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Joao Pinto

Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
Verified email at ihmt.unl.pt
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A review on robust M-estimators for regression analysis

…, DM Prata, AR Secchi, JC Pinto - Computers & Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Regression analysis constitutes an important tool for investigating the effect of explanatory
variables on response variables. When outliers and bias errors are present, the weighted …

When polymer reaction engineers play dice: applications of Monte Carlo models in PRE

ALT Brandao, JBP Soares, JC Pinto… - Macromolecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Monte Carlo methods are heuristic algorithms that use probabilities to select an outcome
among several possible events in a given process. Monte Carlo methods are useful in polymer …

[HTML][HTML] Capture and Reuse of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) for a Plastics Circular Economy: A Review

…, S Juarez Wouters, MHS Andrade, JC Pinto - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plastic production has been increasing at enormous rates. Particularly, the socioenvironmental
problems resulting from the linear economy model have been widely discussed, …

Nonlinear parameter estimation through particle swarm optimization

…, EC Biscaia Jr, JL Monteiro, JC Pinto - Chemical Engineering …, 2008 - Elsevier
Parameter estimation procedures are very important in the chemical engineering field for
development of mathematical models, since design, optimization and advanced control of …

Optimum reference temperature for reparameterization of the Arrhenius equation. Part 1: Problems involving one kinetic constant

M Schwaab, JC Pinto - Chemical Engineering Science, 2007 - Elsevier
The Arrhenius equation is one of the most well-known equations in the chemical field and is
widely used to describe the temperature dependence of kinetic constants. This equation …

The corrected vif (cvif)

JD Curto, JC Pinto - Journal of Applied Statistics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we propose a new corrected variance inflation factor (VIF) measure to evaluate
the impact of the correlation among the explanatory variables in the variance of the ordinary …

Use of polyhydroxybutyrate and ethyl cellulose for coating of urea granules

…, TLM Alves, JC Pinto… - Journal of agricultural …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Fertilizers contain essential nutrients for agricultural growth and development. However,
most nitrogen fertilizers are substances with high solubility of ions and are very susceptible to …

The use of particle swarm optimization for dynamical analysis in chemical processes

CO Ourique, EC Biscaia Jr, JC Pinto - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2002 - Elsevier
Particle swarm optimization is employed here to evaluate the parametric regions where
different dynamic phenomena (periodic oscillations, double-period oscillations, chaos) can be …

[HTML][HTML] The use of Lactobacillus species as starter cultures for enhancing the quality of sugar cane silage

CLS Ávila, BF Carvalho, JC Pinto, WF Duarte… - Journal of Dairy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sugar cane (Saccharum spp.) is a forage crop widely used in animal feed because of its high
dry matter (DM) production (25 to 40 t/ha) and high energy concentration. The ensiling of …

Morphology, thermal and mechanical properties of PVC/MMT nanocomposites prepared by solution blending and solution blending+ melt compounding

L Madaleno, J Schjødt-Thomsen, JC Pinto - Composites science and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Two types of montmorillonite (MMT), natural sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT) and organically
modified montmorillonite (OMMT), in different amounts of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 25phr (parts per …