To facilitate the performance comparison of new methods for sleep patterns analysis, datasets
with quality content, publicly-available, are very important and useful. We introduce an …

Inflammation has been recognized as a major pathophysiological contributor to the entire
spectrum of human heart failure (HF), including HF with reduced ejection fraction, HF with …

To improve applicability of automatic sleep staging an efficient subject-independent method
is proposed with application in sleep–wake detection and in multiclass sleep staging (awake…

Although boredom poses serious consequences for employees and organizations, research
has paid little attention to this phenomenon, especially when compared to other job …

Statins are the most commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of dyslipidemia. They are
also recommended in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In …

In this paper, a novel algorithm is proposed with application in sleep/awake detection and in
multiclass sleep stage classification (awake, non rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and …

Background The limitations of the current systems of automatic sleep stage classification (ASSC)
are essentially related to the similarities between epochs from different sleep stages …

Oxidative stress and nitric oxide (NO) appear to represent important links between obesity
and cardiovascular, metabolic and/or renal disease. We investigated whether oxidative stress …

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) provides a cost-efficient and portable alternative
to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for assessing cortical activity changes …

Introduction: In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic,
and Portugal reported its initial cases. In this study, we aimed to determine the impact of …