Publicaties

Context : Cold gas and dust reprocess the central X-ray emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN), producing characteristic spectro-polarimetric features in the X-ray band. The recent launch of IXPE allows for observations of this X-ray polarisation signal, which encodes unique information on the parsec-scale circumnuclear medium of obscured AGN. However, the models for interpreting these polarimetric data are under-explored and do not reach the ...

This paper illustrates the results of an experiment conducted in translator training in which thirty students translated a text from their L1 (Dutch) into their L2 (English). The students completed a questionnaire on their acquisition of the L1, the perceived difficulty of each translation direction and the main difficulties encountered. The translations were analysed and scored by means of PIE (Preselected Items Evaluation), and the errors ...

A phenomenological meta-framework for counter-terrorism policy: The radicalization process through a Best Fit Framework Synthesis Scholars have provided an abundant amount of theories and models that offer an explanation to the processes that lead to terrorist involvement. The majority of these theories or models range from simple, linear stage models to more complicated processual pathway approaches. However, these models are often isolated and ...

Ontologies have become increasingly relevant to the modelling community, providing a knowledgebase to support several software engineering activities. As such, several efforts have been made to integrate ontology technology with modelling technology. This has resulted in the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), which allows model transformation languages to interact directly with ontologies. The ODM limits itself to data structure, however, and ...

Despite being common practice in translator training, directionality remains a marginalised area of research. This study aims to analyse whether student translators make more errors when they translate from their first language (L1) into one of their foreign languages (L2) than vice versa. This will be measured by using the PIE method (Preselected Items Evaluation). The students' individual and collective rankings for each translation direction ...

Alzheimer's continuum biological profiles (A(+)T(-) N-, A(+)T(+)N(-), A(+)T(-)N(+), and A(+)T(+)N(+)) were established in the 2018 National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association research framework for Alzheimer's disease (AD). We aim to assess the relation between AT(N) biomarker profiles and brain functional connectivity (FC) and assess the neural correlates of anosognosia. We assessed local functional coupling and between-network ...

The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) began in 2000 as the repository for data from the Census of Marine Life. Since that time, OBIS has expanded its goals beyond simply hosting data to supporting more aspects of marine conservation (Pooter et al. 2017). In order to accomplish those goals, the OBIS secretariat in partnership with its European node (EurOBIS) hosted at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ, Belgium), and the ...

Most health system strengthening interventions ignore interconnections between systems components. In particular, complex relationships between medicines and health financing, human resources, health information and service delivery are not given sufficient consideration. As a consequence, populations' access to medicines (ATM) is addressed mainly through fragmented, often vertical approaches usually focusing on supply, unrelated to the wider ...

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In the field of computer-aided detection (CAD) systems for lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) scans, many image features are presented and many artificial neural network (ANN) classifiers with various structural topologies are analyzed; frequently, the classifier topologies are selected by trial-and-error experiments. To avoid these trial and error approaches, we present a novel classifier that evolves ANNs using ...