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SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological model based on socio economic variables in Switzerland

Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Rico Krüger

Existing epidemiological models analyze the transmission of infectious diseases considering a perfect homogenous population. However, the COVID-19 emergency has shown the importance of considering activity-travel behavior when studying the spreading of the ...

2022

The Effects of Time-Restricted Eating versus Standard Dietary Advice on Weight, Metabolic Health and the Consumption of Processed Food: A Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial in Community-Based Adults

Felix Naef, Nicholas Edward Phillips

Weight loss is key to controlling the increasing prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components, i.e., central obesity, hypertension, prediabetes and dyslipidaemia. The goals of our study were two-fold. First, we characterised the relationships ...

2021

Recommender System for Responsive Engagement of Senior Adults in Daily Activities

Pearl Pu Faltings, Igor Kulev, Yuan Lu

Understanding and predicting how people change their behavior after an intervention from time series data is an important task for health recommender systems. This task is especially challenging when the time series data is frequently sampled. In this pape ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

Digital Technology to Deliver a Lifestyle-Integrated Exercise Intervention in Young Seniors—The PreventIT Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu

Background: Behavioral change is the key to alter individuals' lifestyle from sedentary to active. The aim was to assess the feasibility of delivering a Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise programme and evaluate the delivery of the intervention by use ...

2020

Personalizable intervention systems to promote healthy behavior change

Igor Kulev

Adopting healthy behaviors can prevent the onset of many adverse health conditions. However, behavior changes are difficult to make, and often, people who like to improve their behaviors do not know how to do that. Personalizable intervention systems could ...

EPFL2020

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Medical and Genomic Data: From Theory to Practice

Jean Louis Raisaro

The impressive technological advances in genomic analysis and the significant drop in the cost of genome sequencing are paving the way to a variety of revolutionary applications in modern healthcare. In particular, the increasing understanding of the human ...

EPFL2018

Daylight in the built environment

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Jan Wienold, Silvia Coccolo, Magali Bodart

Relatively recent cultural and technological changes, particularly in Westernized societies, have led to habitat and lifestyle shifts that have gradually estranged us from daylight. Although human beings are resilient and appear able to cope with extreme v ...

Science/AAAS2017

Electrically Assisted Movement Therapy in Chronic Stroke Patients With Severe Upper Limb Paresis: A Pilot, Single-Blind, Randomized Crossover Study

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Silvio Ionta, Andrea Biasiucci, Andrea Maesani, Stephanie Clarke

Objective To evaluate the effects of electrically assisted movement therapy (EAMT) in which patients use functional electrical stimulation, modulated by a custom device controlled through the patient's unaffected hand, to produce or assist task-specific up ...

Elsevier2017

NANO-TERA.CH: Electronic Technology for Health Management

Giovanni De Micheli

The Swiss Nano-Tera.ch program addresses – among others – issues at the intersection of engineering and medical domains. Specifically, electronic-health (or E-Health) is a broad area of engineering that leverages transducer, circuit and systems technologie ...

2015

nano-tera.ch: Electronic Technology for Health Management

Giovanni De Micheli

The Swiss Nano-Tera.ch program addresses – among others – issues at the crossing of engineering and medical domains. Specifically, electronic-health (or E-Health) is a broad area of engineering that leverages transducer, circuit and systems technologies fo ...

2015

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