Publications

La Belgique est un territoire multilingue et multiculturel qui présente un paysage politique et médiatique assez cloisonné. Dans ce contexte, la télécollaboration est vue comme l’occasion d’améliorer la compétence orale et interculturelle. Elle se développe en parallèle à des exercices oraux en présentiel dans une formation en linguistique appliquée. Des binômes francophones (ULiège) et néerlandophones (KU Leuven) se contactent chaque ...

The paper focussed on a step-by-step structural modification of a cycloheptathiophene-3-carboxamide derivative recently identified by us as reverse transcriptase (RT)-associated ribonuclease H (RNase H) inhibitor. In particular, its conversion to a 2-aryl-cycloheptathienoozaxinone derivative and the successive thorough exploration of both 2-aromatic and cycloheptathieno moieties led to identify oxazinone-based compounds as new anti-RNase H ...

Abstract This dataset provides the Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database, version 1.2. GloNAF represents a data compendium on the occurrence and identity of naturalized alien vascular plant taxa across geographic regions (e.g. countries, states, provinces, districts, islands) around the globe. The dataset includes 13,939 taxa and covers 1,029 regions (including 381 islands). The dataset is based on 210 data sources. For each ...

The aim of this work was to study the formation of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) with low (corn and olive oil) or high temperature melting lipids (cocoa butter and hydrogenated coconut oil). Moreover, their β-carotene stability and in vitro digestibility kinetics was evaluated. Submicron LNPs (d43 ≈ 570 -780 nm) were stabilized with Tween 80 at a surfactant-to-oil ratio (SOR) of 0.1. It was reduced below 200 nm at an SOR of 1. The β-carotene ...

Classical (independent) interval analysis considers a hyper-cubic input space consisting of independent intervals. This stems from the inability of intervals to model dependence and results in a serious over-conservatism when no physical guarantee of independence of these parameters exists. In a spatial context, dependence of one model parameter over the model domain is usually modelled using a series expansion over a set of basis functions that ...

This paper presents a model-based approach for the condition monitoring of guiding rails in vertical transportation systems. A physics-based model of the system is used to estimate friction forces by means of anaugmented Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). This estimation is compared to the friction predicted by a moredetailed model of the system. This comparison, gives a first quantitative knowledge of the condition of thesystem. The difference ...

Multicellular systems play a key role in bioprocess and biomedical engineering. Cell ensembles encountered in these setups show phenotypic variability like size and biochemical composition. As this variability may result in undesired effects in bioreactors, close monitoring of the cell population heterogeneity is important for maximum production output, and accurate control. However, direct measurements are mostly restricted to a few cellular ...

Research on the link between gender and campaign finance in proportional electoral systems suggests that the campaign expenses of female parliamentary candidates are significantly lower than those of male candidates. On the basis of data on 10,436 candidates for nine consecutive elections in Belgium (1991–2014), this article examines whether there is indeed a gender gap in campaign expenses, and in particular whether this coincides with the ...