Projects
Pig castration: methods of anaesthesia and analgesia for all pigs and other alternatives for pigs used in traditional products Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
To get an overview of the current state of affairs of the alternatives for castration of male piglets without pain relief and to evaluate the alternatives, DG SANTE (Directorate General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission) funded the CASTRUM project. The aim is to evaluate the application of anaesthesia and analgesia and the production of intact boars and immunocastrates in terms of ...
Fracture-related infection: optimization of diagnostic principles and the development of alternative strategies for prevention and treatment KU Leuven
Fracture-related infection (FRI) remains an important problem after musculoskeletal trauma surgery. At the center of these infections are microorganisms that form biofilms on the surface of implanted devices and necrotic bone. These biofilms shield the bacteria from the host immune system and are tolerant to most antibiotics, even in the absence of specific antibiotic resistance genes. All biofilm-related infections are, therefore, considered ...
Early detection of Alzheimer's disease with causal generative AI University of Antwerp
Products as enablers for pro-environmental behaviour: investigation of reusable alternatives for single-use plastics. University of Antwerp
Towards more durable bonding to dentin KU Leuven
Dental adhesives are materials most often used in daily dental practice, especially because of their primary bonding property to tooth tissue as a principal function for several adhesive restorative and luting procedures. In light of their further optimization, the newest generation of dental adhesives, being referred to as universal adhesives (UAs), cannot only be used to bond to tooth tissue (enamel/dentin), optionally in either a self-etch ...
Study of the mycoprotein production by Neurospora crassa for the development of a vegan steak KU Leuven
Is emotional behavior goal directed? A test of an alternative dual-process model KU Leuven
Dual-process models propose that behavior can be explained by a stimulus-driven or a goal-directed process. Traditional dual-process models assume that stimulus-driven processes are responsible for initial action tendencies and that goal-directed processes can only refine or correct these initial action tendencies at a later stage. In contrast to this, an alternative dual-process model has been put forward centering on the key assumptions ...
Different lens, new insights? Benefit receipt data as an alternative means to study the extent, development and effects of public welfare provision in Europe KU Leuven
Since the emergence of modern welfare states, scientists as well as politicians and public opinion makers showed great interest in how welfare states differ across countries, how they change, what drives their variation and change, and what social outcomes they produce. This has contributed to a considerable amount of literature in comparative welfare state research, including the discussion of the so-called ‘dependent variable problem’. ...
Tactics in education for sustainable development: a perspective from Indian Himalayas KU Leuven
Introduction
Our research focuses on exploring the nature of educational processes within bottom up development practices undertaken by NGOs in Uttarakhand, India in connection with the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development: 2005-2014 (DESD). Over the years, ESD has come to be conceptualized in an instrumental manner that views education as a means of reproduction of ‘correct knowledge and behavior’. This ...