Projects
Quality Employment and Quality Public Services (in the Prison Services Sector and the Child Care Sector) KU Leuven
The goal of this research is to develop a framework for analyzing employment quality, applicable to childcare and prison services, as well as to investigate the relation with the quality of the services offered. Second, an assessment has to be made of the future trends in the relevant sectors in terms of employment growth, demographic change, and digitalization and how these are likely to impact on employment quality and quality of service. A ...
Exotic vector and pathogen surveillance programme in Belgium Institute of Tropical Medicine
Students' use of vector calculus in electrodynamics KU Leuven
Using mathematical concepts and techniques to describe natural phenomena is a challenging but important task in all branches of physics. Although typically well trained in rote mathematical calculation, students often lack an understanding of the mathematical concepts and fail to correctly apply these in a physics context. Student difficulties related to such issues are particularly apparent in an intermediate electrodynamics course that ...
Control of urban malaria transmitted by Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia: development of context sensitive vector control interventions for use in houses Institute of Tropical Medicine
Token-based vector space models as semantic control in lexical lectometry KU Leuven
Type-based distributional semantics as embodied in vector space models has proven to be a successful method for the retrieval of near-synonyms in large corpora. These words have then been used as variants of lexical sociolinguistic variables (e.g.: return and winst for the concept profit) in lectometric studies, that is, the aggregate-level study of lexical distances between linguistic varieties, in particular pluricentric ...
Characterization of the replication-encapsidation link in AAV to maximize the vector production efficiency for gene therapy KU Leuven
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is one of the most used vectors for gene therapy, with 136 ongoing clinical trials and three gene therapy products on the market. Despite its promise as a vector, one of the main hurdles is its inefficient production, resulting in low full-capsid yields. Over the years, there have been countless attempts to improve production efficiency and optimize purification strategy. Although an extensive and ...
Vector embeddings as database views Hasselt University
Vector embeddings as database views. University of Antwerp
Phytoplasmas and ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ III – vector transmission risk assessment Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
This completed project clarifies how two new plant pathogens - a bacterium and a phytoplasma - get into commercial carrot, potato and celery fields and surrounding border plants (weeds and trees). Transmission occurs by insects, but which ones were not yet clear. The two research questions were as follows: Which cicada and aphid-like insects, and which other insects (groups), if any, present ...