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Journal of Migration and Health, 2023 Introduction: Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic the scientific community had expressed its concerns about increased transmission of the virus within asylum seeker accommodation centers due to substandard living conditions and poor sanitation ...
Zisimangelos Solomos +5 more
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PMS2 variant results in loss of ATPase activity without compromising mismatch repair
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2022 Hereditary cancer syndromes account for approximately 5%–10% of all diagnosed cancer cases. Lynch syndrome (LS) is an autosomal dominant hereditary cancer condition that predisposes individuals to an elevated lifetime risk for developing colorectal ...
Brandon M. D'Arcy +8 more
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Evaluating RGB channels in remote photoplethysmography: a comparative study with contact-based PPG
Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) provides a non-contact method for measuring blood volume changes. In this study, we compared rPPG signals obtained from video cameras with traditional contact-based photoplethysmography (cPPG) to assess the ...
Rodrigo Castellano Ontiveros +5 more
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The use of deep learning for smartphone-based human activity recognition
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 The emerging field of digital phenotyping leverages the numerous sensors embedded in a smartphone to better understand its user's current psychological state and behavior, enabling improved health support systems for patients.
Tristan Stampfler +4 more
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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li +6 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser +6 more
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Identifying unique spectral fingerprints in cough sounds for diagnosing respiratory ailments
Scientific ReportsCoughing, a prevalent symptom of many illnesses, including COVID-19, has led researchers to explore the potential of cough sound signals for cost-effective disease diagnosis.
Syrine Ghrabli +2 more
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Retinal Vessel Segmentation Based on B-COSFIRE Filters in Fundus Images
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Retinal vessel extraction plays an important role in the diagnosis of several medical pathologies, such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. In this article, we propose an efficient method based on a B-COSFIRE filter to tackle two challenging problems ...
Wenjing Li +10 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher +8 more
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Leveraging body dielectric polarization for ambient electromagnetic energy recovery via e-textile
Nature CommunicationsAmbient electromagnetic energy surrounds us in daily life and holds great potential for powering the future distributed wearable electronics. However, current electromagnetic energy harvesting methods suffer from reflection losses and parasitic effects ...
Yuanlong Li +3 more
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