey N, Simon, Marcelo F, Reis Junior, Fabio B. dos, Gross, Eduardo, Lawton, Rebecca C, Neto, Nicolau Elias, Loureiro, Maria de Fatima, Faria, Sergio M. de, Sprent, Janet I, James, Euan K, Young, J. Peter W

“…Burkholderia has only recently been recognized as a potential nitrogen-fixing symbiont of legumes, but we find that the origins of symbiosis in Burkholderia…”
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Paraburkholderia piptadeniae sp. nov. and Paraburkholderia ribeironis sp. nov., two root-nodulating symbiotic species of Piptadenia gonoacantha in Brazil by Bournaud, Caroline, Moulin, Lionel, Cnockaert, Margo, Faria, Sergio de, Prin, Yves, Severac, Dany, Vandamme, Peter

“…During a survey of root-nodulating symbionts of Mimosoid species in the south-east region of Brazil, eight Paraburkholderia isolates were obtained from nodules…”
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Spatial error concealment for intra-coded depth maps in multiview video-plus-depth by Amado Assunçao, Pedro A., Marcelino, Sylvain, Soares, Salviano, M. de Faria, Sérgio M.

“…Transmission errors or packet loss in depth maps have great impact on the decoding quality and view synthesis of 3D and multiview video. Thus efficient methods…”
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