Projects
Conflicts in start-ups: coping with stress and conflicts to promote well-being and entrepreneurial success KU Leuven
Start-ups are Europe’s 2020 Priorities for strengthening economic growth. However, about 50% of new European businesses fail during their first five years, conflicts between founders and effects of work stress being two of the top reasons for failure. However, conflicts and stress in start-ups, as well as factors for their entrepreneurial success are under-studied.
The aim of STARFLICT is to elaborate a typology of conflicts in ...
Modelling the impact of combining HIV prevention interventions on HIV incidence in fishing communities in Uganda Hasselt University
Poly(2-oxazoline) drug conjugates Ghent University
Figure 119: General simplified overview of the CROP of 2-oxazolines.
This PhD research was done in two stages:
In the ...
The metabolic regulation of angiogenesis: a computational approach . KU Leuven
Angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels from pre-existing ones, contributes to numerous malignant and other diseases of which cancer is the best known. Since five decades researchers have been striving to find drug targets that could block this process. Unraveling the molecular players involved in vessel sprouting has led to the approval of ten anti-angiogenic drugs since 2004 and many more are in clinical trials. These approved drugs ...
Speciation in pebble beaches: Exploring an interstitial fish radiation. University of Antwerp
ASSESSMENT OF SUSTAINABLE BIOMASS ENERGY POTENTIALS IN RWANDA KU Leuven
Although biomass cooking energy is still the dominant source of energy in Rwanda, the supply potential has not sufficiently been explored. There is little scientific study conducted on provision and prediction of the growth rate of woody biomass in Rwanda. Further, little is known about factors influencing the use of improved cooking stoves and adoption of new technology or assessment of the efficiency and affordable different types of ...
Towards a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. University of Antwerp
Informal employment and decent work in Tanzania: Voluntary participation of informal workers in social health insurance schemes KU Leuven
Informal employment accounts for more than half of all jobs in low income countries. In Sub-Saharan Africa the share rises up to 80% and even 90% if agriculture is included (Chen et al., 2005, Vanek et al. 2014). Tanzania is considered to have one of the highest levels of informal employment in East Africa. In 2017, it was ranked by IMF as the country with the second largest share of informal economy in Africa after Nigeria. Also the ...
Exploration of clinical applications of grating-based phase-contrast imaging KU Leuven
Talbot-Lau interferometry (TLI) is a recent innovation, that enables x-ray phase-contrast measurements using conventional x-ray tubes and detectors. This development allows clinical implementation of phase-contrast imaging. This had been anticipated for years, given the increased sensitivity of x-ray phase to variation in soft tissue density. Carestream Health engineered a prototype system, the CH-TLI setup, and this PhD work studied the ...