Projects
Dose-response effect of computer-aided design foot orthoses on foot and lower limb biomechanics of patients with patellofemoral pain. KU Leuven
Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is very prevalent amongst the general population (23%) and even more in certain sport activities (up to 35% in elite cycling). The aetiology is thought to be a “complex interplay among various anatomical, biomechanical, psychological, social and behavioural influences”. A recent paper summarised the biomechanical factors that could lead to an elevated patellofemoral joint loading and supposedly to patellofemoral ...
Characterization and hazard identification of substandard and falsified antimicrobial drugs KU Leuven
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a counterfeit medicine is defined as follows: “A counterfeit medicine is one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can apply to both branded and generic products and counterfeit products may include products with the correct ingredients or with the wrong ingredients, without active ingredients, with insufficient active ...
System Level Simulation of Drivetrains by Advanced Gear Contact Techniques KU Leuven
In recent years, the engineering and manufacturing industry has been reshaped by technological forces and the pursuit of sustainable development. The rise of computing power has enhanced the role of numerical modelling and simulation to the extent that they represent an everyday solution for engineering problems. Numerical modelling facilitates design validation in an early stage and enables testing different configurations in the virtual ...
Precision measurements of the electron energy distribution in nuclear beta decays KU Leuven
Although nuclear β decays have been studied for almost a century, there are still questions that can be answered through precision measurements of the energy distribution of emitted electrons. The shape of the β spectrum reflects not only the weak interaction responsible for the decay. It is also sensitive to the strong interaction which confines the decaying quark in the nucleon. The electromagnetic force also plays a role since the ejected ...
The Value of Large-Scale Offshore Energy Storage in the Future Electricity Market KU Leuven
Electricity is a real-time product. Supply and demand, or generation and consumption, have to match exactly at any instance to support the stable operation of the power system. This results from the fact that electricity is not economically storable on a large scale. While this is challenged by techno-economic developments leading to increased and improved storage capacities, storage levels remain well below that of other energy commodities. ...
New spaces of capital: The Real Estate/Financial Complex in Russia and Poland KU Leuven
English Summary
The state-finance-real estate ‘triangle’ found its most spectacular expression in
2007/8 when the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market caused an economic crisis
of global scale. Yet, even though financial news is full of implicit references to the
interaction between the three dimensions, it rarely explicitly addresses it as issue in
its own right. For this reason, Aalbers (2013b:1) has proposed the ...
Cross Layer Optimisation of Dynamic IoT Systems KU Leuven
The Internet of Things (IoT) embeds sensors, actuators and computation into
everyday "things" such as lights, thermostats, and coffee machines. These things can
be controlled and monitored from remote locations by connecting them to Internet. The application
development for IoT, however, is challenging because of the resource constraints of IoT platform, wireless
communication demands, and dynamic nature of IoT ...
Development of Artificial Genetic Systems for Therapeutic Applications KU Leuven
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are among the most remarkable biomolecules occurring in nature, since they store and transfer all genetic information using only four letters (G, C, A & T or U). In the last 60 years, since the discovery of the structure of nucleic acids, numerous chemically modified nucleosides and nucleotides have been produced and incorporated into oligomeric sequences either by chemical or ...