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331. Unhealthy food: protecting children from targeted advertising

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Date: 04-05-21

How can children be protected from unhealthy foods?

A media-using child in Germany sees an average of 15.48 commercials for unhealthy foods per day. Of these, 5.14 are on the Internet and 10.34 on TV. Simultaneously, the number of TV commercials per…

332. [BIPS Project] Addiction prevention Berlin/Brandenburg

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=923&cHash=6c9075adb7273fdacb70b106ce8ee724
Date: 01-06-21

This project is part of the DFG Research Training Group pi-3 "Parameter Identification - Analysis, Algorithms, Implementations" (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen).…

333. Data Science Forum on Causal Reasoning

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Date: 03-06-21

In this talk Prof. Dr. Vanessa Didelez will illustrate causal reasoning and methodology with two applications involving large databases: First we consider the question of predicting intervention…

334. New Score for cardiovascular disease risk prediction in Europe released

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Date: 18-06-21

New research from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to help predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially heart attack and stroke, has been published in the European Heart…

335. [BIPS Project] PAS-study for alemtuzumab

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=943&cHash=1349154bbd11f321c29994b2f766c31a
Date: 21-06-21

Alemtuzumab (LEMTRADA®), a highly efficacious disease modifying therapy (HE-DMT), is a monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in patients…

336. [BIPS Project] PAS-study for eliglustat

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=918&cHash=d876d3358dfbd42e2702cd0b2b6dc02e
Date: 30-06-21

Drug utilisation study of eliglustat for the treatment of Gaucher disease type 1 in Europe using electronic healthcare records Gaucher disease (GD) is a rare genetic disorder from the group of…

337. [BIPS Project] Colaborative Research Center 1320: Everyday activity science and engeineering

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=962&cHash=1f65466669708ef11d2c290c38035e26
Date: 01-07-21

This project "Sensorimotor and Causal Human Activity Models for Cognitive Architectures" is part of a DFG funded collaborative research centre at the University of Bremen. The goal is to identify…

338. [BIPS Project] Community-based integration of a digital mental health intervention in Pakistan

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=920&cHash=b1019f7252bed2458a7e05c085f073cf
Date: 01-08-21

The project WellPak is conducted to alleviate the significant mental health burden in low-and middle-income countries. It is a collaboration between the Leibniz Institute of Prevention Research and…

339. [BIPS Project] The intelligent digital guideline editor (IDEAL): applying causal inference to evidence generation using emulated clinical trials

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=971&cHash=82e8459ed9fcd9fb130d8aad923f83e6
Date: 01-09-21

The focus of the project IDEAL is the development of a methodology to use causal inference and adaptive statistical procedures to simplify the planning of efficient clinical studies and to be able to…

340. New blog series highlighting the research of Leibniz postdocs with Heide Busse from BIPS

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Date: 17-09-21

One of the main goals of the Leibniz Postdoc Network is to raise the profile of postdocs working at the institutes of the Leibniz Association. While science & research during the pandemic have…