Molecular pathogenesis in head and neck cancer: role tyrosine kinases. KU Leuven
In this work we primarily aimed to identify potential starting points for new therapeutic targeting ...
In spite of the paramount importance of police integrity in a democracy, police deviance continues to be a problem. One much-discussed factor for explaining police deviance, is police culture. However, quantitative empirical research on the relationship between police or organisational culture on the one hand and police deviance on the other is scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of (different dimensions of) ...
Belgium is a country of immigration. Labor migration, colonial migration, the arrival of different international institutions and membership of the EU, have brought a growing amount of non-Belgians into the country. Their influence on Belgian demographics is significant, most importantly so among children. Almost thirty percent of Flemish children have a foreign background, with ten percent having no Belgian nationality. However, the Flemish ...
State of the art The availability of regenerative solutions for deep cartilage defects (osteochondral defects) in human joints is known as an unmet medical need. A long-term follow-up study from Mayoclinic recently demonstrated a significant higher risk of early osteoarthritis for knees with osteochondritis dissecans regardless if treatment was conservative or operative (1,2). The surgical treatment of these large osteochondral defects in ...
Future coastal ecosystems will be challenged with a multitude of ecosystem-level stressors, resulting from both local anthropogenic activities and environmental change acting at the global scale. The installation of offshore wind farms (OWFs) is currently a major human activity in the coastal North Sea area, resulting in the introduction of large surfaces of artificial hard substrates (AHSs) in an otherwise sandy environment. At the moment, ...