The World Health Organization, WHO, presented new environmental noise guidelines in 2018. These guidelines recommended limit values that were far more stringent than the previous ones. WHO also launched the concept that 10% prevalence of high annoyance was the limit for adverse health effects. This...
SEC-AIRSPACE: Addressing Cyber Security Challenges in Future Air Traffic Management...
Many see the role of health informatics research as informing the development and implementation of information technology in clinical practice. The aim of this study is to see if this role is realized in the ongoing implementation of a large-scale health information system in central Norway. By...
The European health care system is moving toward personalised, distributed, and home-based services, made possible via new and improved connected medical devices (CMDs). Cyber security will clearly be important in this context. In this paper we present 15 challenges that the manufacturers of CMDs...
MDCG 2019-16 is intended to assist practitioners in compliance with the Medical Device Regulation and the In-Vitro Device Regulation. This paper presents a gap analysis of MDCG 2019-16, identifying key gaps and proposing a robust set of recommendations to enhance the IoMT regulatory framework. This...
Within the final session of negotiations inching forward, the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) completed its fourth session of negotiations (out of five) on an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) to “end plastic pollution.” This paper examines the results...
Plastics and their associated chemical pollution have emerged as a global threat. This recognition materialized in March 2022 with the adoption of a groundbreaking mandate among United Nations (UN) Member States, signaling the commencement of negotiations for a comprehensive treaty aimed at ending...
The United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) has completed its second round of negotiations on a new international legally binding instrument to ‘end plastic pollution’. This paper examines the results of the second session of negotiations, which took place May 29–June...
Advanced modelling of additive manufacturing (AM) often requires combining models from multiple scales and diverse physical domains. Thus, constructing a modelling workflow that describes the process can be complex. Moreover, modelling is just one facet of the innovation process; it must be...
This chapter starts by discussing the challenges in material innovation for manufacturing and the need for multidisciplinary approaches involving actors from many different communities. Interoperability is a key to address these challenges. The new paradigm of materials digitalisation is introduced...
Polymer composites with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have the potential to meet the heat dissipation and electrical insulation requirements of electronic and medical devices. In this study, hBN/polymer composites were fabricated with thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and epoxy as matrix materials...
Due to climate change, sustainable and energy-efficient power supply is urgently required. To increase the performance of solid oxide fuel cells, the effects of the microstructure of their porous electrodes need to be studied. Therefore, real tomography images are used to (i) characterize specific...