Projecten

Naar aanleiding van het goedgekeurde U+2018Drugbeleidsplan Stad Gent 2013-2018U+2019 wil de stad Gent de wenselijkheid en haalbaarheid van een gebruiksruimte onderzoeken door een bredere needs assessment te laten uitvoeren m.b.t. harm reduction in het Gentse drugbeleid. Het al dan niet wenselijk of haalbaar zijn van een gebruiksruimte, in welke vorm dan ook, hangt af van de andere aanwezige harm reduction initiatieven, van de inschaling in ...

Het aantal rokers is de afgelopen jaren langzaam en minimaal gedaald. Hierdoor blijven rokers zich blootstellen aan één van de belangrijkste oorzaken van “years of potential life lost”. De huidige rookstophulpmiddelen en strategieën lijken onvoldoende te zijn om de rookcijfers terug aanzienlijk en snel te laten dalen. Factoren die hieraan kunnen bijdragen zijn: 1) het feit dat de huidige middelen geen rekening houden met de ...

Dit doctoraat heeft als doel een parametrische “Model Order Reduction” (pMOR) -strategie te ontwikkelen om gedetailleerde 3D verbindingsmodellen te vertalen naar een nieuwe generatie van conceptmodellen voor mechanische verbindingen. In tegenstelling tot huidige conceptmodellen, waarbij de modellen conceptueel worden gereduceerd om de rekenlast te verminderen, is deze nieuwe generatie gebaseerd op een wiskundige reductie tot black ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) constitutes a major and increasing health burden in developed countries. The prediction is that the prevalence of these conditions will increase by ~60% over the next 20 years. Therefore, the development of novel treatments for patients with CVD becomes more and more urgent. Oxidative stress is an important molecular contributor to the pathogenesis of CVD. However, oxidative stress-related therapeutic strategies ...

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Extreme local rain storms may induce severe floods and related socio-economic impacts on the urban environment (Belgian cities). While floods along rivers have been studied already extensively, quantification, forecasting, control and management of inundations along sewer systems and urban rivers have to face particular difficulties. They need fine-scale (local, short duration) rainfall estimation and nowcasting (= short-term ...

The gastrointestinal tract has the vital task to digest and absorb ingested food, a complex process requiring
coordinated integration of motility, secretion, vascularization and absorption. Thereto the gastrointestinal tract
is equipped with its own nervous system, the enteric nervous system (ENS), capable of controlling gut function
independently of input from brain or spinal cord. Reduction in number or dysfunction of the ...

Cost of energy (COE) is the most important single factor in deployment of renewables in the energy system. Reduction of COE is, among other things, directly related to operational control of Wind Power Plants (WPP) as a whole and the individual wind turbines (WT) within them. In the Total Control project the COE reduction will be pursued by developing and validating advanced integrated WPP/WT control schemes, where all essential interactions ...

Recent international policies stress the need to (A) build more sustainable and resilient in order to decrease urban disasters that follow natural hazards and to (B) transcend the humanitarian-development divide [1]. Acknowledging that urban emergencies are increasing, a holistic framework for urban disaster resilience to respond to and prepare for disaster is indispensible (Global Alliance for Urban Crises, 2016a). Urbanism as key discipline ...

REMAGHIC is focused on contributing to Europe’s rare earth recovery and magnesium recycling technologies, improving the efficiencies of these processes and advancing the technology readiness levels for a new generation of industrial processes that will produce new low cost competitive alloys for a wide variety of sectors across Europe’s manufacturing value chain.

The project motivation lies on the fact that magnesium alloys can offer a ...

The future of smart, connected mechanical systems will strongly rely on a digital representation of these systems and their functional performance. This holds for design analysis but also for motion and condition tracking through state/input/parameter estimation during the life-cycle of the system. Especially this last application typically requires multiple high-fidelity numerical simulation runs, which is too computationally expensive using ...