Projects
Operational Modal Analysis Challenges in Case of Rotating Machines KU Leuven
Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) is widely employed and became an industrial standard technique for identifying the modal parameters (i.e. resonance frequencies, damping ratios and mode shapes) of mechanical structures. Its main applications are in the automotive, aerospace, civil engineering domains and many others. The advantage, if compared with Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA), is that it is not necessary to stop the machine, but its ...
The effect of pelvic floor muscle training on bowel symptoms after low anterior resection for colorectal cancer KU Leuven
Colorectal cancer is a serious heath problem in industrialized countries. Worldwide it is the second most common cancer in women and the third in men. Approximately 35% of these tumors originated in the rectum. There are several treatment strategies for rectal cancer, depending on the location and the stage of the tumor. Since amny years, low anterior resection (LAR) of the rectum with total mesorectal excision (TME) is the gold standard for ...
New Language Constructs and Inferences for the Knowledge Base Paradigm: A Business and Multi-agent Perspective KU Leuven
In Artificial Intelligence, the scientific field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is concerned with developing formal languages, to represent knowledge, and inference methods to solve tasks using that knowledge. Most of the existing approaches develop a formal language (a logic) together with an inference, to solve some type of computational task. The recently proposed Knowledge Base (KB) paradigm applies a strict separation of ...
Towards Virtual NVH Performance Assessment of Tires: Prediction of Dynamic Tire/Road Contact and Hub Forces Using a Fully Predictive Efficient Simulation Approach KU Leuven
Since it is reported that environmental noise has negative effects on the public health in the European Union, the European Commission has set a road traffic noise reduction target of 10 dB(A) by 2020. As a result, vehicle manufacturers are continuously working towards refining their car designs to help reduce traffic noise. Tire/road noise is an important contributor to the overall road traffic noise and can be divided into two categories: ...
Bridging the Image and Text Spaces with Neural Network Methods for Multimodal Representation Learning and Spatial Understanding KU Leuven
In the recent years, the emergence of deep learning models has greatly advanced computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). These models allow producing feature representations for images and words. For example, convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Mikolov’s et al. skip-gram model are popular means to extract such features from images and text corpora respectively. These representations are typically employed either in concept ...
Maxing out in prison. A study of pre-release long-term prisoners. KU Leuven
This dissertation provides a first provisional answer to the following central research question:
Why do some long-term prisoners max out from prison, rather than obtain a modality of early release?
The dissertation includes a brief introduction, four substantive chapters and a discussion and conclusion.
The first chapter provides a sketch of the available empirical evidence about maxing out from ...
User modeling for personalized Ad retrieval KU Leuven
The era of Social Media-as we know it today-started around the early 2000s. Social media enable a form of virtual content sharing that is fundamentally different than before. Social media content is no longer created and published by specific individuals, but instead is continuously modified by all users in a collaborative fashion. Nowadays, users around the world are taking advantage of social media as one of their key components of ...
Modeling electricity generation systems: generation investment planning under uncertainty KU Leuven
Many electricity generation systems are undergoing drastic changes, through rapidly increasing shares of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) like wind and solar photovoltaics. Models are often used to address the corresponding challenges (technical, economic, policy), by analyzing system operation and planning. In this PhD, we aim to strengthen the link between generation and grid planning. During the optimization of the grid design, ...
Local and systemic immune interactions in malignant gliomas KU Leuven
Glioblastoma (GBM), the most frequent primary intrinsic brain tumor, is without any doubt one of the most devastating diseases known to mankind. GBM are currently being treated with neurosurgical resection followed by radio- and chemotherapy. However, despite this treatment, prognosis for these patients is grim with a median survival of only 15 months and less than 20% 3-year survival rates. Already at diagnosis, GBM cells are infiltrating ...