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Controlling the Schengen Information System (SIS II): The Infrastructural Politics of Fragility and Maintenance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article focuses on the Schengen Information System (SIS II) – the largest data infrastructure supporting police cooperation and border controls in the European Union. Through the SIS II, national authorities exchange information about individuals and objects, and this across national and institutional boundaries. Yet, the SIS II does not always perform as anticipated in its design scripts. Following common threads about infrastructural ...
Improving patient safety through health information technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Primum non nocere, or above all, do no harm! This axiom is central in medical education and a potent reminder that each medical and pharmacological decision carries a certain potential for harm. Nevertheless, in 2013, patient harm as a result of unsafe medical care was estimated to be the 14th leading cause of global disease burden, comparable to tuberculosis, malaria and multiple sclerosis. Harm and costs due to medication errors and adverse ...
The “Don’t come/Go back home” continuum: the use of storytelling in Migration Information Campaigns Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Campaigns to encourage return or deter migration have become a prior-ity for European governments, revealing a new way of managing migra-tion flows to Europe. If scholars from social sciences have investigated these campaigns, no study in the field of discourse analysis addressed the argumentative discursive mechanisms at work in shaping migrants’ perceptions. The present research analyses the use of storytelling in migration information ...
Bitwidth-Optimized Energy-Efficient FFT Design via Scaling Information Propagation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an efficient algorithm widely used in digital signal processing to transform between the time domain and the frequency domain. For fixed-point VLSI implementations, dynamic range growth inevitably occurs at each stage of the FFT operation. However, current methods either waste bitwidth or consume excessive resources when dealing with the dynamic range growth issue. To address this issue, we propose an ...
Guidance on date marking and related food information : part 2 (food information) Ghent University Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Ultrasonic tomographic reconstruction of local fiber orientation in multi-layer composites using Gabor filter-based information diagram method Ghent University
Fiber waviness and ply stacking errors compromise the mechanical performance of multi-layer composites. Measuring the local in-plane fiber orientation layer-by-layer is therefore important to assure the structural integrity of a composite. The Radon transform and the Gabor filter methods have been reported to be appropriate for extracting the fiber orientation from an ultrasonic dataset, where the Radon transform method was found to be more ...
Visual affects : linking curiosity, Aha-Erlebnis, and memory through information gain Ghent University University of Antwerp KU Leuven
Current theories propose that our sense of curiosity is determined by the learning progress or information gain that our cognitive system expects to make. However, few studies have explicitly tried to quantify subjective information gain and link it to measures of curiosity. Here, we asked people to report their curiosity about the intrinsically engaging perceptual 'puzzles' known as Mooney images, and to report on the strength of their aha ...