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Aerosol pH is an overlooked driver of airborne influenza and coronavirus inactivation

The current pandemic has added to the growing evidence that respiratory viruses can be transmitted by the airborne route. Non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as mask wearing or ventilation, aim to reduce the public health burden of respiratory diseases ...

2023

Encoding and Decoding Narratives: Datafication and Alternative Access Models for Audiovisual Archives

Yuchen Yang

Situated in the intersection of audiovisual archives, computational methods, and immersive interactions, this work probes the increasingly important accessibility issues from a two-fold approach. Firstly, the work proposes an ontological data model to hand ...

ACM2023

Virtual Safety Assistant: An Efficient Tool for Ensuring Safety During Covid-19 Pandemic

Daniel Thalmann

Using intelligent virtual assistants for controlling employee population in workspaces is a research area that remains unexplored. This paper presents a novel application of virtual humans to enforce Covid-19 safety measures in a corporate workplace. For t ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Detection of Spatiotemporal Clusters of COVID-19-Associated Symptoms and Prevention Using a Participatory Surveillance App: Protocol for the @choum Study

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, David Nicolas De Ridder

Background: The early detection of clusters of infectious diseases such as the SARS-CoV-2-related COVID-19 disease can promote timely testing recommendation compliance and help to prevent disease outbreaks. Prior research revealed the potential of COVID-19 ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

Disparate temperature-dependent virus-host dynamics for SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV in the human respiratory epithelium

Bart Deplancke, Bastien Mangeat, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Julie Marie Russeil, Jörn Pezoldt, Elisa Cora, Daniel Alpern

Since its emergence in December 2019, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally and become a major public health burden. Despite its close phylogenetic relationship to SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 exhibits increased human-to- ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2021

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

Adaptive Mitigation: Identification of the Dynamic Drivers of Effective Policy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thierry Bossy

Introduction: The unprecedented speed and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the rapid implementation of untested public health measures to mitigate the consequences of viral spread. In the 8 months that have passed since the first recognized case ...

2020

Multidisciplinary Approach to Treat Erectile Dysfunction

Mikaël Nils Sturny

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a widespread disease affecting approximately 20% of men. With a rising incidence due to the global ageing of the world population, it is estimated that over 322 million patients will be affected in 2025. While not being a lifet ...

EPFL2020

Expert recommendation from the Swiss Amyloidosis Network (SAN) for systemic AL-amyloidosis

Andrea Cavalli, Alessio Mylonas, Martin Meyer

Systemic amyloidosis is a heterogeneous group of diseases associated with protein misfolding into insoluble beta-sheet rich structures that deposit extracellularly in different organs, eventually compromising their function. There are more than 30 differen ...

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2020

Food Action: A Pilot Program for more Sustainable Food Habits

Food is a critical global resource that impacts all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and a huge contributor to both problems (climate, environment, health) and solutions. The Food Action project engaged 5 countries in developing and testing a pr ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

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