Publications by authors named "Filipa Miranda"
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- Aphasia is a language disorder often resulting from a stroke or brain injury, which requires accurate assessment, especially during acute phases when patients may be bedridden.
- The study focused on creating a digital screening test called TeRAp to evaluate language processing efficiently and provide diagnostic insights by comparing individuals with aphasia to control groups.
- The TeRAp app demonstrated strong clinimetric values, achieving a sensitivity of 1 and specificity of 0.99, making it a reliable tool for healthcare professionals to detect aphasia.
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- Regulations require ultralow sulfur levels in fossil fuels, especially diesel, due to health and environmental concerns, but current desulfurization methods are costly and ineffective against certain sulfur compounds.
- Biodesulfurization using the 4S pathway from a specific bacterium offers a potential solution, although its enzymes, particularly DszA, need to work significantly faster for practical industrial use.
- This research uncovers the unique catalytic mechanism of the enzyme DszA, revealing a specific chemical process that could aid in improving its efficiency, making biodesulfurization a more viable option for the oil refining sector.*
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- Pilomatrixoma, a benign tumor from hair follicle cells, commonly appears in younger individuals, especially women and Caucasians, and can become large (≥5 cm) when categorized as a giant pilomatrixoma.
- A 75-year-old woman with no prior health issues was admitted to the emergency department after a fall, presenting a giant tumor on her head, severe anemia from bleeding, vitamin deficiencies, and altered mental state.
- Biopsy confirmed the tumor as a pilomatrixoma, leading to surgical removal; she was later referred to psychiatric care for her delirious speech, which was linked to schizophrenia, and was discharged four months later.
Background: Naming and lexical retrieval difficulties are common symptoms of aphasia. Naming abilities are usually evaluated by means of real objects or pictures or line drawings that are printed.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether the ability to name objects among individuals with aphasia is influenced by the dimensions of the visual stimuli and to understand whether the order of presentation of the stimuli, number of years of education and length of time post-onset are involved in the success of naming.