An Ibero-American survey reported a lack of awareness of technology benefits and scarce financial resources as the two main barriers to widespread adoption of 3-D technologies. The Pereira Rossell Hospital Center is a publicly funded maternal and pediatric academic clinical center in Uruguay, a low...
Additive manufacturing (AM) of polymeric materials offers many benefits, from rapid prototyping to the production of end-use material parts. Powder bed fusion (PBF), more specifically selective laser sintering (SLS), is a very promising AM technology. However, up until now, most SLS research has...
In this study, FINDRISC was shown to significantly predict the current status of these parameters, opening up its potential to be used as a cheap and non-invasive screening tool for MetS in young adults. Our study had several limitations. Firstly, the majority of study participants were ...
Results of the live voting from the Delphi method round 2 were presented to all stakeholders who participated in the previous round (the June 2016 stakeholder conference and online voting) through an online survey by means of a short report during July 2016. The Delphi round 3 was intended to...
The combination of the two models is an enabler of accurate and up to date real world impacts. In this contribution, a method is proposed to assess the contribution of electric vehicles to urban air quality in Belgium, compared to conventional vehicles of the same weight class. Therefore, the...
The latter has been described as an overspill of inflammatory mediators from the peripheral lung to systemic circulation contributing to the development of comorbidities of COPD [7]. Agusti et al. analyzed six inflammatory biomarkers (WBC, CRP, IL-6, IL-8, fibrinogen, and TNFα) in one of ...