Innovation: A mindset for change
Innovation is a concept that has been an important part of the medical community for centuries. Improvements in technology and devices and pharmaceutical therapies have long depended on teams focused on innovative thinking. Institutions and companies devote significant portions of their staff and budgets toward developing and designing innovations. Methodologies have been developed to accelerate the innovative process, and architects even design spaces to support creative and collaborative activity. (Source: Heart Rhythm)
Source: Heart Rhythm - January 1, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Patricia Blake Tags: Message From The CEO Source Type: research
Japan tries, again, to stop its universities from sliding down global rankings
Twenty years ago, five universities in Japan were among the world’s top 100, according to an annual compilation by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. The University of Tokyo led the contingent in 19th place, with Kyoto University 30th.
But by this year, Tokyo had tumbled to 27th and Kyoto to 39th despite repeated efforts to keep the universities globally competitive. The other three schools dropped out of the top 100 entirely.
Now, Japan’s government has launched yet another effort to reverse the widely recognized decline. This month, lawmakers approved legislation that requires six top-ranked universities to...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - December 29, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
A system dynamics model and analytical hierarchy process: an integrated approach for achieving sustainable solid waste management system
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Dec 29. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-31534-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWaste management in low-income countries faces challenges with an average cost of $35/ton approximately 51% collection efficiency. Despite investments in treatment, processing, and recycling, the system remains unsustainable owing to poor planning and policies. The current analysis of Lahore's solid waste management (SWM) system, selected as a major city of a low-income country as a case study, focuses on collection efficiency and waste generation. However, it neglects the complex and dynamic nature of SWM systems. To ca...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - December 29, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: None Gul-E-Hina Sajjad Haydar Source Type: research
Modeling Long-Term Budgetary Impacts of Prevention: An Overview of Meta-analyses of Relationships Between Key Health Outcomes Across the Life-Course
This study describes and applies an approach to synthesizing existing literature to more fully account for these effects. This study reviewed meta-analyses in PubMed published between Jan 1, 2010 and Dec 31, 2019. The initial search included meta-analyses on the association between health risk factors, including maternal behavioral health, intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, depression, and obesity, with a later health condition. Through a snowball sampling-type approach, the endpoints of the meta-analyses identified became search terms for a subsequent search, until each health risk was connected to one of the ...
Source: The Journal of Primary Prevention - December 29, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: research
Including land management in a European carbon model with lateral transfer to the oceans
Environ Res. 2023 Dec 25:118014. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.118014. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe use of cover crops (CCs) is a promising cropland management practice with multiple benefits, notably in reducing soil erosion and increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) storage. However, the current ability to represent these factors in land surface models remains limited to small scales or simplified and lumped approaches due to the lack of a sediment-carbon erosion displacement scheme. This precludes a thorough understanding of the consequences of introducing a CC into agricultural systems. In this work, this problem was a...
Source: Environmental Research - December 27, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Arthur N Fendrich Philippe Ciais Panos Panagos Philippe Martin Marco Carozzi Bertrand Guenet Emanuele Lugato Source Type: research
Including land management in a European carbon model with lateral transfer to the oceans
Environ Res. 2023 Dec 25:118014. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.118014. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe use of cover crops (CCs) is a promising cropland management practice with multiple benefits, notably in reducing soil erosion and increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) storage. However, the current ability to represent these factors in land surface models remains limited to small scales or simplified and lumped approaches due to the lack of a sediment-carbon erosion displacement scheme. This precludes a thorough understanding of the consequences of introducing a CC into agricultural systems. In this work, this problem was a...
Source: Environmental Research - December 27, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Arthur N Fendrich Philippe Ciais Panos Panagos Philippe Martin Marco Carozzi Bertrand Guenet Emanuele Lugato Source Type: research
Sensors, Vol. 24, Pages 103: A Compact Dual-Band Millimeter Wave Antenna for Smartwatch and IoT Applications with Link Budget Estimation
Tanweer Ali
Advancement in smartwatch sensors and connectivity features demands low latency communication with a wide bandwidth. ISM bands below 6 GHz are reaching a threshold. The millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum is the solution for future smartwatch applications. Therefore, a compact dual-band antenna operating at 25.5 and 38 GHz is presented here. The characteristics mode theory (CMT) aids the antenna design process by exciting Mode 1 and 2 as well as Mode 1–3 at their respective bands. In addition, the antenna structure generates two traverse modes, TM10 and TM02, at the lower and higher frequency ...
Source: Sensors - December 24, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Parveez Shariff Bhadrvathi Ghouse Pallavi R. Mane Sangeetha Thankappan Sumangala Vasanth Kumar Puttur Sameena Pathan Vikash Kumar Jhunjhunwala Tanweer Ali Tags: Article Source Type: research
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli has embraced her leading role
When cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli learned earlier this year that President Joe Biden wanted her to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the $47.5 billion agency that is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, “I didn’t embrace it,” she says with a laugh. She was just a few months into heading NIH’s largest component, the National Cancer Institute (NCI). “My reaction was: ‘But I’m the NCI director and I have plans.’ We were accomplishing some really great things together. And it was just too soon.”
But the idea grew on her. She had gotten to know the chiefs of NIH’s 26 ot...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - December 22, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Impact of diabetes on medical costs in the pre- and postoperative year of lower extremity amputations in Belgium
Lower extremity amputations (LEAs), whether major or minor amputations, are associated with significantly reduced quality of life, high morbidity and mortality and a high financial burden [1]. In Western countries, most amputations are performed in the context of diabetic foot disease and/or peripheral arterial disease [2,3]. Data from the National Health Service in England for 2014 –2015 estimated expenditure of £837 million to £962 million on health-care costs related to foot ulceration and all amputations in individuals with diabetes, equivalent to 0.78–0.90 % of the entire health service’s budget [1]. (Source...
Source: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice - December 22, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Patrick Lauwers, Jeroen M.H. Hendriks, Kristien Wouters, Johan Vanoverloop, Herv é Avalosse, Eveline Dirinck, Frank Nobels, Belgian Amputation Group Source Type: research
Adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet and its relation with food insecurity and income in a Brazilian population-based sample
This study aimed to investigate the relation of adherence to the planetary diet with food and nutrition security status and per capita household income in a study with a representative sample of the Brazilian population. Among the data from the 2017-2018 Brazilian Household Budgets Survey (POF), the inequality indicators selected for the analysis were data on per capita household income and food and nutrition security. We also considered data on the individual food consumption of 46,164 Brazilians aged ≥ 10 years, obtained through 24-hour dietary recalls, in the National Food Survey, conducted with the POF 2017-2018. The...
Source: Cadernos de Saude Publica - December 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mariana Alves Ferreira Alexsandro Macedo Silva Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni Eduardo De Carli Source Type: research
Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and design assurance process in the context of mitigation of design errors during the development of highly integrated and complex aerospace systems
An Acad Bras Cienc. 2023 Dec 22;95(suppl 2):e20220859. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202320220859. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTOver the years, aircraft and spacecraft designs incorporated highly integrated and/or complex systems that can manage complex scenarios during its operation. In addition to the inherent complexity and/or high level of integration of those systems, the development process applied to aerospace programs is also challenged by other factors: program schedule, budget, multidisciplinary teams, new industry emerging technologies, large number of different processes and procedures that guide the activities along the d...
Source: An Acad Bras Cienc - December 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Douglas H Washio Marcelo L DE Oliveira E Souza Ana Paula DE S á Santos Rabello Source Type: research
Adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet and its relation with food insecurity and income in a Brazilian population-based sample
This study aimed to investigate the relation of adherence to the planetary diet with food and nutrition security status and per capita household income in a study with a representative sample of the Brazilian population. Among the data from the 2017-2018 Brazilian Household Budgets Survey (POF), the inequality indicators selected for the analysis were data on per capita household income and food and nutrition security. We also considered data on the individual food consumption of 46,164 Brazilians aged ≥ 10 years, obtained through 24-hour dietary recalls, in the National Food Survey, conducted with the POF 2017-2018. The...
Source: Cadernos de Saude Publica - December 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mariana Alves Ferreira Alexsandro Macedo Silva Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni Eduardo De Carli Source Type: research
Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and design assurance process in the context of mitigation of design errors during the development of highly integrated and complex aerospace systems
An Acad Bras Cienc. 2023 Dec 22;95(suppl 2):e20220859. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202320220859. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTOver the years, aircraft and spacecraft designs incorporated highly integrated and/or complex systems that can manage complex scenarios during its operation. In addition to the inherent complexity and/or high level of integration of those systems, the development process applied to aerospace programs is also challenged by other factors: program schedule, budget, multidisciplinary teams, new industry emerging technologies, large number of different processes and procedures that guide the activities along the d...
Source: An Acad Bras Cienc - December 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Douglas H Washio Marcelo L DE Oliveira E Souza Ana Paula DE S á Santos Rabello Source Type: research
Adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet and its relation with food insecurity and income in a Brazilian population-based sample
This study aimed to investigate the relation of adherence to the planetary diet with food and nutrition security status and per capita household income in a study with a representative sample of the Brazilian population. Among the data from the 2017-2018 Brazilian Household Budgets Survey (POF), the inequality indicators selected for the analysis were data on per capita household income and food and nutrition security. We also considered data on the individual food consumption of 46,164 Brazilians aged ≥ 10 years, obtained through 24-hour dietary recalls, in the National Food Survey, conducted with the POF 2017-2018. The...
Source: Cadernos de Saude Publica - December 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mariana Alves Ferreira Alexsandro Macedo Silva Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni Eduardo De Carli Source Type: research
Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and design assurance process in the context of mitigation of design errors during the development of highly integrated and complex aerospace systems
An Acad Bras Cienc. 2023 Dec 22;95(suppl 2):e20220859. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202320220859. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTOver the years, aircraft and spacecraft designs incorporated highly integrated and/or complex systems that can manage complex scenarios during its operation. In addition to the inherent complexity and/or high level of integration of those systems, the development process applied to aerospace programs is also challenged by other factors: program schedule, budget, multidisciplinary teams, new industry emerging technologies, large number of different processes and procedures that guide the activities along the d...
Source: An Acad Bras Cienc - December 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Douglas H Washio Marcelo L DE Oliveira E Souza Ana Paula DE S á Santos Rabello Source Type: research
