2021
Authors
Lattke, S; Morgado, L; Afonso, AP; Penicheiro, F; Morgado, L; Moreira, JA;
Publication
2021 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IMMERSIVE LEARNING RESEARCH NETWORK (ILRN)
Abstract
The paper presents the e-facilitator concept and explores the perspective of some professionals in the field (stakeholders) on this role and its competencies. Facilitation in virtual learning environments is a growing challenge when more and more learners find their way to online learning platforms and many universities adapt their courses to digital environments since the global pandemic forced many people to stay at home.
2021
Authors
Monteiro Silva, F; Queiros, C; Leite, A; Rodriguez, MT; Rojo, MJ; Torroba, T; Martins, RC; Silva, AMG; Rangel, M;
Publication
MOLECULES
Abstract
Functional organic dyes play a key role in many fields, namely in biotechnology and medical diagnosis. Herein, we report two novel 2,3- and 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl substituted rosamines (3 and 4, respectively) that were successfully synthesized through a microwave-assisted protocol. The best reaction yields were obtained for rosamine 4, which also showed the most interesting photophysical properties, specially toward biogenic amines (BAs). Several amines including n- and t-butylamine, cadaverine, and putrescine cause spectral changes of 4, in UV-Vis and fluorescence spectra, which are indicative of their potential application as an effective tool to detect amines in acetonitrile solutions. In the gas phase, the probe response is more expressive for spermine and putrescine. Additionally, we found that methanolic solutions of rosamine 4 and n-butylamine undergo a pink to yellow color change over time, which has been attributed to the formation of a new compound. The latter was isolated and identified as 5 (9-aminopyronin), whose solutions exhibit a remarkable increase in fluorescence intensity together with a shift toward more energetic wavelengths. Other 9-aminopyronins 6a, 6b, 7a, and 7b were obtained from methanolic solutions of 4 with putrescine and cadaverine, demonstrating the potential of this new xanthene entity to react with primary amines.
2021
Authors
Souza, JAVd; Schlemmer, E;
Publication
Cadernos de Educação Tecnologia e Sociedade
Abstract
2021
Authors
Antunes, M; Maximiano, M; Gomes, R; Pinto, D;
Publication
JOURNAL OF CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
Abstract
Information security plays a key role in enterprises management, as it deals with the confidentiality, privacy, integrity, and availability of one of their most valuable resources: data and information. Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SME) are seen as a blind spot in information security and cybersecurity management, which is mainly due to their size, regional and familiar scope, and financial resources. This paper presents an information security and cybersecurity management project, in which a methodology based on the well-known ISO-27001:2013 standard was designed and implemented in fifty SMEs that were located in the center region of Portugal. The project was conducted by a business association located at the center of Portugal and mainly participated by SMEs. The Polytechnic of Leiria and an IT auditing/consulting team were the other two entities that participated on the project. The characterisation of the participating enterprises, the ISO-27001:2013 based methodology developed and implemented in SMEs, as well as the results obtained in this case study, are depicted and analysed in the paper. The attained results show a clear benefit to the audited and intervened SMEs, being mainly attested by the increasing of their information security management robustness and collaborators’ cyberawareness.
2021
Authors
Teixeira, JF; Dias, M; Batista, E; Costa, J; Teixeira, LF; Oliveira, HP;
Publication
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Abstract
The scarcity of balanced and annotated datasets has been a recurring problem in medical image analysis. Several researchers have tried to fill this gap employing dataset synthesis with adversarial networks (GANs). Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides complex, texture-rich medical images, with the same annotation shortage issues, for which, to the best of our knowledge, no previous work tried synthesizing data. Within this context, our work addresses the problem of synthesizing breast MRI images from corresponding annotations and evaluate the impact of this data augmentation strategy on a semantic segmentation task. We explored variations of image-to-image translation using conditional GANs, namely fitting the generator's architecture with residual blocks and experimenting with cycle consistency approaches. We studied the impact of these changes on visual verisimilarity and how an U-Net segmentation model is affected by the usage of synthetic data. We achieved sufficiently realistic-looking breast MRI images and maintained a stable segmentation score even when completely replacing the dataset with the synthetic set. Our results were promising, especially when concerning to Pix2PixHD and Residual CycleGAN architectures.
2021
Authors
Li, MX; Wei, W; Chen, Y; Ge, MF; Catalao, JPS;
Publication
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Abstract
Optimal dispatch of modern power systems often entails efficiently solving large-scale optimization problems, especially when generators have to respond to the fast fluctuation of renewable generation. This paper develops a method to learn the optimal strategy from a mixed-integer quadratic program with time-varying parameters, which can model many power system operation problems such as unit commitment and optimal power flow. Different from existing machine learning methods that learn a map from the parameter to the optimal action, the proposed method learns the map from the parameter to the optimal integer solution and the optimal basis, forming a discrete pattern. Such a framework naturally gives rise to a classification problem: the parameter set is partitioned into polyhedral regions; in each region, the optimal 0-1 variable and the set of active constraints remain unchanged, and the optimal continuous variables are affine functions in the parameter. The outcome of classification is compared with analytical results derived from multi-parametric programming theory, showing interesting connections between traditional mathematical programming theory and the interpretability of the learning-based method. Tests on a small-scale problem demonstrate the partition of the parameter set learned from data meets the theoretical outcome. More tests on the IEEE 57-bus system and a real-world 1881-bus system validate the performance of the proposed method with a high-dimensional parameter for which the analytical method is intractable.
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