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Fiscal State Aid and the role of National Judges within the EU Commission's Modernization Programme (Fiscal State Aid). University of Antwerp

Anne Van de Vijver
Business and Law
This project aims at guaranteeing a higher level of knowledge as well as more awareness amongst national tax judges on the issues concerning fiscal state aids. In particular, improvement of knowledge will be guaranteed by focusing on the Modernization Programme developed by the EU Commission, . Emphasis will be put on the importance of a correct and effective application of EU law in matters of fiscal state aid – with particular reference to ...

Antiretroviral treatment as catalyst for achieving AIDS competence in local South African communities: developing a multidimensional intervention to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. University of Antwerp

Edwin Wouters
Centre for Population, Family and Health
Background: Although the initial outcomes of the South African public antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme are promising, there are still important challenges to be met to successfully fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the long term, namely (1) HIV/AIDS care as chronic disease care requires psychosocial care on top of biomedical care to ensure long-term adherence and patient retention and (2) HIV incidence levels need to drop by positively ...

Integrated Active Noise Control and Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids KU Leuven

Marc Moonen
ESAT - STADIUS, Stadius Centre for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Research Group Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology
In every day life conversations and listening scenarios the desired speech signal is rarely delivered alone. The listener most commonly faces ascenario where he has to understand speech in a noisy environment. Hearing impairments, and more particularly sensorineural losses, can cause areduction of speech understanding in noise. Therefore, in a hearing aidcompensating for such kind of losses it is not sufficient to just amplify the incoming ...

3D printing of bespoke aids Thomas More Kempen

Lieven De Maesschalck
Mobilab

Persons with disabilities, for example as a result of stroke, rheumatoid arthritis and patients with moderate, severe to profound mental disabilities often need occupational therapy aids to help them perform activities in daily living.
Currently almost all of these patients are provided with prefabricated aids. However it appears that these prefab tools often do not fit well or insufficiently. A bespoke aid can offer a solution here. ...

Signal processing algorithms for binaural hearing aids. KU Leuven

Marc Moonen
ESAT - STADIUS, Stadius Centre for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics
Modern digital hearing aids aren't simple sound amplifiers, but also
contain signal processing algorithms for noise reduction, feedback
suppression,... Most hearing aid users have hearing aids at both ears
in a so-called bilateral configuration, which means the hearing aids
work independently.
The independent processing of the bilateral configuration destroys the
so-called binaural cues (the time and level ...

Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Noise Reduction, Dynamic Range Compression, and Feedback Cancellation in Hearing Aids KU Leuven

Marc Moonen
ESAT - STADIUS, Stadius Centre for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, Research Group Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology
Hearing loss can be caused by many factors, e.g., daily exposure to excessive noise in the work environment and listening to loud music. Another important reason can be age-related, i.e., the slow loss of hearing that occurs as people get older. In general hearing impaired people suffer from a frequency-dependent hearing loss and from a reduced dynamic range between the hearing threshold and the uncomfortable level. This means that the ...

High-Volume Replacement of Cement by Non-Ferrous Metallurgy Slag and Impact of Limestone, Fineness and Grinding Aids KU Leuven

Nele De Belie, Yiannis Pontikes
Sustainable Materials Processing and Recycling (SeMPeR)

The global need for greenhouse gas emission reductions can only be met through an immense effort from many industries, among which the cement and concrete industry, considering that the production of cement accounts for approximately 8 % of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions worldwide. One of the most promising pathways to a reduction of these emissions is by avoidance of clinker production via (partial) replacement of Portland cement (PC) ...

European network for global cooperation in the field of AIDS & TB Institute of Tropical Medicine

Nadine Van Peer, Françoise Portaels
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Mycobacteriology

To contribute to the implementation of and enhance ICPC participation in the 7th Framework Programme in the areas of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis research. By bringing leading scientists from around the world together and have them jointly decide upon the most important and most urgent research topics that have to be addressed in this field, EUCO-Net will support other international efforts addressing HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and AIDS/TB ...

ArchHiv. An Archeology of Aids in Paris. Spaces, memories and viral sequences around the former Hôpital Claude Bernard. Ghent University

Johan Lagae
Department of Architecture and urban planning

This project aims to reconstitute, understand and publicly debate the history of the HIV epidemic in Paris, by experimenting an original research strategy. The project is based on the collaboration between a team of historians of medicine (Sciences Po médialab), a team of architects and historians of architecture (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Université de Ghent) and a team of virologists (INSERM-Hôpital Bichat). Firstly, ...