Publications

Van een literatuurstudie met betrekking tot het gezondheidsbeleid hebben wij geleerd dat overheidsoptreden noodzakelijk is om het overgewicht bij kinderen aan te pakken én dat het lokaal bestuurlijk niveau het sluitstuk vormt van elk overheidsoptreden op dat vlak. De kerntaak voor de (lokale) overheid in de promotie van gezonde voeding en voldoende beweging is het ondersteunen van de doelgroepen (zoals kinderen, jongeren, enz.) en de eerstelijns ...

This research utilises statistical modelling to explore the impact of roadway infrastructure elements, primarily those related to cross-section design, on crash occurrences in urban areas. Cross-section design is an important step in the roadway geometric design process as it influences key operational characteristics like capacity, cost, safety, and overall functionality of the transport system entity. Evaluating the influence of cross-section ...

Virtual reality (VR) offers an interactive and more engaging setting for studying hazard anticipation and anticipation in child cyclists who have a considerably higher risk for being involved in a traffic accident. Yet, reliability, validity and usability of VR for scientific purposes remain poorly documented. With the long-term goal in mind of developing fun and interactive training programmes, this study intends to test the effectiveness of a ...

When multiple mediators exist on the causal pathway from treatment to outcome, path analysis prevails for disentangling indirect effects along paths linking possibly several mediators. However, separately evaluating each indirect effect along different posited paths demands stringent assumptions, such as correctly specifying the mediators' causal structure, and no unobserved confounding among the mediators. These assumptions may be unfalsifiable ...

BACKGROUND: Local anesthetics are often selected or mixed to accomplish faster onset of anesthesia. However, with ultrasound guidance, local anesthetics are delivered with greater precision, which may shorten the onset time with all classes of local anesthetics. In this study, we compared onset time and duration of ultrasound-guided wrist blocks with a fast onset versus a longer lasting local anesthetic administered via single or dual (spatially ...

Aims: Transseptal puncture (TSP) is a routine procedure for minimally-invasive cardiac procedures in human patients, during which the left atrium is accessed via the right atrium through a puncture in the fossa ovalis (FO). The aim was to identify challenges and provide solutions for TSP in horses. Methods: In ten horses, admitted for euthanasia for non-cardiovascular reasons, TSP was performed under general anaesthesia. Post mortem, the ...

This paper examines the links between women's un/safety and their night-time mobilities in Brussels, Belgium and Recife, Brazil. While the significance of women's intersectional identities to the construction of fear and safety in urban space has been well documented in feminist urban geography, we argue that the lens of South-North comparison highlights specific ways in which local urban spaces are implicated in women's experiences of ...