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The invention relates to a vaginal fluid monitoring device embedded into a feminine sanitary pad, said device comprising a stack of the following elements: An absorbent layer (100) configured to be in proximity to, and collect, a vaginal fluid; and A biose ...
2021All-polymeric transient neural probe for prolonged in-vivo electrophysiological recordings
Diego Ghezzi, Laura Ferlauto, Paola Vagni, Adele Fanelli, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger
Transient bioelectronics has grown fast, opening possibilities never thought before. In medicine, transient implantable devices are interesting because they could eliminate the risks related to surgical retrieval and reduce the chronic foreign body reactio ...
2021Blockage Probability Modeling of Large Wood at Reservoir Spillways With Piers
Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Paloma Furlan
Large wood increases the morphological and hydraulic complexity of rivers, yet it may block and modify the flood discharge capacity of hydraulic structures. To assess the related risk, blockage probability estimation for hydraulic structures such as reserv ...
2021Using open-access data to explore the relationship between urban morphology and diarrhoeal diseases in Côte d’Ivoire
Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jürg Utzinger
Little is known about the impacts of morphological indicators that can be derived from the physical environment on the risk of diarrhoeal diseases. Given Africa’s recent explosive urbanisation rates and rapid changes in landscape, coupled with a high burde ...
2021Modelling transport time to trauma centres and 30-day mortality in road accidents in Switzerland: an exploratory study
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 LTD2021Genetic variation near CXCL12 is associated with susceptibility to HIV-related non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Christian Hammer
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associated with an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Even in the era of suppressive antiretroviral treatment, HIV-infected individuals remain at higher risk of developing NHL compared to the gener ...
FERRATA STORTI FOUNDATION2021Building a path towards responsible use of Biometrics
Like many other enterprises, humanitarian organizations are investing in their digital transformation. In this sector, an important effort is put into biometric solutions. The ICRC has been exploring new ways of how they could integrate biometrics into the ...
2021MBioTracker: Multimodal Self-Aware Bio-Monitoring Wearable System for Online Workload Detection
David Atienza Alonso, Adriana Arza Valdes, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Una Pale, Rodrigo Mariño Andrés
Cognitive workload affects operators' performance principally in high-risk or time-demanding situations and when multitasking is required. An online cognitive workload monitoring system can provide valuable inputs to decision-making instances, such as the ...
2021Short-term debt and incentives for risk-taking
Erwan Morellec, Francesca Maria Zucchi
We challenge the view that short-term debt curbs moral hazard and demonstrate that, in a world with financing frictions and fair debt pricing, short-term debt generates incentives for risk-taking. To do so, we develop a model in which firms are financed wi ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020Covid-19 contact tracing: efficacy and privacy
This article assesses the risk-risk trade-off between privacy and efficacy that the use of contact tracing apps entails. It argues for the use of privacy-preserving apps, but highlights potential weaknesses and cautions against allowing digital tracing to ...
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