User profiles for Pedro Ferreira

Pedro G. Ferreira

- Verified email at fc.up.pt - Cited by 37380

Pedro Ferreira

- Verified email at physics.ox.ac.uk - Cited by 36970

Pedro M. Ferreira

- Verified email at inesctec.pt - Cited by 1394

[HTML][HTML] Modified gravity and cosmology

T Clifton, PG Ferreira, A Padilla, C Skordis - Physics reports, 2012 - Elsevier
In this review we present a thoroughly comprehensive survey of recent work on modified
theories of gravity and their cosmological consequences. Amongst other things, we cover …

PH2 - A dermoscopic image database for research and benchmarking

T Mendonça, PM Ferreira, JS Marques… - 2013 35th annual …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing incidence of melanoma has recently promoted the development of computer-aided
diagnosis systems for the classification of dermoscopic images. Unfortunately, the …

The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: multitissue gene regulation in humans

…, I Rusyn, FA Wright, T Lappalainen, PG Ferreira… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Understanding the functional consequences of genetic variation, and how it affects complex
human disease and quantitative traits, remains a critical challenge for biomedicine. We …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape of transcription in human cells

…, E Falconnet, M Fastuca, K Fejes-Toth, P Ferreira… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Eukaryotic cells make many types of primary and processed RNAs that are found either in
specific subcellular compartments or throughout the cells. A complete catalogue of these …

Transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in humans

…, N Kurbatova, T Griebel, PG Ferreira… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Genome sequencing projects are discovering millions of genetic variants in humans, and
interpretation of their functional effects is essential for understanding the genetic basis of …

Testing general relativity with present and future astrophysical observations

…, D Doneva, A De Felice, PG Ferreira… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
One century after its formulation, Einstein's general relativity (GR) has made remarkable
predictions and turned out to be compatible with all experimental tests. Most of these tests probe …

The human transcriptome across tissues and individuals

M Melé, PG Ferreira, F Reverter, DS DeLuca… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Transcriptional regulation and posttranscriptional processing underlie many cellular and
organismal phenotypes. We used RNA sequence data generated by Genotype-Tissue …

Cosmology with a primordial scaling field

PG Ferreira, M Joyce - Physical Review D, 1998 - APS
A weakly coupled scalar field Φ with a simple exponential potential V= MP 4 exp (− λ Φ/MP)
where MP is the reduced Planck mass, and λ> 2, has an attractor solution in a radiation or …

Strong constraints on cosmological gravity from GW170817 and GRB 170817A

T Baker, E Bellini, PG Ferreira, M Lagos, J Noller… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The detection of an electromagnetic counterpart (GRB 170817A) to the gravitational-wave
signal (GW170817) from the merger of two neutron stars opens a completely new arena for …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

…, R Erdem, M Ferreira, PG Ferreira… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France