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Optimal Powertrain Sizing of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Coach for Lifetime Carbon Footprint, Total Costs and Fuel Consumption Minimization Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Shantanu Pardhi, Mohamed El Baghdadi, Omar Hegazy

The current work explores the optimal sizing of fuel cell electric powertrain for long-distance coach considering the minimization of lifetime carbon footprint, overall costs and fuel consumption to assess the right design approach for such unconventional heavy-duty drivetrains in the present-day scenario. A range of fuel production sources such as green, blue, grey hydrogen and EU renewable CO2 threshold have been considered for ...

New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639-1650 Ghent University

Jean Pierre Vander Motten
The present article brings to light new information about Thomas Peadle, a representative of the younger generation of a late 16th- and early 17th-century family of strolling entertainers, whose career has been very imperfectly documented. Archival materials relating to his marriage in Amsterdam in 1639, his presence at Delft in 1640, and his appearance at The Hague in 1641 suggest that Peadle took his troupe on a tour of The Low Countries in ...

Strategic planning in public organizations : reviewing 35 years of research Ghent University

Laure Vandersmissen, Bert George
Strategic planning’s popularity in public organizations cannot be denied, with legislative initiatives even making it mandatory for certain public organizations. Due to strategic planning’s continued popularity in practice, recent years have seen a surge in research on the topic. A synthesis of said research is necessary to identify empirical, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological challenges that remain to be tackled. Drawing from a ...

How do citizens perceive the use of Artificial Intelligence in public sector decisions? Ghent University

Tessa Haesevoets, Bram Verschuere, Ruben Van Severen, Arne Roets
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent in almost every aspect of our lives. At the same time, a debate about its applications, safety, and privacy is raging. In three studies, we explored how UK respondents perceive the usage of AI in various public sector decisions. Our results are fourfold. First, we found that people prefer AI to have considerably less decisional weight than various human decision-makers; those being: ...

A holistic framework for integrated sustainability assessment of pharmaceuticals Ghent University

Lisa Van Wilder, Lieselot Boone, Ad Ragas, Caroline Moermond, Lowik Pieters, Aissa Rechlin, Rodrigo Vidaurre, Delphine De Smedt, Jo Dewulf
Environmental pollution of pharmaceuticals arises during drug development, production, use and disposal and can damage ecosystems, increase antimicrobial resistance and generate substantial greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, environmental sustainability of pharmaceuticals is an expanding theme in today's society. Several sustainability assessment methods have been developed for pharmaceuticals, however, most assessments typically consider ...

The threat of appearing lazy, inefficient, and slow? Stereotype threat in the public sector Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Katharina Dinhof, Sheeling Neo, Isa Bertram, Robin Bouwman, Noortje de Boer, Gabriela Szydlowski, Jurgen Willems, Lars Tummers

Public employees are stereotyped as lazy, inefficient, and slow. When made aware of such stereotypes, they may experience stereotype threat that impairs their task-performance. Across two pre-registered, large-scale between-subjects experiments (n1 = 1,543; n2 = 1,147), we found that performance in terms of task correctness, processing time, and effort was unaffected by information of negative public employee stereotypes. Our results do not ...

Relational human rights responsibility Ghent University

Joyce De Coninck
When a private corporation cooperates with States as well as international organizations, and conduct stemming from this cooperation results in international human rights violations, who can be held legally responsible? This Article dissects systemic deficiencies in the traditionally state-centric human rights regime and challenges its inadequacies when dealing with contemporary forms of transnational cooperative governance. Transnational ...

CHESTER : experimental prototype of a compressed heat energy storage and management system for energy from renewable sources Ghent University

Konstantinos Theologou, Maike Johnson, Jonas Tombrink, José L. Corrales Ciganda, Felipe T. Trebilcock-Kelly, Kenny Couvreur, Robin Tassenoy, Steven Lecompte
The increasing share of renewable energies in the electricity grid requires storage technologies to balance energy supply and demand. Thermally integrated pumped thermal energy storage systems are considered a promising technology for medium to large-scale storage applications. Among these, compressed thermal energy storage in particular has been identified in numerous theoretical studies as a promising candidate. Despite these studies, the ...