Publications by authors named "S J Billington"

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  • The study aims to evaluate the impact of installing concrete floors in homes on child health outcomes, particularly focusing on soil-transmitted helminth infections, in rural Bangladesh.
  • It involves an individually randomized trial with 800 households that have soil floors and pregnant women, measuring various health aspects at different child ages.
  • The research has received ethical approval and results will be shared through ClinicalTrials.gov, academic publications, and community workshops.
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Human-Building Interaction (HBI) is a convergent field that represents the growing complexities of the dynamic interplay between human experience and intelligence within built environments. This paper provides core definitions, research dimensions, and an overall vision for the future of HBI as developed through consensus among 25 interdisciplinary experts in a series of facilitated workshops. Three primary areas contribute to and require attention in HBI research: humans (human experiences, performance, and well-being), buildings (building design and operations), and technologies (sensing, inference, and awareness).

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Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses are associated with increased disability, reduced quality of life and negative psychosocial impacts. However, they often go unrecognised; people with MS (MSers) may face barriers to self-identification of relapses or seeking support for them. The charity Shift.

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Our goal was to measure the absolute differential abundance of key drug transporters in human epileptogenic brain tissue and to compare them between patients and at various distances from the epileptogenic zone within the same patient. Transporter protein abundance was quantified in brain tissue homogenates from patients who underwent epilepsy surgery, using targeted proteomics, and correlations with clinical and tissue characteristics were assessed. Fourteen brain samples (including four epileptogenic hippocampal samples) were collected from nine patients.

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