Isothermal microcalorimetry accurately detects bacteria, tumorous microtissues, and parasitic worms in a label-free well-plate assay (Publications)
power of 76muW. The growth rate calculated using calorimetric and spectrophotometric data were 0.60h-1 and 0.57h-1 respectively. Additional insight on protease activities of P. mirabilis matching the last
A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress (Publications)
close to zero) to satisfactory (with scores close to one), with a mean VSPI score since 2005 of 0·61 (SD 0·31). As expected, the best performing systems were mostly in the European region, the Americas
Ambient air pollution exposure estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 (Publications)
produce global estimates of annual average fine particle (PM2.5) and ozone concentrations at 0.1 degrees x 0.1 degrees spatial resolution for five-year intervals from 1990 to 2010 and the year 2013. These
Predictors and overestimation of recalled mobile phone use among children and adolescents (Publications)
calls was not significantly different for controls compared to cases (OR=1.1, 95%-CI: 0.5 to 2.5 and OR=1.9, 95%-CI: 0.85 to 4.3, respectively). However, likelihood to overestimate was associated with other
Cost-effectiveness of invasive versus medical management of elderly patients with chronic symptomatic coronary artery disease. Findings of the... (Publications)
costs for invasive management (p=0.08). However, billing data available for a subgroup of patients showed higher practitioner's charges in the medical patients (adjusted p=0.0015). Incremental costs to prevent
The influence of sensitisation to pollens and moulds on seasonal variations in asthma attacks (Publications)
and smaller later peaks were observed in Northern Europe (ORMay/June=1.25; 95%CI 0.60-2.64; ORJuly/August1.66; 95%CI 0.89-3.10). Asthmatics reporting hayfever but who were not sensitised to grass showed
An Increase in Bronchial Responsiveness is Associated with Continuing or Restarting Smoking (Publications)
had increasing bronchial responsiveness, approximately equivalent to a mean reduction in PD20 of 0.68 and 0.75 doubling doses, respectively, over 10 years, in addition to a small increase explained by decline
Increase in diagnosed asthma but not in symptoms in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (Publications)
follow up, subjects reporting asthma attacks in the previous 12 months increased by 0.8% of the population (95% CI 0.2 to 1.4) and asthma medication by 2.1% (95% CI 1.6 to 2.6), while no statistically
Rapid microarray-based method for monitoring of all currently known single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with parasite resistance to antimalaria... (Publications)
high throughput with minimal hands-on time. The cost for the assay has been calculated as 0.27 euros/SNP (US $0.33), which is below the cost incurred with other systems. Due to the simplicity of the approach
Impact of road traffic noise annoyance on health-related quality of life: results from a population-based study (Publications)
significant negative association with noise annoyance. The respective effect sizes ranged between 0.13 and 0.54. Significant effect modification by gender and chronic disease status was present in specific
