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Modeling of a capacitive sensor dedicated to drug injection

to follow up patients who inject themselves insulin with injection pen is a quite complex task. Due to the repetition of injections, and the numerous influent parameter the patient can easily made an injection mistake and it is difficult for health-takers ...

IEEE2018

Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks: From Collection to Event-Triggered Applications

Daniel Camilo Rojas Quirós

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are collections of sensing devices using wireless communication to exchange data. In the past decades, steep advancements in the areas of microelectronics and communication systems have driven an explosive growth in the depl ...

EPFL2018

Population-Level Intervention and Information Collection in Dynamic Healthcare Policy

Thomas Alois Weber

We develop a general framework for optimal health policy design in a dynamic setting. We consider a hypothetical medical intervention for a cohort of patients where one parameter varies across cohorts with imperfectly observable linear dynamics. We seek to ...

2018

Modeling knee osteoarthritis pathophysiology using an integrated joint system (IJS): a systematic review of relationships among cartilage thickness, gait mechanics, and subchondral bone mineral density

Julien Favre

Objective: To introduce an integrated joint system (IJS) model of joint health and osteoarthritis (OA) pathophysiology through a systematic review of the cross-sectional relationships among three knee properties (cartilage thickness, gait mechanics, and su ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2018

A Simulation-Based Workflow to Assess Human-Centric Daylight Performance

Marilyne Andersen, María Lovísa Ámundadóttir, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

This paper will present an annual simulation-based workflow for assessing human perceptual and non-visual responses to daylight across a series of view positions in an architectural case study. Through the integration of mathematical models used to predict ...

2017

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

Spatial dependence of genetic data related to human health and livestock disease resistance: a role for geography to support the One Health approach

Stéphane Joost

The spatial dependence of located health and/or genetic data can be used to detect clusters likely to reveal disease prevalence or signatures of adaptation associated with characteristics of the local environment (high temperatures, air or water pollution) ...

2017

Nano-Tera.ch: Information Technology for Health, Environment, and Energy

Giovanni De Micheli, Martin Rajman, Patrick Mayor

Bettering human health care and creating a sustainable environment through monitoring and smart energy usage are primary goals of advanced societies. To this purpose, the Swiss Government, through the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovati ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report presents a study commissioned by the European Parliament to compare regulatory standards in the EU and the US in four key sectors (food safety, automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals), chosen for their relevance both to consumer protection ...

International Risk Governance Council2017

Aerosol Health Effects from Molecular to Global Scales

Andrea Mario Arangio, Gerhard Lammel

Poor air quality is globally the largest environmental health risk. Epidemiological studies have uncovered clear relationships of gaseous pollutants and particulate matter (PM) with adverse health outcomes, including mortality by cardiovascular and respira ...

American Chemical Society2017

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