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Exposure to green spaces may strengthen resilience and support mental health in the face of the covid-19 pandemic
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Raf Aerts; Naomi Vanlessen; Olivier Honnay Source: BMJ (2021) Abstract: Mughal and colleagues provide a useful overview of mental health ...
Converting Raw Accelerometer Data to Activity Counts Using Open-Source Code: Implementing a MATLAB Code in Python and R, and Comparing the Results to ActiLife
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Ruben Brondeel; Yan Kestens; Javad Rahimipour Anaraki; Kevin Stanley; Thierry, Benoit; Daniel Fuller Source: Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, Volume 4, Issue 3 (2021) Health Top ...
IDENTIFICATION, PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION AND PRELIMINARY RISK ANALYSIS OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE PARTICLES IN FACE MASKS Intermediate report TiO2-Mask COVID-19 project September 2021
nanoform, was applied for a scenario with intensive use of face masks. Our calculations show that a health risk cannot be excluded for most of the examined face masks when intensively used. The applied ...
4DEMON: Integrating 40 Years of Data on PCB and Metal Contamination in Marine Sediments of the Belgian Part of the North Sea
different grain size fractions were analyzed, appropriate co-factors were not always analyzed, and measurement uncertainties were not always indicated. These issues hampered the use of readily available, ...
In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores – Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers
used as antimicrobial preservatives in personal care products. Few studies have dealt with adverse health outcomes, transplacental transfer, and obesogenic effects of prenatal exposure to parabens. We ...
Association between urban environment and mental health in Brussels, Belgium
residence and processed using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Mental health status was approached through several validated indicators: the Symptom Checklist-90-R subscales for depressive, anxiety and ...
METROFOOD-RI: Pilot services with physical, remote and virtual access
this model of service provision, three use cases have been defined that are representative of the different types of access that will be provided by METROFOOD- RI: physical access to a food pilot plant ...
Exposure to green space and pollen allergy symptom severity: A case-crossover study in Belgium
symptom severity scores and matched these to 404 control days. The data were analyzed using conditional logistic regression with a 1:1 case-crossover design. Results: Case days were associated with exposure ...
Association between local airborne tree pollen composition and surrounding land cover across different spatial scales in Northern Belgium
Non-metric multidimensional scaling was used to investigate environmental gradients that determine the pollen composition and amounts. Land cover types were identified across spatial scales ranging between 20 m and 5 km. The ...
Deepening of In Silico Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Detection RT-qPCR Assays in the Context of New Variants
Abstract: For 1 year now, the world is undergoing a coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The most widely used method for ...