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Hardware / Software Architectural and Technological Exploration for Energy-Efficient and Reliable Biomedical Devices

Nowadays, the ubiquity of smart appliances in our everyday lives is increasingly strengthening the links between humans and machines. Beyond making our lives easier and more convenient, smart devices are now playing an important role in personalized health ...

EPFL2018

Detecting overlapping spatial clusters of high sugar-sweetened beverage intake and high body mass index in a general population: a cross-sectional study

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, David Nicolas De Ridder, Beatrice Bacchilega

Background: Evidence suggests that sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake frequency is positively associated with the risk of obesity and diabetes. We aimed to identify populations and areas in high need for interventions to reduce SSB consumption using a f ...

2018

Fatigue as the missing link between bone fragility and fracture

Dominique Pioletti, Vincent Stadelmann, Claire Acevedo

The prevention of fragility fractures in bone—pathologic fractures resulting from daily activity and mostly occurring in the elderly population—has been a long-term clinical quest. Recent research indicating that falls in the elderly might be the conse- qu ...

2018

Mobile Health Applications to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing

Kamiar Aminian

The European population is ageing, and there is a need for health solutions that keep older adults independent longer. With increasing access to mobile technology, such as smartphones and smartwatches, the development and use of mobile health applications ...

Mdpi Ag2017

Cross-Border Life in Europe: Daily Mobility in the Trinational Metropolis of Basel

Yann Francis Eric Dubois

In Europe about 2 million people work and live in two different countries. While at the European scale cross-border workers only account for a limited portion of the working-age population, in some regions cross-border work takes a huge importance. In thes ...

2017

Insiders and Outsiders: Comparing Urban Impressions between Population Groups

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

There is a growing interest in social and urban computing to employ crowdsourcing as means to gather impressions of urban perception for indoor and outdoor environments. Previous studies have established that reliable estimates of urban perception can be o ...

ACM2017

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF A PATIENT SPECIFIC FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR SHOULDER ARTHOPLASTY

Gerard Guell Bartrina

Background Glenohumeral osteoarthritis is common degenerative disease within the elderly population, which causes pain and reduced mobility. In advanced cases, total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is usually performed. Although TSA is an established procedure ...

2017

Experimental evolution of slowed cognitive aging in Drosophila melanogaster

Brian Dennis Hollis

Reproductive output and cognitive performance decline in parallel during aging, but it is unknown whether this reflects a shared genetic architecture or merely the declining force of natural selection acting independently on both traits. We used experiment ...

2017

Rural Electrification Trajectories

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Renewable-energy (RE)-based rural electrification is essential for achieving Sustainable Energy for All (S4All). According to the International Energy Agency’s 2016 World Energy Outlook, over 95% of the population who do not have access to electricity—abou ...

2017

THE GOOD GROWTH PLAN FARM NETWORK – MONITORING RESOURCE EFFICIENCY OF CROP PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

The FAO estimates that food supplies need to increase by 70% to feed a growing population of 9 billion people by 2050. The changes in agricultural practices required to grow more tend to exert higher demand on resources and put eco-system services at risk ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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