Big, small or no data at all: resisting a 'smartness' that is 'all over the place' through art KU Leuven
Big,small or no data at all: resisting a smartness that is all over the place.
Big,small or no data at all: resisting a smartness that is all over the place.
The evolutionarily conserved SnRK1 (SNF1-related kinase 1) protein kinase (the ortholog of yeast SNF1 and mammalian AMPK) is a major metabolic sensor, allowing acclimatization and energy homeostasis upon changes in energy availability, thereby ensuring plant survival. SnRK1 is activated by low energy stress and repressed by high photosynthetic sugar levels, with the allosteric inhibitor trehalose-6-P acting as a proxy for sucrose supply. To ...
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Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...
Glioblastoma (GBM), the most frequent primary intrinsic brain tumor, is without any doubt one of the most devastating diseases known to mankind. GBM are currently being treated with neurosurgical resection followed by radio- and chemotherapy. However, despite this treatment, prognosis for these patients is grim with a median survival of only 15 months and less than 20% 3-year survival rates. Already at diagnosis, GBM cells are infiltrating ...
There is a growing insight that a key factor for the success of an AI system is often its ability to interact in a meaningful way with users. In Decision Support applications, communication with the decision makers is key: after all, if they do not understand the system, they will be reluctant to follow its advice. In this PhD, we will improve on the current state-of-the-art on this topic in two ways. First, there is a recent evolution ...
In the agro-food industry, there is an increasing demand for non-destructive quality inspection tools that allow to inspect every individual product. This is the result of an increased focus on food safety and quality over the past decades. Several fast, non-destructive and contactless technologies have been studied for food quality inspection, many of them based on the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the food product. ...
In this thesis research on obstetric fistula is being presented. Obstetric fistula are complications of obstructive labour, where the foetal head compresses tissues against the bony pelvis. This induces ischaemia and necrosis of these tissues and subsequent fistulisation. The high prevalence of obstetric fistula in certain regions of developing countries is a hallmark of poor perinatal care
Epidemiological studies have shown that the ...
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are among the most remarkable biomolecules occurring in nature, since they store and transfer all genetic information using only four letters (G, C, A & T or U). In the last 60 years, since the discovery of the structure of nucleic acids, numerous chemically modified nucleosides and nucleotides have been produced and incorporated into oligomeric sequences either by chemical or ...