Projects
Improving postoperative outcomes in outpatient surgery using different regional anesthesia techniques KU Leuven
Multimodal analgesia in outpatient surgery: clinical and economical impact.
INTRODUCTION
Ambulatory surgery has a lot of clinical and economical advantages.(1)
For many years ambulatory surgery was only done in healthy patients for small surgical interventions. But lately because of economical an financial pressure also less healthy patients and more invasive procedures are carried out on an ambulatory ...
Personalized decision support models KU Leuven
Decision support systems are essential for managing an organization's operational and strategic processes. Although many of these systems model individual human beings, they do not take into account those individuals' unique characteristics. As a result, solutions generated are often infeasible for reasons such as ignoring personal habits. This dissertation explores two real-world cases in which accommodating such personalization is ...
Experimental Validation of Residual Stress Simulations in Welded Steel Tubes with Digital Image Correlation KU Leuven
As each production process introduces residual stresses in the material, cold-rolled steel tubes are not delivered stress-free. The motivation of this research can be traced back to the laser cutting of tubes. During the cutting process, residual stresses are relieved, which causes deformation of the tube and a reduction of the precision of cut. Residual stresses also play a role in stress corrosion and sudden collapse of tubular ...
Effectiveness of feedback and need-supportive coaching on physical activity among working adults: Validation of a multisensory activity device and evaluation of an intervention KU Leuven
The current physical activity (PA) recommendations advise adults toperform moderate-intensity aerobic PA for a minimum of 30 minutes five days a week or vigorous-intensity aerobic activity for a minimum of 20 minutes three days a week. Despite many evidence supporting PA for the prevention and management of several health problems such as metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disease and certain forms of cancer, 41% of the Belgian population ...
Transport infrastructure and regional development in China during the Maoist era KU Leuven
1. Introduction
This project aims to investigate the link between transport infrastructure and regional economic development in China during the Mao era. Economists argue that public investments have a positive impact on economic growth for a number of reasons. As we will elaborate in what follows, the Chinese story contains many unique and intriguing elements which complicate this statement. A thorough investigation of the topic will ...
Advanced Solutions for Neonatal Sleep Analysis and the Effects of Maturation KU Leuven
Worldwide approximately 11% of the babies are born before 37 weeks of gestation. The survival rates of these prematurely born infants have steadily increased during the last decades as a result of the technical and medical progress in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The focus of the NICUs has therefore gradually evolved
from increasing life chances to improving quality of life. In this respect, promoting and supporting optimal ...
The Contribution of 'regional' multistakeholder mechanisms in improving global Governance (GREMLIN: Global and REgional MuLtistakeholder INstitutions) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Variablerate irrigation and nitrogen fertilization in Potato; engage the spatialvariation - POTENTIAL Soil service of Belgium
The objective of the proposed POTENTIAL project was to increase N and water use efficiency in potato by co-scheduling of N and irrigation water. Special attention is paid to the spatio-temporal variation in water and N deficit in potato fields. To meet this objective innovative sensing solutions were used such as drones, satellites and geophysical soil scanners.
During the POTENTIAL project, between 2017 and 2019, 11 experimental ...
Almost inner derivations of Lie algebras KU Leuven
A classical problem in spectral geometry was to determine whether or not isospectral manifolds are necessarily isometric. It turns out that the answer to this question is negative and several counterexamples have been given. For the construction of continuous families of isospectral and non-isometric manifolds, class preserving automorphisms of nilpotent Lie groups were crucial.
An automorphism of a group is called class preserving if ...