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nano-tera.ch: Electronic Technology for Health Management

Giovanni De Micheli

The Swiss Nano-Tera.ch program addresses – among others – issues at the crossing of engineering and medical domains. Specifically, electronic-health (or E-Health) is a broad area of engineering that leverages transducer, circuit and systems technologies fo ...

2015

E-Health: From Sensors to Systems

Giovanni De Micheli

Electronic-health or E-health is a broad area of engineering that leverages transducer, circuit and systems technologies for applications to health management and lifestyle. Scientific challenges relate to the acquisition of accurate medical information fr ...

IEEE2015

E-Health: From Sensors to Systems

Giovanni De Micheli

2015

Integrated Electronics to Control and Readout Electrochemical Biosensors for Implantable Applications

Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

Biosensors can effectively be used to monitor multiple metabolites such as glucose, lactate, ATP and drugs in the human body. Continuous monitoring of these metabolites is essential for patients with chronic or critical conditions. Moreover, this can be us ...

EPFL2015

Cholera in the Lake Kivu region (DRC): Integrating remote sensing and spatially explicit epidemiological modeling

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Flavio Finger, Allyn Christine Knox, Marino Gatto

Mathematical models of cholera dynamics can not only help in identifying environmental drivers and processes that influence disease transmission, but may also represent valuable tools for the prediction of the epidemiological patterns in time and space as ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Parameter and uncertainty estimation for mechanistic, spatially explicit epidemiological models

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Bettina Schaefli, Lorenzo Mari, Flavio Finger

Epidemiological models can be a crucially important tool for decision-making during disease outbreaks. The range of possible applications spans from real-time forecasting and allocation of health-care resources to testing alterna- tive intervention mechani ...

2014

Reprint of: Musculoskeletal system in the old age and the demand for healthy ageing biomarkers

Martin Kussmann, Sofia Moco, Sebastiano Collino

Population ageing has emerged as a major demographic trend worldwide due to improved health and longevity. This global ageing phenomenon will have a major impact on health-care systems worldwide due to increased morbidity and greater needs for hospitalizat ...

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2014

Measuring and Controlling Energy Consumption of Sensor networks

Bin Lu

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is built of two types of nodes: regular sensor nodes and base stations. The regular sensor nodes monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, etc. and cooperatively pass their data thro ...

2014

New antituberculosis drugs, regimens, and adjunct therapies: needs, advances, and future prospects

Stewart Cole

About 1.3 million people died of tuberculosis in 2012, despite availability of effective drug treatment. Barriers to improvements in outcomes include long treatment duration (resulting in poor patient adherence and loss of patients to follow-up), complex r ...

Elsevier Science Inc2014

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