Projects
The rise and threat of new psychoactive substances: integrated research to obtain evidence-based information on their properties and actual use. University of Antwerp
Recovery capital among substance users with a migration background: An analysis of user perspectives (REC-MIB) Ghent University
Recovery theory is well established in research, policy, and treatment practice in the UK, US and
Australia and has begun to emerge recently in the Belgian research context, as well as in policy since
2015. However, recovery (and particularly social) capital among substance users with a migration
background remains understudied in national as well as international literature. The aim of this
research ...
Towards a theory of European constitutional interpretation. A transatlantic dialogue. KU Leuven
TOWARDS A THEORY OF EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION. A TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE.
Background
American Legal Realism. Former Supreme Court Justice Holmes' contention that the 'life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience' has resonated for over a century in American constitutional scholarship. Indeed, the school known as American Legal Realism (ALR), criticizing the 'transcendental nonsense' (K. Llewelyn) ...
The DSM-5 "With Limited Prosocial Emotions" Specifier for Conduct Disorder: A Comprehensive Test of Theory and Gender Differences in Criminal Justice-Involved Adolescents Ghent University
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM–) added a specifier for the diagnosis of conduct disorder (CD), labelled ‘ith Limited Prosocial Emotions (LPE) According to theory, CD + LPE and CD Only youth differ in etiological features underlying their conduct problems (ie emotion processing and levels of fearlessness), in severity of antisocial behavior, and in risk of future maladjustment Unfortunately, ...
The Proto-Corpuscular Theory of Matter in the Arabic Alchemical Writings Attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān KU Leuven
This study will show that pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana’s The Secret of Creation (compiled before ca. 850), by adopting the Stoic concept of an active material ingredient as the formative principle of substances, and by developing a dynamic theory of material composition rooted in Presocratic thought, formulated one of the most widely emulated theoretical frameworks in premodern chemistry.
Sabbatical Thomas Van Riet: A new perspective on the nature of dark energy KU Leuven
The operation of the universe remains a mystery on the very largest scale (cosmology) and the smallest scale (elementary particle physics). This is not a stumbling block to the development of most science and technology, because it focuses on the length scales between the largest and the smallest. However, to get an answer to the fundamental questions it is crucial to understand the extremes. What are the fundamental building blocks ...
In vivo study of public good inhibitors as a new evolution-proof antimicrobial strategy against catheter-associated urinary tract infections attributed to UPEC KU Leuven
There is an urgent need for a next generation of antimicrobial drugs to fight bacterial contaminations and infections. The once so successful antibiotics are becoming less efficient treatment strategies due to the rapid development and spread of resistance. In addition, bacteria predominantly live in dense biofilm communities where they are embedded in a self-produced protective matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which ...