Presentation at the International Symposium on Neuromodulation- 2021 sponsored by Instituto Scala- São Paulo-Brazil.

Aula ministrada no Congresso Virtual de Neurofisiologia Clínica da SBNC em 18 de novembro de 2021.

White supremacy begins and ends with Columbus. Cancel Columbus. Cancel white supremacy. Imagine a world Where human beings Treat human beings Like human beings Why is that so hard to imagine?

Conventional sociology tends to reproduce rather than resolve social injustice. Rather than perpetuating that odious tradition, in this article the author proposes a remedy for racism. Sociologists often sneer at “activist” science of this nature. However, scientists in other fields tend to agree with Karl Popper’s (1999) conviction that good...

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world. It is cultivated in about 70 countries in South America, Africa, and Asia and more than 8m tons of coffee are produced annually. The two most successful species of coffee are the Arabica and the Robusta. In the US...

Polar codes, recently accepted for adoption in 5G standard due to their excellent performance at a very low complexity compared to other competitive schemes in the literature, are deemed to be a strong candidate for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications as well due to meeting their requirements. However, since...

Ensuring the security of the Internet of Things (IoT) is deemed as one of the most critical challenges and needs that have to be addressed in order to guarantee the successful deployment of IoT in emerging technologies like 5G. In an effort to address this challenge, in this work, an...

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communication technology, which has recently been thoroughly studied and adopted by 3GPP standard (Release 15) due to its dynamic, flexible, and flying nature, is expected to be an integral part of future wireless communications and Internet of drones (IoD) applications. However, due to the...

CERN’s accelerator complex generates a very large amount of data. A large volumen of heterogeneous data is constantly generated from control equipment and monitoring agents. These data must be stored and analysed. Over the decades, CERN’s researching and engineering teams have applied different approaches, techniques and technologies for this purpose....

Background: Migrant studies offer a unique opportunity to analyze variation in disease occurrence due to background factors. The role of environmental and lifestyle exposures are of particular interest in cancer research, and migrant studies can be considered as natural experiments in epidemiological research. Large numbers of immigrants from different regions...