Publications
The involvement of the Candida glabrata trehalase enzymes in stress resistance and gut colonization. KU Leuven
Candida glabrata is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen and is frequently present in the human microbiome. It has a high relative resistance to environmental stresses and several antifungal drugs. An important component involved in microbial stress tolerance is trehalose. In this work, we characterized the three C. glabrata trehalase enzymes Ath1, Nth1 and Nth2. Single, double and triple deletion strains were constructed and characterized ...
Resolution as intersection subtyping via Modus Ponens KU Leuven
Resolution and subtyping are two common mechanisms in programming languages. Resolution is used by features such as type classes or Scala-style implicits to synthesize values automatically from contextual type information. Subtyping is commonly used to automatically convert the type of a value into another compatible type. So far the two mechanisms have been considered independently of each other. This paper shows that, with a small extension, ...
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 ...
Perspective persistence and irregular perspective shift: mismatches in form-function pairings KU Leuven
Operator norm theory as an efficient tool to propagate hybrid uncertainties and calculate imprecise probabilities KU Leuven
This paper presents a highly efficient and effective approach to bound the responses and probability of failure of linear systems where the model parameters are subjected to combinations of epistemic and aleatory uncertainty. These combinations can take the form of imprecise probabilities or hybrid uncertainties. Typically, such computations involve solving a nested double loop problem, where the propagation of the aleatory uncertainty has to be ...