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University of Madeira
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About: University of Madeira is a education organization based out in Funchal, Portugal. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Dendrimer. The organization has 1014 authors who have published 2759 publications receiving 59457 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a stochastic behavioral description of decision guidance is developed to increase the adaptibility to changing conditions and to reduce the deviation from the time-dependent user equilibrium, thereby enhancing the average and individual payoffs.
Abstract: The coordinated and efficient distribution of limited resources by individual decisions is a fundamental, unsolved problem. When individuals compete for road capacities, time, space, money, goods, etc, they normally make decisions based on aggregate rather than complete information, such as TV news or stock market indices. In related experiments, we have observed a volatile decision dynamics and far-from-optimal payoff distributions. We have also identified methods of information presentation that can considerably improve the overall performance of the system. In order to determine optimal strategies of decision guidance by means of user-specific recommendations, a stochastic behavioural description is developed. These strategies manage to increase the adaptibility to changing conditions and to reduce the deviation from the time-dependent user equilibrium, thereby enhancing the average and individual payoffs. Hence, our guidance strategies can increase the performance of all users by reducing overreaction and stabilizing the decision dynamics. These results are highly significant for predicting decision behaviour, for reaching optimal behavioural distributions by decision support systems and for information service providers. One of the promising fields of application is traffic optimization.
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TL;DR: This article presents a comprehensive overview of the status, relevance, and impact of the quality management systems in the development of marine aquaculture, with the focus on four of the most important criteria associated with these systems: freshness, safety, traceability, and authenticity.
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TL;DR: The establishment of the global volatile signature of grape and the relationship between different part of grapes-pulp and skin, may be a useful tool to winemaker decision to define the vinification procedures that improves the organoleptic characteristics of the corresponding wines and consequently contributed to an economic valorization and consumer acceptance.
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TL;DR: In conclusion, skeletal age alone or interacting with body size has a negligible influence on fundamental motor skills and motor coordination in children 7–10 years.
Abstract: Relationships between skeletal maturation and fundamental motor skills and gross motor coordination were evaluated in 429 children (213 boys and 216 girls) 7–10 years. Skeletal age was assessed (Tanner-Whitehouse 2 method), and stature, body mass, motor coordination (Korperkoordinations Test fur Kinder, KTK) and fundamental motor skills (Test of Gross Motor Development, TGMD-2) were measured. Relationships among chronological age, skeletal age (expressed as the standardised residual of skeletal age on chronological age) and body size and fundamental motor skills and motor coordination were analysed with hierarchical multiple regression. Standardised residual of skeletal age on chronological age interacting with stature and body mass explained a maximum of 7.0% of the variance in fundamental motor skills and motor coordination over that attributed to body size per se. Standardised residual of skeletal age on chronological age alone accounted for a maximum of 9.0% of variance in fundamental motor sk...
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TL;DR: The constructed multifunctional dendrimer-based theranostic nanosystem to achieve cancer cell chemotherapy and computed tomography imaging with targeting specificity holds a promising potential to be utilized for simultaneous chemotherapy and CT imaging of various types of cancer cells.
Abstract: Novel theranostic nanocarriers exhibit a desirable potential to treat diseases based on their ability to achieve targeted therapy while allowing for real-time imaging of the disease site. Development of such theranostic platforms is still quite challenging. Herein, we present the construction of multifunctional dendrimer-based theranostic nanosystem to achieve cancer cell chemotherapy and computed tomography (CT) imaging with targeting specificity. Doxorubicin (DOX), a model anticancer drug, was first covalently linked onto the partially acetylated poly(amidoamine) dendrimers of generation 5 (G5) prefunctionalized with folic acid (FA) through acid-sensitive cis-aconityl linkage to form G5·NHAc-FA-DOX conjugates, which were then entrapped with gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) to create dendrimer-entrapped Au NPs (Au DENPs). We demonstrate that the prepared DOX-Au DENPs possess an Au core size of 2.8 nm, have 9.0 DOX moieties conjugated onto each dendrimer, and are colloid stable under different conditions. Th...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Dirk Helbing | 101 | 642 | 56810 |
Xiangyang Shi | 79 | 470 | 22028 |
Jodi Forlizzi | 67 | 237 | 17292 |
Armando J. D. Silvestre | 64 | 381 | 14739 |
John W. Clark | 60 | 707 | 13999 |
José Luís da Silva | 59 | 235 | 11972 |
Carmen S. R. Freire | 58 | 239 | 10307 |
Jose Luis Santos | 54 | 402 | 9004 |
Vladimir V. Konotop | 53 | 426 | 11073 |
A. R. Bishop | 51 | 551 | 11946 |
Manfred Kaufmann | 46 | 266 | 20172 |
José D. Santos | 45 | 220 | 5875 |
Vassilis Kostakos | 45 | 270 | 7015 |
Pedro L. Granja | 44 | 132 | 5969 |
Stéphane Cordier | 43 | 371 | 6802 |