Publications
Iron and steel construction workshops in 19th and early 20th century Belgium: retrieving their oeuvre via trade catalogues Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the 19th century iron and steel were worldwide applied to construct halls, markets, stations and bridges. Belgium, being an early industrialised country on the European mainland, was famous for its iron and steel construction workshops and the export of iron and steel structures. Yet, the majority of the early Belgian construction workshops is hardly studied. As company archives of Belgian construction workshops are seldom preserved, we ...
The History of Chinese Feudal Society Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Feudalism is one of the most studied topics in the field of history but without a consensus on its central characteristics, it remains a slippery concept.
The History of Chinese Feudal Society provides a comprehensive analysis on the rise and fall of feudalism in China. Drawing on a vast resource of archival materials, it is the first study to investigate feudalism in China from the perspective of sociology and to compare feudalism ...
The History of Chinese Feudal Society provides a comprehensive analysis on the rise and fall of feudalism in China. Drawing on a vast resource of archival materials, it is the first study to investigate feudalism in China from the perspective of sociology and to compare feudalism ...
Data-Driven Tests for Controllability Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The fundamental lemma due to Willems et al. “A note on persistency of excitation”, Syst. Control Lett., vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 325–329, 2005 plays an important role in system identification and data-driven control. One of the assumptions for the fundamental lemma is that the underlying linear time-invariant system is controllable. In this paper, the fundamental lemma is extended to address system identification for uncontrollable systems. Then, a ...
Primary hepatocyte cultures for liver disease modeling Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Simulation of light propagation in citrus fruit using Monte Carlo multi-layered (MCML) method KU Leuven
The interaction of visible and near-infrared light with citrus tissues is of great importance for the design of new optical sensors for fruit quality inspection. In this study, the light propagation through citrus fruit was simulated using the Monte Carlo multi-layered (MCML) technique based on the bulk optical properties (BOP) of citrus tissues. Comparison of the diffuse reflectance profiles from MCML and from the laser scatter images confirmed ...
The algebraic structure of left semi-trusses Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The distributive laws of ring theory are fundamental equalities in algebra. However, recently in the study of the Yang-Baxter equation, many algebraic structures with alternative “distributive” laws were defined. In an effort to study these “left distributive” laws and the interaction they entail on the algebraic structures, Brzeziński introduced skew left trusses and left semi-trusses. In particular the class of left semi-trusses is very ...