Structured Machine Learning for Mapping Natural Language to Spatial Ontologies KU Leuven
Due ...
During this sabbatical period, I explicitly connect two lines of research of my own for the first time: on the one hand my work on Jürgen Habermas and on the other my work on populism. The connecting element is an investigation into the technocratic content of contemporary politics. The leading research hypothesis is that populism and technocracy should be seen as opposing but mutually reinforcing threats to our contemporary democracy. ...
This dissertation concerns the active role of the organism in evolutionary theory. In particular, it concerns how our conception of the relationship between organism and environment, and the nature of natural selection, influences the causal and explanatory role of organismic activity and behavior in evolutionary explanations. The overarching aim is to argue that the behaviors and activities of organisms can serve both as the explananda (that ...
Somatic mutations explain missing risk in multiple sclerosis
An Goris, Laboratory for Neuroimmunology, KU Leuven
1. State of the art
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, affecting 2.5 million
people worldwide and leading to important physical and cognitive disability with typical onset during
young adulthood. A genetic component has long been demonstrated and through ...