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Using Negative Control Populations to Assess Unmeasured Confounding and Direct Effects

Sometimes treatment effects are absent in a subgroup of the population. For example, penicillin has no effect on severe symptoms in individuals infected by resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and codeine has no effect on pain in individuals with certain polym ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2024

Experimental data-driven model predictive control of a hospital HVAC system during regular use

Colin Neil Jones, Christophe Salzmann, Emilio Maddalena

Herein we report a multi-zone, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) control case study of an industrial plant responsible for cooling a hospital surgery center. The adopted approach to guaranteeing thermal comfort and reducing electrical energy ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Computational Approaches for Studying Dietary Behaviors with Digital Traces

Kristina Gligoric

Human nutrition and dietary habits shape our health, daily life, societies, the environment, and life on earth in general. However, it remains challenging to understand and attempt to change dietary behaviors using traditional methods due to measurement an ...

EPFL2022

The effects of model complexity and size on metabolic flux distribution and control: case study in Escherichia coli

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Georgios Fengos, Tuure Eelis Hameri

Background Significant efforts have been made in building large-scale kinetic models of cellular metabolism in the past two decades. However, most kinetic models published to date, remain focused around central carbon pathways or are built around ad hoc re ...

BMC2021

Advantages of patient-specific cutting guides with disposable instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty: a case control study

BackgroundTotal knee arthroplasty (TKA) is most frequently planned using conventional two-dimensional weight-bearing lower limb radiographs and is performed with conventional femoral and tibial cutting guides. Questions have been raised about the accuracy ...

BMC2021

Enhancing general spatial skills of young visually impaired people with a programmable distance discrimination training: a case control study

Herbert Shea, Juan José Zarate

Background The estimation of relative distance is a perceptual task used extensively in everyday life. This important skill suffers from biases that may be more pronounced when estimation is based on haptics. This is especially true for the blind and visua ...

BMC2019

Weight Loss Directly Influences Intermediate-Term Remission of Diabetes Mellitus After Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Case-Control Study

Purpose Roux en Y gastric bypass surgery (RYGB) is an effective therapy for patients with severe obesity. It induces both significant weight loss and rapid improvements of metabolic complications. This study was undertaken to better define the direct role ...

2019

Assessing the reliability of ecotoxicological studies: An overview of current needs and approaches

In general, reliable studies are well designed and well performed, and enough details on study design and performance are reported to assess the study. For hazard and risk assessment in various legal frameworks, many different types of ecotoxicity studies ...

2017

A methodology for designing flexible multi-generation systems

Adriano Viana Ensinas, Christoffer Lythcke-Jørgensen

An FMG (flexible multi-generation system) consists of integrated and flexibly operated facilities that provide multiple links between the various layers of the energy system. FMGs may facilitate integration and balancing of fluctuating renewable energy sou ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Spatio-temporal gait analysis in children with cerebral palsy using foot-worn inertial sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Benoît Mariani

A child's natural gait pattern may be affected by the gait laboratory environment. Wearable devices using body-worn sensors have been developed for gait analysis. The purpose of this study was to validate and explore the use of foot-worn inertial sensors f ...

Elsevier2014

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