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COVID-19 DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM POWERED BY AI
The aim of the project is to create a prototype of an integrated tele-medical system supporting comprehensive clinical decisions in the field of novel COVID-19. The project scope also includes significant research activities focused on utilising a variety of available multidisciplinary clinical and imaging data to enable the proposed system to go beyond supporting detection and diagnosis that is already possible by the existing methods. The problem undertaken in the project is the limitations related to the early diagnosis of the COVID-19, collection of epidemiological and statistical data ...
Mobilizing science education: Examining responsive remote methodologies during a time of crisis (...
The MobilSci study will construct a case study of the adaptations of an education research team in response to and during the COVID-19 school closures, with a goal of elaborating a process of adaptation and gaining new understandings on the applicability of responsive pedagogies at a time of crisis. Children, teachers, and families internationally are navigating a new terrain of remote learning and teaching. This extends to the University of Luxembourg's SciTeach Center team, a multidisciplinary group of educators and researchers dedicated to supporting science education. The interactions i...
Pocket Rehab - mHealth-based Rehabilitation Program for patients with cardiovascular disease as p...
Cardiovascular diseases remain the major cause of mortality with an estimated prevalence of 422.7 million cases worldwide at high cost for the public health. Recently, the pathophysiological mechanism of the coronavirus uses the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as a functional receptor, increasing the risk of contamination and the mortality rate in this population, aggravating this scenario. According to the epidemiological bulletin of COE-COVID19 of the Ministry of Health of Brazil, among the 1124 deaths recorded until 11 April 2020, in those under the age of 60, 82.5% had illness a...
Boosting COVID-19 protection with metal-free biocompatible antimicrobial coatings
As shown with the Covid-19 pandemic, coronavirus such as SARS-COV-2 are presenting a major threat due to their high transmission efficiency, their long lifetime on solid supports and their strong effect on human health. The deposition of antiviral coatings on surfaces like facemasks or door handles is a promising approach to fight against the contamination and transmission of SARS-COV-2. This idea addresses the field of 'surfaces with antiviral and antibacterial properties' for metal parts and protective facemasks. It is proposed to use metal-free coatings deposited via wet deposition techn...
Let's keep connected (revised version)
We will develop an interactive chatbot to provide support to confined people not only during the COVID19 crisis, but also after the confinement, in the exit and post-exit phase. The public authorities and some NGOs are offering support services to help people facing specific problems, and the same should be the case for the COVID19 crisis. It is of prime importance for these Luxembourgish services not to be overwhelmed by wrong enquiries, and also to be able to serve the maximum amount of enquiries. A majority of them could be targeted on same frequently asked questions. The chatbot that we...
Support in the Luxembourg for app-based contact tracing of Covid-19 A longitudinal study using an...
In absence of cure, a lockdown exit strategy requires non-medical interventions such as social distancing to contain Covid-19 diffusion. Innovative apps for smartphones have been proposed to contain new outbreaks by quickly alert people in case of contact with infected people. Various technical solutions are available, but the basic idea is that an app in the mobile phone registers other users of the app in close proximity. If an app user is diagnosed with the coronavirus, all people who have recently been in close proximity to this person are notified immediately. Despite the evident adva...
CoVAlert - Development of an early warning system for the surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic...
Luxembourg recently decided to test the whole population for SARS-CoV-2. The result of this immense effort will deliver 'only' a temporary snap shot and a continuous investigation difficult to. Alternatively, a retrospective investigation of pathogens in waste water enables countries to get a cost-effective and easy-to-obtain information of the country prevalence of Covid-19. First attempts have been made in this respect to identify the virus in urban wastewater as an easily accessible source to catch information of a whole community at one point, i.e. the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) ...
Evaluation of the risk factors to COVID-19 among the population 50+
In this project, we aim to evaluate the relationship between characteristics of the individuals aged 50 and above and their vulnerability to COVID-19. Although individuals aged 50+ do not represent the entire population, they have been identified as the most vulnerable group to COVID-19. We will start the analysis by studying the composition of this population group in Luxembourg (in terms of well-known and potential risk factors). As a next step, we will do the same exercise for other European countries to better understand the diversity in the prevalence of risk factors across countries a...
