Publications by authors named "J R de Fortes"

This article shows the behavior of the corrosive effect of acid mine water on carbon steel metal alloys. Mining equipment, composed of various steel alloys, is particularly prone to damage from highly acidic water. This corrosion results in material thinning, brittle fractures, fatigue cracks, and ultimately, equipment failure.

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Introduction: Functional incapacity caused by physical alterations leads to significant limitations in daily activities and has a major impact on the return of people with disabilities to the social space and the workplace. This calls for an evaluation of the long-term influence of the use of a device specially developed for orthostatic posture on the physiological, biomechanical and functional parameters of amputees and spinal cord patients.

Objective: The objective was evaluate the effect of postural support device use on function, pain, and biomechanical and cardiologic parameters in spinal cord injury and amputees patients compared to a control group.

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Commonly used data citation practices rely on unverifiable retrieval methods which are susceptible to content drift, which occurs when the data associated with an identifier have been allowed to change. Based on our earlier work on reliable dataset identifiers, we propose signed citations, i.e.

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Introduction: Women are more vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease (AD) than men. The entorhinal cortex (EC) is one of the earliest structures affected in AD. We identified in cognitively intact elderly different molecular changes in the EC in relation to age.

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Article Synopsis
  • Mining areas, especially those with massive sulfides like the Iberian Pyrite Belt in Spain, have severe environmental issues, including contaminated soils and water bodies.
  • New studies of copper isotopes in the water and sediments show that while the isotopic signature of the pit lakes varies by location, it stays consistent across seasons, influenced mainly by water-rock interactions.
  • Additionally, processes in the Meca River reduce metal concentrations and involve organisms like algae, while the Sancho lake maintains a steady isotopic signature despite fluctuating copper levels, highlighting complex interactions in the ecosystem.
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