Projects
The role of autophagy in lethal reperfusion injury following myocardial infarction and the effect of postconditioning in relation to adiponectin plasma levels. University of Antwerp
Relation between residual beta cell function and glycemic variability in (pre)type 1 diabetes. University of Antwerp
Optimization of the structure-activity relation in nanoporous materials. University of Antwerp
legal advice concerning religious signs in education Ghent University
Item and serial order retention in phonological short-term memory representations in relation to reading performance KU Leuven
This thesis focuses on item and serial order retention in verbal short-term memory (STM) of monolingual good and poor readers and typically developing bilingual children learning to read in a second language. One of the leading cognitive theories of dyslexia, i.e., the phonological deficit theory, postulates that individuals with dyslexia and poor readers have specific problems in the representation, storage, and/or retrieval of (a sequence ...
Insight in the microstructure of plant-based food suspensions in relation to their physical and nutritional functionalities. KU Leuven
Bayesioan estimation techniques, probabilistic relation models, higher-level knowledge representations and invariant motion descriptions for multi-target tracking and intent estimation in robotics. KU Leuven
Risk assessment in relation to the formation of toxic aldehydes in foods available in the Belgian market as a result of lipid oxidation Ghent University
Malondialdehyde, acrolein, 4-hydroxy-nonenal and 4-hydroxy-hexenal are generated during the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in foods. The current project deals with the development, implementation and validation of analytical methods, determination of the target aldehydes in foods available in the Belgian market and finally based on the obtained results, an exposure assessment to the target components taking into account the ...
The buffering effect of individual and community level social capital in the relation between socio-economic status and health Ghent University
Quantitative study of the buffering effect of social capital (both at the individual and the community level) on the detrimental health effects of individual poverty and/or neighborhood deprivation. Hereto, data will be collected on respondents’ socio-economic status, social capital and health using questionnaires, external databases and key-informant-interviews.