ORCID Profile
0000-0002-2724-1686
Current Organisation
TU Braunschweig
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Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVRES.2013.01.009
Abstract: Exposure to transportation noise showed negative health effects in children and adults. Studies in children mainly focussed on aircraft noise at school. We aimed to investigate road traffic noise exposure at home and children's behavioural problems and sleeping problems. 872 10-year-old children from Munich from two German population-based, birth-cohort studies with data on modelled façade noise levels at home and behavioural problems were included. Noise was assessed by the day-evening-night noise indicator Lden and the night noise indicator Lnight. Behavioural problems were assessed by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). A subgroup (N=287) had information on sleeping problems. Continuation ratio models (logistic regression models) adjusted for various covariates were applied to investigate the association between interquartile range increases in noise and SDQ scales (sleeping problems). Noise measured by Lden at the most exposed façade of the building was related to more hyperactivity/inattention (continuation odds ratio (cOR)=1.28(95%-confidence interval(CI):1.03-1.58). Noise at the least exposed façade increased the relative odds for having borderline or abnormal values on the emotional symptoms scale, especially the relative odds to have abnormal values for a subject with at least borderline values (Lden:cOR=2.19(95% CI:1.32-3.64). Results for Lnight were similar. Nocturnal noise at the least exposed façade was associated with any sleeping problems (odds ratio (OR)=1.79(95% CI=1.10-2.92)). Road traffic noise exposure at home may be related to increased hyperactivity and more emotional symptoms in children. Future longitudinal studies are required to explore noise exposure and behavioural problems in more detail, especially the role of sleep disturbances.
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2770-3.CH001
Abstract: This chapter is an introduction to user driven learning that initially dwells on features that are unchanged such as the role of collaborative social interactions in human learning and certain aspects that are evolving and helping create a learning transformation through web based technologies. The chapter is interspersed with user driven learning narrative ex les taken from the authors’ own experience of sharing data over the web to accumulate learning points as well as the experience of a significant population of other web based learners in discussion forums, blogs and other networking sites. This is an attempt to create a background that may help illustrate the evolution of user driven health care, which is another form of user driven learning on the web with particular reference to in idual user clinical problem solving, be it initiated by patients, health professionals or other actors in a care giving collaborative network across a web interface.
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 04-05-2011
DOI: 10.1117/12.886352
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-01-2012
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 04-05-2011
DOI: 10.1117/12.886622
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-11-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-03-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2222.2009.03444.X
Abstract: Nutritional intervention with hydrolysed infant formulas has been shown efficacious in preventing eczema in children predisposed to allergy. However, this preventive effect has never been related to the natural course of eczema in children with or without a family history of allergy. The aim of this study therefore was to compare the course of eczema in predisposed children after nutritional intervention to the natural course of eczema. The prospective German birth cohort study GINIplus includes a total of 5991 children, sub ided into interventional and non-interventional groups. Children with a familial predisposition for allergy whose parents agreed to participate in the prospective, double-blind intervention trial (N=2252) were randomly assigned at birth to one of four formulas: partially or extensively hydrolysed whey, extensively hydrolysed casein (eHF-C) or standard cow's milk formula. Children with or without familial predisposition represented the non-interventional group (N=3739). Follow-up data were taken from yearly self-administered questionnaires from 1 up to 6 years. The outcome was physician-diagnosed eczema and its symptoms. The cumulative incidence of eczema in predisposed children with or without nutritional intervention was compared with that of non-predisposed children who did not receive intervention. Cox regression was used to adjust for confounding. Predisposed children without nutritional intervention had a 2.1 times higher risk for eczema [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.6-2.7] than children without a familial predisposition. The risk was smaller with nutritional intervention even levelling out to 1.3 (95% CI 0.9-1.9) in children fed eHF-C formula. Although direct comparability is somewhat restricted, the data demonstrate that early intervention with hydrolysed infant formulas can substantially compensate up until the age of 6 years for an enhanced risk of childhood eczema due to familial predisposition to allergy.
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Date: 10-2013
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