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Implementation of breathomics in health and disease. University of Antwerp

Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP)

The air we breathe is essential for a healthy live. Health and disease reflect in the exhaled air and already, diseases were linked to its scent. Breath contains both volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and non-volatile components (exhaled breath condensate (EBC), and exhaled particles (PEx)). These include metabolites, signalling molecules and cell constituents which relate to the individual's metabolism and are induced by (patho)fysiological ...

Whaleboats in the Forest: Subaltern Technologies of Transportation on Congo’s Inland Waterways KU Leuven

Filip De Boeck

Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa

Congo’s wooden baleinières (Fr. whaleboats) are locally developed and crafted socio-technical assemblages that account for up to 50% of all transportation of goods and people on the waterways of the Congo Basin. Despite the vital role of these subaltern technologies of transportation for the livelihoods of millions, the socio-technical complexities responsible for their success have never been studied. Rooted in older boat building traditions ...

MOde-localized mass Sensors with Thermal Actuation and Piezoresistive DEtection KU Leuven

Michael Kraft

ESAT - MICAS, Microelectronics and Sensors

Micro/nano-electromechanical system (M/NEMS) resonant mass sensors have attracted utmost interest over the past two decades. This is due to their wide range of applications, especially in biochemistry, for instance weighing single molecules, nanoparticles, and even monitoring the growth of living cells. However, their performance is significantly decreased when operated at ambient air and measurements take a considerable time. Therefore, ...

'Prototyping Residential Subdivisions' Hasselt University

Oswald DEVISCH

ArcK

In Flanders, the 80% of the total housing stock consists of one-family houses, of which 42% is a detached house (SVR, 2010). Characterized by low density, absence of services, car dependency, and by an ageing population, the typical Flemish residential subdivision is facing major challenges: ecological, economic and social. The research starts from the hypothesis that durable transformations in residential subdivisions require processes of ...

Pathophysiological relevance of the cholesterol regulation of the chemosensory channel TRPA1 KU Leuven

Karel Talavera Pérez

Laboratory of Ion Channel Research (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research)

Obesity and related health risks such as developing a cardiovascular disease become a significant public health problem causing thousands deaths annually. Associated with these diseases hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidemia are commonly treated with statins. However, these cholesterol-lowering drugs do not only block cholesterol synthesis in the liver but in all cells of the body. This induces serious side effects such as neuropathy affecting ...

Elementary excitations in Fermi systems: From cold atoms to condensed matter. University of Antwerp

Jacques Tempere

Theory of quantum systems and complex systems

When cooling down a system made of many interacting particles, one encounters new states of matter that display unique properties. Superconductors are metals whose resistivity suddenly drops at low temperature; similarly, superfluids are liquids or gases whose viscosity is much lower than in normal fluids. These phenomena rely on the same physical mechanism: at low temperature, the particles, instead of being distinguishable little balls, gather ...

Prototyping Heritage Hasselt University

Koenraad VAN CLEEMPOEL

ArcK

Often, spatial heritage is difficult to discuss, visualize and 'curate' in a (city) space, because it deals with the potentially difficult to imagine aspects of repurposing underused historical or deserted buildings and spaces. In that case, digital media could be used to collaboratively (together with designers, heritage experts, citizens, scientists, etc.) prototype and make tangible these rather intangible aspects of spatial heritage, such as ...

New method to mechano-spectroscopically investigate the transient evolution of a complex-fluid's microstructure subjected to a non-linear deformation or flow KU Leuven

Christian Clasen

Soft Matter, Rheology and Technology Section

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate a proof-of-concept for a novel and universal method to mechano-spectroscopically investigate transient evolution of a complex-fluid's microstructure when subjected to a non-linear deformation or flow. Dr Victor Boudara will pursue this goal at the Department of Chemical Engineering of KU Leuven, under the supervision of Prof Christian Clasen. The goals of the project will be achieved by combining ...

Exiled and separated: a multi-sited ethnography of Eritrean refugees and their families attempting to reunite. University of Antwerp

Lore Van Praag

Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS)

Most European states allow refugees to access a facilitated procedure to reunify with their family members. Many studies, however, high-light how issues of timing, documentation and economic resources often make family reunions extremely difficult, if not impossible. If much has been written on the obstacles faced migrants in this regard, little is known about the specific case of refugees. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study with refugees ...

Welcome Trail: improving weight control and CO-morbidities in children with obesity via executive function training. University of Antwerp

Stijn Verhulst