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Targeted research effort on African swine fever (ASFORCE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
"African Swine Fever (ASF) is a devastating disease affecting swine caused by a complex virus, the only member of the Asfarviridae family. Disease transmission is maintained under different and complex epidemiological scenarios involving domestic and wild swine and arthropod vectors (soft ticks Ornithodoros sp). Due to the fact that no vaccine has been obtained so far, prevention, control, and era ...
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An Open, Ubiquitous and Adaptive Chronic Disease Management Platform for COPD and Renal Insufficiency (CHRONIOUS)
Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,
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Health and lifestyle monitoring of people with chronic diseases at a European level. The project developed for example a smart T-shirt to monitor and help the chronically illChronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability for a large amount of people in most industrialized nations. Chronic diseases have also a ...
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Development of a non-invasive hypoglycaemia sensor for diabetes patients (HYPOSENS)
Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,
"Blood glucose monitoring is important in the care of diabetes mellitus and is presently accomplished via a “finger-stick” in which a lancet is used to prick the finger and withdraw a small amount of blood for testing. The problem with the existing “finger-stick”-devices is that blood sampling is painful, it increases the risk for infections and the test is discontinuous. A method for measuring t ...
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