Projects
Prevention of HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: Exploration of Leverage Points and Key Performance Indicators for Designing and Evaluating High-Impact Interventions KU Leuven
In total approximately 1,550,000 people are living with HIV (PLHIV), of those 1,126,366 (75%) are enrolled into HIV care and treatment and out of those, 1,103,016 (98%) are on antiretroviral treatment (ART). ART programs in developing countries, including Tanzania, are now advocating a test and treat strategy (National AIDS Control Programme, 2019). However, the long-term challenges of scaling up ART will include drug toxicities, treatment ...
Cultures of Spectacle. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research on film, theatre, dance and musical performance. University of Antwerp
The Dark Side of the Cult of Performance KU Leuven
A historically informed, scenical performance of Johann Christian Bach's opera Artaserse. University of Antwerp
Staging the Musical Self(ie). An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Subversive Potential of Musical Persona Performance in Times of Social Media. Ghent University
This research project explores how music artists disclose a public identity incorporating elements of their quotidian precarious identity in an age of social media. It departs from music and theatre artists Ivo Dimchev and Matthias Ringgenberg (PRICE) who multiply their performed presence into a hybrid musical persona using the reconfigured context of social media. This amalgamated musical self(ie) provides an interesting critical potential ...
Alliance Research Group: Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance Ghent University
In myth, the ancient muse Thalia is a worshipper of Dionysos and therefore closely related to theatrical festivities. Her name resembles the etymological origin of both 'theatre' and 'theory' (theoreia). The joint research group THALIA (UGent/VUB) aims at collective, intellectual exchange with regard to intermedial constellations of theatre, text and performance. Focusing on both contemporary performance art and history, the projects of our ...
Improving saxophone performance trough the combination of an artistic and a scientific approach to saxophone playing. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Test Procedures for Performance Verification of CMMs with Tactile and Optical Probes: Study of ISO Standards and Development of Complementary Tests KU Leuven
Within quality control for industrial applications, many types of measuring instruments are utilised. When it comes to checking dimensional requirements, such as geometrical product specifications, one of the most frequently used measuring instruments are coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). Through the use of a CMM, a workpiece can be inspected to prove it conforms to its intended design. The topic of this dissertation takes one step back ...
Bluetooth Low Energy Performance Analysis and Optimization in Environments with Interference KU Leuven
As a representative of low-power and low-range wireless communication protocols, Bluetooth Low Energy has been used more and more in various devices and applications. It is a wireless protocol defined in the 2.4 GHz frequency band, which is a license-free frequency band shared by many communication protocols. As a result, Bluetooth Low Energy is affected by the interference in this frequency band. In general, the interference for Bluetooth ...