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PROJ/IPV/ID&I/002 • Sistema Inteligente de Controlo de Planos Alimentares para Doentes de Alzheimer e Outras Demências

[CDS] Connected Digital Society, concluído, interno, não competitivo, não financiado, viseu /

Principal Researcher: Carlos Augusto Cunha
Duration: 2020 – 2022

Cised team members
Valter Alves
Rui Pedro Duarte

Funding
CGD; PV

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive loss of mental function, characterized by degeneration of brain tissue, including loss of nerve cells, accumulation of an abnormal protein, and development of neurofibrillary braids. Alzheimer's patients become dependent on other people, even for the most basic tasks. Controlling feeding and hydrating an Alzheimer's patient is thus a crucial task performed by the person who supports their daily routine, called Informal Caregiver (IC).

Conditions of malnutrition, super nutrition, and dehydration are common in people with diseases causing dementia since the loss of their autonomy also manifests itself in the level of their inability to demonstrate food needs. The support of a nutritionist in the preparation and follow-up of a food plan aligned with the needs of the patient is, therefore, fundamental. The monitoring of the food plan is undoubtedly a process that demands from Cl a lot of discipline and the ability to deal with possible circumstantial adaptations, such as replacing foods prescribed in the food plan with other equivalents or changing the quantity of water consumed as a function of ambient temperature.

This project addresses the problem of the creation and monitoring of diet plans in patients with dementia such as Alzheimer's, through the creation of a computer solution. It allows the creation of nutritional plans by the nutritionists using a Web application and the follow-up of these plans by the ICs through an app to significantly increase the quality of life of the patient. The mobile app will be able to send to the CI notifications regarding proper nutrition and hydration in due moments, accompanied by the control of hydration using an intelligent water bottle, will allow ensuring the compliance of the indications of the nutritionist. Besides, the application will suggest alternatives to plan foods if they are unavailable. Another central feature of the solution is the dynamic adaptation of water administration to the patient as a function of the environmental conditions automatically collected by temperature and humidity sensors.

In scientific terms, the project includes the creation of innovative models for adapting food plans using machine learning algorithms and integration approaches, preprocessing and evaluation of data quality collected by external sensors.

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PROJ/IPV/ID&I/005 • iPV with Health Plus: Dinâmicas e estratégias de inclusão para a promoção e literacia em saúde no ensino superior

[DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, competitivo, concluído, interno, nacional, viseu /

Principal Researcher:
Carlos Albuquerque
Duration: 2020 – 2022

CISeD
Team Members
Isabel Paula Lopes Brás

Funding
CGD; PV

This transdisciplinary research and action project foresees the development of innovative health promotion strategies based on a salutogenic paradigm that seeks to empower people to manage their health resources and improve their health literacy. This study is also part of a local need which was identified and discussed by and with local stakeholders (health professionals and the academic community) in the absence of an inclusive, creative, dynamic and concerted strategy to promote salutogenic behaviours among the student of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (IPV – Instituto Politécnico de Viseu).

Attending to the experience of the research team in the conception and implementation of health promotion programs and technological solutions applied to health care, it becomes an opportunity to network and gather synergies between several partners among the clinical and teaching fields as well as in research, enhancing IPV in its social responsibilities.

The main objective of the "iPV with Health Plus" project is to develop, implement and evaluate an integrated and institutional health promotion program, creating the resources and organizational structures to support these processes along with the IPV students.

This project is structured with ten complementary tasks and it is aligned with the recommendations and challenges embodied in our current National Health Plan, based on the international guidelines, which emphasises a system of epidemiological surveillance of health determinants, reinforcing the organizational strategies and institutional culture in the field of health. Thus, the iPV Health+ project is supported by a strong networking among higher education institutions and primary health care institutions and it will monitor the health determinants of IPV students, assess their health needs, create an Observatory of the State of Health of the Students of the IPV and conceive a Group of Health Promotion with an integrated, multidisciplinary and multidimensional action in the field of health promotion among the students of the IPV. Considering this, the research team will also develop and evaluate an innovative and inclusive intervention program that, through the use of interactive technologies (app), will promote health literacy and healthy behaviours, according to a structured approach.

The impact expectations of this project clearly outperform issues related to the scientific production and dissemination of knowledge. Its intention is to contribute in a sustained, inclusive and lasting way to the conception and implementation of organizational responses, those focused on the promotion of salutogenic behaviours and also to create technological interfaces and structures that can streamline monitoring, intervention and follow-up procedures of the IPV students according to their health needs as levelling the institution into a national reference.

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PROJ/IPV/ID&I/019 • WASTECLEAN – Integração de desperdícios agroalimentares ricos em compostos fitoquímicos e bioativos numa agricultura

[CDS] Connected Digital Society, [DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, competitivo, concluído, interno, nacional, viseu /

Principal Researcher:
José Luís Pereira
Duration: 2020 – 2022

Cised team members
Isabel Paula Lopes Brás
Maria Elisabete Ferreira Silva
Rui Pedro Duarte

Funding
CGD; PV

In the last decade sustainable agriculture has gained emphasis. For the development of this type of agriculture i tis necessary to look for agricultural practices that allow to improve the production and to reduce the negative impact on the environment. One of these practices is to reuse biowaste from agro-food production. Many of these residues are rich in phytochemical compounds (lignins, celluloses, hemicelluloses, polyphenols) which, when added to the soil, can improve it. However, the direct application of these residues to the soil can often induce toxicity problems, such as polyphenol-rich residues. Composting is a practice that can solve this problem. However, the composting process is also associated with increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), although this GHG emission is very dependent on the physical-chemical characteristics of the materials being composted.

Another biowaste of the agri-food production are the animal manures, particularly liquid slurry, that when applied directly to the soil can induce contaminations. Through this, high amounts of antibiotic resistant genes are released to the soil (and subsequently to the plants) and there is also the presence of hepatitis virus E. One way to value these slurries could be by applying carbonaceous (biochar), as it is indicated that the application of biochar could reduce amounts of these microbiological agents that could be transferred to the environment.

Thus, in the present project the main agricultural biowaste of the region (grape smash, olive branch and pruning) will be characterized according to the quantity of polyphenols, tannins, celluloses and hemicelluloses. The evolution of these compounds throughout the composting process will be also evaluated as well as the GHG emission and its relation with the chemical composition of the materials. The effect of applying the compost to the soil will be analysed in the development and production of a horticultural crop.

As a national region rich in animal production, it is also important to exploit the resulting biowaste, including the use of manure. It is imperative to use sanitary practices of the slurries to avoid soil contamination. Thus, we propose to evaluate the effect of biochar as a sanitation practice and at the same time evaluate its effectiveness in reducing GHG emissions.

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Ultra-Early versus early aneurysm surgery after subarachnoid hemorrhage: A retrospective outcome analysis

Leave a Comment / [DDSS] Digital Decision Support Systems, 2020, Papers in Indexed Journals | Scopus and/or WoS, viseu /

Carvalho, M. T., Lage, A. C., Pereira, R., Gonçalves, J., Matos, A., Henriques, C., Barbosa, M. (2020).
Ultra-Early versus early aneurysm surgery after subarachnoid hemorrhage: A retrospective outcome analysis.
Arquivos Brasileiros de Neurocirurgia: Brazilian Neurosurgery, 39(02), 095-100.
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1709202

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