Projecten
APLADYN: Antropogene en natuurlijke landschapdynamiek in grote riviersystemen. KU Leuven
Cholera outbreaks at Lake Tanganyika induced by climate change? Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
Aanpassing aan cyanobacteriën door de symbolische microbiota in de watervlo Daphnia. KU Leuven
Metazoans are ubiquitously associated with microbial symbionts, which can provide direct benefits to their hosts, such as nutrients provisioning, protection against environmental stress, or enhancement of host digestive abilities. These microbial mutualists have the ability to adapt rapidly to changing environments, and could potentially play a key role in the local adaptation of their host, especially in the context of rapid environmental ...
VRACE - Virtual Reality Audio voor cyberomgevingen KU Leuven
„Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have the potential to become the next big computing platform, and as we saw with the PC and Smartphone, we expect new markets to be created and existing markets to be disrupted.“ (Understanding the Race for the Next Computing Platform, Goldman Sachs 2016). While its technology is still considered in the early stages of development, it is already mature in the video game area.
VR/AR has the ...
Karakterisatie van het humane darmviroom in patiënten met leververvetting met als doel de identificatie van biomerkers voor diagnose en doelwitten voor geneesmiddelenontwikkeling. KU Leuven
De collectie van virussen, voornamelijk fagen, in ons maagdarmkanaal vormt een cruciale, maar nog onvoldoende bestudeerde component van het complexe microbiële ecosysteem in de menselijke darm. Hoewel het belang van het darmviroom voor de gezondheid en ziekte van de mens steeds meer wordt erkend, blijft de precieze betrokkenheid van deze virussen bij de ontwikkeling en progressie van chronische leverziekte (CLD), een belangrijke wereldwijde ...
De structuur en impact van trans-Pacific handel, 16e tot 18e eeuw: de Manilla Galleon-handel voorbij zilver en zijde KU Leuven
This project will provide a radically new history of early modern trans-Pacific trade, by critically re-evaluating conventionally-used sources, examining hitherto neglected historical archives and records in a range of Asian and European languages, and analysing recent archaeological evidence using new methodologies and perspectives. An interdisciplinary team, comprising specialists in Chinese, Japanese, Latin American, Southeast Asian, ...
Europese robotachtige voetganger Assistent 2.0. KU Leuven
There has been a tremendous progress in the development of autonomous robots that offer different services to their users. Typical services include the support of elderly people, cleaning, delivery tasks, autonomous driving, or surveillance. Most of the systems developed so far, however, are restricted to indoor scenarios, to non-urban outdoor environments, or to autonomous driving on roads. Furthermore, substantial efforts are required to ...
Re-designing organizations to increase agility: how can firms reconfigure their organization models to compete in a dynamic, post-Covid world KU Leuven
“In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.” Jeff Bezos, 2018 In 2020, Covid-19 irrevocably changed the world. Many of the shifts initiated by the crisis, post-globalization, teleworking, contactless consumerism - to name but a few – will be ...