Publications

Prescriptive analytics extends on predictive analytics by allowing to estimate an outcome in function of control variables, allowing as such to establish the required level of control variables for realizing a desired outcome. Uplift modeling is at the heart of prescriptive analytics and aims at estimating the net difference in an outcome resulting from a specific action or treatment that is applied. In this article, a structured and detailed ...

Using the example of the ‘h-related’ publication dataset created for a previous study on the literature of Hirsch-type measures (Zhang et al. in J Informetri 5(3):583–593,2011) and updated for the present paper, we attempt to study the robustness and dynamic evolution of ‘core documents’. With using two different methods that have been recently introduced in the context of the detection and analysis of emerging topics (Glänzel and Thijs in ...

Inleiding op het Themanummer over "De internationale PEN".
In 1921 opgericht door C.A. Dawson Scott wilde de Internationale PEN-club de wederzijdse verstandhouding tussen schrijvers en (nationale) literaturen stimuleren. De PEN heeft zich vandaag tot doel gesteld wereldwijd literatuur te promoten en de 'freedom of expression' te verdedigen. De centrale doelstelling van dit themanummer is de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse en Vlaamse ...

The concurrence of intracranial tumours with pregnancy is rare. The purpose of this study was to describe all reported patients registered in the international Cancer in Pregnancy registration study (CIP study; http://www.cancerinpregnancy.org), and to review the literature in order to obtain better insight into outcome and possibilities of treatment in pregnancy.

BACKGROUND: Prosthetic materials for the repair of abdominal wall defects have been studied extensively to improve outcome. A new approach can be the use of a slowly resorbable synthetic mesh, which aims to combine advantages of both synthetic and biological meshes. The objective of this review is to give an overview of the physicochemical characteristics and biomechanical, histological, and macroscopic outcome (recurrence, adhesion formation) ...

A total of 901 references were examined to assess the influence of copper supplemented diets on copper and antibiotic resistance of gut microbiota in pigs (including piglets). Merely 33 references were found eligible to answer this review question. From these 33 references, eleven references were assigned as experimental field studies, ten references were experimental environmentally controlled studies, and twelve references were assigned as ...

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. In the 1990s, there was a general belief that mechanical overloading was one of the main reasons for late implant failure. This triggered research to assess the role of mechanical loading on the establishment and the maintenance of oral implant osseointegration. Animal experimental studies indeed suggested the potential detrimental effect of excessive mechanical load on peri-implant bone, although ...

This paper reviews the available methods to study thermal applications with open-cell metal foam. For experimental research, the focus is on the repeatability of the experiments. Especially for open-cell metal foam, this is a major concern. Most published studies only report porosity and the number of pores per linear inch (PPI-value). In this work several points are raised why these values are not enough to characterize a three dimensional foam ...