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Modeling congestion in a competitive Facility Location Problem

Assigning the right Emergency Room (ER) to persons in medical need is a pivotal mission of the Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD). In order to minimize the delay between the call and the medical care, EMD need to take into account the travel time and the w ...

2022

Modelling transport time to trauma centres and 30-day mortality in road accidents in Switzerland: an exploratory study

Stéphane Joost

BACKGROUND: Rapid access to a trauma centre for severely injured road accident victims, conceptualised as the Golden Hour, links access time to definitive treatment within 1 hour of trauma with reduced risks of morbidity and mortality. Access times have no ...

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2021

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The current approach to train Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is to employ a mannequin device replicating the physical properties of a real human head and torso. This aims to ensure a correct transfer of the cardiac massage location, amplitude and freq ...

The Eurographics Association2021

In this work, the synthesis and the pharmacological evaluation of diphenoxyadamantane alkylamines Ia-f and IIa-f is described. The new diphenoxy-substituted adamantanes share structural features present in trypanocidal and antitubercular agents. 1-Methylpi ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Safely Managed Hygiene: A Risk-Based Assessment of Handwashing Water Quality

Matthew Eric Verbyla, Timothy R. Julian

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 6.2.1 requires household handwashing facilities to have soap and water, but there are no guidelines for handwashing water quality. In contrast, drinking water quality guidelines are defined: water must be "free ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

3-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging for Medical Telesonography: Algorithms and Architectures

Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

Enabling telemedicine in Ultrasound (US) imaging, i.e. telesonography, is until today just a wish. Although US has incomparable advantages such as safety in use, lower cost and complexity, and capability to be utilized in many applications, it is limited i ...

EPFL2018

Mitochondria cannot form de novo but require mechanisms that mediate their inheritance to daughter cells. The parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei has a single mitochondrion with a single-unit genome that is physically connected across the two mitochondr ...

2017

Genomic diversity and disease prevalence in Ugandan cattle

Stéphane Joost, Sylvie Stucki, Elia Vajana, Pierre Taberlet

Ugandan cattle are represented by three main types: the long-horned Ankole, the short-horned zebu, and the Ankole-zebu crosses called “Nganda”. In the course of the EU-funded project Nextgen, Ugandan cattle have been extensively sampled over the whole coun ...

2015

Infection Dynamics and Immune Response in a Newly Described Drosophila-Trypanosomatid Association

Bruno Lemaitre, Anna Dostalova

Trypanosomatid parasites are significant causes of human disease and are ubiquitous in insects. Despite the importance of Drosophila melanogaster as a model of infection and immunity and a long awareness that trypanosomatid infection is common in the genus ...

American Society for Microbiology2015

Metabolic Needs and Capabilities of Toxoplasma gondii through Combined Computational and Experimental Analysis

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Stepan Tymoshenko, Rebecca Oppenheim, Jens Nielsen, Dominique Soldati-Favre

Toxoplasma gondii is a human pathogen prevalent worldwide that poses a challenging and unmet need for novel treatment of toxoplasmosis. Using a semi-automated reconstruction algorithm, we reconstructed a genome-scale metabolic model, ToxoNet1. The reconstr ...

Public Library Science2015