Publications
Referenced music in radio drama Ghent University
The multimodal evocation of minds in audio drama Ghent University
This article discusses the construction of fictional minds in audio drama. Drawing upon social semiotics, cognitive narratology, and the narratology of audio drama, it starts from the premise that a character's consciousness in radio plays is shaped by the conventions, constraints, and affordances of the medium. This means that the semiotic modes of the radio play are exploited in a particular way to give listeners the impression that they are ...
From hero to zero: how commercialism ruined community radio in Flanders Ghent University
In this article, we analyze to what degree a situation of ruinous competition or commercialism affects the economic viability of local radio in Flanders and its duty to supply societal diversity. By examining evidence from both quantitative and qualitative survey approaches, we found that many idealistic, non-commercial stations were pushed out of the market by the rise of large-scale networks and that the overall financial performance of these ...
Nostalgische geluiden in hedendaags radiodrama Ghent University
The Dramatic Society Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The book is an advanced study of intertwinements between politics and performance, resulting in a rather comprehensive history of (western) culture. It contains fourteen chapters, preceded by an introduction of the philosophical tools used to approach drama and performance as ‘symptoms’ of profound disruptions in Western societies, since the Athenian polis and ancient Greek tragedy. The first 7 chapters deal will Sophocles (Antigone) and ...
Locoregional and radioisotopic targeted treatment of neuroendocrine tumours University of Antwerp Ghent University KU Leuven
Gastro-entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (GEP NET) are a heterogeneous group of proliferative disorders whose management dramatically relies on tumour biology. For well-differentiated, low-proliferative index tumours, locoregional treatment and targeted radioisotopic therapies offer an attractive and seemingly efficient alternative to palliative surgical resections. Lack of well-designed, prospective, randomized multicentric studies ...
Image guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The purpose of external beam radiotherapy is to sterilize malignant tumours and at the same time to avoid complications by radiation injury to the surrounding healthy tissues. Modern radiation techniques in recent years have allowed to safely escalate the dose by approximately 10% for the treatment of prostate cancer, resulting in a disease control that is nowadays comparable to surgery or permanent seed implant brachytherapy. Two recent ...
Long-term outcome evaluation of medium/high risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia children treated with or without cranial radiotherapy in the EORTC 58832 randomized study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We investigated the long-term outcome, the incidence of second neoplasms (SN) and the rate of late adverse effects (LAE) in children with central nervous system (CNS) negative medium/high-risk de novo acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), in first complete remission (CR1) at end of late intensification, randomized to receive no cranial radiotherapy (No CRT, n = 92) versus CRT (standard arm, n = 84) in the non-inferiority EORTC 58832 study ...
Complication rate after cystectomy following pelvic radiotherapy: an international, multicenter, retrospective series of 682 cases KU Leuven
PURPOSE: Conflicting evidence exists on the complication rates after cystectomy following previous radiation (pRTC) with only a few available series. We aim to assess the complication rate of pRTC for abdominal-pelvic malignancies. METHODS: Patients treated with radical cystectomy following any previous history of RT and with available information on complications for a minimum of 1 year were included. Univariable and multivariable logistic ...