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Re-imagining data protection: Femtech and gendered risks in the GDPR KU Leuven

Anastasia Siapka
The European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is considered ‘the gold standard’ for data protection laws worldwide. Yet, it is a truism to state that it neglects gender. The law itself adopts a gender-neutral approach which fails to recognise that personal data, as well as data subjects, and risks of processing can be gendered. Academic debates on data protection and gender are also limited. This chapter aims to address ...

Monitoring COVID-19 in Belgian general practice: A tool for syndromic surveillance based on electronic health records. KU Leuven

Nicolas Delvaux, Bert Aertgeerts, Bert Vaes
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 may initially manifest as flu-like symptoms. As such, general practitioners (GPs) will likely to play an important role in monitoring the pandemic through syndromic surveillance. OBJECTIVES: To present a COVID-19 syndromic surveillance tool in Belgian general practices. METHODS: We performed a nationwide observational prospective study in Belgian general practices. The surveillance tool extracted the daily entries of ...

Development and validation of a risk prediction model for hospital admission in COVID-19 patients presenting to primary care. KU Leuven

Laure Wynants
BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of prognostic models for COVID-19 that are usable for in-office patient assessment in general practice (GP). OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a risk prediction model for hospital admission with readily available predictors. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study linking GP records from 8 COVID-19 centres and 55 general practices in the Netherlands to hospital admission records. The development cohort spanned ...

A Matlab package computing simultaneous Gaussian quadrature rules for Multiple Orthogonal Polynomials KU Leuven

Walter Van Assche
The aim of this paper is to describe a Matlab package for computing the simultaneous Gaussian quadrature rules associated with a variety of multiple orthogonal polynomials. Multiple orthogonal polynomials can be considered as a generalization of classical orthogonal polynomials, satisfying orthogonality constraints with respect to r different measures, with r ≥ 1. Moreover, they satisfy (r+2)-term recurrence relations. In this manuscript, ...

DAPSI(W)R(M) put into practice for a nature-based solution: Framework applied to the coastbusters approach Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Alexia Semeraro, Rémi Dupont, Vicky Stratigaki, Tomas Sterckx, Gert Van Hoey
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be applied to alleviate negative human impacts on ecosystems and promote the general health or well-being of the environment. Human-induced activities, including installation of NbS, are governed by legislative requirements (e.g. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)), especially when such activities occur in Marine Protected Areas (MPA's). A correct and thorough description of the legislative framework ...

A within-subject examination of grandparents’ physical activity and sedentary behavior levels in the presence or absence of grandchild care provision Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Maxine Vanhove, Eva D'Hondt, Yanni Verhavert, Tom Deliens, Benedicte Deforche, Marie Vermote

Background: This study aimed to examine within-subject differences in levels of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) among Flemish grandparents aged 50 years and older during a day of providing versus not providing grandchild care. Additionally, grandparents’ PA and SB levels of the specific caregiving moment within the included care day were also compared with those of the corresponding specific time frame on the matching ...

Burnout among surgeons before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University

Mostafa Shalaby, Ahmed M ElSheikh, Hosam Hamed, Jasper Stijns

BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had many significant impacts within the surgical realm, and surgeons have been obligated to reconsider almost every aspect of daily clinical practice.

METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study reported in compliance with the CHERRIES guidelines and conducted through an online platform from June 14th to July 15th, 2020. The primary outcome was the burden of burnout during the pandemic indicated by the ...

On-farm NIR sensor for milk analysis: Exploitation of bias monitoring and bias correction KU Leuven

Arnout van Nuenen, Jose Díaz Olivares, Wouter Saeys, Ben Aernouts
Long-term studies have shown a bias drift over time in the prediction performance of near-infrared spectroscopy measurement systems. This bias drift generally requires extra laboratory reference measurements to detect and correct for this bias. Since these reference measurements are expensive and time consuming, there is a need for advanced methodologies for bias drift monitoring and correction without the need for taking extra samples. In this ...

DCRM 2.0: Multispecialty practice recommendations for the management of diabetes, cardiorenal, and metabolic diseases. KU Leuven

Chantal Mathieu
The spectrum of cardiorenal and metabolic diseases comprises many disorders, including obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D), chronic kidney disease (CKD), atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), heart failure (HF), dyslipidemias, hypertension, and associated comorbidities such as pulmonary diseases and metabolism dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and metabolism dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASLD and MASH, respectively, ...

To the Whetstone or the Drawing Board? Access to Remedy for Extraterritorial Business-Related Human Rights Violations KU Leuven

Kari Otteburn
While debates surrounding economic globalization have persisted for decades, it is not necessary to take a side to appreciate that any potentially positive effects - for instance, economic growth or development - have been accompanied by numerous and varied adverse impacts on the planet and its inhabitants[1], including on human health, dignity, and quality of life. In pursuit of profit maximization and economic growth, business enterprises ...