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Elemental interdiffusion in W-Ta composites developed for fusion applications

Tungsten (W) was select for an extensive use in nuclear fusion devices due to its low neutron activation, high melting point and sputtering threshold as well as low hydrogen inventory. Nevertheless, W is brittle at low and moderate temperatures, which results in abnormal thermal stress, component fracture and extra erosion under reactor operation due to inherent thermal cycling events. An attractive way to solv...

Environment and Health in Children Day Care Centres

This project addresses a set of common clinical problems in the context of children attending day care centres. It is common sense that children get sick more often as soon as they start attending a day care centre on a daily basis and this is particularly true for some groups at risk, as wheezing infants and wheezing pre-school children. Concerning this, some questions remain unclear: 1. The role of indoor air...

Oral glucose lowering drugs in type 2 diabetic patients with chronic kidney di...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a challenge in the treatment of type 2 diabetic patients. Renal impairment may affect drug clearance and other pharmacokinetic processes which can increase toxicity and drug to drug interactions or cause ineffective therapy. There are many oral glucose lowering drugs available for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with different mechanisms of action and dif...

Estimation of imageable dip range of target structures in interferometric salt ...

Stability of blood gases when refrigerated

Background: Blood gas analysis is a widely used procedure. In clinical practice, the physicians may not always have a blood gas analyzer in their proximity. Not infrequently, blood gas samples are stored in a fridge or on ice and read retrospectively. Continued anaerobic and aerobic metabolism in the blood may alter blood gases in the interval between drawing arterial blood and its analysis, which may cause a f...

Influence of silver content on the tribomechanical behavior on Ag-TiCN bioactiv...

Surface modification of bulk materials used in biomedical applications has become an important prerequisite for better biocompatibility. In particular, to overcome the particle generation, low-wear coatings based on carbon (nitrogen) and containing antimicrobial elements such as silver are promising candidates. Thus, the present work explores the potentialities of silver-containing carbonitride-based (Ag-TiCN) ...

Constrictive pericarditis: Insights from cardiac computed tomography

Constrictive pericarditis: Insights from cardiac computed tomography

Technology update on greenhouse horticulture in Portugal.

Produção e partição de matéria seca de cultivares de feijão em competição com p...

Objetivou-se com este trabalho avaliar os efeitos da competição entre três cultivares de feijão e seis espécies de plantas daninhas no crescimento inicial e na alocação de matéria seca pelas plantas. Adotou-se arranjo fatorial em esquema 3 x 6 + 9, constituído pela combinação de três genótipos de feijão (IPR Colibri, IPR Eldorado e Pérola) em competição com seis espécies de plantas daninhas (Euphorbia heterophy...