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Lifestyle Evaluation Using Wearable Technologies: Opportunities for Stroke Patients

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Fabien Massé

Stroke is the leading cause of disabilities in the western world and may cause severe motor impairments. In the current clinical practice, progress during physical rehabilitation is assessed by a therapist for specific motor functions and through questionn ...

Springer2013

Speaking Swiss: Languages and Venues in Foursquare

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

Due to increasing globalization, urban societies are becoming more multicultural. The availability of large-scale digital mobility traces e.g. from tweets or checkins provides an opportunity to explore multiculturalism that until recently could only be add ...

2013

Contemporary Architecture of Iran

Notions of identity, culture, tradition and history are key to understanding the contemporary architecture of Iran. Darab Diba explains how the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 broke with an approach that for almost two centuries had d ...

2012

Anti-angiogenic treatment for exudative age-related macular degeneration: new strategies are underway

Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska

Exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in elderly people in the western world. Recent developments in the field yielded vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) targeted strategies that caused a revolution in th ...

2012

The gendering of global citizenship: findings from a large-scale quantitative study on global citizenship education experiences

Roland John Tormey

The growing literature on the gendering of citizenship and citizenship education highlights that western notions of ‘citizenship’ have often been framed in a way that implicitly excludes women. At the same time, insofar as feminist writers have addressed c ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2012

New Vernacular Architecture as Appropriate Strategy for Housing the Poor

Sytse de Maat

Improving living conditions of the poor often involves a drastic change in lifestyle, in order to fit daily life into industrially produced dwellings. Slum rehabilitation programs replacing informal settlements with standardized mass housing, have often re ...

Springer Verlag2012

New Vernacular Architecture as Appropriate Strategy for Housing the Poor

Sytse de Maat

Springer Verlag2012

Probabilistic Model Falsification for Infrastructure Diagnosis

James-Alexandre Goulet

Most infrastructure in the western world was built in the second half of the 20th century. Transportation structures, water distribution networks and energy production systems are now aging and this leads to safety and serviceability issues. In situations ...

EPFL2012

Comfort and Technologies: From the Individual’s Needs to Cleantech

Marilyne Andersen

The Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) is one of the two (ultimately five) ‘mirror’ labs for the EPFL Middle East campus. Synergistic research and education initiatives are being developed with a focus on climate as a dri ...

2011

P-Rex1 is required for efficient melanoblast migration and melanoma metastasis

Friedrich Beermann, Ang Li

Metastases are the major cause of death from melanoma, a skin cancer that has the fastest rising incidence of any malignancy in the Western world. Molecular pathways that drive melanoblast migration in development are believed to underpin the movement and ...

2011

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