Projects
On the (not so) persuasive potential of metaphorical language in news media communication. Framing the Latin-American migration debate through metaphor. Ghent University
The persuasive function of metaphorical language has long been taken for granted, both inside and outside of the field of linguistics. Due to their ability to structure more abstract topics in terms of more concrete domains of experience, thereby ‘highlighting’ some aspects of the conversation topic while ‘hiding’ others, metaphors promoted in news media are held to represent a potent tool for influencing people’s way of thinking, feeling and ...
Self-other sharing and distinction of emotions in interactions of individuals with borderline personality disorder based on non-verbal emotion communication KU Leuven
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) typically have unstable interpersonal relationships characterized by intense emotions. Recent evidence suggests that these problems may stem from impairments in sharing and distinguishing their own and others’ emotions. Indeed, BPD patients typically have difficulty sharing others’ emotions, while at the same time having a tendency to experience others’ emotions as if they were their own ...
Uncovering Enteric glia-macrophage communication in the intestinal homeostasis and inflammation. KU Leuven
One of the main tasks of the immune system is to appropriately react to “danger” or “non-danger” signals. This is even more relevant in the intestine, where immune cells are constantly presented with foreign substances as food. Hence, the balance between immune activation versus tolerance should be tightly regulated to maintain intestinal homoeostasis and to prevent indiscriminate immune activation against the gut content. Loss of this ...
Meat, Men & Masculinities: how social media and interpersonal communication processes shape the connections between masculine identities and meat consumption. University of Antwerp
Using artificial intelligence to facilitate communication between deaf and hearing people Ghent University
According to the WHO, over 5% of the world population suffers from hearing loss. This is expected to double by 2050. Hearing loss is estimated to cost society over 750 billion US dollars globally, per year. The Flemish government subsidizes up to 36 hours of interpreter aid per deaf person per year, which also leads to high costs. These interpreters facilitate communication between people with hearing loss and those without. After all, the ...
Enabling Effortless Communication Under Adverse Conditions by Exploitation of Direction-of-Arrival Estimates and Other A-Priori Knowledge in Joint Acoustic Source Separation and Dereverberation Ghent University
Recent technological trends like hearables require the robust capturing of human speech not only for human-to-machine, but also for augmenting human-to-human communication. Consequently, reliable speech enhancement even in the presence of strong reverberation and interference is more important than ever. To cope with these conditions, the problems of source separation and dereverberation are considered jointly. The performance of the system ...
Interactive communication of material and equipment design for fused filament fabrication: a multi-zone combined experimental and modelling study Ghent University
Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is a popular additive manufacturing (AM) method which is mostly used in prototyping and in desktop 3D-printers. The widespread use in industry is obstructed by a lack of available materials, more specifically polymer materials with good mechanical properties and a good processability thereof. While high-strength polymers and composites are available and theoretically processable with FFF, easy processability ...
Creation of a dynamic intercellular liver communication platform to establish an anti-fibrotic combo-therapy for chronic liver diseases. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
million due to complications of cirrhosis, an advanced stage of liver
fibrosis. Key players in this process are hepatic stellate cells (HSCs).
During any type of liver injury, HSCs activate and produce excessive
extracellular matrix increasing the stiffness of the liver. To date, there
are no efficient anti-fibrotic therapies and therapies are ...
Verifiable and elastic end-to-end communication infrastructures for private professional environments Ghent University
Verifiable and elastic end-to-end communication infrastructures for private professional environments Scientific goals:
Private professional environments such as manufacturing industry, warehouses, hospitals, airports, etc. increasingly rely on end-to-end connected solutions to support and improve their ...