João Arriscado Nunes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the engagement of patients' organizations (POs) in research relates to the dynamics of their activism in the area of rare diseases, and point to the limits of the epidemiological notion of rareness for capturing the compounded and intersecting nature of the bio-psycho-social make-up of their conditions.

TL;DR: A novel robot swarming navigation algorithm in order to find the odor sources in an unknown environment, based on the ability of each swarm member to sense the odor, with good result in finding the odor source and also the accuracy of localization system.

TL;DR: Assessing DHL can assist health professionals and those providing care in the community in promoting health literacy and providing models for a more patient-centred health system by mapping out health literacy mediators of each individual and how they enable self-management skills and knowledge of health conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the centrality of knowledge-based activities to childbirth activism and propose the notion of evidence-based activism in order to capture the specificity of birth organizations' modes of engagement and to describe what they bring about.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore as possibilidades de criacao de um espaco de dialogo entre a critica (naturalista, feminista, pos‑colonial, epistemografica, epistopica…) da epistemologia como projecto filosofico and a proposta de uma epistemology do Sul formulada by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a partir de ua revisitacao do pragmatismo filosóico enquanto forma mais radical de