Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are widely used in industry, This implies that more and more people must be trained in order to obtain enough knowledge to develop, mantain and upgrade applications involving PLCs, from simple motor commands to sophisticated process…

The scientific community has dedicated a lot of effort to the development and improvement of error-less methods for signal restoration. These methods are based on a priori knowledge of some characteristics of the signal, such as frequency band limitations, amplitude…

A cell is the basic functional unit of any living organism. A cell with a nucleus carries all the genetic information needed to produce all the proteins and other chemicals that are needed for the proper functioning or homeostasis of tissues…

This paper discusses the basic approaches involved in the use of Object Windows Library for application development. It emphasises the basic ideas introduced in Windows and ObjectWindows and recommends some rules for writing C++ object-oriented programs based on ObjectWindows supporting…

The purpose of this paper is to document thedevelopment of a software platform that makes easy, forusers with few technical knowledge, the composition andpublication in a Web server, makes documents available in aWeb interface under theme classification, supports searchesrelated to…

This paper describes the most important aspects of the hardware and software architectures of the robot Sniffer, built specifically to participate on the Micro-Rato 2000 robotics contest of the University of Aveiro, where it won the “Innovation Prize”. The main hardware components are a micro-controller…

The need of rehabilitation’s information management has promoted the idea of a Rehabilitation Information Network. The experience and knowledge sharing would improve information and counselling services related with assistive technologies. A formal network composed by social institutions, Universities and theirs research units…

This paper’s main objectives are to describe the environment surrounding Online Healthcare, as a potential means of providing health information and advice, and also to spread the major certification initiatives presently in course.Finally, and using the knowledge acquired with those initiatives, we proceed to the…