2018
Autores
Vieira de Melo, BBV; Trigueiro, MJ; Rodrigues, PP;
Publicação
DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Abstract
Objectives: This article seeks to identify neuroanatomical differences in ADHD through an overview of systematic reviews that report encephalic differences compared to a control group in volume, area, activation likelihood or chemical composition.Methods: We conducted a systematic search using Cochrane guidelines and PRISMA criteria in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects.Results: Results revealed broad encephalic involvement that includes a functional frontal and cingulate hypoactivation and structural differences in corpus callosum, cerebellum and basal nuclei.Conclusions: ADHD symptoms might be due to a multi-network unbalanced functioning hypothesis.
2018
Autores
Rocha, T; Reis, A; Barroso, J;
Publicação
2018 13TH IBERIAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (CISTI)
Abstract
Average life expectancy of the humans has been increasing with the advancement of medicine, hence observing an aging of the population in general. Associated with aging, loss of cognitive ability and memory failure are often observed, which can have a great impact on the quality of life and autonomy of people who need to take medication on an hourly basis. In this work, we present the development of an application that helps to manage two key issues for the quality of life of the elderly: the time of medication and the time of medical consultations. The application is managed (information is added, altered or deleted) by a responsible, as a family member or health professional. After analyzing several solutions, it was verified that the biggest problem identified is the difficulty of interaction with the interface (sometimes it presents a lot of information and do not focus on functions of immediate necessity). In this context, we present a solution that focuses on two main objectives: first, to present a clear and simple list of medication and list of information of consultations; and second, to provide a simplified interface for the management of medication by a caregiver (child, nurse, and tutor). In the first development phase, we evaluated the usability of this interface, with ten health care professionals, who evidenced the potentiality of the solution presented here.
2018
Autores
Nazar, MS; Fard, AE; Heidari, A; Shafie khah, M; Catalao, JPS;
Publicação
ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Abstract
Short-term load and price forecasting is an important issue in the optimal operation of restructured electric utilities. This paper presents a new intelligent hybrid three-stage model for simultaneous load and price forecasting. The proposed algorithm uses wavelet and Kalman machines for the first stage load and price forecasting. Each of the load and price data is decomposed into different frequency components, and Kalman machine is used to forecast each frequency components of load and price data. Then a Kohonen Self Organizing Map (SOM) finds similar days of load frequency components and feeds them into the second stage forecasting machine. In addition, mutual information based feature selection is used to find the relevant price data and rank them based on their relevance. The second stage uses Multi-Layer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network (MLP-ANN) and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for forecasting of load and price frequency components, respectively. The third stage machine uses the second stage outputs and feeds them into its MLP-ANN and ANFIS machines to improve the load and price forecasting accuracy. The proposed three-stage algorithm is applied to Nordpool and mainland Spain power markets. The obtained results are compared with the recent load and price forecast algorithms, and showed that the three-stage algorithm presents a better performance for day-ahead electricity market load and price forecasting.
2018
Autores
Pinho, TM; Coelho, JP; Oliveira, J; Boaventura Cunha, J;
Publicação
2018 13TH APCA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AND SOFT COMPUTING (CONTROLO)
Abstract
This work presents the state-of-the-art of visual sensing systems for monitoring and control purposes in both agriculture and forest areas. Regarding agricultural activities, four main topics are explored: robotics and autonomous vehicles, plant protection, feature extraction and yield prediction. Although vast literature can be found on image processing and computer vision applied to agriculture, its applications in forest-based systems are less frequent. Throughout this article, several research areas such as diseases control, post-processing, parameters estimation, UAVs and satellites will be addressed.
2018
Autores
Tavares, B; Soares, F;
Publicação
IET Conference Publications
Abstract
The inclusion of new energy management technologies in buildings and increasing integration of distributed energy resources in electricity networks will require new operation and planning approaches from system operators. Currently, distribution network planning is rather inefficient as network assets are oversized to meet the peak demand of a worst case scenario which is unlikely to occur. In addition, flexibility provided by controllable loads is not taken into account at all. This paper presents an innovative approach that integrates the potential flexibility of distributed energy resources in the planning exercise. It incorporates two optimization problems: a low-level one to optimize the operation of controllable resources; and a high-level one based on an OPF that uses the available flexibility to solve network problems. The proposed method allows obtaining costeffective solutions that make a better use of the flexible resources available, avoiding high capital investments in network reinforcement.
2018
Autores
Sá Sousa, J; Vilela, JP;
Publicação
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Abstract
Current physical-layer security techniques typically rely on a degraded eavesdropper, thus warranting some sort of advantage that can be relied upon to achieve higher levels of security. We consider instead non-degraded eavesdroppers that possess equal or better capabilities than legitimate receivers. Under this challenging setup, most of the current physical-layer security techniques become hard to administer and new dimensions to establish advantageous periods of communication are needed. For that, we consider employing a spread spectrum uncoordinated frequency hopping (UFH) scheme aided by friendly jammers for improved secrecy. We characterize the secrecy level of this spread spectrum scheme, by devising a stochastic geometry mathematical model to assess the secure packet throughput (probability of secure communication) of devices operating under UFH that accommodates the impact of friendly jammers. We further implement and evaluate these techniques in a real-world test-bed of software-defined radios. Results show that although UFH with jamming leads to low secure packet throughput values, by exploiting frequency diversity, these methods may be used for establishing secret keys. We propose a method for secret-key establishment that builds on the advantage provided by UFH and jamming to establish secret keys, notably against non-degraded adversary eavesdroppers that may appear in advantageous situations. © 2005-2012 IEEE.
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