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Towards edible robots and robotic food

Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Markéta Pankhurst, Jun Shintake

Edible robots and robotic food — edible systems that perceive, process and act upon stimulation — could open a new range of opportunities in health care, environmental management and the promotion of healthier eating habits. For example, they could enable ...

2024

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

Mathias Lerch

Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

ERS International Congress 2022: highlights from the Respiratory Clinical Care and Physiology Assembly

Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

It is a challenge to keep abreast of all the clinical and scientific advances in the field of respiratory medicine. This article contains an overview of the laboratory-based science, clinical trials and qualitative research that were presented during the 2 ...

EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD2023

Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns: Case Study of Bugesera District, Rwanda

Jérôme Chenal, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Rim Mrani

Rural mobility in Africa is an under-researched issue. Rural communities have often suffered from reduced mobility that has hampered their access to essential services and facilities such as education, health care, food, and clean water. In many rural comm ...

2023

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

Drazen Dujic, Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

Condition health monitoring strategies applied to different power electronics applications are gaining popularity as early component degradation detection can trigger preventive maintenance actions before a significant fault occurs. In highly modular conve ...

2022

Sex Differences in Comorbidity Combinations in the Swedish Population

Patrick Karl Alois Neff

High comorbidity rates, especially mental-physical comorbidity, constitute an increasing health care burden, with women and men being differentially affected. To gain an overview of comorbidity rates stratified by sex across a range of different conditions ...

MDPI2022

Spatial analysis of the Healthy Built Environment: an application on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the canton of Geneva

Andrea Salmi

Most of the world population lives in urban areas, the share of the urban population is estimated to increase in the future decades. The complexity of different land uses and services in urban areas, which composes the built environment, influences human h ...

EPFL2022

Modified full-face snorkel masks as reusable personal protective equipment for hospital personnel

Patrick Gerber, Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle, Nitin Arora

Here we adapt and evaluate a full-face snorkel mask for use as personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers, who lack appropriate alternatives during the COVID-19 crisis in the spring of 2020. The design (referred to as Pneumask) consists of ...

2021

Closing down the shop: Optimal health and wealth dynamics near the end of life

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Near the end of life, health declines, mortality risk increases, and curative care is replaced by uninsured long-term care, accelerating the fall in wealth. Whereas standard explanations emphasize inevitable aging processes, we propose a complementary clos ...

WILEY2020

Super-elastic multi-material optical fibers for health-care applications

Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Alexis Gérald Page, Yunpeng Qu, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Andreas Leber, Nicola Bartolomei

Stretchable optical and electronic fibers constitute increasingly important building blocks for a myriad of applications, particularly in robotics, soft prosthesis, surgical tools and implants, and smart medical textiles. The integration of multi-material ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Cyber-Medical Systems: Requirements, Components and Design Examples

Giovanni De Micheli

Cyber-medical systems will produce a major revolution in health care, by both raising the quality of care and reducing its cost, thus reaching an important social and economic goal. The evolution of electronic devices and systems has already enabled societ ...

2017

Nano-Tera.ch: Information Technology for Health, Environment, and Energy

Giovanni De Micheli, Martin Rajman, Patrick Mayor

Bettering human health care and creating a sustainable environment through monitoring and smart energy usage are primary goals of advanced societies. To this purpose, the Swiss Government, through the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovati ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Ultra-Low Power Ion-Sensing Smart Platform for Noninvasive Healthcare Applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Francesco Bellando, Amira Muhech Medrano

The development of nanotechnologies, and the advent of micro/nano-sensors with novel functionalities integrated on flexible substrates, has opened the way to the development of wearable technology. Interest in wearable technology comes from the considerabl ...

2016

Anomaly detection in elderly daily behavior in ambient sensing environments

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Oya Aran, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

Current ubiquitous computing applications for smart homes aim to enhance people’s daily living respecting age span. Among the target groups of people, elderly are a population eager for “choices for living arrangements”, which would allow them to continue ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

NANO-TERA.CH: Electronic Technology for Health Management

Giovanni De Micheli

The Swiss Nano-Tera.ch program addresses – among others – issues at the intersection of engineering and medical domains. Specifically, electronic-health (or E-Health) is a broad area of engineering that leverages transducer, circuit and systems technologie ...

2015

Integrated Electronics to Control and Readout Electrochemical Biosensors for Implantable Applications

Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

Biosensors can effectively be used to monitor multiple metabolites such as glucose, lactate, ATP and drugs in the human body. Continuous monitoring of these metabolites is essential for patients with chronic or critical conditions. Moreover, this can be us ...

EPFL2015

Cholera in the Lake Kivu region (DRC): Integrating remote sensing and spatially explicit epidemiological modeling

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Flavio Finger, Allyn Christine Knox, Marino Gatto

Mathematical models of cholera dynamics can not only help in identifying environmental drivers and processes that influence disease transmission, but may also represent valuable tools for the prediction of the epidemiological patterns in time and space as ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Design of Dexterous Mechanical Systems for Intuitive Telemanipulation in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira

Major progress in abdominal surgery has occurred over the last decades with the introduction of laparoscopic and minimally invasive techniques in the operating room. These innovative procedures attracted much attention due to several advantages: the need f ...

EPFL2013