Projects
Tracking Invasive Alien Species Meise Botanic Garden
TrIAS - Tracking Invasive Alien Species Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Follow-up of Invasive Alien Species: Valorising data to support policy and management Ghent University
Imagine a future where dynamically, from year to year, we can track the progression of alien species (AS), identify emerging species, assess their current and future risk and timely inform policy in a seamless data-driven workflow. One that is built on open science and open data infrastructures. By using international biodiversity standards and facilities, we would ensure interoperability, repeatability and sustainability. This would make ...
Take Signing to the Child. On the Parental Use of Visual Communication Strategies, and Deaf ChildrenU+2019s Visual Communication and Early Flemish Sign Language. Ghent University
This dissertation wants to deliver an original contribution to the existing national and international Sign Language Acquisition and Assessment research, mainly in four domains:
First, the exploratory case study is the first detailed description of a moderately deaf childU+2019s Flemish Sign Language development, with native exposure to Flemish Sign Language (VGT) from birth up to the age of 24 months. Remarkable linguistic and ...
Customized individual inclusion: tailored to employers? AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Musculoskeletal modeling-based full-body load assessment tool for ergonomists (MATE):from proof of concept to service/cloud-based implementation in industry 4.0 KU Leuven
A study into the possibility of implementation of welfare assessment using animal-based measures Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
This project focuses on a method to assess the welfare of Belgian broiler chickens that is faster, practical, uniform, cost-efficient and effective. The present assessments are based on checklists that do not always accurately depict the animals' welfare. Implementation of the Welfare Quality Protocol could improve insight into the welfare of broiler chickens, but this protocol is substantially ...
Material, energy and water management in industrial parks: industrial symbiosis. (POL/001/07). KU Leuven
A New Connoisseurship: Smart ways to detect forgeries Ghent University
Forgeries in the styles of old and modern painters have recently caused much consternation. Although scientific methods to analyze cultural heritage are being developed rapidly, research in the field of forgery detection (art created with the intent to deceive) is too fragmentary and discipline-bound to face the current scholarly confusion and information overload. This project lays the intellectual foundation for a new type of ...