17 results match your criteria: "Universitaetsstrasse 6[Affiliation]"
Public Health
November 2022
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 6/I, 8010 Graz, Austria. Electronic address:
Objective: There is considerable heterogeneity within populations regarding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. This study aimed at identifying latent groups of individuals within the older Austrian population that differ in their mental health trajectories across three phases of the pandemic.
Study Design: Data were gathered from a longitudinal survey study among a sample of older adults in Austria.
Public Health
November 2021
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 6/I, Graz, 8010, Austria. Electronic address:
Objective: COVID-19-related social restrictions resulted in more loneliness, but whether this had further effects on mental health remains unclear. This study aimed at examining the longitudinal effects of COVID-19-related loneliness on mental health among older adults (aged ≥60 years) in Austria.
Study Design: Survey data were gathered from a longitudinal observational study among a random sample of older Austrian adults.
Adv Life Course Res
June 2021
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology Medical University of Graz Universitaetsstrasse 6/I, 8010 Graz, Austria. Electronic address:
Theory suggests that a stressful working environment negatively affects workers' health. However, methodological limitations in observational studies often restrict conclusions about observed relationships. In this study, we examined cross-lagged effects of effort-reward imbalance (ERI; i.
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October 2020
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 6/I, 8010, Graz, Austria.
Background: Previous research demonstrated substantial associations between frailty and depression in late life, but it remains unclear whether this relationship is best explained by reciprocal influences of these variables or by common causes. This study investigated the interdependencies between frailty and depression across time by examining cross-lagged effects within individuals, while accounting for variability in baseline levels and long-term development between individuals.
Methods: We modeled longitudinal data from six panel waves gathered in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, covering a time period of up to 14 years.
Wien Med Wochenschr
June 2020
Public Health School Graz, Medical University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 4/3, 8010, Graz, Austria.
Studies analysing health concepts of children are scarce. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyse health concepts of elementary school children in Austria. In all, 240 pupils in grades 2 (7 or 8 years old) and 4 (9 or 10 years old) of three rural and three urban elementary schools in Styria took part in this explorative study.
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April 2018
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 6/I, Graz, 8010, Austria.
Background: Packaging and labelling tobacco products has emerged as an effective policy to reduce the global health burden of tobacco use. The main purpose of this study was to explore Austrian smokers' and ex-smokers' responses to both the textual and pictorial cigarette pack health warnings (CPHWs) recently implemented.
Methods: We analysed self-reported data (N=500) from an Austrian cross-sectional survey that was conducted after the implementation of the new pictorial CPHWs in 2016.
Wien Klin Wochenschr
November 2017
Fachbereich Forensische Gerontologie, Department für Gerichtsmedizin Wien, Medizinische Universität Wien, Sensengasse 2, 1090, Wien, Austria.
Background: The variables sex and gender are significantly related to health and disease of women and men. Aiming at quality research, biomedical publications need to account for the key variables sex and gender.
Methods: All original articles published in the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift between 2013 and 2015 were extracted into a database.
BMC Med Ethics
October 2014
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 6, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Background: The Groningen Protocol aims at providing guidance in end-of-life decision-making for severely impaired newborns. Since its publication in 2005 many bioethicists and health care professionals have written articles in response. However, only very little is known about the opinion among the general population on this subject.
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October 2013
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 6/I, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Background: In recent decades, the incidence of cervical cancer and cervical cancer mortality in Austria has declined by varying degrees. The Pap smear is to be considered a causal factor for this decline.
Methods: This longitudinal analysis is based on a data set of Pap smear assessments collected by the Committee for Quality Assurance of the Austrian Society of Cytology.
Wien Klin Wochenschr
March 2013
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University Graz, Universitaetsstrasse 6/I, 8010, Graz, Austria.
Background: Violence as well as alcohol-attributable injuries is a dominant public health issue worldwide. Victims, being injured, frequently visit emergency rooms (ER).
Methods: We interviewed all the patients seeking help in an urban emergency room reporting being victims of violent behavior over a period of 3 months (from November 2011 to January 2012).
Dev Psychol
January 2010
Institute for Behavioral Sciences, ETH Zurich, Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB G84.2, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Interactions between conceptual and procedural knowledge influence the development of mathematical competencies. However, after decades of research, these interrelations are still under debate, and empirical results are inconclusive. The authors point out a source of these problems.
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January 2009
Institute for Behavioral Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Universitaetsstrasse 6, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
While there is consistent evidence from neuropsychological and brain imaging studies for an association between the left angular gyrus and mental arithmetic, its specific role in calculation has remained poorly understood. It has been speculated that the angular gyrus mediates the retrieval of arithmetic facts during problem solving, but this hypothesis has not been directly tested. In the present functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging study comprising 28 adults, we used trial-by-trial strategy self-reports to identify brain regions underpinning different strategies in arithmetic problem solving.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiotechnol Bioeng
June 2008
ETH Zurich, Bioprocess Laboratory, Institute of Process Engineering, Universitaetsstrasse 6, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Product inhibition of biological production systems is a widely observed phenomenon with prominent implications for the design and ultimately the success of biotechnological processes. In order to investigate whether such effects could limit the maximal concentrations in the production of the beta-lactamase inhibitor clavulanic acid (CA) in Streptomyces clavuligerus cultivations under process-related conditions, we first validated the equivalence of a laboratory scale aerated stirred tank reactor and a medium scale (50 mL) cultivation device, which required optimization of gas transfer in the latter and finally allowed to conduct the required experiments in smaller volumes with correspondingly reduced consumption of compounds. With this, we investigated the effect of CA additions on two global performance parameters: consumption of the carbon source glycerol and oxygen consumption (measured as the oxygen uptake rate, OUR).
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August 2008
ETH Zurich, Bioprocess Laboratory, Institute of Process Engineering, Universitaetsstrasse 6, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
The decomposition kinetics of the beta-lactamase inhibitor clavulanic acid (CA) was investigated for CA concentrations between 2.5 and 20 g L(-1), which is assumed to represent a characteristic range for an industrial CA production process. For each initial concentration, first order kinetics plots could be obtained, however the kinetic constant increased from 3.
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June 2007
Bioprocess Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Universitaetsstrasse 6, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Huge numbers of enzymes have evolved in nature to function in aqueous environments at moderate temperatures and neutral pH. This gives us, in principle, the unique opportunity to construct multistep reaction systems of considerable catalytic complexity in vitro. However, this opportunity is rarely exploited beyond research scale, because such systems are difficult to assemble and to operate productively.
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November 2007
Bioprocess Laboratory, Institute of Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Universitaetsstrasse 6, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
The amino acid racemase with broad substrate specificity from Pseudomonas putida DSM 3263 was overproduced and characterized with respect to application in an integrated multi-step process (e.g., dynamic kinetic resolution) that--theoretically--would allow for 100% chemical yield and 100% enantiomeric excess.
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October 2007
ETH Zurich, Bioprocess Laboratory, Institute of Process Engineering, Universitaetsstrasse 6, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Intensified bioprocess development requires parallelized medium- to high-throughput experimentation with high on- and offline data density across all early scales of the development trajectory from microtiter plate via shake flask to lab-scale reactor. We developed a widespread measurement principle for intermediate scales, respirometry, into a parallelized oxygen transfer rate measurement device that could accurately record common process development-relevant effects such as acetate formation, diauxic growth, and nutrient limitations. The device was further equipped with dissolved oxygen measurement capability and sampling ports that allowed repetitive monoseptic sample withdrawal without disturbing the cultivation.
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