Public-Health-Driven Microfluidic Technologies: From Separation to Detection

Tourism Gaining Cogency from an Industry-Driven Force to a Public -Platform Choice

Gravity-driven microfluidic particle sorting device with hydrodynamic separation amplification.

This paper describes a simple microfluidic sorting system that can perform size profiling and continuous mass-dependent separation of particles through combined use of gravity (1 g) and hydrodynamic flows capable of rapidly amplifying sedimentation-based separation between particles. Operation of the device relies on two microfluidic transport processes: (i) initial hydrodynamic focusing of par...

From microdroplets to microfluidics: selective emulsion separation in microfluidic devices.

Microdroplets show great promise as a new high-throughput technology in chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Microdroplets can be generated at rates in excess of several thousands per second and accurately formulated using minute amounts of small molecules, DNA, proteins, or cells. Furthermore, integrated active elements can be used to control individual droplets. With the technology...

Obesity: From Public Health to Public Policy

Marlene Schwartz, PhD, is a senior research scientist in Psychology and the School of Public Health as well as Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. Dr. Schwartz received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale, where she studied under renowned obesity expert Kelly Brownell. Prior to her current academic appointments, she served as the Co-Director of the Yal...

Adopting Semantic Technologies in Public Health Documentation

We present a success story on the adoption of semantic technologies for the library of the second biggest university hospital of France. This project was divided into three parts: preprocessing, semantic enrichment and data integration. This abstract introduces the research challenges faced in the project as well as the outcomes obtained so far.