An analysis of the potential to utilize virtual worlds to enhance edutainment and improve the wellbeing of the ageing population

Smith, Ann; Chilcott, Matthew

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37042-7_4

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Are pre‐hospitalization ECG abnormalities associated with increased mortality in COVID‐19 patients? A quantitative systematic literature review (2024)
Journal Article

Background
While COVID-19 is predominantly a respiratory disease, cardiovascular complications occur and are associated with worse outcomes. Electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities are frequently observed in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, some of whi... Read More about Are pre‐hospitalization ECG abnormalities associated with increased mortality in COVID‐19 patients? A quantitative systematic literature review.

Microbial signatures and continuum in endometrial cancer and benign patients (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Endometrial cancer is a multifactorial disease with inflammatory, metabolic and potentially microbial cues involved in disease pathogenesis. The endometrial cancer microbiome has been poorly characterised so far and studies have often ove... Read More about Microbial signatures and continuum in endometrial cancer and benign patients.

Effect of the chemical composition of filter media on the microbial community in wastewater biofilms at different temperatures (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry. This study investigates the microbial community composition in the biofilms grown on two different support media in fixed biofilm reactors for aerobic wastewater treatment, using next generation sequencing (NGS)... Read More about Effect of the chemical composition of filter media on the microbial community in wastewater biofilms at different temperatures.

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia disease progression is associated with increased vaginal microbiome diversity (2015)
Journal Article

Persistent infection with oncogenic Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is necessary for cervical carcinogenesis. Although evidence suggests that the vaginal microbiome plays a functional role in the persistence or regression of HPV infections, this has yet t... Read More about Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia disease progression is associated with increased vaginal microbiome diversity.

Rapid detection of emerging pathogens and loss of microbial diversity associated with severe lung disease in cystic fibrosis (2015)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2015, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. Respiratory infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) is polymicrobial, but standard sputum microbiology does not account for the lung microbiome or detect changes in microbial diversi... Read More about Rapid detection of emerging pathogens and loss of microbial diversity associated with severe lung disease in cystic fibrosis.

The vaginal microbiome during pregnancy and the postpartum period in a European population (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. The composition and structure of the pregnancy vaginal microbiome may influence susceptibility to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Studies on the pregnant vaginal microbiome have largely been limi... Read More about The vaginal microbiome during pregnancy and the postpartum period in a European population.

An analysis of the potential to utilize virtual worlds to enhance edutainment and improve the wellbeing of the ageing population (2013)
Book Chapter

The contribution of this paper identifies the importance of developing and designing tailored virtual places which older members of society can utilize easily and safely within this context; with a focused application of addressing social isolation,... Read More about An analysis of the potential to utilize virtual worlds to enhance edutainment and improve the wellbeing of the ageing population.