Projects
All aboard! An archaeological approach to Belgian diaspora communities in the United States of America Ghent University
Over the course of the 19th and early 20th century, over 30 million Europeans would settle in Canada or the USA. The port of Antwerp functioned as one of the major hubs from which those people departed. Indeed, between 1843 and 1913 over 2.7 million people embarked on boats
leaving for the New World. The Belgians amongst these migrants are cautiously estimated at 200.000. Many of them originated from the region to the north of Ghent and ...
Microvascular alterations in the pathophysiology of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and micro-environmental factors of NAFLD-induced hepatocellular carcinoma. University of Antwerp
Ni Una Menos': Gender Violence through the Lens of the Contemporary Latin American Chronicle (1994-2015) Ghent University
Since the 1990s, many Latin American authors have turned to the chronicle to discuss one of the most poignant social issues of the continent: gender violence. According to the United Nations, Latin America is one of the deadliest regions for women outside of warzones. The thriving contemporary Latin American chronicle is a genre that combines journalism and literature. Chronicle authors claim to offer an alternative to the hegemonic ...
How algorithms are augmenting the journalistic institution: In search of evidence from newsrooms and its innovation labs KU Leuven
How algorithms are augmenting the journalistic institution: In search of evidence from newsroom innovation labs
Digitalization has dramatically changed newsrooms in recent years; for example, journalists increasingly use tools to gather, write, verify, and disseminate news. These tools, in the form of algorithms, are latent in the news ecosystem and take the form of recommender systems (labeling what is newsworthy), speech-to-text ...
Great Power conflict in the Arctic: A qualitative analysis of the changed context Ghent University
The proposed research aims to map the evolution of the foreign policy of the Great Powers towards the Arctic. As a result, the first objective is to asses the empirical reality of the theory of Arctic exceptionalism. Second, the proposed research aims to explain why there is great power competition today.
Tackling the source of runoff and water erosion: How resilient are our managed headwaters to climate change? Ghent University
Recent successes in headwater rehabilitation around the world indicate that gully erosion (i.e. the incision of soils due to the erosive action of concentrated overland flow) can be tackled. The longterm impact of land management efforts to counter the effects of climate change, however, remains uncertain. To gain insights into the landscape’s resilience to external climatic forcing, this research envisages to compile datasets on gully ...
The right to silence of corporations KU Leuven
The research topic of this doctoral dissertation is the privilege against self-incrimination of corporations. The issue is highly relevant in view of the importance of corporations in society and the increasing use of corporate criminal liability. The research and theory on the substantive criteria of the criminal responsibility of corporations is not paralleled by corresponding research into the fair trial rights of corporations as criminal ...
The evolutionary dynamics of pathogen emergence, spread and virulence KU Leuven
Extracted evolutionary and epidemiological information from pathogen genomes has grown into an important instrument across infectious disease research. By harnessing such information, molecular epidemiologists aim to shed light on the origin and epidemic history of pathogens, from reservoir dynamics to emergence in new hosts, including spatiotemporal spread and virulence evolution. However, despite the revolution in genome sequencing ...
Towards MR imaging and design guidelines for future hearing implants KU Leuven
The use of medical technologies in both the diagnosis and treatment of several health issues has become common practice. In medical diagnostics, magnetic resonance imaging or MRI has become a widely accepted and preferred imaging technique for many pathologies. This is mainly thanks to the fact that MRI is superior in visualizing soft tissue structures, whilst it does not rely on the use of potentially harmful ionizing radiation.
With ...