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Convalescent human plasma candidate reference materials protect against Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) challenge in an A129 mouse model

Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) is spread by infected ticks or direct contact with blood, tissues and fluids from infected patients or livestock. Infection with CCHFV causes severe haemorrhagic fever in humans which is fatal in up to 83 % of ...

Elsevier2024

Inactivation of influenza A virus in expiratory droplets and aerosol particles and the associated physicochemical drivers

Aline Laetitia Schaub

Influenza is an infectious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. Every year, it causes up to one billion cases of disease worldwide. Despite its high disease burden, the transmission pathway of influenza remains subject to debate. There is incre ...

EPFL2024

Aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven wavelengths in 10 min resolution measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Lubna Dada

This dataset contains aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven different wavelengths (babs(λ)), averaged to 10 min time resolution, measured during the year-long MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. The measurements were performed ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Phase separation in viral infections

Christina Ernst, Haohua Li

Viruses rely on the reprogramming of cellular processes to enable efficient viral replication; this often requires subcompartmentalization within the host cell. Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as a fundamental principle to organize and su ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Equivalent black carbon concentration in 10 minutes time resolution, measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Lubna Dada

This dataset contains equivalent black carbon (eBC) concentrations, averaged to 10 min time resolution, measured during the year-long MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. The measurements were performed in the Swiss container on the D-dec ...

Pangaea2022

Le Cèdre. Jean Tschumi 1951-1956

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

La découverte d'une œuvre d'art totale de Jean Tschumi, aussi célèbre que méconnue. Achevé en 1956, le siège de la Mutuelle Vaudoise à Lausanne devient rapidement le modèle de l'architecture administrative en Suisse. L'intention du maître de l'ouvrage est ...

Infolio2022

Clusters of science and health related Twitter users become more isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marcel Salathé, Martin Müller

COVID-19 represents the most severe global crisis to date whose public conversation can be studied in real time. To do so, we use a data set of over 350 million tweets and retweets posted by over 26 million English speaking Twitter users from January 13 to ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Using soft aerosolization and sampling techniques for the conservation of virus infectivity during airborne exposure experiments

Athanasios Nenes, Tamar Kohn, Kalliopi Violaki, Ghislain Gilles Jean-Michel Motos, Aline Laetitia Schaub, Shannon Christa David

Recurrent epidemic outbreaks such as the seasonal flu and the ongoing COVID-19 are disastrous events to our societies both in terms of fatalities, social and educational structures, and financial losses. The difficulty to control their spread and minimize ...

2021

Automatic detection of potential mosquito breeding sites from aerial images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles

Vitor Pessoa Colombo

The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that effective vector control measures are critical to achieving and sustaining reduction of vector-borne infectious disease incidence. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, can be an imp ...

2021

Late Fusion of the Available Lexicon and Raw Waveform-based Acoustic Modeling for Depression and Dementia Recognition

Petr Motlicek, Mathew Magimai Doss, Julian David Fritsch, Subrahmanya Pavankumar Dubagunta

Mental disorders, e.g. depression and dementia, are categorized as priority conditions according to the World Health Organization (WHO). When diagnosing, psychologists employ structured questionnaires/interviews, and different cognitive tests. Although acc ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

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