The burdens by Jessica Noske-Turner

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The nutritional dual-burden in developing countries - how is it assessed and what are the health implications? by Maria Ines Varela Silva, Federico Dickinson, Hannah J. Wilson, Hugo Azcorra, Paula Griffiths, Barry Bogin

“…In this paper we aim: a) to describe the different types of nutritional dual-burden, b) to identify the anthropometric indicators generally used to classify the nutritional dual-burden, c) to focus our attention on a dual-burden group (the Maya from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico), d) to illustrate problems in the categorization of the dual-burden, and e) to suggest possible health implications. …”
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Evaluation of a computer-aided detection (CAD)-enhanced 2D synthetic mammogram: comparison with standard synthetic 2D mammograms and conventional 2D digital mammography by Jonathan James, E. Giannotti, Yan Chen

“…Consequently there has been much interest in the generation of synthetic 2D mammograms from the DBT data set eliminating the additional radiation burden of a separate 2D digital mammogram. …”
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The good, the bad and the ugly: Reflections on obtaining a PhD in Healthcare Systems Design amid the COVID-19 pandemic by Cecilia Landa-Avila

“…This paper presents a reflection on the experience of obtaining a PhD degree in Participatory Healthcare Systems amid the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Federated learning enabled link scheduling in D2D wireless networks by Tianrui Chen, Xinruo Zhang, Minglei You, Gan Zheng, Sangarapillai Lambotharan

“…Centralized machine learning methods for device-to-device (D2D) link scheduling may lead to a computing burden for a central server, transmission latency for decisions, and privacy issues for D2D communications. …”
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A combined D-optimal and estimability model-based design of experiments of a batch cooling crystallization process by Xuming Yuan, Brahim Benyahia

“…The approach is also critical to determine the minimum set of required observable outputs and help discriminate model candidates. A novel Model-Based Design of Experiments (MBDoE) is then proposed based on the combination of the D-optimality criterion and the estimability analysis. …”
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Towards a large scale European Naturalistic Driving study: final report of PROLOGUE: deliverable D4.2 by Ingrid van Schagen, Ruth Welsh, Agatha Backer-Grondahl, Marika Hoedemaeker, Tsippy Lotan, Andrew Morris, Fridulv Sagberg, Martin Winkelbauer

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Visualising network security attacks with multiple 3D visualisation and false alert classification by Shahrulniza Musa

“…The prototype software incorporates various projections of the alert data in 3D displays. The overview was plotted in a 3D plot named as "time series 3D AlertGraph" which was an extension of the 2D histographs into 3D. …”
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Robust filtering for 2-D systems with uncertain-variance noises and weighted try-once-discard protocols by Fan Wang, Jinling Liang, James Lam, Jun Yang, Chang Zhao

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Multi-agent reinforcement learning based 3D trajectory design in aerial-terrestrial wireless caching networks by Yu-Jia Chen, Kai-Min Liao, Meng-Lin Ku, Fung Po Tso, Guan-Yi Chen

“…This paper investigates a dynamic 3D trajectory design of multiple cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wireless device-to-device (D2D) caching network with the goal of maximizing the long-term network throughput. …”
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Practical guidelines for the registration and monitoring of serious traffic injuries, D7.1 of the H2020 project SafetyCube by Katherine Perez, Wendy Weijermars, Emmanuelle Amoros, Robert Bauer, Niels Bos, Emmanuelle Dupont, Ashleigh Filtness, Sjoerd Houwing, Heiko Johannsen, B. Leskovsek, Klaus Machata, Jean-Louis Martin, Nina Nuyttens, M. Olabarria, Lea Pascal, W. Van den Berghe

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Crashes also cause numerous serious traffic injuries, resulting in considerable economic and human costs. Given the burden of injury produced by traffic, using only fatalities as an indicator to monitor road safety gives a very small picture of the health impact of traffic crashes, just the tip of the iceberg. …”
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Information needs of children of a parent with cancer by Suzanie Mat Saat

“…The burden of caregiving and the consequences of a lack of information were greater than anticipated; children had many dimensions of concern and experienced many challenges. …”
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Manufacturing and the Great War by Wayne D. Osborne

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How do food safety concerns affect consumer behaviors and diets in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review by Julia Liguori, Ursula Trübswasser, Rebecca Pradeilles, Agnès Le Port, Edwige Landais, Elise F Talsma, Mark Lundy, Christophe Béné, Nicolas Bricas, Amos Laar, Marie Josèphe Amiot, Inge D Brouwer, Michelle Holdsworth

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Non-technical electricity losses by D Carr, Murray Thomson

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Development constraints: the public library sector in Malaysia by D.E.K. Wijasuriya

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Distributional uncertainty analysis using polynomial chaos expansions by Zoltan Nagy, Richard D. Braatz

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A community-based motivational personalised lifestyle intervention to reduce BMI in obese adolescents: results from the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) randomised con... by Deborah Christie, Lee D. Hudson, Sanjay Kinra, Ian Chi Kei Wong, Irwin Nazareth, Tim J. Cole, Ulla Sovio, John Gregson, Anthony S. Kessel, Anne Mathiot, Stephen Morris, Monica Panca, Silvia Costa, Rebecca Holt, Russell M. Viner

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A framework for synthetic image generation and augmentation for improving automatic sewer pipe defect detection by ChunFai Siu, Mingzhu Wang, Jack C.P. Cheng

“…First, synthetic images of sewer pipes are generated by 3D modeling and simulation in virtual environment. …”
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Design for environment analyses applied to rapid manufacturing by Neil Hopkinson, Y. Gao, D.J. McAfee

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Piecewise constant model predictive control for autonomous helicopters by Cunjia Liu, Wen-Hua Chen, J.D. Andrews

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Optimised sensor configurations with reduced order controllers applied to an EMS system by Konstantinos Michail, Yimin Zhou, Argyrios C. Zolotas, Roger Goodall, G.D. Halikias

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Potentiating cutaneous wound healing in young and aged skin with nutraceutical collagen peptides by K Mistry, B van der Steen, Tom Clifford, F van Holthoon, A Kleinnijenhuis, J Prawitt, M Labus, B Vanhoecke, PE Lovat, A McConnell

“…Background Chronic wounds continue to be a burden to healthcare systems with ageing linked to increased prevalence of chronic wound development. …”
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Making the case for improved planning, construction and testing of water supply infrastructure in Malawi by Nick Mannix, J. Norrie, F. Paterson, Muthi Nhlema, P. Mleta, M. Nkhata, G. Wanangwa, Save Kumwenda, D. Clarke, Robert M. Kalin

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Klinefelter syndrome, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes: review of literature and clinical perspectives by Andrea Salzano, Roberta D'Assante, Liam Heaney, Federica Monaco, Giuseppe Rengo, Pietro Valente, Daniela Pasquali, Eduardo Bossone, Daniele Gianfrilli, Andrea Lenzi, Antonio Cittadini, Alberto M. Marra, Raffaele Napoli

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Acceptability of linking individual credit, financial and public records data to healthcare records for suicide risk machine learning models by Robert B Penfold, Hong Il Yoo, Julie Richards, Norah L Crossnohere, Eric Johnson, Chester J Pabiniak, Anne D Renz, Nicola B Campoamor, Gregory E Simon, John FP Bridges

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Study protocol: MyoFit46—the cardiac sub-study of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development by Matthew Webber, Debbie Falconer, Mashael AlFarih, George Joy, Fiona Chan, Clare Davie, Lee Hamill Howes, Andrew Wong, Alicja Rapala, Anish Bhuva, Rhodri H Davies, Christopher Morton, Jazmin Aguado-Sierra, Mariano Vazquez, Xuyuan Tao, Gunther Krausz, Slobodan Tanackovic, Christoph Guger, Hui Xue, Peter Kellman, Iain Pierce, Jonathan Schott, Rebecca Hardy, Nishi Chaturvedi, Yoram Rudy, James C Moon, Pier D Lambiase, Michele Orini, Alun D Hughes, Gabriella Captur

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Progression of cardiovascular risk factors in black Africans: 3 year follow up of the SABPA cohort study by Mark Hamer, Roland von Kanel, Manja Reimann, Nico T. Malan, Alta E. Schutte, Hugo W. Huisman, Leone Malan

“…Blacks demonstrated a substantially higher prevalence of composite CVD burden (defined as history of physician diagnosed heart disease, use of anti-hypertensives, anti-diabetic, or statin medications at either time point) compared to whites (49.1 vs. 32.0%, p ¼ 0.012) respectively. …”
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An exploratory study of road crash survivors: injury outcomes and quality of life by Jo Barnes

“…The overall aims of this PhD were to examine what the real effects of injury are on survivors of road crashes and to explore the methods used to assess these effects. …”
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The need for advanced three-dimensional neural models and developing enabling technologies by Daniel Merryweather, Paul Roach

“…Neurological and psychiatric disorders account for an increasing proportion of the global disease burden. Correspondingly the neuropharmaceutical industry has experienced a significant contraction in recent years resulting in a poor variety of therapies available to treat an expanding range of conditions. …”
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Improving dispute resolution on construction projects in Kuwait by Talib Sayed-Gharib, Andrew Price, Wayne Lord

“…These disputes add little value to a construction project but increase the cost burden on different parties when taken to arbitration or litigation. …”
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Digital process design to define and deliver pharmaceutical particle attributes by Stephanie J Urwin, Magdalene WS Chong, Wei Li, John McGinty, Bhavik Mehta, Sara Ottoboni, Momina Pathan, Elke Prasad, Murray Robertson, Mark McGowan, Mais al-Attili, Ekaterina Gramadnikova, Mariam Siddique, Ian Houson, Helen Feilden, Brahim Benyahia, Cameron J Brown, Gavin W Halbert, Blair Johnston, Alison Nordon, Chris J Price, Chris Rielly, Jan Sefcik, Alastair J Florence

“…A digital-first approach to produce quality particles of an active pharmaceutical ingredient across crystallisation, washing and drying is presented, minimising material requirements and experimental burden during development. …”
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Robotic learning of force-based industrial manipulation tasks by Ali Al-Yacoub

“…The third challenge was to learn a human-robot co-manipulation task based on LfD. …”
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Group-based atrous convolution stereo matching network by Qijie Zou, Jing Yu, Hui Fang, Jing Qin, Jie Zhang, Shengkai Liu

“…However, 3D CNN makes a great burden on memory storage and computation, which further leads to the significantly increased computation time. …”
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Development of new high-performance simulation approaches for multi-level urban flood modelling by Qian Li

“…This new junction simulation method is then coupled with the widely used two-component pressure approach (TPA) for pipe flow calculation, leading to a new integrated drainage network model. The developed 1D-2D coupled drainage network model is validated against an experimental and several idealised test cases to demonstrate its potential for efficient and stable simulation of flow dynamics in drainage networks.   …”
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Bioprocessing of bacteriophages and bacteriocins: continuous culture and downstream purification by Francesco Mancuso

“…Different Diiiwere tested, from 0.1 to 0.6 h-1 and the independent control of the dilution rate of the first and the second reactor allowed to produce phage lysates at the same concentrations as in batch process, reaching a constant production of 2x1011 PFU mL-1 when D = 0.5 h-1 was used in the first reactor.Moreover, research on the downstream process of phage bioprocessing was conducted, aiming to reduce the host cell protein burden from phage samples using scalable techniques. …”
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Numerical and physical analysis of liquid break-up and atomisation relating to pressure-swirl gasoline direct injection by Andrew Heather

“…This paved the way to a detailed 3-D transient analysis of the near-nozzle region of a pressure-swirl injector. …”
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Identification of key risk factors related to serious road injuries and their health impacts, deliverable 7.4 of the H2020 project SafetyCube by Steven Reed, Laurie Brown, Wendy Weijermars, Niels Bos, M. Boele, H. Korving, Michael Jaensch, Heiko Johannsen, M. von der Geest, C. Perez, E. Santamarina, Jean-Louis Martin, Robert Bauer, Klaus Machata

“…This recommendation is addressed through the identification of crashrelated causation and contributory factors for selected groups of casualties with relatively many MAIS3+ casualties compared to fatalities and groups with a relatively high burden of injury of MAIS3+ casualties. …”
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Unfamiliar facial identity registration and recognition performance enhancement by Mohamad Z. Adam

“…However, the variation reduction on 2D facial images may result in loss of important clues or UCI data for a particular face alternatively increasing the UCI may also increase the image variation. …”
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Effects of home confinement on mental health and lifestyle behaviours during the COVID-19 outbreak: insights from the ECLB-COVID19 multicenter study by Achraf Ammar, Khaled Trabelsi, Michael Brach, Hamdi Chtourou, Omar Boukhris, Liwa Masmoudi, Bassem Bouaziz, Ellen Bentlage, Daniella How, Mona Ahmed, Patrick Mueller, Notger Mueller, Omar Hammouda, Laisa Paineiras-Domingos, Annemarie Braakman-jansen, Christian Wrede, Sophia Bastoni, Carlos Pernambuco, Leonardo Mataruna, Morteza Taheri, Khadijeh Irandoust, Aïmen Khacharem, Nicola Bragazzi, Jana Strahler, Jad Adrian, Albina Andreeva, Jordan Glenn, Nicholas Bott, Faiez Gargouri, Lotfi Chaari, Hadj Batatia, Samira Khoshnami, Evangelia Samara, Vasiliki Zisi, Parasanth Sankar, Waseem Ahmed, Gamal Ali, Osama Abdelkarim, Mohamed Jarraya, Kais El Abed, Wassim Moalla, Mohamed Romdhani, Asma Aloui, Nizar Souissi, Lisette Van GemertPijnen, Bryan Riemann, Laurel Riemann, Jan Delhey, Jonathan Gómez-Raja, Monique Epstein, Robbert Sanderman, Sebastian Schulz, Achim Jerg, Ramzi Al-Horani, Taysir Mansi, Mohamed Jmail, Fernando Barbosa, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Boštjan Šimunič, Rado Pišot, Saša Pišot, Andrea Gaggioli, Piotr Zmijewski, Stephen Bailey, Jürgen Steinacker, Karim Chamari, Tarak Driss, Anita Hoekelmann

“…The COVID-19 home confinement evoked a negative effect on mental wellbeing and emotional status (P < 0.001; 0.43 ≤ d ≤ 0.65) with a greater proportion of individuals experiencing psychosocial and emotional disorders (+10% to +16.5%). …”
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The effect of short-term excessive dietary fat intake on subcutaneous white adipose tissue nuclear factor-κB inflammatory signalling by Rebecca Dewhurst-Trigg

“…In Chapter 6, a 7-d hyperenergetic (150% estimated energy requirement), high-fat (65% total fat) diet was employed to assess WAT NF-κB inflammatory, and systemic metabolic and inflammatory responses in the development of obesity. …”
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