João Pimentel
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Pregnancy-Specific Anxiety
Member
Pregnancy-specific anxiety (PSA) is a distinct construct from general anxiety and depression. The goal of this project is to aid clinicians in the identification of depressive disorders from recordings of routine interviews during pregnancy.
Big Data and Precision Fish Farming in Nova Scotia
Ex-member
Aquaculture is an important marine industry in Canada and one of the few enterprises offering employment in coastal communities. Aquaculture production in Atlantic Canada has led industry innovation via sensor networks for fish farms. However, without the appropriate data architecture and analytics, the value of these high-resolution data will achieve only a fraction of their potential in decision support, smart farming, and increased sustainability. The main goal of this project is exactly to develop a data architecture to efficiently store the large and constantly growing measurement data, and to build on top of this infrastructure a set of data analytics tools that can better support decision making within precision aquaculture.
Nitrolimit
Ex-member
Nitrogen is a fundamental element for living and its biogeochemical cycle is almost entirely microbial mediated. Covering all major steps of this cycle across different terrestrial habitats in Antarctica Dry Valleys (DVs), this project will enable to outline the limits of biogeochemical activity of resident microbial communities as well as to understand in what way different N transformations are established according to the influenced abiotic factors. It will represent an important breakthrough regarding ecosystem functioning, giving new insights on the ecological role of microorganisms in the regulation of N cycle in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Combining different methodologies (biogeochemical / molecular) and crossing different types of data (genomic / transcriptomic / biogeochemical) the results of this proposal will allow to trace the major ecological networks that are behind DVs ecosystem and to screen the energy and matter fluxes across the ecosystem.
CLAV
Ex-member
CLAV is a platform that provides tools for classification and evaluation of Portuguese public information. It acts as a facilitator instrument to prepare classification plans and selection tables of public administration, public companies and other entities.