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The neutralisation of urban space through relocation in post-revolutionary Cairo during late neoliberal authoritarianism. University of Antwerp

This research examines how interests in power domination manifest themselves in the built environment, in a process we called the political 'neutralization' of urban space. For this, it examines the situation in Egypt, where the government is using urban design to depoliticise public space by impeding various forms of inappropriate use. This is reflected in an unprecedented pace of urbanisation, relocation and resettlement since 2014. Also some ...

Beyond the binary: towards gender-neutral Belgian parentage law? A normative and comparative law research concerning the desirability of gender neutralization of the Belgian civil code Hasselt University

Centre for Government and Law, University of Namur

Almost daily we are confronted in the media with large and small legal upheavals that expose the global search for a renewed view of the male-female relationship in society. The trend in Western society is breaking down the barriers around gender: men and women should function on equal terms. The reality of permanently uninterrupted marriages and unaffected biological creation of progeny is no longer. Today, times and social structures have ...

Drone detection, classification and neutralization through artificial intelligence based RF sensing and protocol aware jamming KU Leuven

Sofie Pollin

ESAT- TELEMIC, Telecommunications and Microwaves

Mini remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) are imposing threats to national security. In recent years, the threat has become increasingly vivid due to the wide availability of drones. Several illicit incidents at several security-sensitive places like airports, national campaigns and international sports events have been recorded. The small radar cross section of mini drones makes them difficult to be detected by the existing radars. ...

ERANETIL-18 and MRP neutralization for the treatment of anti-IL-1-refractory autoinflammatory diseases Ghent University

Andy Wullaert

Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Department of Internal medicine

Autoinflammatory diseases (AID) are a group of devastating systemic inflammatory syndromes characterized by seemingly unprovoked episodes of severe inflammation without signs of classical autoimmunity. The general prevalence of AID is below 1:100,000 individuals. As the genes mutated in AID are increasingly being mapped, inflammasome signalling and the cytoskeletal network are emerging as key mechanisms responsible for AID. Excess ...

The dilemma between neutralization and politicization; the political identity of Europe KU Leuven

Tim Heysse

Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE)

This research will tackle the topical problem of cultural identity and European politics in relation to the process of European integration. The integration of European nation states into a larger union, based on universal principles such as democracy and human rights, raises questions about the political identity of this European unity. Some Eurosceptics uphold the argument that a true democratic political entity can exist only when among ...

Advanced hoListic Adverse Drone Detection, Identification Neutralization (ALADDIN) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Paul Quinn

Metajuridica

ALADDIN will study, design, develop, and evaluate, in series of complementary pilots, a counter UAV system as a complete solution to the growing UAV threat problem, building upon a state-of-the-art system and enhancing it by researching on various technologies and functionalities. ALADDIN will follow a holistic and heavily user-centred methodology involving a large number of LEAs and critical infrastructure operators, as well as an expert ...

Combined chemotherapy and inflammasome neutralization for the treatment of non-small cell lung carcinoma Ghent University

Andy Wullaert, Mohamed Lamkanfi

Department of Biomedical molecular biology, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Department of Internal medicine

Chemoresistance of non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) cells underlies the poor prognosis of patients with advanced disease. Hence, it seems plausible to combine the standard-of-care chemotherapy for NSCLC (typically a combination of platinum-based compounds and taxanes) with strategies that block the induction of chemoresistance.

Recent evidence illustrated that tumor-associated macrophages contribute to diminished therapy ...

Neutralization in lexicon, grammar, and discourse Ghent University

Klaas Willems

Department of Linguistics, Department of German

In a first phase, an overview will be given of the various senses in which the term "neutralization" has been used in 20th-century linguistics. At the same time, attention will be paid to the relation between the notion "neutralization" and other notions such as syncretism, metaphor, idiomatic norm reference, neutrality, etc. Also the relation "neutralization"-"markedness" will be discussed. In a second phase, lexical and grammatical ...

Environmental conflict, rural communities and political centralisation in the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries (c.1300-c1570): test-case: the duchy of Brabant. University of Antwerp

Tim Soens

Power in History - Centre for Political History

The environmental impact of late-medieval state formation is questioned through an in-depth analysis of the interventions of local officials of the central state in the organisation and regulation of the environment in Brabantine rural communities (14th-16th centuries). This will allow us to analyse if and how the central government acquired a significant influence in the social distribution of environmental costs and benefits already in the ...

A cross-cultural, cross-gendered and bi-sexual anthropology of 'borderlinking', 'trans(sub)jective' art. KU Leuven

Paul Vandenbroeck

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

In this thesis, I investigate how, as a writer and curator, to deal with imagination that is present in some contemporary art, without compromising the quality of an artistic study, but by trying to view it from theimagined (or imagining) angle, since time, space, form and meaning are all created on the basis of that notion. What is often interpreted as 'mental' or 'cognitive reflection' or 'speculation' can equally be referred to as ...

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