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- EditorialPublication . Bartolo, Paulo; Chua, C.K.In this issue of Virtual and Physical Prototyping, there are three Virtual Prototyping papers and two Physical Prototyping papers. Interestingly, three of the five papers relate to the area of bone tissue engineering, an area which is of great and current research interest to readers.
- EditorialPublication . Bartolo, Paulo; Chua, C. K.We end the year 2009, our fourth year of existence, with three state-of-the-art papers and two technical papers. In the first formal paper, Liebschner describes current efforts in identifying mechano-biological principles that are believed to guide tissue formation based on biomechanical loading. The goal of the research is to discuss a reverse engineering solution in a strategy that starts with the final product, in this case, a human trabecular bone tissue, and determines the required scaffold micro-architecture and features in order to achieve that goal. Computer models of dissected human trabecular bone samples are generated, their micro-mechanical environment analysed and results used as design goals. In the second paper, Pouzada proposes hybrid moulds as a case of integration of alternative materials and rapid prototyping for tooling. This work reviews some of the outcomes of research activity on specific issues of manufacturing and utilisation of these tools. Most of the results refer to moulding blocks produced in epoxy composites that were manufactured using the vacuum casting technique. Some references are also made to rapid tooling techniques based on laser sintering. Biomanufacturing in tissue engineering is the topic of review by Bartolo et al. In recent years, the use of rapid prototyping techniques in the fabrication of tissue engineering scaffolds has generated a lot of interest. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of all such research activities and attempts to give a crystal ball forecast of the future trends in this growing field.
- Investigação qualitativa na área da saúde: por quê?Publication . Ribeiro, Jaime; Souza, Dayse Neri de; Costa, António Pedro
- PrefacePublication . Sharma, Swati; Kumar, Narendra; Santos, Vasco Ribeiro dos; Miranda-Fernandez, KarenIn recent years, a new trend has emerged in the world of travel, reshaping the traditional concept of business trips. Bleisure tourism, a portmanteau of business and leisure, is gaining popularity as professionals increasingly seek ways to balance their work commitments with the desire for relaxation and exploration. Bleisure tourism represents a departure from the conventional notion of business travel, where professionals would visit a destination solely for work- related purposes. Instead, individuals now seize the opportunity to extend their stay, transforming business trips into a dual- purpose experience that combines work and leisure seamlessly.
- PrefacePublication . Fernandes, Paulo Rui; Bártolo, Paulo JorgeThis book is a contribution for Tissue Engineering seen as multidisciplinary field involving scientists from different backgrounds like medicine, chemistry, material science, engineering and biology with a focus on the development of mathematical methods that are quite relevant to understand cell biology and human tissues as well to model, design and fabricate optimized and smart scaffolds.
- PrefacePublication . Pacheco, António; Oliveira, M. Rosário de; Paulino, Carlos Daniel; Santos, RuiThe material of this volume was inspired by selected papers presented at SPE 2011, the XIX Annual Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society. The annual congress of SPE is the most important statistics meeting taking place every year in Portugal, constituting a primary forum for dissemination of Statistics in Portugal and a privileged channel for scientific exchange between members of SPE and other statistical societies.
- PrefacePublication . Moreira, António Carrizo; Dantas, José Guilherme LeitãoEntrepreneurship is far from being a novel concept. To find its roots we have to go back to the 18th century and to the original authors of the concept, namely Richard Cantillon and Jean-Baptiste Say. Nevertheless, despite the multiple authors who have successively addressed this issue over the many decades, entrepreneurship only earned “citizenship rights” in the economy from the 1970s/80s onwards, given the evidence that SMEs were critical regarding wealth and jobs creation, the reduction of regional asymmetries, and being more effective than larger firms in terms of innovation (particularly in the early stages of the innovation process).
- Virtual and Physical Prototyping: EditorialPublication . Bártolo, Paulo; Chua, C.K.; Bartolo, PauloThe second half of 2009 is rich in international events in virtual and physical prototyping, a quite active and relevant research field. The Virtual and Physical Prototyping journal is associated with two of these events. The first one is the ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Tissue Engineering designed to be a major international forum for the discussion of the current state-of-the-art in the fields of Tissue Engineering Modelling and Simulation. This Conference will focus on: . understanding the fundamentals of tissue engineering; . modelling and characterisation of scaffolds for tissue engineering; . modelling the relationship between scaffold, cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation; . design and development of scaffolds for tissue engineering; . fabrication and testing of scaffolds for tissue engineering; . cell signalling; . computational bone mechanics.