Projects
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 ...
Multiphase Modelling of Sediment Transport and Bed Erosion for the Study of Coastal Morphodynamics KU Leuven
The protection of coastal areas from erosion is an issue of great importance, not only for the hinterland safety but also for ecological, environmental or other reasons such as the recreational use of the coastal areas. In depth Investigation of key features of coastal erosion, such as the wave-induced sediment transport and the associated bed morphology evolution is inevitable in order to understand this process.
Coastal erosion ...
What is the study and the potential for Flanders of the transport concept 'Hyperloop' University of Antwerp
Mud and sand transport under current-and-wave action in coastal areas: numerical simulation and guidelines for its integration into decision making processes KU Leuven
Sand and mud sediments play a central role in coastal ecosystem services such as abundant food supply, ease of transportation, and safe and healthy locations for human settlements. But due the complexity of processes such as tides, waves, sediment transport, etc. mixed sediments are often difficult to account for in applications such as coastal protection, port maintenance and impact assessment.
This project approaches said complexity, ...
Numerical modeling of particulate transport under combined current-and-wave action along coastal areas KU Leuven
The study of the transport of particles in coastal areas is of importance with regard to coastal morphodynamics and pollutant transport. This study focuses on fine particles (i.e. clay and biofilm-covered microplastic particles) which have the tendency to stick together and aggregate to form flocs which settle faster than the original individual particles. An important implication of greater settling velocities of suspended sediment is the ...
Improvement of animal welfare in stage points during long distance transport. KU Leuven
Expertise of animal transport KU Leuven
The chicken cerebellum as a model to study the impact of monocarboxylate transporter 8 deficiency on early brain development KU Leuven
Thyroid hormones (THs) have been characterised as important regulatory factors of vertebrate brain development. As such, they contribute to a wide variety of neurodevelopmental processes that depend on adequate TH levels as well as a correct timing of TH access to distinct neural cells in order to obtain a fully functional brain. This strict regulation of local TH availability is the result of a complex interplay between TH transporters ...
Effectiveness of fluoroscopy-guided manual lymph drainage (MLD) versus traditional MLD or placebo MLD for the treatment of breast cancer-related lymphoedema (BCRL): a randomised controlled trial KU Leuven
Currently, each breast cancer patient with arm lymphedema receives manual lymph drainage (MLD) to treat the edema. Despite this worldwide application of MLD, different systematic reviews conclude that there is no evidence about the effectiveness of lymph drainage to treat BCRL. Belgrado and Tan et al. developed a new and more efficient method of lymph drainage to improve lymph transport, i.e. fluoroscopy-guided MLD. Belgrado has recently ...