Rodrigues, PT
Alirio Rodrigues, Porto PT
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20100069696 | PROCESS FOR SEPARATING PROPYLENE MIXED WITH PROPANE BY ADSORPTION IN A SIMULATED MOVING BED - A process for separating propylene mixed with propane by adsorption in a simulated moving bed is described. The process operates in the gaseous phase or in the liquid phase, and it uses a 13X faujasite-type zeolite as adsorbent solid and butene-1 or isobutane or any mixture of these 2 components as desorbent. | 03-18-2010 |
Alirio Egidio Rodrigues, Porto PT
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20080287714 | Industrial Process for Acetals Production in a Simulated Moving Bed Reactor - The present invention is an industrial process for the preparation of acetals using a simulated moving bed (SMB) reactor system to accomplish the conversion of reactants (aldehyde and alcohol) and simultaneously, the separation of the reaction products (acetal and water) by selective adsorption. The SMB reactor consists of a set of interconnected columns packed with an acid solid (or mixture of acid solids: catalysts and adsorbents) effective for catalyzing the reaction between aldehydes and alcohols and for separating the reaction products by selective adsorption of at least one product. In a general embodiment, this process involves (1) feeding a mixture of aldehydes and alcohols and a desorbent which is the alcohol, to a simulated moving bed reactor; (2) reacting aldehydes and alcohols to form acetals; and (3) removing from the simulated moving bed reactor two liquid streams, a first liquid stream comprising a solution of acetal in the desorbent (raffinate), a second liquid stream comprising the water formed and the desorbent (extract). | 11-20-2008 |
20140069275 | LOW ENERGY CYCLIC PSA PROCESS - The invention is drawn to a cyclic pressure swing adsorption (PSA) process to recover an off-gas stream at high pressure with low energy consumption. Each cycle of said process comprises a blowdown phase consisting in lowering the pressure in an adsorbent bed from P | 03-13-2014 |
Alírio Egídio Rodrigues, Porto PT
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20120108841 | SIMULATED MOVING BED MEMBRANE REACTOR, NEW HYBRID SEPARATION PROCESS AND USES THEREOF - The presently disclosed subject matter is a new technology, related to a simulated moving bed membrane reactor. This novel technology includes a reactor with two different separation techniques: i) chromatography (simulated moving bed—SMB); ii) selective permeable membrane (namely, pervaporation and permeation, among others) into a single device, allowing a significant increase in the unity productivity and considerable reduction of solvent consumption and consequently lowers downstream costs associated to the following separation units, for the same product purity and reactants conversion criteria. It has its main applications in the chemical industry, particularly, in the continuous production of oxygenated compounds as esters, acetals, ethers, carbonates, among others. | 05-03-2012 |
António Navarro Rodrigues, Coimbra PT
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20090323813 | METHOD TO TRANSCODE H.264/AVC VIDEO FRAMES INTO MPEG-2 AND DEVICE - A method and device to transcode H.264/AVC video frames into MPEG-2 can include converting the H.264/AVC interframe coding modes into modes allowed by MPEG-2 and converting H.264/AVC motion information into corresponding MPEG-2 semantics, and determining a most suitable motion vector for each MPEG-2 macro-block, on the basis of motion vectors of reference frames and sub-blocks of a H.264/AVC macro-block corresponding to the MPEG-2 macro-block. | 12-31-2009 |
Catia Santana Reverendo Rodrigues, Lisboa PT
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20100081699 | YEAST PLATFORM CONSTRUCTION AND SCREENING METHODS - The present invention relates to a cell which is suitable for screening a candidate agent as being an inhibitor of the metabolism of tryptophan to NAD+ and/or a modulator of NAD+ levels, which cell comprises functional genes of a pathway enabling the metabolism of tryptophan to NAD+ and wherein the cell includes a copy of an exogenous gene of said pathway, from the same or different species as the cell, which exogenous gene is under the control of an inducible or constitutive promoter and wherein any endogenous copy of the gene having the same function as the exogenous gene is a non functioning gene. The present invention also relates to populations of such cells and to methods of screening candidate agents with such cells. | 04-01-2010 |
20100215641 | SCREENING METHOD FOR COMPOUNDS THAT REDUCE ER STRESS - The present invention relates to a cell comprising an Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) stress element operably linked to a reporter element and an exogenous gene encoding a protein that induces ER stress. Methods of screening using the modified cell, constructs used in the modified cell, the candidate agents identified by the screen and uses thereof are also part of the invention. | 08-26-2010 |
20110294741 | USE OF COMPOUNDS IN THE TREATMENT OF TAU-INDUCED CYTOTOXICITIES - The present invention relates to derivatives of L-Tyrosyl-L-Arginine and the use of said derivatives in the prevention and/or treatment of a tau-induced cytotoxicity. | 12-01-2011 |
Cátia Santana Reverendo Rodrigues, Lisboa PT
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20100081699 | YEAST PLATFORM CONSTRUCTION AND SCREENING METHODS - The present invention relates to a cell which is suitable for screening a candidate agent as being an inhibitor of the metabolism of tryptophan to NAD+ and/or a modulator of NAD+ levels, which cell comprises functional genes of a pathway enabling the metabolism of tryptophan to NAD+ and wherein the cell includes a copy of an exogenous gene of said pathway, from the same or different species as the cell, which exogenous gene is under the control of an inducible or constitutive promoter and wherein any endogenous copy of the gene having the same function as the exogenous gene is a non functioning gene. The present invention also relates to populations of such cells and to methods of screening candidate agents with such cells. | 04-01-2010 |
Cecilia Rodrigues, Lisbon PT
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20150112089 | DEUTERATED BILE ACIDS - This disclosure relates to deuterated bile acid compositions. A deuterated compound is selected from the disclosed groups of bile acids and their derivatives, analogs and salts. At least one of the hydrogen atoms in the compound is replaced with deuterium. | 04-23-2015 |
Cecilia M.p. Rodrigues, Lisbon PT
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20150072967 | TAUROURSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID ATTENTUATES OR ABOLISHES FORMATION AND DEPOSITION OF AMYLOID-B PEPTIDE - Methods of preventing or retarding or reversing or abolishing the onset and preventing the onset of neurodegenerative disease are discussed. This is achieved through the administration of a bile acid, a salt of the bile acid, an analog of the bile acid or any combinations of these compounds. The bile acid abolishes or interferes or down-regulates metabolic pathways leading to the onset of neurodegenerative diseases. The bile acid also activates metabolic pathways leading to the slowing or reversing or complete abolishment of the progression of neurodegenerative disease. | 03-12-2015 |
Christina Dias Rodrigues, Povoa De Santa Iria PT
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20090324580 | Use of Inhibitors of Scavenger Receptor Class Proteins for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases - The present invention relates to the use of inhibitors of scavenger receptor class proteins, in particular ScarB1 for the production of a medicament for treatment of and/or prophylaxis against infections, involving liver cells and/or hematopoietic cells, in particular malaria. | 12-31-2009 |
20120276121 | USE OF INHIBITORS OF SCAVENGER RECEPTOR CLASS PROTEINS FOR THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES - The present invention relates to the use of inhibitors of scavenger receptor class proteins, in particular ScarB1 for the production of a medicament for treatment of and/or prophylaxis against infections, involving liver cells and/or hematopoietic cells, in particular malaria. | 11-01-2012 |
Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Vila Nova De Gaia PT
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20100146015 | Rich-Context Tagging of Resources - Tagging of resources in order to associate them is described. In an embodiment it is possible to assign tags to resources or switch between resources with different tags, in the context of current work being undertaken by a user. For example, from a single application window that is currently used, a user is able to switch to other resources by tag in an embodiment. Different embodiments illustrate how tags may have multiple purposes and those purposes may evolve thus enabling associated resources to be exposed in different ways. In some embodiments rich metadata about tag usage and/or the use of resource associated with a tag is stored and used to provide additional functionality. Examples are described in which persistence of resources associated with tags is provided and may involve representation of resources such as by duplication of files or by creating alternative representations of resources. | 06-10-2010 |
20110314039 | Media Item Recommendation - Media item recommendation is described. In one example, a statistical model of media consumption is applied to media session consumption data from a community of users to infer parameters of the model. The model comprises a first probability distribution for each user defining a likelihood of the user having a latent characteristic for a session, and a second probability distribution for each latent characteristic defining a likelihood of a user selecting a media item given the latent characteristic. In another example, the inferred parameters are provided to a recommendation engine arranged to recommend media items. The recommendation engine uses the model with inferred parameters and data describing media items newly consumed by a user to infer a current latent characteristic for a current session of the user, and uses them to generate recommended media items for the user in the current session based on the current latent characteristic. | 12-22-2011 |
Ivo Rodrigues, Rana PT
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20140222999 | METHOD FOR THE TESTING OF SERVICE APPLICATIONS IN A VALUE ADDED SERVER OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention relates to an application server and a method. The application server comprises a resolver which reserves a subscriber number prefix for test target applications. The resolver associates an address of an application server with the prefix in a memory and resolves subscriber numbers containing the prefix into the address using the memory. A network element simulator listens to a port, which has a port number which is also used in communicating with the network element being simulated. A test target application communicates with the simulator instead of the network element being simulated via a protocol stack in the application server. An application layer binding is used to route incoming messages to the test target application. | 08-07-2014 |
Jose Jeronimo Moreira Rodrigues, Lisbon PT
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20150186740 | EXTRACTING CARD DATA WITH CARD MODELS - Embodiments herein provide computer-implemented techniques for allowing a user computing device to extract financial card information using optical character recognition (“OCR”). Extracting financial card information may be improved by applying various classifiers and other transformations to the image data. For example, applying a linear classifier to the image to determine digit locations before applying the OCR algorithm allows the user computing device to use less processing capacity to extract accurate card data. The OCR application may train a classifier to use the wear patterns of a card to improve OCR algorithm performance. The OCR application may apply a linear classifier and then a nonlinear classifier to improve the performance and the accuracy of the OCR algorithm. The OCR application uses the known digit patterns used by typical credit and debit cards to improve the accuracy of the OCR algorithm. | 07-02-2015 |
Jose Moreira Rodrigues, Lisbon PT
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20150086069 | EXTRACTING CARD DATA USING IIN DATABASE - Extracting card data comprises receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital image of a card; perform an image recognition process on the digital representation of the card; identifying an image in the digital representation of the card; comparing the identified image to an image database comprising a plurality of images and determining that the identified image matches a stored image in the image database; determining a card type associated with the stored image and associating the card type with the card based on the determination that the identified image matches the stored image; and performing a particular optical character recognition algorithm on the digital representation of the card, the particular optical character recognition algorithm being based on the determined card type. Another example uses an issuer identification number to improve data extraction. Another example compares extracted data with user data to improve accuracy. | 03-26-2015 |
Manuel Maria Rodrigues, Carnaxide PT
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20100186295 | MODULAR CONTAINER SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a modular container system for use in agriculture, gardening and construction, characterised in that it comprises a parallelepiped container | 07-29-2010 |
20150173312 | MODULAR INTERGRATED SYSTEM FOR SEED GERMINATION, CULTIVATION, PLANTING, FERTILIZING AND MAINTENANCE OF PLANTS - A modular integrated plant system having has a liquid receiver ( | 06-25-2015 |
Miguel Angelo Rodrigues, Quinta Do Conde PT
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20110280864 | Low Viscosity Highly Concentrated Suspensions - The present invention also provides a high concentration low viscosity suspension of an pharmaceutically acceptable solvent with one or more sub-micron or micron-sized non-crystalline particles comprising one or more proteins or peptides. Optionally one or more additives in the pharmaceutically acceptable solvent to form a high concentration low viscosity suspension with a concentration of at least 20 mg/ml and a solution viscosity of between 2 and 100 centipoise that is suspendable upon shaking or agitation, wherein upon delivery the one or more sub-micron or micron-sized peptides dissolves and do not form peptide aggregates syringeable through a 21 to 27-gauge needle. | 11-17-2011 |
20140378370 | LOW VISCOSITY HIGHLY CONCENTRATED SUSPENSIONS - The present invent ion also provides a high concentration low viscosity suspension of an pharmaceutically acceptable solvent with one or more sub-micron or micron-sized non-crystalline particles comprising one or more proteins or peptides. Optionally one or more additives in the pharmaceutically acceptable solvent to form a high concentration low viscosity suspension with a concentration of at least 20 mg/ml and a solution viscosity of between 2 and 100 centipoise that is suspendable upon shaking or agitation, wherein upon delivery the one or more sub-micron or micron-sized peptides dissolves and do not form peptide aggregates syringeable through a 21 to 27-gauge needle. | 12-25-2014 |
Rui Pedro Amaral Rodrigues, Porto PT
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20080310732 | Contour Recovery of Occluded Objects in Images - The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and computer program product for providing contour information related to images. An image obtaining unit obtains a set of interrelated images (step | 12-18-2008 |
Sandra S. Rodrigues, Moscavide PT
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20080311189 | Compositions Comprising Organometallic Molybdenum Compounds For Treating Cancer - The invention provides several molybdenum (II) complexes (see classes I and II, FIG. | 12-18-2008 |
Sandra S. Rodrigues, Lisboa PT
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20110038955 | PREVENTION OF GASTRIC ULCER BY CARBON MONOXIDE - The invention relates to the use of carbon monoxide (CO) to inhibit the gastrointestinal side effects caused by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and/or alcohol. | 02-17-2011 |
Sandra Sofia Pereira Rodrigues, Moscavide - Lisboa PT
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20140212514 | PREVENTION OF GASTRIC ULCER BY CARBON MONOXIDE - The invention relates to the use of carbon monoxide (CO) to inhibit the gastrointestinal side effects caused by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and/or alcohol. | 07-31-2014 |