Projects
Evaluation of policy-making capacities of schools University of Antwerp
A Practical Solution to OCR in Persian and Arabic Print KU Leuven
The advent of computers has freed human beings from complicated and time-consuming calculations. Further developments of programming languages have also paved the way for making more competent machines insofar that the emergence of artificial intelligence has equipped computers with the power of reinforcing humans to make worldwide communication with peace of mind. A noteworthy example of such utilization is Computer-Assisted Translation ...
The Development of a Register-Based Socio-Demographic Panel to Study Work-Family Behaviour. University of Antwerp
Parental Pesticide and Offspring Epigenome study (PaPOE): Assessment of pesticides exposure and association with cancer among farmers, pregnant women and their offspring KU Leuven
Environmental toxicants, like pesticides, can alter epigenetic regulatory features such as DNA methylation. The PaPOE (Parental Pesticides and Offspring Epigenome) study aims to investigate whether pesticides exposure could induce epigenetic changes associated with an increase in cancer risk. We will, in fact be, investigating how (re)programming in early life can have long-term consequences for later health outcomes through DNA methylation ...
Trust development in middle childhood as a cognitive learning process: Psychoendocrinological and epigenetic mechanisms. KU Leuven
Although children’s trust in parental support during stress is fundamental for adapative development, less is known about the process explaining trust development. This is because the theory that studies children’s trust development (attachment theory) describes this process only metaphorically as the internalization of experiences with responsive and sensitive parenting. Therefore, unraveling this process will have a significant scientific ...