Search for dissertations about: "risks."
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1. Privacy and Security Analysis : Assessing Risks and Harm to Patients
Abstract : Disruptive technologies in the form of e-Health or electronic healthcare (the use of information technology in health) have the ability to provide positive implications to both patients and healthcare professionals. Recently, public health agencies deployed contact tracing apps with the aim of curbing the spread of COVID-19, by aiding manual contact tracing, and lifting restrictions. READ MORE
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2. Smart connected homes : concepts, risks, and challenges
Abstract : The growth and presence of heterogeneous connected devices inside the home have the potential to provide increased efficiency and quality of life to the residents. Simultaneously, these devices tend to be Internet-connected and continuously monitor, collect, and transmit data about the residents and their daily lifestyle activities. READ MORE
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3. A life-course approach to chronic kidney disease : risks and consequences
Abstract : Successful primary prevention of chronic kidney disease (CKD) relies on understanding the pathways leading to established disease, including how they extend over the life-course. Projects in this thesis examine risk factors for CKD and consequences of impaired kidney function from a life-course perspective using routinely collected health-data in Swedish registers and research cohort data from the United Kingdom. READ MORE
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4. Insulin treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes : Risks and benefits
Abstract : Patients with Type 2 diabetes and secondary failure to oral hypoglycaemic agents were characterized before and during insulin treatment. During oral treatment the 24-h area under the curve for free insulin in blood was similar to that in healthy subjects. READ MORE
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5. Landslides in the central Kenyan highlands : Risks and actors
Abstract : Measures taken to prevent and mitigate landslides are often based on geotechnical solutions. However, to understand local effects of landslides, people’s perception, knowledge and experiences are important, as this influence the level of vulnerability, and the efficacy of adaptive and mitigating measures. READ MORE