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Item Open Access The role of wrist-worn technology in the management of Parkinson’s disease in daily life: a narrative review(Frontiers, 2023-04-12) Li, Peng; van Wezel, Richard; He, Fei; Zhao, Yifan; Wang, YingParkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Its slow and heterogeneous progression over time makes timely diagnosis challenging. Wrist-worn digital devices, particularly smartwatches, are currently the most popular tools in the PD research field due to their convenience for long-term daily life monitoring. While wrist-worn sensing devices have garnered significant interest, their value for daily practice is still unclear. In this narrative review, we survey demographic, clinical and technological information from 39 articles across four public databases. Wrist-worn technology mainly monitors motor symptoms and sleep disorders of patients in daily life. We find that accelerometers are the most commonly used sensors to measure the movement of people living with PD. There are few studies on monitoring the disease progression compared to symptom classification. We conclude that wrist-worn sensing technology might be useful to assist in the management of PD through an automatic assessment based on patient-provided daily living information.Item Open Access The value of manure - Manure as co-product in life cycle assessment(Elsevier, 2019-04-19) Leip, Adrian; Ledgard, Stewart; Uwizeye, Aimable; Palhares, Julio C.P.; Fernanda Aller, M.; Amon, Barbara; Binder, Michael; Cordovil, Claudia M.d.S.; De Camillis, Camillo; Dong, Hongming; Fusi, Alessandra; Helin, Janne; Hörtenhuber, Stefan; Hristov, Alexander N.; Koelsch, Richard; Liu, Chunjiang; Masso, Cargele; Nkongolo, Nsalambi V.; Wang, YingLivestock production is important for food security, nutrition, and landscape maintenance, but it is associated with several environmental impacts. To assess the risk and benefits arising from livestock production, transparent and robust indicators are required, such as those offered by life cycle assessment. A central question in such approaches is how environmental burden is allocated to livestock products and to manure that is re-used for agricultural production. To incentivize sustainable use of manure, it should be considered as a co-product as long as it is not disposed of, or wasted, or applied in excess of crop nutrient needs, in which case it should be treated as a waste. This paper proposes a theoretical approach to define nutrient requirements based on nutrient response curves to economic and physical optima and a pragmatic approach based on crop nutrient yield adjusted for nutrient losses to atmosphere and water. Allocation of environmental burden to manure and other livestock products is then based on the nutrient value from manure for crop production using the price of fertilizer nutrients. We illustrate and discuss the proposed method with two case studies.