Projects
The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach KU Leuven
This thesis deals with the notion of “clear line”, a term coined in 1977 by the essayist and comics author Joost Swarte to describe Hergé’s style, but also that of some artists who can be considered his precursors, and of the creators who followed or parodied his work. It refers both to purely graphic and to intermedial narrative solutions, which work together to produce storytelling strategies that presuppose a deceptively simple, clear and ...
Behavioural change based on the self-categorisation theory: promotion of physical activity among sedentary older adults (intervention study among older adults on intrinsic and social determinants of physical activity and health-related behaviour). KU Leuven
Synthesis writing in upper-secondary education: From a baseline of texts and processes to process-oriented feedback KU Leuven
Context
This dissertation was carried out within the framework of the LIFT-project. The LIFT-project (Improving pre-university students' performance in academic synthesis tasks with Level-up Instructions and Feedback Tool) is a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project's goal was to provide feedback and instruction on students' synthesis writing, based on national baseline data.
It is important that ...
"-omics" as tool to address the burden of non-communicable age-related disease in populations in epidemiological transition KU Leuven
Summary
Background and objectives
The objective of this doctoral thesis was to explore “‑omics” technologies as a tool to address the burden of non-communicable age-related disease in populations in epidemiological transition. We choose diastolic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, heart failure (HF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) as disease models, because of their high prevalence in the general population, ...
BINGE EATING AND PURGING IN COLLEGE STUDENTS: CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL MULTIVARIATE CORRELATES KU Leuven
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Binge eating and purging behaviors (BPB) are symptomatic behaviors which can be present in eating disorders and other mental disorders, as well as in non-pathological conditions. Specifically, binge eating refers to episodes during which a person rapidly consumes an excessive quantity of food while feeling a sense of loss of control; purging behaviors are inappropriate compensatory behaviors, aiming to prevent ...
Multi-year agreement for carrying out practical tests of discrimination on the professional rental market and the labor market, at sector level Ghent University
Multi-year agreement for carrying out practical tests of discrimination on the professional rental market and the labor market, at sector level.
The framework for this assignment is resolution 220 of the administrative agreement: “Discrimination in the workplace and on the rental market due to age, gender, origin, disability and orientation,… is unacceptable. We implement practical tests for the professional rental ...
Baseline Zeeuwse Delta Flanders Hydraulics
Polymer-based Dry Electrodes for Biopotential Measurements KU Leuven
Monitoring biopotential signals such as electrocardiography (ECG) and electroencephalography (EEG) provides important information about certain health-related conditions which open up a broad range of applications. The electrical and mechanical properties of electrodes used for the measurements have a great impact on the quality of the signals. Conventional wet electrodes, which contain conductive gel to hydrate the skin and lower the ...