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Judicial Behavior under Austerity: An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Changes in the Portuguese Constitutional Court, 2002–2016 University of Antwerp
The austerity policies pursued in several countries during the Eurozone crisis began to call attention to the role played by courts as relevant actors in the context of budgetary and financial stress. The case of the Portuguese Constitutional Court has often been singled out in national and international forums as one characterized by particularly intense activism in this respect. Allegedly, political conflict around austerity policies and the ...
Behavioral Changes in Patients With Prader-Willi Syndrome Can Mask Severe Physical Illness. KU Leuven
Behavioral and psychiatric problems are common in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), while physical complaints such as pain, fever, and vomiting are rare due to a high pain threshold and dysregulation of temperature control. PWS patients have an increased mortality rate, some due to undiagnosed life-threatening diseases. We describe 2 patients with PWS whose behavioral changes, initially thought to be part of their behavioral phenotype, ...
Behavioral implications of ontogenetic changes in intrinsic hand and foot proportions in olive baboons (Papio Anubis) University of Antwerp
ObjectivesRelatively long digits are considered to enhance grasping performance in primates. We tested whether growth-related changes in intrinsic hand and foot proportions may have behavioral implications for growing animals, by examining whether ontogenetic changes in digital proportions are related to variation in voluntary grasping behaviors in baboons. Materials and methodsLongitudinal morphological and behavioral data were collected on 6 ...
Subtle behavioral changes and increased prefrontal-hippocampal network synchronicity in APP(NL-G-F) mice before prominent plaque deposition Flanders Institute for Biotechnology KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
Early postnatal behavioral, cellular, and molecular changes in models of Huntington disease are reversible by HDAC inhibition University of Antwerp
Huntington disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by expanded CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene (HIT). Although mutant HTT is expressed during embryonic development and throughout life, clinical HD usually manifests later in adulthood. A number of studies document neurodevelopmental changes associated with mutant HIT, but whether these are reversible under therapy remains unclear. Here, we identify very early ...
Poverty is not a game: behavioral changes and long term effects after playing PING Ghent University
This paper argues that serious games offer opportunities for civic engagement. This engagement is necessary for a good functioning democracy and as such context in which civic engagement flourishes must be nurtured. Games arguably offer such a context by facilitating a playful way of engaging with complex issues, such as poverty. Furthermore, games can provide a context that allows different angles for different players in terms of the same ...
How Visual Expertise Changes Representational Geometry: A Behavioral and Neural Perspective KU Leuven
Many people develop expertise in specific domains of interest, such as chess, microbiology, radiology, and, the case in point in our study: ornithology. It is poorly understood to what extent such expertise alters brain function. Previous neuroimaging studies of expertise have typically focused upon the category level, for example, selectivity for birds versus nonbird stimuli. We present a multivariate fMRI study focusing upon the ...
Physical, behavioral, and hormonal changes in the resumption of sexual receptivity during postpartum infertility in female bonobos at Wamba Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
The operational sex ratio (OSR) is used as a predictor for the intensity of mating competition. While many factors affect the OSR, there tends to be a high male bias in primate species with long interbirth intervals and non-seasonal breeding, such as hominid apes. However, the OSR of bonobos (Pan paniscus) is lower than that of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), which is thought to reduce competitive and aggressive male behaviors. The low OSR of ...
Using Smartphones and Wearable Devices to Monitor Behavioral Changes During COVID-19 KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: In the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment for COVID-19, countries have adopted nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and full lockdown. An objective and quantitative means of passively monitoring the impact and response of these interventions at a local level is needed. OBJECTIVE: We aim to explore the utility of the recently developed open-source mobile health platform Remote Assessment of Disease ...