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Item Burden of Disease (BoD) Assessment to Estimate Risk Factors Impact in a Real Nanomanufacturing Scenario(2022-11) Koivisto, Antti Joonas; Altin, Marko; Furxhi, Irini; Eliat, Maxime; Trabucco, Sara; Blosi, Magda; Lopez de Ipiña, Jesús; Belosi, Franco; Costa, Anna; SMART_MONAn industrial nanocoating process air emissions impact on public health was quantified by using the burden of disease (BoD) concept. The health loss was calculated in Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), which is an absolute metric that enables comparisons of the health impacts of different causes. Here, the health loss was compared with generally accepted risk levels for air pollution. Exposure response functions were not available for Ag nanoform. The health loss for TiO2 nanoform emissions were 0.0006 DALYs per 100,000 persons per year. Moreover, the exposure risk characterization was performed by comparing the ground level air concentrations with framework values. The exposure levels were ca. 3 and 18 times lower than the derived limit values of 0.1 μg-TiO2/m3 and 0.01 μg-Ag/m3 for the general population. The accumulations of TiO2 and Ag nanoforms on the soil top layer were estimated to be up to 85 μg-TiO2/kg and 1.4 μg-Ag/kg which was considered low as compared to measured elemental TiO2 and Ag concentrations. This assessment reveals that the spray coating process air emissions are adequately controlled. This study demonstrated how the BoD concept can be applied to quantify health impacts of nanoform outdoor air emissions from an industrial site.Item Medical Expert Support Tool (MEST): A person-centric approach for healthcare management(2012) Barca, Carlos Cavero; Rodríguez, Juan Mario; Valle Soriano, Rosana; Rugnone, Alberto; Foresti, Francesco; Tamburini, Elena; Paggetti, Cristiano; Gialelis, John; Chondros, Petros; Panagiotou, Christos; Ilardia, Maitena; Eguia, Iñaki; Puddu, Paolo Emilio; Luštrek, Mitja; HPA; COMPOSITE; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThe Medical Expert Support Tool (MEST) is aimed at helping the clinician in recognizing risk factors in the patient status by offering a multiparametric overview, and by highlighting the individual situation using meaningful colors (green, yellow and red) in order to compare the person physiological parameters with the computed profile. The medical professionals configure the conditions (relevant parameters, thresholds, rules and alerts) setting the values to the decision support modules and receiving the risk assessment results. Finally, interventions should be done depending on the evaluation of the patient. The tool has been designed along with the clinician involved in the project and it will be fully tested and evaluated during the observational study (100 patients) starting on June 2012.Item Virtual reality: A tool for the disabled people labour integration(2007) López De Ipiña, Jesús Ma; Rubio, Jokin; Rubio, Benjamín; Viteri, Ander; Vaquero, Celina; Pelaz, Alberto; Eizmendi, Gorka; Azkoitia, Jose Miguel; Craddock, Gerald; SMART_MON; INDUSTRY_THINGS; PRINTEXVirtual Reality is commonly understood as a computer simulation that uses 3D graphics and devices to provide an interactive experience. It is being used nowadays in multiple sectors as industry, marketing, military, medicine... In the industry sector, this technology is emerging as an important tool to evaluate the man-machine interaction, especially when this fact has important effects on the safety of people, processes and facilities or in the environment. Some recent research works try to use VR to help people with disabilities to improve their quality of live. Some examples of this works are fields as stroke rehabilitation, enhancing mobility and accessibility, virtual environments and games for special needs, education and training, and speech and communication skills improvement. The Industrial Safety Unit (ISU) in Fundación LEIA has an emerging research line focused in 3D dynamic simulation, motion capture and immersive virtual reality. Till now, its work has been focused in industrial safety applications, especially in the field of ergonomics. From this background the team is now developing, amongst other matters, new applications for the people with disabilities as assessment of the safety and ergonomics of a workplace, workplaces design and redesign, assistive technology and education and training. In this work some initiatives of this group to test the use of VR to the labour integration of the collective of disabled people are presented.