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What health and wellbeing services do SMEs in the manufacturing industry require and could these be delivered by a large enterprise partner?
Research question What health and wellbeing services (HWS) do small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry require and could these be delivered by a large...
SaTC: CORE: Medium: Designing Privacy-Aware Social Companion Robots
Social companion robots can interact with people in a human-like way, using speech, gestures, and physical presence. They are designed to help families with activities like meal pl...
CIVIC-FA Track A: Leveraging existing fiber-optic cables to identify and manage urban environmental hazards
Growing cities face many major challenges including aging infrastructure, a lack of resilience against climate change, and inequities across human access to city services and ameni...
Artificial Intelligence for Pollen and Spore Detection, Forecasting and Human Health (AIPS)
Pollen and fungal spores are important for human health in both outdoor and indoor environments. They are linked to several respiratory illnesses which range in severity from minor...
Understanding biomineralisation in the fish dermal skeleton and its role in health and development
By 2020 global fish production had already exceeded 179 million tonnes, and is thought to contribute £600 million to the British economy. In addition to this, zebrafish a...
Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network
Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (PDN) brings together academics and arts professionals to reimagine an inclusive, extended and sustainable ecosystem for dance. Encompassi...
Censorship and Contemporary Iranian Theatre
My practice-based PhD research will investigate the effect of censorship on the formation of contemporary (post-1979 Revolution) Iranian theatre. I will explore how directors have...
UnityPhilly Response App for Overdose Reversal: Assessing Citywide Effectiveness and Sustainability
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Reducing overdose mortality immediately and long-term is a top public health priority as the overdose epidemic in the U.S. continues to worsen. The COVID-1...
Concurrent Aerobic Exercise and Cognitive Training to Prevent Alzheimer's in at-risk Older Adults
Project Summary/Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than six million Americans currently and is projected to affect 14 million at a cost of $1.2 trillion in 2050. Despit...
Novel Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds with Uniform Biodegradation
Summary Artery disease, such as atherosclerosis characterized by a build-up of plaque on arterial walls, so detrimental to thecontinuity of blood flow, is of great societal interes...
Vision Impairment in the National Health and Aging Trends Study: Epidemiology, Social Determinants of Health, and Adverse Late Life Outcomes
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT At least 14 million people in the U.S. are blind or living with a vision impairment (VI), and the number affected is projected to double by 2050 due to agi...
AppalTRuST Project 2: Exposure to tobacco marketing for novel tobacco products and associations with future tobacco use in Appalachian young adults: tobacco regulatory science implications
ABSTRACT – Project 2 Federal tobacco regulatory policies enacted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are critical to curb the tobacco epidemic in rural Appalachia and redu...
Night Owl Metabolism: Investigating the Impact of Chronotype on Glucose Metabolism in Youth
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Adolescents commonly develop delayed sleep schedules in normal development related to physiologic processes, turning into “night owls” (late chronotype). Y...
Type I IFN-dependent and independent contributions to the outcomes of early innate immune cell interactions during HIV/TB co-infection
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Granuloma formation is a feature of tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection. Alveolar macrophages (alvMF) are cen...
Predicting acute and dynamic suicide risk in rural sexual minorities
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Sexual minority adults experience suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) at rates 3–6 times higher than heterosexual adults: Up to 20% of sexual minority a...
Cardiovascular risk reduction in adolescents and young adults with kidney disease
Project Abstract I am a dual-trained adult and pediatric nephrologist and I have been conducting patient-oriented research (POR) in cardiovascular disease (CVD) for the last decade...
Bcl-2 dependent fibroblast resistance to apoptosis occurs through persistent IL-6 signaling
PROJECT SUMMARY This proposal describes a five-year project through which Dr. Joseph Cooley will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to transition into an independent basic...
Functional and Mechanistic Studies of the Role of Lp17-encoded Factors in Host Adaptation by the Lyme Disease Spirochete
Summary The ability of Borrelia burgdorferi to cause Lyme disease is highly dependent on its capacity to establish a successful infection upon entering the mammalian host. Moreover...
Predicting acute and dynamic suicide risk in rural sexual minorities
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Sexual minority adults experience suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) at rates 3–6 times higher than heterosexual adults: Up to 20% of sexual minority a...
Lipid-Rich Macrophages at the Tumor-Adipose Interface: A New Target for Locally-Invasive Prostate Cancer Therapy
SUMMARY Macrophages are important contributors to the biology of the tumor microenvironment. As tumors penetrate the prostatic capsule they invade a lipid-rich depot known as the p...