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LaboratoryRelated publications (32)
Designing self-tracking experiences: A qualitative study of the perceptions of barriers and facilitators to adopting digital health technology for automatic urine analysis at home
Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Margherita Motta, Andrea Regula Schneider
Self-tracking technologies open new doors to previously unimaginable scenarios. The diagnosis of diseases years in advance, or supporting the health of astronauts on missions to Mars are just some of many example applications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
2023Optimized numerical solutions of SIRDVW multiage model controlling SARS-CoV-2 vaccine roll out: An application to the Italian scenario
Alfio Quarteroni, Nicola Parolini
In the context of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, mathematical modelling has played a funda-mental role for making forecasts, simulating scenarios and evaluating the impact of pre-ventive political, social and pharmaceutical measures. Optimal control theory represent ...
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD2023Preliminary evidence that daily light exposure enhances the antibody response to influenza vaccination in patients with dementia
Enhancing lighting conditions in institutions for individuals with dementia improves their sleep, circadian rhythms and well-being. Here, we report first findings that exposure to brighter light during daytime may support the immune response to the annual ...
ELSEVIER2022Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Shi Chen
In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increase the ri ...
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2022Modeling infectious disease dynamics towards informed public health interventions, with applications on COVID-19 and cholera
Emerging and existing infectious diseases pose a constant threat to individuals and communities across the world. In many cases, the burden of these diseases is preventable through public health interventions. However, taking the right decisions and design ...
EPFL2021On the use of applied machine learning and digital infrastructure to leverage social media data in health and epidemiology
The quantification of population-level health behaviors is crucial for guiding public health policy. However, traditional methods for measuring such health behaviors have several short- comings. In recent years social media data has been successfully used ...
EPFL2021Quasi-Global Momentum: Accelerating Decentralized Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Data
Martin Jaggi, Sebastian Urban Stich, Tao Lin, Sai Praneeth Reddy Karimireddy
Decentralized training of deep learning models is a key element for enabling data privacy and on-device learning over networks. In realistic learning scenarios, the presence of heterogeneity across different clients' local datasets poses an optimization ch ...
JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH2021Contact networks across ages: computational analysis of epidemiological dynamics
For decades mathematical modeling in epidemiology has helped understanding the dynamics of infectious diseases, as well as describe possible intervention scenarios to prevent and control them. However, such models were relying on several assumptions, such ...
EPFL2020Enhancing daily light exposure increases the antibody response to influenza vaccination in patients with dementia
Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Mirjam Münch
Enhancing lighting conditions in institutions for individuals with dementia improves their sleep, circadian rhythms and well-being. Here, we tested whether a greater long-term daily light exposure supports the immune response to the annual influenza vaccin ...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press2020Keep calm and carry on vaccinating: Is anti-vaccination sentiment contributing to declining vaccine coverage in England?
Background: In England, coverage for childhood vaccines have decreased since 2012/13 in the context of an increasingly visible anti-vaccination discourse. We determined whether anti-vaccination sentiment is the likely cause of this decline in coverage. Met ...
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