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Vera Afreixo. Completed the Título de Agregado in Matemática / Estatística e Probabilidades in 2023/02/17 by Universidade de Aveiro, Doutoramento in Engenharia Electrotécnica in 2008 by Universidade de Aveiro, Mestrado in Matemática in 2003 by Universidade de Aveiro and Licenciatura in Matemática ensino in 2000 by Universidade de Aveiro. Is Assistant Professor in Universidade de Aveiro, MSc Medical Statistics Course Director in Universidade de Aveiro, Graduate Specialisation Programme in Applied Statistics to Health Sciences Course Diretor in Universidade de Aveiro and Coordinator of the Biomathematics thematic line at CIDMA (Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications ) in Universidade de Aveiro. Published 94 articles in journals. Has 14 section(s) of books and 5 book(s). Organized 11 event(s). Supervised 4 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 2. Supervised 12 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 6. Participates and/or participated as Principal investigator in 1 project(s), Researcher in 15 project(s) and Supervisor in 3 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Exact Sciences with emphasis on Mathematics with emphasis on Statistics and Probability. In their professional activities interacted with 493 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vera Afreixo

Citation names

  • Afreixo, Vera

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5A19-7998-F384
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1051-8084

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/02/16 - 2023/02/17
Concluded
 Matemática / Estatística e Probabilidades (Título de Agregado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Aprovada por unanimidade
2008
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Sinais simbólicos e aplicações em genómica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovada por Unanimidade
2003
Concluded
 Matemática (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Estatística da Linguagem Genética" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovada por Unanimidade
2000
Concluded
 Matemática ensino (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Relações e Funções - modelos para a BDAAv (Monografia) " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15 valores
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2009/01/01 - 2010/11/23 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2004/09/01 - 2008/12/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2000/11/01 - 2004/08/31 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10/01 - Current Associate Professor with Aggregation Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/01/01 - Current Coordinator of the Biomathematics thematic line at CIDMA (Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications ) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/09 - Current Graduate Specialisation Programme in Applied Statistics to Health Sciences Course Diretor Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019 - Current MSc Medical Statistics Course Director Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2002/11/15 - 2004/11/14 Bolseira de Investigação, Projecto POCTI/BME/39030/2001 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
1999/09/01 - 2000/08/31 Professora Estagiária Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/11/01 - Current UIDP/04106/2020
UIDP/04106/2020
Supervisor
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2021/01/22 - 2021/10/31 Estágio Científico Avançado em Matemática PALOP
2ª edição
Supervisor
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
2020/03/01 - 2020/08/31 BI-BIOMATH-1-03-2020
BI-BIOMATH-1-03-2020
Supervisor
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded
2016/02 - 2019/01 GENetic and clinIcAL markers in COPD trajectory
Provided by PTCRIS: 140910
PTDC/DTP-PIC/2284/2014
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/03 - 2015/02 DNA symmetry: modeling, influential words and outliers
134699
Provided by PTCRIS: 134699
Principal investigator
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2011/01 - 2014/06 DECODING: Large scale approaches to unravel genome decoding rules
Provided by PTCRIS: 110383
110383
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2010/06 - 2013/12 Economicando ´Economics for Kids´
Provided by PTCRIS: 100923
100923
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2010/06 - 2012/09 Analysis of DNA sequences through compression-based complexity profiles
103099
Provided by PTCRIS: 103099
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2007/06 - 2008/11 New statistical methodologies for analysis DNA microarrays data
72974
Provided by PTCRIS: 72974
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/02/01 - 2026/01/31 Roles of the Candida albicans variome in its interaction with the human host
2022.01376.PTDC
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/07/01 - 2023/06/30 Reforço da capacitação de atores e redes de promoção de ações de desenvolvimento da Medicina Personalizada/Medicina Genómica na região Centro
CENTRO-08-5864-FSE-000039
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2020/09/01 - 2023/06/30 GCork
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-070302
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30 Reabilitação respiratória e microbiota nas exacerbações da DPOC
PTDC/SAU-SER/28806/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2017/02/01 - 2021/04/30 Redes sinápticas e abordagens compreensivas de medicina personalizada em doenças neurocomportamentais ao longo da vida
SAICTPAC/0010/2015
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Instituto de Biomedicina - Aveiro
UID/BIM/04501/2019
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro
UID/CEC/00127/2019
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações
UID/MAT/04106/2019
UID/MAT/04106/2013
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013 - 2015 NeuroPath: New Strategies Applied to Neuropathological Disorders
CENTRO - 07 - ST24 - FEDER - 002034
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - UI 4106 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/MAT/UI4106/2011
PEst-OE/MAT/UI4106/2014
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005/05/01 - 2008/10/31 SINAIS SIMBÓLICOS E APLICAÇÕES EM GENÓMICA
SFRH/BD/17263/2004
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Bonito, Jorge; Pereira, Anabela; Albuquerque, Carlos; Carrilho, Eunice; Marques, Helena; Rosas, Manuel; Matos, Margarida Gaspar; et al. Competências profissionais no âmbito da prevenção e do tratamento do tabagismo no final da formação pré-graduada dos profissionais de saúde: Estudo de avaliação com os cursos de formação em ciências farmacêuticas, enfermagem, medicina e medicina dentária. Lisboa, Portugal: Direcção Geral da Saúde. 2017.
    Published
  2. Escudeiro, S.; Afreixo, Vera; Freitas, Adelaide. Internucleotide distance. A statistical analysis. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.. 2014.
    Published
  3. Escudeiro, Sara; Afreixo, Vera; Freitas, Adelaide. Inter-nucleotide distances. A statistical analysis. 2014.
  4. Afreixo, Vera. Economic literacy & young children. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. 2013.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Carlos A. C. Bastos; Vera Afreixo; João M. O. S. Rodrigues; Armando J. Pinho. "Genomic Regions with Atypical Concentration of Inverted Repeats". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-17024-9_9
  2. Ivo Fonseca; Vera Afreixo; Mário Vairinhos; Joana Quental; André Moreira. "Relevance of Typographic Factors in the Identification of Allergens in Food Labels". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-20364-0_62
  3. Vera Afreixo; Jorge Cabral; Pedro Macedo. "Comparison of Feature Selection Methods in Regression Modeling: A Simulation Study". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-37129-5_13
  4. Afreixo, Lígia; Providência , Francisco; Afreixo, Vera. "Taxonomic system of organoleptic representation: a case study in the north of Portugal". In Experiencing and Envisioning Food, Designing for Change. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Food Design and Food Studies (EFOOD 2022), edited by Bonacho, Ricardo; Eidler, Mariana; Massari, Sonia. Londres, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis ¿ CRC Press, 2023.
    In press
  5. Bastos, C.A.C.; Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Pinho, A.J.. "Detection and Characterization of Local Inverted Repeats Regularities". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-23873-5_14
  6. Bastos, C.A.C.; Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Pinho, A.J.. "An Analysis of Symmetric Words in Human DNA: Adjacent vs Non-adjacent Word Distances". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-319-98702-6_10
  7. Ferreira, S.; Afreixo, V.; Moura, G.; Tavares, A.. "Study of the epigenetic signals in the human genome". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-60816-7_26
  8. Freitas, A.; Escudeiro, S.; Afreixo, V.. "A simple graphical way of evaluating coverage and directional non-coverages". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-62395-5_41
  9. Tavares, A.H.; Raymaekers, J.; Rousseeuw, P.J.; Silva, R.M.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Pinho, A.; Brito, P.; Afreixo, V.. "Dissimilar symmetric word pairs in the human genome". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-60816-7_30
  10. Afreixo, Vera; Escudeiro, Sara; Freitas, Adelaide. "Adjusted Wald confidence intervals in the meta-analysis of prevalence". In II ENCONTRO GALAICO-PORTUGUÉS DE BIOMETRÍA, edited by María José Ginzo Villamayor; Sonia Pértega Díaz; María Isolina Santiago Pérez. 2016.
    Published
  11. Afreixo, Vera; Rodrigues, João M. O. S.; Bastos, Carlos A. C.; Silva, Raquel M.. "Exceptional Symmetry Profile: A Genomic Word Analysis". In 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, 151-159. Springer International Publishing, 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-40126-3_16
  12. Afreixo, V.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Silva, R.M.. "Identification of DNA CpG islands using inter-dinucleotide distances". 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-20352-2_11
  13. Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Bastos, C.A.C.. "Exceptional single strand DNA word symmetry: Universal law?". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-319-07581-5_17
  14. Afreixo, Vera; Freitas, Adelaide. "Cramér Coefficient in Genome Evolution". In Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 101-107. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-13214-8_13
Conference abstract
  1. Freire, Ariana; Afreixo, Vera; Rocha, Vanusa; Martinez, Enrique; Raya, José; Gonçalves, João. Corresponding author: Freire, Ariana. "Fetal hemoglobin level impact on the clinical and laboratory profile of SCA patients". Paper presented in 5th Statistics on Health Decision Making: Personalized Medicine, Aveiro, 2023.
    Published
  2. Rocha, Vanusa; Afreixo, Vera; Cabral, Luís. "Explanatory variables consistency and association strengths in sepsis diagnosis: a methods comparison". Paper presented in 5th Statistics on Health Decision Making: Personalized Medicine, Aveiro, 2023.
    Published
  3. Sara Pinheiro; Filipa Cunha; Maria Pinto; Elena Segura-Grau; Vera Afreixo. "Analysis of the Decrease of the Patients' Pain After Regional Block in Post-anaesthesia Care Unit with a Subarachnoid Anaesthesia or a Balanced General Anaesthesia". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published
  4. Francisco Cardoso Mendes; Raquel Moita; Afreixo, Vera; Ana Rodrigues; Mariana Carrapatoso; Nelson Sousa. "Study of COVID-19 surveillance time using a Primary Health Care Grouping of Porto Region dataset". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  5. Cabral, Jorge Vaz Ramos Rodrigues de; Vera Afreixo; Vânia Rocha; Sara Souto- Miranda; Alda Marques. "Behaviour of the one-minute sit-to-stand test during six months in people with COPD". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  6. Frederico Mesquita Baptista; Ellen C.H. Pereira Nery; Afreixo, Vera. "The Effectiveness of lower body quadrant neural mobilization in healthy and back pain population: An upgraded meta-analysis". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  7. Sofia Tedim; Catarina Rodrigues; Regina Sá; Tiago Pinho-Bandeira; Vera Afreixo. "Who transmits the most? An analysis of superspreading events of COVID-19 cases in Aveiro region". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  8. Sofia Tedim; Catarina Rodrigues; Tiago Pinho-Bandeira; Regina Sá; Vera Afreixo. "Which individual factors increase the risk of mortality? An analysis of epidemiological data from Aveiro region". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  9. Leonor Carvalho Rodrigues; Afreixo, Vera; Ana Helena Tavares; Marisa Caetano; Catarina Chaves; Luís Cabral. "Bacterial multidrug resistance description in Coimbra Burns Unit, 2016-2020". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  10. Vanusa Rocha; Vera Afreixo; Tiago Gregório; Nuno Leal. "Predictors of residual pulmonary vascular obstruction in pulmonary embolism patients- cohort study". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  11. Daniel Lobo Castro; Francisca Freire; Catarina Cardoso; Vera Afreixo; Nelson Sousa. "One year of the pandemic in Portugal: incidence of COVID-19". Paper presented in Statistics on Health Decision Making: Public Health, 2021.
    Published
  12. Jorge Cabral; Vera Afreixo; Alda Marques. "COVID-19 lockdown effect in COPD: a comparison of fixed-effects selection methods". Paper presented in XXV Conference of the Portuguese Statistical Society, 2021.
    Published
  13. Torres, A.; Mignano, A.; Viseu, I.; Rodrigues, L.; Herdeiro, T.; Silva, L.; Afreixo, Vera. "Neuroleptic malignant syndrome associated with second-generation antipsychotics (SGA): An analysis of reported cases in eudravigilance database". Paper presented in European Psychiatry, 2021.
    Published
  14. Joana Ferreira; Fátima Roque; Afreixo, Vera; Herdeiro, Maria Teresa. "Adverse drug reactions related to antibiotics: an analysis of the European Eudravigilance database.". Paper presented in XXXIX Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) y XVI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiología (APE)., 2021.
  15. Marques, A; Souto-Miranda, S; Machado, A; Oliveira, A; Jácome, C; Cruz, J; Enes, V; et al. "COPD profiles and treatable traits using minimal resources: identification, decision tree and longitudinal stability". Paper presented in 37th Congress of Portuguese Society of Pulmonology, Algarve, 2021.
    Published
  16. Iutis, Adela; Afreixo, Vera; Silva, Raquel M; Ferreira, Gisela. "Benzene and other solvents exposure and incidence of hematologic malignancies". Paper presented in 2nd Statistics on health decision making, Aveiro, 2020.
    Published • 10.34624/jshd.v2i2.19563
  17. Sousa, Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Frontini, Roberta; Ribeiro, Fernando; Paúl, Constança; Costa, Elísio; Ribeiro, Óscar; Figueiredo, Daniela. ""Together WE can make it better": Should family-based interventions be considered to promote health-related quality of life of patients with chronic physical conditions?". Paper presented in 2nd Statistics on health decision making, Aveiro, 2020.
    Published • 10.34624/jshd.v2i2.19548
  18. Diaz, Raquel; Ramalheira, Elmano; Gago, Bruno; Afreixo, Vera. "Evaluation of vancomycin susceptibility among isolates of Staphylococcus aureus infections between 2010 and 2018 in Aveiro, Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd Statistics on health decision making, Aveiro, 2020.
    Published • 10.34624/jshd.v2i2.21177
  19. Corda, Pedro Oliveira; Costa, Tiago; Trindade, Fábio; Afreixo, Vera. "A non-parametric analysis for the identification of differentially expressed proteins in proteomic data". Paper presented in 2nd Statistics on health decision making, Aveiro, 2020.
    Published • 10.34624/jshd.v2i2.18252
  20. Enes, Vera; Tavares, Ana Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Machado, Ana Filipa; Marques, Alda. "Clinical characteristics of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): are they different". Paper presented in JOCLAD, 2020.
    Published
  21. Sousa, Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Frontini, Roberta; Ribeiro, Fernando; Paúl, Constança; Costa, Elísio; Ribeiro, Óscar; Figueiredo, Daniela. ""No matter what I do, it matters how WE feel": Exploring the associations between patients and family members psychological distress and treatment adherence in end-stage renal disease.". Paper presented in 2nd Statistics on health decision making, Aveiro, 2020.
    10.34624/jshd.v2i2.19545
  22. Rua, Marilia Santos; Bonito, Jorge; Condinho, Mónica; Ravara, Sofia Belo; Albuquerque, Carlos; Aguiar, Pedro; Afreixo, Vera; Rua, Marília; Ravara, Sofia. "Analysis of knowledge, perceptions and self-confidence in tobacco control among graduating dental students in Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd Statistics on health decision making, Aveiro, 2020.
    10.34624/jshd.v2i2.20217
  23. Cabral, Jorge Vaz Ramos Rodrigues de; Segura-Grau, Elena; Segura-Grau, Ana; Payeras, Guillermo; Araújo, Ricardo; Muginga, Mário; Afreixo, Vera. "Importance of gastric ultrasound in the study of gastric content". Paper presented in 2nd Statistics on health decision making, Aveiro, 2020.
    10.34624/jshd.v2i2.19437
  24. Machado, Ana; Afreixo, Vera; Marques, Alda. "Comparison of different treatments during acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results of classical vs. network meta-analysis". 2019.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v1i1.2323
  25. Oliveira, Ana; Afreixo, Vera; Marques, Alda. "Generalized estimating equations vs. repeated-measures ANOVA on the time-course of clinical variables during acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease". 2019.
    https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v1i1.2698
  26. Afreixo, Vera; Rua, Marília; Ravara, Sofia Belo; Condinho, M´ónica; Albuquerque, Carlos; Aguiar, Pedro; Bonito, Jorge. "P05 - Analysis of knowledge, perceptions and self-confidence regarding tobacco control among graduating nursing students in Portugal". 2019.
    10.34624/jshd.v1i1.2452
  27. Tavares, Ana Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Brito, Paula. "Looking for atypical groups of distributions in the context of genomic data". Paper presented in XXVI Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD2019), Viseu, 2019.
    Published
  28. Tavares, Ana Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Brito, Paula. "Deteção de grupos de observações atípicas: uma aplicação em dados genómicos". Paper presented in III Encontro Luso-Galaico de Biometria, EBio2018, Aveiro, 2018.
  29. Tavares, Ana Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Brito, Paula. "Classificação de distribuições de distâncias genómicas". Paper presented in XXV Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD 2018), Almada, 2018.
    Published
  30. Ravara, Sofia Belo; Afreixo, Vera; Condinho, Mónica; Rua, Marília Santos; Albuquerque, Carlos; Aguiar, Pedro; Bonito, Jorge. "Tobacco and e-cigarette use, and exposure to SHS among health sciences students: a national cross-sectional study". 2018.
  31. Ravara, Sofia Belo; Afreixo, Vera; Albuquerque, Carlos; Condinho, Mónica; Rua, Marília Santos; Aguiar, Pedro; Bonito, Jorge. "A NATIONAL-WIDE SURVEY OF TOBACCO CONTROL CURRICULA IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS". 2018.
  32. Tavares, Ana Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Brito, Paula. "Clustering DNA words through distance distributions". Paper presented in Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation 2017 (DSSV2017), Lisboa, 2017.
  33. Tavares, Ana Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Brito, Paula. "Deteção de distribuições atípicas em sequências genómicas". Paper presented in XXIV Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD 2017), Porto, 2017.
    Published
  34. Ana Helena Tavares; Brito, Paula; Afreixo, Vera. "Classificação de distribuições no contexto de distâncias entre palavras genómicas". Paper presented in XXIII Congresso SPE 2017, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
  35. Tavares, Ana Helena; Afreixo, Vera; Brito, Paula; Filzmoser, Peter. "Directional Outlyingness applied to distances between Genomic Words". Paper presented in 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad2016), Aveiro, 2016.
    Published
  36. Ana Helena Tavares; Afreixo, Vera. "Palavras genómicas com distribuição excecional". Paper presented in XXII Congresso SPE 2015, Olhão, 2015.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Fonseca, Ivo; Afreixo, Vera; Vairinhos, Mário; Joana Maria Ferreira Pacheco Quental; André Miguel Afonso de Sousa Moreira. "Relevance of typographic factors in the identification of allergens in food labels". Paper presented in Digicom - 6th International Conference on Design and Digital Communication, Barcelos, 2022.
    Published
  2. Machado, Ana; Silva, Pedro Matos; Afreixo, Vera; Caneiras, Cátia; Burtin, Chris; Marques, Alda. "Desenho dos programas de reabilitação respiratória durante as exacerbações agudas da DPOC: uma revisão sistemática e meta-análise em rede". 2021.
  3. Afreixo, Vera. "Clinical characteristics of COPD Phenotypes". Paper presented in ERS International Congress, 2020.
    Published
  4. Tavares, Ana Helena; Rodrigues, João M. O. S.; Bastos, Carlos A. C.; Pinho, Armando; Ferreira, Paulo; Brito, Paula; Afreixo, Vera. "Detection of exceptional genomic words: a comparison between species". Paper presented in 22nd International Conference on Computational Statistics. COMPSTAT 2016, Oviedo, 2016.
    Published
  5. Afreixo, Vera; Escudeiro, S.; Freitas, Adelaide. "Adjusted Wald confidence intervals in the meta-analysis of prevalence proportions". Paper presented in II ENCONTRO GALAICO-PORTUGUÉS DE BIOMETRÍA, 2016.
    Published
  6. Tavares, A.H.; Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Bastos, C.A.C.. "The symmetry of oligonucleotide distance distributions in the Human Genome". Paper presented in ICPRAM, 2015, 2015.
    Published
  7. Gomes, António; Torcato, Ricardo; ala, soraia; Afreixo, Vera. "Learning Environments and Pedagogical Model of an Engineering Design Degree Program". Paper presented in 19th International Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC), 2012.
    Published
  8. Ferreira, Elisabete; Freitas, Adelaide; Afreixo, Vera. "Biplots na identificação do estudo evolutivo das espécies". Paper presented in XVIII ¿ Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados., Vila Real, 2011.
    Published
  9. Ferreira, Paulo J.S.G.; Santos, Dorabella Martins da Silva; Afreixo, Vera. "New Results and Open Problems in Real-Number Codes". Paper presented in EUSIPCO 2004, Vienna, 2004.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Rita Ferraz de Oliveira; Oliveira, Ana Isabel; Cruz, Agostinho; Oscar Ribeiro; Francisco Pimentel; Afreixo, Vera. "Polypharmacy and drug-drug interactions in older patients with cancer". Paper presented in 4th Statistics on Health Decision Making: real world data, 2022.
  2. Alda Marques, PT, PhD; Machado, A.; Miranda, Sara; Cristina Jácome, PT, PhD; Cruz, Joana; Araújo Oliveira, Ana Luisa; Enes, V.; et al. "Establishing COPD phenotypes using simple clinical measures". Paper presented in Congresso Pneumologia do Norte, 2021.
  3. Holden, Mackenzie; Fyfe, Madeline; Poulin, Camille; Bethune, Brianna; Church, C.; Hepburn, Paula; Afreixo, Vera; Dina Brooks, PT, PhD; Araújo Oliveira, Ana Luisa. "Handgrip Strength in Individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Paper presented in Annual Canadian Respiratory Conference, 2021.
  4. Pacheco, Adriana; Pedro Carvalho; Lisa Ferraz; Raquel Ferreira; Ana Briosa; Martins, José Luís ; Vera Afreixo; Luis Santos; Diana Vale Carvalho. "Physiologic or Angiography guided Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: a meta-analysis". Paper presented in Congresso Português de Cardiologia, 2021.
  5. Araújo Oliveira, Ana Luisa; Afreixo, Vera; Valente, Carla; Andrade, Lília; Marques, Alda. "Enhancing the understanding of the time course of AECOPD.". Paper presented in European Respiratory Society International Conference, 2018.
    10.1183/13993003.congress-2018.pa3837
  6. Leitão, Cátia; Ribau, Verónica; Afreixo, Vera; Antunes, Paulo F. C.; Andre, Paulo S. de Brito; Pinto, João de Lemos; Boutouyrie, Pierre; Laurent, Stéphane; Mesquita-Bastos, José. "Clinical Evaluation of Plastic Optical Fibre based in the determination of systolic pressure and augmentation index". Paper presented in 28th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection, 2018.
  7. Escudeiro, S.; Freitas, Adelaide; Afreixo, Vera. "A new adjusted Wald interval for linear combination of independent binomial proportions". Paper presented in Research day (University of Aveiro), 2016.
Journal article
  1. Tedim, Sofia; Afreixo, Vera; Felgueiras, Miguel; Leitão, Rui Pedro; Pinheiro, Sofia J.; Silva, Cristiana J.. "Evaluating COVID-19 in Portugal: Bootstrap confidence interval". AIMS Mathematics 9 2 (2023): 2756-2765. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/math.2024136.
    10.3934/math.2024136
  2. Catarina Cascais Costa; Diana Mendes; Joana Santos; Vera Afreixo; Pedro Gonçalo Ferreira. "Symptomatic impact and anxiety generated by performing pulmonary function tests: Are there differences between patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease and obstructive airway disease?". Pneumon (2023): https://doi.org/10.18332/pne/172869.
    10.18332/pne/172869
  3. Ana Joaquim; Anabela Amarelo; Pedro Antunes; Catarina Garcia; Inês Leão; Eduardo Vilela; Madalena Teixeira; et al. "Effects of a Physical Exercise Program on Quality of Life and Physical Fitness of Breast Cancer Survivors: the MAMA_MOVE Gaia After Treatment Trial". Psychology, Health & Medicine (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2023.2240074.
    10.1080/13548506.2023.2240074
  4. Luís Cabral; Leonor Rodrigues; Ana H. Tavares; Gonçalo Tomé; Marisa Caetano; Catarina Chaves; Vera Afreixo. "Analysis of Potential Risk Factors for Multidrug-Resistance at a Burn Unit". European Burn Journal (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ebj4010002.
    10.3390/ebj4010002
  5. Rocha, Vanusa; Afreixo, Vera; Sousa, Nuno. "Effects of temperature and mobility on COVID-19 incidence". Journal of Statistics on Health Decision 4 2 (2022): https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v4i2.29914.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v4i2.29914
  6. Pedro Machado; Sofia J. Pinheiro; Vera Afreixo; Cristiana J. Silva; Rui Leitão. "Graph Theory Approach to COVID-19 Transmission by Municipalities and Age Groups". Mathematical and Computational Applications (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/mca27050086.
    10.3390/mca27050086
  7. Vânia Rocha; Jorge Cabral; Sara Souto-Miranda; Ana Filipa Machado; Cristina Jácome; Joana Cruz; Vitória Martins; et al. "Monthly Follow-Ups of Functional Status in People with COPD: A Longitudinal Study". Journal of Clinical Medicine (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11113052.
    10.3390/jcm11113052
  8. Joana Ferreira; Ana Plácido; Vera Afreixo; Inês Ribeiro-Vaz; Fátima Roque; Herdeiro MT. "Descriptive Analysis of Adverse Drug Reactions Reports of the Most Consumed Antibiotics in Portugal, Prescribed for Upper Airway Infections". Antibiotics (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/11/4/477.
    10.3390/antibiotics11040477
  9. Marques, A.; Souto-Miranda, S.; Machado, A.; Oliveira, A.; Jácome, C.; Cruz, J.; Enes, V.; et al. "COPD profiles and treatable traits using minimal resources: identification, decision tree and stability over time". Respiratory research 23 1 (2022): 30-30. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85124680442&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12931-022-01954-6
  10. Cunha R; Sousa E; Khmelinskii N; Ávila P; Couto M; Seixas M; Martins N; et al. "Sex differences in axial spondyloarthritis: data from a Portuguese spondyloarthritis cohort". Acta Reumatológica Portuguesa 1 (2022): 42-48. https://www.arprheumatology.com/article_abstract.php?id=1398.
    Published
  11. Fidalgo, M.; Ricardo Pires, J.; Viseu, I.; Magalhães, P.; Gregório, H.; Afreixo, V.; Gregório, T.. "Edaravone for acute ischemic stroke – Systematic review with meta-analysis.". Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 219 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85132775085&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.clineuro.2022.107299
  12. Baptista, F.M.; Cruz, E.B.; Afreixo, V.; Silva, A.G.. "Effectiveness of neural mobilization on pain intensity, disability, and physical performance in adults with musculoskeletal pain-A protocol for a systematic review of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials and planned meta-analysis". PLoS ONE 17 3 March (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85126270992&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0264230
  13. Cabral, Jorge; Afreixo, Vera; Silva, Cristiana J.; Ana Helena Tavares; Marques, Alda. "A multiobjective optimization approach to pulmonary rehabilitation effectiveness in COPD". Statistics Optimization & Information Computing (2022):
    Submitted
  14. Rocha, Vanusa; Afreixo, Vera; Gregório, Tiago; Cabral, Andrea. "Prognostic predictors in stroke patients undergoing thrombectomy with recanalization". (2022): https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v4i1.28843.
    https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v4i1.28843
  15. Freire, F. M; Afreixo, Vera; Couto, P. S.. "Characterization of the epidemiological curve of the 1st wave of the pandemic - study of the determinants for death and hospitalization due to COVID-19 in Portugal". Journal of Statistics on Health Decision (2021): In press-In press. https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jshd/article/view/24208.
    10.34624/JSHD.V3I2.24208
  16. Martins JL; Afreixo, Vera; Santos L.; Fernandes L.; Briosa A.. "Enxerto de Bypass de Artéria Coronária Guiado por Angiografia ou Fisiologia: Uma Metanálise". Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 117 6 (2021): 1115-1123. http://dx.doi.org/10.36660/abc.20200763.
    10.36660/abc.20200763
  17. Bernardo, Carina; Monteiro, Fátima L.; Direito, Inês; Amado, Francisco; Afreixo, Vera; Santos, Lúcio L.; Helguero, Luisa A.. "Association Between Estrogen Receptors and GATA3 in Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Their Clinicopathological Significance". Frontiers in Endocrinology 12 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2021.684140.
    10.3389/fendo.2021.684140
  18. Pedro Antunes; Dulce Esteves; Célia Nunes; Anabela Amarelo; José Fonseca-Moutinho; Vera Afreixo; Henrique Costa; Alberto Alves; Ana Joaquim. "Effects of Exercise on Cardiac Function Outcomes in Women Receiving Anthracycline or Trastuzumab Treatment for Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Applied Sciences 11 18 (2021): 8336-8336. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11188336.
    Published • 10.3390/app11188336
  19. Segura-Grau, E.; Segura-Grau, A.; Araújo, R; Payeras, G.; Cabral, J.; Afreixo, Vera. "Reinforcing the valuable role of gastric ultrasound for volume and content assessment: an observational study". Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (English Edition) (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjane.2021.07.008.
    10.1016/j.bjane.2021.07.008
  20. Pedro Carvalho; Mariana Caçoilo; Vera Afreixo; José Mesquita Bastos; Lisa Ferraz; Manuela Vieira; Luís Santos; et al. "Acute Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries – Stratifying the Risk of a “new” Clinical Entity using an “Old” Tool". International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences (2021): https://doi.org/10.36660/ijcs.20190218.
    10.36660/ijcs.20190218
  21. Pedro Salvador; Pedro Oliveira; Tiago Costa; Mariana Fidalgo; Raul Neto; Maria Leonor Silva; Cristóvão Figueiredo; et al. "Clinical Features and Prognostic Factors of 245 Portuguese Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19". Cureus (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13687.
    10.7759/cureus.13687
  22. Oliveira, M.; Fidalgo, M.; Fontão, L.; Antão, J.; Marques, S.; Afreixo, V.; Gregório, T.. "Tenecteplase for thrombolysis in stroke patients: Systematic review with meta-analysis". American Journal of Emergency Medicine 42 (2021): 31-37. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85099604318&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.12.026
  23. Lopes, S.; Afreixo, V.; Teixeira, M.; Garcia, C.; Leitão, C.; Gouveia, M.; Figueiredo, D.; et al. "Exercise training reduces arterial stiffness in adults with hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis". Journal of hypertension 39 2 (2021): 214-222. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85099322090&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002619
  24. Bündchen, D.C.; Sousa, H.; Afreixo, V.; Frontini, R.; Ribeiro, O.; Figueiredo, D.; Costa, E.. "Intradialytic exercise in end-stage renal disease: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and/or meta-analytical studies". Clinical Rehabilitation (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85100497944&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1177/0269215520986784
  25. Cabral, L.; Fernandes, M.; Marques, S.; Meireles, R.; Caetano, M.; Afreixo, V.. "PCT Kinetics in the First Week Postburn for Sepsis Diagnosis and Death Prognosis-An Accuracy Study". Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association 42 3 (2021): 545-554. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85106538615&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/jbcr/iraa199
  26. Holden, M.; Fyfe, M.; Poulin, C.; Bethune, B.; Church, C.; Hepburn, P.; Afreixo, V.; Brooks, D.; Oliveira, A.. "Handgrip Strength in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Physical therapy 101 6 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85111789578&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1093/ptj/pzab057
  27. Sousa, H.; Ribeiro, O.; Afreixo, V.; Costa, E.; Paúl, C.; Ribeiro, F.; Figueiredo, D.. "“Should WE Stand Together?”: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of family-based interventions for adults with chronic physical diseases". Family Process (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85112325831&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/famp.12707
  28. Rodrigues, Â.; Rodrigues, C.; Negrão, L.; Afreixo, V.; Castro, M.G.. "Female sexual function and quality of life after pelvic floor surgery: a prospective observational study". International Urogynecology Journal 32 5 (2021): 1273-1283. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102736259&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00192-021-04678-1
  29. Lopes, Susana; Afreixo, Vera; Teixeira, Manuel; Garcia, Catarina; Leitão, Cátia; Gouveia, Marisol; Figueiredo, Daniela; et al. "Exercise training reduces arterial stiffness in adults with hypertension". Journal of Hypertension Publish Ah (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/hjh.0000000000002619.
    10.1097/hjh.0000000000002619
  30. Machado, A.; Matos Silva, P.; Afreixo, V.; Caneiras, C.; Burtin, C.; Marques, A.; Machado, Ana; et al. "Design of pulmonary rehabilitation programmes during acute exacerbations of COPD: A systematic review and network meta-analysis". European Respiratory Review 29 158 (2020): 1-13. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85096225454&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1183/16000617.0039-2020
  31. Bernardo, C.; Santos, J.; Costa, C.; Tavares, A.; Amaro, T.; Marques, I.; Gouveia, M.J.; et al. "Estrogen receptors in urogenital schistosomiasis and bladder cancer: Estrogen receptor alpha-mediated cell proliferation". Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations 38 9 (2020): 738.e23-738.e35. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85085754545&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.urolonc.2020.04.022
  32. Tavares, Ana Helena; Raymaekers, Jakob; Rousseeuw, Peter J.; Brito, Paula; Afreixo, Vera; Ana Helena Tavares; Jakob Raymaekers; et al. "Clustering genomic words in human DNA using peaks and trends of distributions". Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10773/30267.
    Published • 10.1007/s11634-019-00362-x
  33. Fonseca, Maria João; Santos, Fernanda; Afreixo, Vera; Silva, Isabel Santos; Almeida, Maria do Céu; Fonseca, M.J.; Santos, F.; et al. "Does induction of labor at term increase the risk of cesarean section in advanced maternal age? A systematic review and meta-analysis". European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology 253 (2020): 213-219. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/30268.
    10.1016/j.ejogrb.2020.08.022
  34. Bruno Silva Lopes; Nuno Craveiro; Lara Tomás; Sofia Fraga; Afreixo, Vera; Helena Palma; Luís Costa Matos. "L-TRUST: Long-term risk of cancer in patients under statins therapy. A systematic review and meta-analysis". Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 28 11 (2019): 1431-1439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pds.4895.
    10.1002/pds.4895
  35. Afreixo, Vera; Cruz S; Freitas A; Hernandez M.. "Meta-Analysis of a Very Low Proportion Through Adjusted Wald Confidence Intervals". Open Access Biostatistics & Bioinformatics 2 4 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.31031/oabb.2019.02.000545.
    10.31031/oabb.2019.02.000545
  36. Leitão, Cátia; Afreixo, Vera; Mesquita-Bastos, José. "Statistics on medical devices performance assessment a case study". Journal of Statistics on Health Decision 1 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v1i1.3007.
  37. Tavares, Ana Helena; Enes, Vera; Afreixo, Vera; Machado, Ana; Marques, Alda. "Identification of clinical phenotypes of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)". Journal of Statistics on Health Decision | Special Issue - Statistics on Health Decision Making: state of the art 1 1 (2019): 1-4. https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jshd.
    Published • 10.34624/jshd.v1i1.2785
  38. Cabral, L.; Afreixo, V.; Meireles, R.; Vaz, M.; Frade, J.-G.; Chaves, C.; Caetano, M.; Almeida, L.; Paiva, J.-A.. "Evaluation of Procalcitonin Accuracy for the Distinction Between Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacterial Sepsis in Burn Patients". Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association 40 1 (2019): 112-119. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85058924436&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/jbcr/iry058
  39. Ribeiro, C.M.; Soares, I.R.; Mendes, R.G.; de Santis Bastos, P.A.; Katagiri, S.; Zavilenski, R.B.; de Abreu, H.F.P.; Afreixo, V.. "Meta-analysis of the prevalence and risk factors associated with bovine neosporosis". Tropical Animal Health and Production (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85067880707&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11250-019-01929-8
  40. Antunes, P.; Esteves, D.; Nunes, C.; Amarelo, A.; Fonseca-Moutinho, J.; Afreixo, V.; Costa, H.; Alves, A.; Joaquim, A.. "Effects of physical exercise on outcomes of cardiac (dys)function in women with breast cancer undergoing anthracycline or trastuzumab treatment: Study protocol for a systematic review". Systematic Reviews 8 1 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85074078563&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s13643-019-1154-x
  41. Afreixo, Vera. "Welcome Message". (2019): https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jshd/article/view/3022.
    10.34624/jshd.v1i1.3022
  42. Diaz, Raquel; Afreixo, Vera; Rodrigues, Carmen; Ramalheira, Elmano; Gago, Bruno. "P43 - Meta-analysis to evaluate the vancomycin MIC Creep in Staphylococcus aureus infections". (2019): https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jshd/article/view/1927.
    10.34624/jshd.v1i1.1927
  43. Ana Oliveira; Vera Afreixo; Alda Marques. "Enhancing our understanding of the time course of acute exacerbations of COPD managed on an outpatient basis". International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2018): https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S175890.
    10.2147/COPD.S175890
  44. Leitão, Cátia; Ribau, Verónica; Afreixo, Vera; Antunes, Paulo; André, Paulo; Pinto, João L.; Boutouyrie, Pierre; Laurent, Stéphane; Bastos, J. Mesquita. "Clinical evaluation of an optical fiber-based probe for the assessment of central arterial pulse waves". Hypertension Research 41 11 (2018): 904-912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41440-018-0089-2.
    10.1038/s41440-018-0089-2
  45. Cabral, L.; Afreixo, V.; Santos, F.; Almeida, L.; Paiva, J.A.. "Response to Letter to the Editor: ‘Comments on procalcitonin for the early diagnosis of sepsis in burn patients: A retrospective study’". Burns 44 4 (2018): 1017-1018. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85041140437&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.burns.2017.12.006
  46. Martins, J.L.; Adrega, T.; Santos, L.; Afreixo, V.; Viana, J.; Santos, J.. "Are football matches dangerous for patients with heart disease? [HeartAtaque trial] – A pilot prospective trial,Jogos de futebol impróprios para cardíacos (HeartAtaque trial) – Estudo piloto prospetivo". Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85048750735&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.repc.2017.09.024
  47. Tavares, A.H.; Raymaekers, J.; Rousseeuw, P.J.; Silva, R.M.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Pinho, A.; Brito, P.; Afreixo, V.. "Comparing Reverse Complementary Genomic Words Based on Their Distance Distributions and Frequencies". Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences 10 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042850854&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12539-017-0273-0
  48. Ribeiro, C.M.; Stefani, L.M.; Lucheis, S.B.; Okano, W.; Cruz, J.C.M.; Souza, G.V.; Casagrande, T.A.C.; et al. "Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in poultry and poultry meat: A meta-analysis". Journal of Food Protection 81 7 (2018): 1055-1062. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049017130&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-17-445
  49. Martins, J.L.; Afreixo, V.; Santos, L.; Costa, M.; Santos, J.; Gonçalves, L.. "Medical treatment or revascularisation as the best approach for spontaneous coronary artery dissection: A systematic review and meta-analysis". European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care 7 7 (2018): 614-623. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055000169&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1177/2048872617706502
  50. Cabral, L.; Afreixo, V.; Meireles, R.; Vaz, M.; Marques, M.; Tourais, I.; Chaves, C.; Almeida, L.; Paiva, J.A.. "Procalcitonin kinetics after burn injury and burn surgery in septic and non-septic patients - a retrospective observational study". BMC Anesthesiology 18 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85052967323&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12871-018-0585-6
  51. Martins, J.L.; Afreixo, V.; Santos, J.; Gonçalves, L.. "Fractional flow reserve-guided strategy in acute coronary syndrome. A systematic review and meta-analysis". Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 111 4 (2018): 542-550. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055443945&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.5935/abc.20180170
  52. Diaz, R.; Afreixo, V.; Ramalheira, E.; Rodrigues, C.; Gago, B.. "Evaluation of vancomycin MIC creep in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections—a systematic review and meta-analysis". Clinical Microbiology and Infection 24 2 (2018): 171-174. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85027400422&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cmi.2017.06.017
  53. Diaz, Raquel; Afreixo, Vera; Ramalheira, Elmano; Gago, Bruno. "Rapid screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying the mecC gene in a Portuguese hospital". Annals of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 5 1 (2018): A66-A69. http://dx.doi.org/10.21276/apalm.1666.
    Published • 10.21276/apalm.1666
  54. Cabral, Luís; Afreixo, Vera; Meireles, Rita; Vaz, Miguel; Chaves, Catarina; Caetano, Marisa; Almeida, Luís; Paiva, José Artur. "Checking procalcitonin suitability for prognosis and antimicrobial therapy monitoring in burn patients". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10773/24496.
    10.1186/s41038-018-0112-5
  55. Bernardo, Carina; Tavares, Ana; Amaro, Teresina; Oliveira, Julio; Afreixo, Vera; Vale, Nuno; Costa, Jose M; et al. "Estrogen receptors expression in human bladder cancer and urogenital schistosomiasis.". Journal of Clinical Oncology 35 15_suppl (2017): e16013-e16013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2017.35.15_suppl.e16013.
    10.1200/jco.2017.35.15_suppl.e16013
  56. Escudeiro, S.; Freitas, A.; Afreixo, V.. "Approximate confidence intervals for a linear combination of binomial proportions: A new variant". Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation (2017): 1-24. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85018182465&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/03610918.2016.1241408
  57. Cabral, L.; Afreixo, V.; Santos, F.; Almeida, L.; Paiva, J.A.. "Procalcitonin for the early diagnosis of sepsis in burn patients: A retrospective study". Burns (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85018907371&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.burns.2017.03.026
  58. Oliveira, A.; Monteiro, Â.; Jácome, C.; Afreixo, V.; Marques, A.. "Effects of group sports on health-related physical fitness of overweight youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis". Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 27 6 (2017): 604-611. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84990989962&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/sms.12784
  59. Oliveira, A.; Sen, I.; Kahya, Y.P.; Afreixo, V.; Marques, A.. "Computerised respiratory sounds can differentiate smokers and non-smokers". Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 31 3 (2017): 571-580. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84966680013&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10877-016-9887-8
  60. Tavares, A.H.M.P.; Pinho, A.J.; Silva, R.M.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.; Afreixo, V.. "DNA word analysis based on the distribution of the distances between symmetric words". Scientific Reports 7 1 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85018995715&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s41598-017-00646-2
  61. Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Tavares, A.H.M.P.; Silva, R.M.. "Exceptional Symmetry by Genomic Word: A Statistical Analysis". Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences 9 1 (2017): 14-23. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85016097960&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12539-016-0200-9
  62. Diaz, R.; Ramalheira, E.; Afreixo, V.; Gago, B.. "Evaluation of vancomycin MIC creep in Staphylococcus aureus". Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 10 (2017): 281-284. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028011357&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jgar.2017.04.007
  63. José Carlos Lopes; Sandra Vilarinho; Afreixo, Vera; Luís Almeida; Francisco Luís Pimentel. "Mindfulness-based intervention in cancer recovery: a pilot feasibility study in a Portuguese sample". International Journal of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health 3 (2016): 4-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.21035/ijcnmh.2016.3.4.
    10.21035/ijcnmh.2016.3.4
  64. Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Silva, R.M.. "The exceptional genomic word symmetry along DNA sequences". BMC Bioinformatics 17 1 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84957009081&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12859-016-0905-0
  65. Diaz, R.; Ramalheira, E.; Afreixo, V.; Gago, B.. "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying the new mecC gene-a meta-analysis". Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 84 2 (2016): 135-140. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84954384880&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.10.014
  66. Paulo, A.A.S.; Solheiro, M.H.R.; Paulo, C.O.S.; Afreixo, V.M.A.. "What proportion of women refers moderate to severe pain during office hysteroscopy with a mini-hysteroscope? A systematic review and meta-analysis". Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics 293 1 (2016): 37-46. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84952862290&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00404-015-3836-5
  67. Cabral, L.; Afreixo, V.; Almeida, L.; Paiva, J.A.. "The use of procalcitonin (PCT) for diagnosis of sepsis in burn patients: A meta-analysis". PLoS ONE 11 12 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85007285058&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0168475
  68. Paulo, A.; Costa, J. D; Pipa, A.; Andrade, C.; Afreixo, Vera. "Pain, anxiety and patient satisfaction in office hysteroscopy, is there a link? Are patient satisfaction questionnaires reliable?". International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology (2016): 642-650. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20160559.
    10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20160559
  69. Silva, A.G.; Lã, F.M.; Afreixo, V.. "Pain prevalence in instrumental musicians: a systematic review". Medical problems of performing artists 30 1 (2015): 8-19. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84929132776&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  70. Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Bastos, C.A.C.. "Analysis of single-strand exceptional word symmetry in the human genome: New measures". Biostatistics 16 2 (2015): 209-221. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84926649522&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/biostatistics/kxu041
  71. Ferreira-Fernandes, E.; Esteves, S.L.C.; Korrodi-Gregório, L.; Luers, G.; Afreixo, V.; Fardilha, M.; da Cruz e Silva, O.A.B.. "Synphilin-1A is a Phosphoprotein Phosphatase 1-Interacting Protein and Affects PPP1 Sorting to Subcellular Compartments". Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84901734342&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12031-014-0343-2
  72. Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.; Bastos, C.A.. "Exceptional single strand DNA word symmetry: analysis of evolutionary potentialities". Journal of integrative bioinformatics 11 3 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84937540124&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2390/biecoll-jib-2014-250
  73. Varum, C.; Santos, E.; Afreixo, V.. "Recent trends and new evidence in economics literacy among adults". Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research 15 2 (2014): 187-206. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84921767248&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  74. Bastos CA; Afreixo V; Garcia SP; Pinho AJ. "Inter-STOP symbol distances for the identification of coding regions.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24231144.
    10.2390/biecoll-jib-2013-230
  75. Afreixo, V.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Garcia, S.P.. "Analysis of Word Symmetries in Human Genomes Using Next-Generation Sequencing Data". Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 222 (2013): 7-13. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880358522&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-319-00578-2_2
  76. Garcia, S.P.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Santos, S.; Pratas, D.; Afreixo, V.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.; Pinho, A.J.. "A genomic distance for assembly comparison based on compressed maximal exact matches". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 10 3 (2013): 793-798. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887940267&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TCBB.2013.77
  77. Afreixo, V.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Garcia, S.P.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Pinho, A.J.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.. "The breakdown of the word symmetry in the human genome". Journal of Theoretical Biology 335 (2013): 153-159. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880640252&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.06.032
  78. Bastos, C.A.C.; Afreixo, V.; Garcia, S.P.; Pinho, A.J.. "Segmentation of DNA into Coding and Noncoding Regions Based on Inter-STOP Symbols Distances". Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 222 (2013): 23-28. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880349505&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-319-00578-2_4
  79. Afreixo, V.; Garcia, S.P.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.. "The breakdown of Symmetry in Word Pairs in 1,092 Human Genomes". Jurnal Teknologi (Sciences and Engineering) 63 3 (2013): 1-8. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84881055487&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  80. Pinheiro, Miguel; Dias, Gaspar; Afreixo, Vera; Valente, Adelaide; Moura, Gabriela; Santos, Manuel A. S.; Oliveira, José Luís. "Sistema bioinformático para análise do mecanismo molecular de descodificação da informação genética". (2012): http://revistas.ua.pt/index.php/revdeti/article/view/1645.
  81. Bastos CA; Afreixo V; Pinho AJ; Garcia SP; Rodrigues JM; Ferreira PJ. "Inter-dinucleotide distances in the human genome: an analysis of the whole-genome and protein-coding distributions.". (2011): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21926435.
    10.2390/biecoll-jib-2011-172
  82. Afreixo, V.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Pinho, A.J.; Garcia, S.P.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.. "Genome analysis with distance to the nearest dissimilar nucleotide". Journal of Theoretical Biology 275 1 (2011): 52-58. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79952139725&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.038
  83. Freitas, A.; Afreixo, V.; Pinheiro, M.; Oliveira, J.L.; Moura, G.; Santos, M.. "Improving the performance of the iterative signature algorithm for the identification of relevant patterns". Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 4 1 (2011): 71-83. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79551712212&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/sam.10104
  84. Bastos, C.A.C.; Afreixo, V.; Pinho, A.J.; Garcia, S.P.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.. "Distances between dinucleotides in the human genome". Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 93 (2011): 205-211. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052936474&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-19914-1_28
  85. Pinho, A.J.; Garcia, S.P.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.; Afreixo, V.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Neves, A.J.R.; Rodrigues, J.M.O.S.. "Exploring homology using the concept of three-state entropy vector". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6282 LNBI (2010): 161-170. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78049460831&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-16001-1_14
  86. Afreixo, V.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Pinho, A.J.; Garcia, S.P.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.. "Genome analysis with inter-nucleotide distances". Bioinformatics 25 23 (2009): 3064-3070. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-75949102506&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/bioinformatics/btp546
  87. Pinho, A.J.; Neves, A.J.R.; Afreixo, V.; Bastos, C.A.C.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.. "A three-state model for DNA protein-coding regions". IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 53 11 (2006): 2148-2155. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33750311852&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TBME.2006.879477
  88. Pinheiro M; Afreixo V; Moura G; Freitas A; Santos MA; Oliveira JL. "Statistical, computational and visualization methodologies to unveil gene primary structure features.". (2006): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16538282.
    10.1267/METH06020163
  89. Ferreira, P.J.S.G.; Neves, A.J.R.; Afreixo, V.; Pinho, A.J.. "Exploring three-base periodicity for DNA compression and modeling". ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings 5 (2006): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33947690256&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  90. Moura G; Pinheiro M; Silva R; Miranda I; Afreixo V; Dias G; Freitas A; Oliveira JL; Santos MA. "Comparative context analysis of codon pairs on an ORFeome scale.". (2005): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15774029.
    10.1186/gb-2005-6-3-r28
  91. Afreixo, V.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.; Santos, D.. "Spectrum and symbol distribution of nucleotide sequences". Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 70 3 1 (2004): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-42749098458&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1103/PhysRevE.70.031910
  92. Afreixo, V.; Ferreira, P.J.S.G.; Santos, D.. "Fourier analysis of symbolic data: A brief review". Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal 14 6 (2004): 523-530. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-7544244946&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.dsp.2004.08.001
Magazine article
  1. Afreixo, Vera; Ana Helena Tavares; Tiago Gregório. "Limitações dos estudos baseados em amostras de doentes/utentes", Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística – Estatística nas Ciências da Saúde, 2019
  2. Afreixo, Vera; Ana Helena Tavares. "Leis que governam a estrutura primária do ADN dos seres vivos.", Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística – Estatística em Genética, 2015
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021 - Current Modeling and feature selection in health big data
Supervisor
2019 - Current Otimização Terapêutica em Doentes Idosos em Quimioterapia
Co-supervisor
 Programa de doutoramento em Gerontologia e Geriatria
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019 - Current Será a melhoria do equilíbrio um preditor de reabilitação e de prognóstico cardiovascular em doentes com fração de ejeção <40%?
Co-supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Ciências da Reabilitação (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Análise e Caracterização do Perfil de Reações Adversas aos Antibióticos mais usados em Infeções Respiratórias
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Gestão da Investigação Clinica (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2020 - 2021 DOENTES DE ASMA E DPOC: CARACTERÍSTICAS ASSOCIADAS AO CONTROLO DA DOENÇA E AO DESEMPENHO DA TÉCNICA INALATÓRIA
Supervisor
 Dissertation (Master)
2020 - 2021 COMPORTAMENTO TEMPORAL DA DPOC E INFLUÊNCIA DO CONFINAMENTO IMPOSTO PELA COVID-19: COMPARAÇÃO DE MÉTODOS DE SELEÇÃO DE VARIÁVEIS
Supervisor
 Dissertation (Master)
2017 - 2018 Caraterização estatística de doentes com MINOCA
Supervisor
 ”, Mestrado em matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Evaluation of a Vancomycin MIC creep at Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Biomedicina Molecular
2014 - 2018 Analysis of inter genomic word distance distributions
Supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Matemática Aplicada (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2013 - 2017 Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: mecC gene and vancomycin susceptibility
Co-supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Análise das variações genéticas: Caraterização do contexto em que ocorrem variações genéticas
Supervisor
 Mestrado em matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Estágio Curricular na Eurotrials
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Biomedicina Faracêutica (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Meta-análise em investigação clínica
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 - 2016 A estatística que engana!
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Matemática para professores (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Estudo de sinais epigenéticos no genoma humano
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Biomedicina Molecular (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2013 - 2016 Psychosocial and clinical characteristics predicting women’s acceptance of office hysteroscopy
Supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2012 - 2016 Confidence intervals for linear combinations of proportions
Supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Matemática (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Criação de ferramenta para produção de música genómica usando informação inter-simbólica
Supervisor
 Mestrado integrado em Engenharia de Computadores e Telemática (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Utilidade Clínica da Procalcitonina nos Queimados: Diagnóstico de Infeção, Monotorização de Antibioterapia e Prognóstico
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2012 - 2013 Distâncias Inter-Simbólicas no ADN
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações (Master)
2012 - 2013 Estudo de Mercado: A satisfação dos Franchisados em Portugal
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2011 - 2012 As crianças conseguem aprender sobre economia?
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Economia
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Determinantes da Literacia Económica e Financeira
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Economia (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010 - 2011 A simetria das sequências de ADN
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrónica e Telecomunicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Ferramentas para processamento de distâncias inter-simbólicas no ADN
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrónica e Telecomunicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Análise estatística de dados de biologia molecular
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Métodos de biplot aplicados a dados de Biologia Molecular
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Matemática e Aplicações (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/06/01 - 2023/06/02 Statistics on Health Decision Making: Personalized Medicine (2023 - 2023)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - 2023 V Workshop in BioMathematics (2023 - 2023)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/07/20 - 2022/07/21 Statistics on Health Decision Making: Real World Data (2022 - 2022)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022 - 2022 IV Workshop in BioMathematics (2022 - 2022)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/07/22 - 2021/07/22 Statistics on health decision making: public health (2021 - 2021)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
2021 - 2021 III Workshop in BioMathematics (2021 - 2021)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Statistics on health decision making: clinical trials, 23 de outubro de 2020, Aveiro-Portugal (2020 - 2020)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga EPE, Portugal
2019/10/18 - 2019/10/18 I Workshop in BioMathematics, 18 de outubro de 2019, Aveiro-Portugal (2019/10/18 - 2019/10/18)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/05/10 - 2019/05/10 Statistics on health decision making: state of the art, 10 de maio de 2019, Aveiro-Portugal (2019/05/10 - 2019/05/10)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
2017 - 2017 European Study Group with Industry in Portugal (ESGI 127), maio 2017, Aveiro-Portugal (2017 - 2017)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal
2014 - 2014 XX EURO mini conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences, janeiro 2014, Aveiro-Portugal (2014 - 2014)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2016 Estágio Curricular em Investigação Clínica
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Pedro da Silva Almeida (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016 Revisão da Terapêutica para o Cancro da Próstata Avançado: uma meta-análise
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Catarina de Sousa Almeida (Master)
2015 Estágio Curricular em Coordenação de Investigação Clínica na Blueclinical Lda.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joana Catarina Seara Vale (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 Relatório de estágio curricular na Blueclinical, Lda.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joana Fernanda Durães Barbosa Granja (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 Relatório de Estágio: Perspectiva de uma Clinical Research Organization vs Centro de Investigação
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joana Pereira Oliveira (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2015 Dispositivos médicos: Estágio Curricular no INFARMED, I.P.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Andreia Caetano Domingues (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2011 Relatório de Estágio em Bioestatística
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tiago André dos Santos Silva (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2013 - Current Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística Portugal
2014 - 2018 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications
2014 - 2018 International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Salamanca
2015 - 2015 Telecoms Conference (ConfTELE)
2014 - 2014 Telecoms Conference (ConfTELE) Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016/01/01 - Current Membro do núcleo de investigação do serviço de cardiologia do Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02/01 - Current Complementos de Estatística Médica Mestrado em Estatística Médica (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/02/01 - Current Métodos Estatísticos em Ciências da Saúde Programa Doutoral em Ciências da Reabilitação (Doutoramento) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/09/01 - Current Fundamentos de Estatística Médica Mestrado em Estatística Médica (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/09/01 - Current Complementos de Estatística Biomédica Mestrado em Biomedicina Molecular (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019 - Current Introdução à Estatística Biomédica Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current Regressão Logística e Análise de Sobrevivência Programa doutoral em matemática e aplicações (Doutoramento) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - 2020 Avaliador no painel de Medicina Clínica e Ciências da Saúde - Concurso para Atribuição de Bolsas de Investigação para Doutoramento – 2020
Evaluator
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019/01/01 - Current Journal of Statistics in Health Decision
2019 - Current Journal of Theoretical Biology
2017 - Current Scientific Reports
2017 - Current The R Journal
2016/01/01 - Current Scientific Reports (2045-2322) Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2016 - Current Applied Sciences
2016 - Current Digital Signal Processing
2015 - Current BMC Genetics
2015 - Current PLOS Computational Biology
2015 - Current Philosophical Transactions A
2015 - Current Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
2014 - Current EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
2014 - Current Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics
2013 - Current Infection, Genetics and Evolution
2012 - Current GENE
2010 - Current Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2019 - 2020 Journal of Applied Statistics
2018 - 2020 Acta Médica Portuguesa
2014 - 2018 Bioinformatics
2012 - 2017 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
2014 - 2016 BMC Genomics
2014 - 2015 Computational Biology and Chemistry,
2005 - 2012 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2005