Projects
Vaccine hesitancy in the (post-) COVID-19 EU: Effects of European identity, party orientation, trust and political polarization. University of Antwerp
PhD verdediging Panagiotis VASARMIDIS UGent Flanders Hydraulics
Innovative disease and pest control in outdoor ornamentals Ornamental plant research
This project was initiated in response to a request of several growers of outdoor ornamental plants, to grow high quality plants in an alternative way, with a reduced amount of chemical plant protection products. Because most growers of outdoor ornamentals still rely on preventative fungicide applications for disease control and chemical pest treatments based on damage symptoms, alternatives are needed. This project will focus on developing ...
Diffusion of gases in partially saturated clay - based materials KU Leuven
In many countries in Europe, clay-based materials are considered for safe disposal of high and intermediate level radioactive waste, either as an important component in the the engineered barrier system, or as geological formation to host the repository. Furthermore clays under consideration all have high sorption capacity for many radionuclides (Altmann et al., 2012; Maes et al., 2008; Maes et al., 2004), low hydraulic conductivity (Enssle ...
Impact of exposome on the course of lung diseases KU Leuven
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis (CF) are two very debilitating non-communicable diseases that are of particular interest to consider in parallel in a human exposome study. Their roots are opposite: COPD is currently considered to be mainly related to the external exposome, while factors outside of the exposome play a major role in CF. However, COPD and CF share common characteristics such as high phenotypic ...
Proposed Research Title: The Ideological and Textual Research on Mozi’s Edition Compiled in the Yongle Canon KU Leuven
The Yongle Canon is the first and largest encyclopedia in the world which has only 815 volumes left. In 1986, Zhonghua Shuju中華書局 published a photocopy of the Yongle Canon’s 797 volumes. The 10th book preserved the whole catalogs of 22877 volumes, in which edited two lost volumes:“ Volume 54, ‘Shangtong’<尙同> chapter of Mozi《墨子》” and “Volume 1814, the Mohism墨家”. According to the Index of the Yongle Canon《永樂大典索引》, there are four existing ...
Profiles of university students with reading difficulties in the learning of Spanish as a foreign language Profielen van universiteitsstudenten met leesproblemen bij het leren van Spaans als vreemde taal KU Leuven
This research is confined to the analysis of the silent reading fluency and its role in the identification of reading profiles with difficulties among a population of adult and university learners who learn Spanish as a foreign language. The objective of this study is to understand how the development of the silent reading fluency —the main activity on expert readers— intervenes with reading comprehension and which is their causal ...
Recycoat: recycing of coated materials Centexbel - Scientific and Technical Centre of the Belgian Textile industry
The current routes for EOL “complex”-composite products are mainly focusing on:
burning or converting into RDF pellets (Refuse Driven Fuel). The energy content and presence of a fusible fraction (carrier and possibly also coating) explain why this waste disposal method is widely spread.
another commenly used route is mechanical reductuin via shredders and use as a filler.
Objectives of the ...
Development of Inorganic Polymers for Near-zero Energy Dwellings KU Leuven
Alkali activation has been emerging as a sustainable technology to produce innovative construction materials. Alkali-activated materials have been extensively investigated, but different levels of scientific understanding and industrial implementation can be found among several subgroups of such materials.
The most widely examined alkali-activated materials are commonly known as geopolymers. The scientific knowledge of their reaction ...