Projects
Food quality, safety, and trust since 1950: Societal Controversy and Biotechnical Challenges Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The effect of the social-cultural distance between natives and non-natives on the mutual perception and trust in government Hasselt University
Knowledge-based solutions for sustainable control of D. suzukii in fruit growing in Flanders pcfruit npo
Carotenoid bioaccessibility in fruit and vegetable based systems KU Leuven
Carotenoids are important micronutrients that have been linked with several health benefits. To exert the health benefits, carotenoids must be absorbed and reach their site of action. The absorption process of carotenoids consists of various steps including release from the food matrix, solubilization into a lipid phase, incorporation into micelles (i.e. bioaccessibility) and uptake through the intestine epithelia. However, previous ...
LiDAR-based structural characterization of fruit orchards KU Leuven
To date, remote sensing is a great non-intrusive technology for monitoring vegetation. Hyperspectral sensors, for instance, can be used to correlate vegetation indices with biotic or abiotic ...
Disaster Governance: Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability KU Leuven
English summary
Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...
Middleware for Data Management in Multi-Cloud KU Leuven
Cloud storage is an essential service model of cloud computing that involves outsourcing the deployment, provisioning, and management of storage resources to external third-party providers. Additionally, multi-cloud (federated cloud) storage setups integrate and utilize storage resources, technologies, and services from multiple cloud storage providers. This approach has become increasingly popular and attractive for a wide range of ...
Dynamic Adaptation Techniques for Large-scale Distributed Systems KU Leuven
In the Cloud Computing paradigm, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a delivery model that allows small-to-mid-sized organizations (called tenants) to out-source the operation of their business applications to a SaaS provider, and consume the (software) service on-demand and remotely via the Internet. For tenants, key requirements to that service are (i) cost efficiency and (ii) reliable service quality. Moreover, (iii.a) business applications ...
The development, maintenance, and change of attachment relationships in adolescence in Taiwan KU Leuven
Adolescence in particular is a crucial time to repair old attachment styles with main caregivers and form new attachment relationships with peers (He et al, 2018; Kobak et al, 2014 ). Physiological maturity, development of conceptual abilities, hoping to be independent, and looking for peer groups mark adolescents’ transitions from passive receivers to initiating new relationships with others. From these relationships potential new attachment ...