Projects
Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Prenatal Diagnosis and Termination of Pregnancy KU Leuven
Sustainable employment in the age of digitalisation: challenges, obstacles and opportunities KU Leuven
Context: Automation and the digital revolution affect the nature and quality of jobs. As workers are reallocated from declining sectors and occupations to growing ones, skill mismatches and structural unemployment tend to occur, and income inequality and poverty levels may rise as the digital revolution mainly destroys jobs in the middle of the wage distribution. Moreover, new technologies automate certain tasks rather than whole occupations, ...
BioGraph: Accurately analyzing genetic interactions through the generation of random graphmodels Ghent University
Biological organisms can be understood through analysis of genetic interactions. Modeling this functionality is difficult and error-prone. To do better, we will develop artificial random graphs which allow mimicking reality. Generating random graphs is difficult, and involves probability
theory and statistics, differential equations, etc... Moreover, this has to be implemented efficientlyso computers can handle the data and calculate ...
Towards systematic methodologies based on enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations to construct free energy profiles of complex phase transformations in nanoporous materials Ghent University
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of nanoporous materials characterized by exceptional chemical and physical properties, which are very attractive for applications in the fields of gas storage and separation, catalysis, drug delivery and more. Recently, it has been discovered that certain MOFs, the so-called flexible MOFs, possess a highly ordered network but yet show the ability to structurally transform between different ...
Optimal design and control of aerobic granular sludge reactors for sustainable wastewater treatment Ghent University
The aerobic granular sludge process is a true innovation in the field of wastewater treatment. Compared to conventional activated sludge systems it realizes 75% footprint reduction, 30% energy savings and up to 25% lower investment costs. These advantages result from the dense granules that remove all nutrients in a single reactor and that make secondary settling tanks unnecessary because of their excellent settling properties. The process ...
Aero-elastic Tailoring of Composite Turbomachinery Blades through Gradient-based Optimisation Ghent University
In recent years, advances in aircraft engine fuel efficiency have been largely the result of increased propulsion efficiency. The latter is obtained by increasing the diameter of the fan at the front of the engine, in contemporary designs responsible for most of the thrust. Further improvement is possible, but hindered by mechanical limitations of the fan blades, which are susceptible to aero-elastic flutter: severe vibrations created by a ...
The aftermath of slavery in East Africa Ghent University
Legacies of slavery tend to affect societies deeply, but in inland East Africa have remained little explored. This project aims [1] to establish what happened to the hundreds of thousands of slaves present in mainland East Africa in ca. 1900 and to their descendants over the twentieth century, [2] to explain why the aftermath of slavery is so little discussed in the written sources and historiography of the region, and [3] to trace the ...
Working on a public-friendly disclosure of archaeological knowledge and collections Ghent University
Archaeological research is regularly in the news in Flanders, but it often concerns communication that is a part of the social debate surrounding archaeological heritage care (cost price, intervention in the use of space ...). What is more difficult to reach the public is the knowledge gains made by archaeological research. Recent initiatives such as the Archeology Days of the magazine Ex situ are trying to change this, together with ...
Methods in Research on Research (MiRoR) / Estimation of causal effects from observational studies: how results obtained from different causal inference methods can be integrated in a meta-analyses approa Ghent University
A study published in 2009 estimated that 85% of research conducted is wasted. This waste represents tens of billions of Euros spent each year on studies that are redundant, flawed in their design, never published or poorly reported. The public is the main victim of this waste. If clinical research is not adequately planned, conducted and reported, clinicians are prevented from using effective health interventions in practice and researchers ...