Projects
Measurement errors : from mathematical foundations to applications in economics KU Leuven
Understanding the role of internal movement errors in falling using a blended experimental and computational approach KU Leuven
You are craving a cup of coffee and start walking towards the coffee machine. Your movement is driven by a high-level goal (coffee), but every step towards it is filled with danger as lifting your foot to step makes you less stable. To avoid falling, your nervous system accounts for the upcoming instability by predicting the outcome of your movements and closely monitors the execution of the planned movement. One third of older adults fall ...
Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven
In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...
The first hurdle in oral drug disposition: exploring the impact of gastric residence on drug behaviour in man KU Leuven
Reducing the late-stage attrition of potential drug candidates can be considered one of the major challenges for the oral drug development process to date. One of the factors potentially leading to the attrition of a drug candidate at the clinical stages of the drug development process is formulation failure. Formulation failure can be attributed to the fact that selecting the appropriate formulation strategy often occurs on a trial-and-error ...
Increasing the range for chickens in use by mobile houses, combined with the production of short rotation coppice Ghent University
Chickens with free-range access often make limited use of their free-range area; a small part of the flock is usually observed outside at any given time, and those that are outside prefer to stay close to their houses. As a consequence, the claimed welfare benefits of free-range use may not be achieved, and nutrient loads in the soil are very high close to the chicken houses. The low range use may have several reasons, such as fear of a ...
An assessment of interviewer characteristics data for explaining interviewer effects on measurement and nonresponse in face-to-face survey data collection KU Leuven
This dissertation addresses the question of what interviewer characteristics data are useful to collect in order to account for observed interviewer effects in survey data. We conducted a systematic evaluation of the explanatory power of personal interviewer characteristics and interviewer role characteristics, with respect to nonresponse and with respect to survey variables in four rounds of the European Social Survey in Belgium (Rounds 5 to ...
Intersection Modelling and Marginal Simulation in Macroscopic Dynamic Network Loading KU Leuven
Particle and Power Exhaust Studies in the EAST Fusion Tokamak and Computational Analysis Using Coupled Fluid-Kinetic Plasma Codes KU Leuven
This PhD aims contributing in finding a solution for the particle and power exhaust problem in tokamak operation. Because the combination of a double null magnetic configuration and neon seeding seems promising in full-carbon experiments, the main focus is on exploring this potential in metallic devices.
This thesis is done in the EU-CN collaboration framework of EUROfusion and experiments are performed at the EAST tokamak, located at ...
The Dynamics of Lane-changing Maneuvers in Motorway Traffic Flow: Data Fusion, Analysis, and Modeling KU Leuven
Motorway traffic flow, at the heart of modern transportation networks, is a complex and dynamic system. It encompasses vehicle movement, driver interactions, and the multifaceted factors influencing road travel efficiency, safety, and sustainability. At its core, motorway traffic flow entails the study of vehicle operations within road networks and their interactions. Driver maneuvers encompass both longitudinal actions, guiding vehicles ...