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Points and hyperplanes of the universal embedding space of the dual polar space DW(5,q), q odd Universiteit Gent
The CellBox-2 Mission to the International Space Station: Thyroid Cancer Cells in Space KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
A spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) is a dream of many researchers. We had the chance to investigate the effect of real microgravity (CellBox-2 Space mission) on the transcriptome and proteome of FTC-133 human follicular thyroid cancer cells (TCC). The cells had been sent to the ISS by a Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX CRS-13 from Cape Canaveral (United States) and cultured in six automated hardware units on the ISS before they were ...
"Sleep occupies no space". The use of public space by street gangs in Kinshasa KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
This article deals with issues of territoriality, public space, the microphysics of power and street gang life in the current urban context of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this city, a growing amount of street children invades the public places. They team up in gangs and scour the streets in search for a location to settle (for a while). Along with their appropriation of public space, these gangs encounter several ...
The Impact of National Space Legislation on Private Space Undertakings Regulatory Competition Vs Harmonisation KU Leuven
With the growing trend of privatisation and commercialisation of space activities, states have deemed the adoption of national space legislation the most suitable way to regulate and control private space initiatives in order to ensure compliance with international space law principles. Several states have thus far enacted national space legislation, which diverge in their contents and goals. This research compares in particular the national ...
Forecasting space weather with EUHFORIA in the Virtual Space Weather Modeling Centre KU Leuven
Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptive events in which large amounts of plasma (up to 10^13—10^16 g) and magnetic fields are expelled into interplanetary space at very high velocities (typically 450 km/s, but up to 3000 km/s). When sampled in situ by a spacecraft in the interplanetary medium, they are termed interplanetary CMEs. They are nowadays considered to be the major drivers of space weather and the associated ...
The other triangle in European Space Governance: The European Union, the European Space Agency and the United Nations KU Leuven
In European space governance, the term ‘governance triangle’ usually refers to the cohabitation in space matters of the European Union, the European Space Agency and their respective member states. This contribution explores another, less well-known and less clearly structured space governance triangle: that between the EU, ESA and the UN. Its specific focus is on their respective regulatory activities in guaranteeing the sustainability of space ...
Lost in Space? Unmasking the T Cell Reaction to Simulated Space Stressors KU Leuven Universiteit Gent Universiteit Hasselt
The space environment will expose astronauts to stressors like ionizing radiation, altered gravity fields and elevated cortisol levels, which pose a health risk. Understanding how the interplay between these stressors changes T cells' response is important to better characterize space-related immune dysfunction. We have exposed stimulated Jurkat cells to simulated space stressors (1 Gy, carbon ions/1 Gy photons, 1 µM hydrocortisone (HC), Mars, ...
What can biofabrication do for space and what can space do for biofabrication? KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
Biofabrication in space is one of the novel promising and prospective research directions in the rapidly emerging field of space STEM. There are several advantages of biofabrication in space. Under microgravity, it is possible to engineer constructs using more fluidic channels and thus more biocompatible bioinks. Microgravity enables biofabrication of tissue and organ constructs of more complex geometries, thus facilitating novel scaffold-, ...