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Energy Challenges in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler

Energy needs at the global level are gigantic and steadily increasing while the need to reduce carbon emissions is vital if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. In the Global South, a large part of the population still lacks access to energy, whic ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Transport of gaseous pollutants by convective boundary layer around a human body

Dusan Licina

This study investigates the ability of the human convective boundary layer to transport pollution in a quiescent indoor environment. The impact of the source location in the vicinity of a human body is examined in relation to pollution distribution in the ...

2015

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

Health and (Other) Asset Holdings

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Despite clear evidence of correlations between financial and medical statuses and decisions, most models treat financial and health-related choices separately. This paper bridges this gap by proposing a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determinati ...

2013

Health and (Other) Asset Holdings

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Despite clear evidence of correlations between financial and medical statuses and decisions, most models treat financial and health-related choices separately. This article bridges this gap by proposing a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determina ...

Oxford Univ Press2013

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

Martin Kussmann, Sofia Moco, Sebastiano Collino

Elsevier Ireland Ltd2013

Safety Management of Nanomaterials

Thierry Meyer, Arnaud Magrez, Amela Groso

In this work, we present a practical and engineering risk management procedure for a university-wide safety and health management of nanomaterials, developed as a multi-stakeholder effort (government, accident insurance, researchers and experts for occupat ...

2012

Sensing the air we breathe - The OpenSense Zurich dataset

Boi Faltings, Jingshi Li

Monitoring and managing urban air pollution is a significant challenge for the sustainability of our environment. We quickly survey the air pollution modeling problem, introduce a new dataset of mobile air quality measurements in Zurich, and discuss the ch ...

2012

Nanosystems: sensors and electronics for rational health monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli

Smart micro/nano systems will foster a revolution in health and environmental management, with the final objective of improving security and quality of life. At the same time, they will create a large market of components and systems, and a renewed perspec ...

2011

Management of nanomaterials safety in research environment

Thierry Meyer, Arnaud Magrez, Amela Groso, Alke Fink

Despite numerous discussions, workshops, reviews and reports about responsible development of nanotechnology, information describing health and environmental risk of engineered nanoparticles or nanomaterials is severely lacking and thus insufficient for co ...

BioMed Central2010