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Jose J. Estevez, Natasha J. Howard, Jamie E. Craig and Alex Brown
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) poses significant challenges to individuals and broader society, much of which is borne by disadvantaged and marginalised population groups including Indigenous people. The increasing prevalence of T2DM among Indigenous pe...
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Saito Takashi and Imahashi Kumiko
East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) are facing age-related eye health issues. Low-vision rehabilitation (LVR), which is a special rehabilitation service for individuals with vision impairment, is a promising solution for these health issues; however, poor acc...
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Theodore S. Eisenman, Alicia F. Coleman and Gregory LaBombard
Multimodal Complete Streets have emerged as a prominent aspiration of urban planning to ensure safe access for all users of streets including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit users. Concurrently, municipal leaders are pursuing ambitious tr...
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Cristiano Pesaresi and Davide Pavia
This paper?which is contextualized in the discussion on the methodological pluralism and the main topics of medical geography, the complexity theory in geographies of health, the remaking of medical geography and ad hoc systems of data elaboration?focuse...
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Xiao Cheng, Mengna Song, Jingxia Kong, Xinglin Fang, Yuqing Ji, Meibian Zhang and Hongmei Wang
To examine the effects of prolonged visual display terminal (VDT) working hours and exercise frequency on VDT-related symptoms, we recruited 944 Chinese internet staff for the study. A self-administered questionnaire survey was used to obtain the hours o...
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Alexandra Giancarlo, David Shannon, Audrey Kobayashi
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Incorporating a social and critical model of disability with an eye to the important intersections of race, gender, income, and disability, we use the existing literature both on disability and on chronic disease and health within the African Nova Scotia...
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Catherine E. LePrevost, Kathleen M. Gray, Mercedes Hernández-Pelletier, Brennan D. Bouma, Consuelo Arellano and W. Gregory Cope
Fish consumption has established benefits, including the promotion of cardiovascular health and pre- and neonatal brain and eye development, but local freshwater fish may be a source of contaminants that are especially harmful to fetuses and young childr...
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Jay P. Graham, Verónica Corella-Barud, Raquel Avitia-Diaz and Patrick Gurian
People living in poverty make up nearly half of the global population and a large proportion of these individuals inhabit cities, living in informal settlements. However, only limited research on in-home environmental exposures and the associated health ...
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Laxman K.C., Bhupendra Devkota
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Electrification in Kathmandu valley had started in 1911 and the use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) probably started since 1940s (Devkota, 2005). This research work was undertaken to find out the degree and extent of PCBs contamination in transformer...
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Hernan J. Rosas, Ann Sussman, Abigail C. Sekely and Alexandros A. Lavdas
Eye-tracking technology has numerous applications in both commercial and research contexts. The recent introduction of affordable wearable sensors has significantly broadened the scope of potential uses, spanning fields such as computer gaming, education...
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Qasim Ali, Ilona Heldal, Carsten Gunnar Helgesen and Are Dæhlen
Eye-tracking technologies (ETs) and serious games (SGs) have emerged as new methods promising better support for vision screening and training. Previous research has shown the practicality of eye-tracking technology for vision screening in health care, b...
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Chiman Kwan
Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) or drones have gained popularity in recent years. However, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is still hesitant to open up the national air space (NAS) to UAVs due to safety concerns because UAVs have several orders...
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Abdul Mutalib,Nurulain Mat Zin,Ahmad Shahir,Asma Hassan
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Cataract is a serious public health problem as it is the most common cause of blindness in Malaysia and globally. Timely cataract surgery is required to prevent visual loss. This model illustrates the barriers in accessing cataract surgery services in th...
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Entin Martiana Kusumaningtyas, Ali Ridho Barakbah, Aditya Afgan Hermawan
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As the WHO says, heart disease is the leading cause of death and examining it by current methods in hospitals is not cheap. Iridology is one of the most popular alternative ways to detect the condition of organs. Iridology is the science that enables a h...
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Kanza Gulzar, Muhammad Ayoob Memon, Syed Muhammad Mohsin, Sheraz Aslam, Syed Muhammad Abrar Akber and Muhammad Asghar Nadeem
In the public health sector and the field of medicine, the popularity of data mining and its usage in knowledge discovery and databases (KDD) are rising. The growing popularity of data mining has discovered innovative healthcare links to support decision...
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Jin Hyun Kim, Eunah Jo, Seungjae Ryu, Sohee Nam, Somin Song, Yong Seop Han, Tae Seen Kang, Woongsup Lee, Seongjin Lee, Kyong Hoon Kim, Hyunju Choi and Seunghwan Lee
Visual acuity (VA) is a measure of the ability to distinguish shapes and details of objects at a given distance and is a measure of the spatial resolution of the visual system. Vision is one of the basic health indicators closely related to a person?s qu...
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Dayoung Jung, Youngtae Choe, Jihun Shin, Eunche Kim, Gihong Min, Dongjun Kim, Mansu Cho, Chaekwan Lee, Kilyong Choi, Byung Lyul Woo and Wonho Yang
The 2014 Time-Use Survey of Statistics Korea revealed that office workers are increasingly spending more than eight hours at work. This study conducted an exposure assessment for office workers in Korea. Indoor and outdoor air pollutants were measured in...
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Huan Li, Xixian Chen, Hongliang Chen, Bowen Wang, Weijie Li, Shenglan Liu, Peng Li, Zuoqiu Qi, Zheng He and Xuefeng Zhao
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is of great significance for post-earthquake damage assessment. Smartphone-based monitoring techniques provide the possibility to perform crowdsensing for all buildings in urban regions after an earthquake. However, thi...
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Lin Ang, Mi Hong Yim, Jun-Hyeong Do and Sanghun Lee
Hypertension has been a crucial public health challenge among adults. This study aimed to develop a novel method for non-contact prediction of hypertension using facial characteristics such as facial features and facial color. The data of 1099 subjects (...
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Alexandros A. Lavdas, Nikos A. Salingaros and Ann Sussman
Eye-tracking technology is a biometric tool that has found many commercial and research applications. The recent advent of affordable wearable sensors has considerably expanded the range of these possibilities to fields such as computer gaming, education...
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