Publications related to Health equity

Canopy dieback and recovery in Australian native forests following extreme drought

In 2019, south-eastern Australia experienced its driest and hottest year on record, resulting in massive canopy dieback events in eucalypt dominated forests. A subsequent period of high precipitation in 2020 provided a rare opportunity to quantify the impa ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

Drazen Dujic, Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

Condition health monitoring strategies applied to different power electronics applications are gaining popularity as early component degradation detection can trigger preventive maintenance actions before a significant fault occurs. In highly modular conve ...

2022

RMSSD Is More Sensitive to Artifacts Than Frequency-Domain Parameters: Implication in Athletes? Monitoring

Jean-Marc Vesin, Grégoire Millet, Sasan Yazdani

Easy-to-use and accurate heart rate variability (HRV) assessments are essential in athletes??? follow-up, but artifacts may lead to erroneous analysis. Artifact detection and correction are the purpose of extensive literature and implemented in dedicated a ...

JOURNAL SPORTS SCIENCE & MEDICINE2022

Population-scale dietary interests during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert West, Kristina Gligoric

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has altered people's lives around the world. Here we document population-wide shifts in dietary interests in 18 countries in 2020, as revealed through time series of Google search volumes. We find that during the first wave of the COVI ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Vernacular architecture & spatial typology: their share in urban health

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Akuto Akpedze Konou

Globalization and technological progress have facilitated the progressive implementation of “modern” architectural and urban planning in the countries of the South. These countries aim to replicate Western planning models in African cities. Both at the pub ...

2021

Impact of the Natural Compound Urolithin A on Health, Disease, and Aging

Johan Auwerx, Pénélope Andreux, Davide D'Amico, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Anurag Singh

Urolithin A (UA) is a natural compound produced by gut bacteria from ingested ellagitannins (ETs) and ellagic acid (EA), complex polyphenols abundant in foods such as pomegranate, berries, and nuts. UA was discovered 40 years ago, but only recently has its ...

2021

The question of housing at the center of urban health inequities

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Akuto Akpedze Konou

If environmental factors are important determinants of health, then universal access to adequate housing is key to tackle urban health inequities. Yet, with over one billion urban dwellers having no other choice than living in so-called slums, the provisio ...

2021

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Philipp Buluschek, Bruno Pais

Background: Population aging is posing multiple social and economic challenges to society. One such challenge is the social and economic burden related to increased health care expenditure caused by early institutionalizations. The use of modern pervasive ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

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Health equity

Canopy dieback and recovery in Australian native forests following extreme drought

Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Gut-Brain Ecosystem in a Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

RMSSD Is More Sensitive to Artifacts Than Frequency-Domain Parameters: Implication in Athletes? Monitoring

Self-Aware Machine Learning for Chronic Pathology Monitoring on Wearable Devices

Population-scale dietary interests during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vernacular architecture & spatial typology: their share in urban health

Impact of the Natural Compound Urolithin A on Health, Disease, and Aging

The question of housing at the center of urban health inequities

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

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Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Gut-Brain Ecosystem in a Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Self-Aware Machine Learning for Chronic Pathology Monitoring on Wearable Devices

RMSSD Is More Sensitive to Artifacts Than Frequency-Domain Parameters: Implication in Athletes? Monitoring

Canopy dieback and recovery in Australian native forests following extreme drought

Population-scale dietary interests during the COVID-19 pandemic

Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

Impact of the Natural Compound Urolithin A on Health, Disease, and Aging

Vernacular architecture & spatial typology: their share in urban health

The question of housing at the center of urban health inequities