Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial (INEGI). Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial (DEMEGI). Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n – 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. e-mail: {victor.albuquerque, tavares}@fe.up.pt 2 Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica (CIDEM). Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica...

Effect of the Culture Nutrients on the Biomass and Lipid Productivities of Microalgae Dunaliella tertiolecta Teresa M. Mata*, Ricardo Almeida, Nídia S. Caetano LEPAE – Laboratory for Process, Environmental and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), R. Dr. Roberto Frias S/N, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering (ISEP)...

Effects of salicylic acid (SA) on seed germination, seedling growth, flowering and biochemical activities were studied out in four cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) genotypes in control environments. The results revealed that both germination and seedling growth were negatively affected by 0.02%. SA application, however did not affect the size of full expanded buds, time of 50% flowering and date of f...

BACKGROUND Despite widespread use of the automated blood pressure (BP) device (IVAC model 4200, IVAC Corporation, San Diego, Calif), there is little formal validation in the literature on its accuracy. OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of the IVAC 4200 device, both under standardized conditions and as routinely used by ward staff, compared with the true indirect BP measured by mercury manomete...

Azacytidine is an established nucleoside drug that is well known for its ability to modulate epigenetic gene regulation by inhibition of DNA methylation. Despite recent advances in the clinical development of azacytidine, the use of the drug is limited by its low bioavailability and dependency on variably expressed nucleoside transporters for cellular uptake. We show here that CP-4200, an elaid...

This document discusses the design of our Knight Sweeper vehicle. Knight Sweeper is an autonomous vehicle designed to detect any metallic objects and avoid obstacles during its route of navigation. Once detection occurs the vehicle is designed to identify region of detection and avoid collision with the actual metallic object or obstacle in its way. Knight Sweeper will be able to operate in a m...

Paulo Dinis,1,5* Ana Charrua,1,2* Antonio Avelino,1,2 Mohammed Yaqoob,3 Stuart Bevan,3 Istvan Nagy,4 and Francisco Cruz1,5 1Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal, 2Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Porto, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal, 3Novartis Institute for Medical Sciences, London WC1E 6BN, United Kingdom, 4...

INEB – Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Lab. de Biomateriais, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150 -180 Porto, Portugal, [email protected] Rensselaer Poly. Institute, Materials Science and Engineering Dep., Troy, NY, 12180-3590 USA, [email protected], [email protected] Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Dep. de Engenharia Metalúrgica e Materiais, Rua Dr. Roberto Fria...

The Agilent 4200 TapeStation system is an automated system for fast and reliable DNA and RNA electrophoresis. In comparison to the Agilent 2200 TapeStation system, it offers fully scalable throughput from 1 to 96 samples, and increased walk away time, which are essential features for high throughput customers. The Agilent D1000 ScreenTape assays were developed to separate and analyze DNA molecu...