Projects
Italian Criminal Anthropology and the Legacy of Cesare Lombroso in the Age of Totalitarianism KU Leuven
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), the founding father of modern criminology, is best known for his theory of the “criminal man”. In a nutshell, Lombroso thought that criminality was biologically inherited and that criminals could be identified by physical stigmata that confirmed them as being atavistic or savage. The legacy of Lombroso is still controversial, as several historians have claimed that his biological conception of the “born criminal” ...
DIAdIC - Evaluation of Dyadic Psychoeducational Interventions for People with Advanced Cancer and their Informal Caregivers: An international randomized controlled trial Ghent University
transdisciplinary, cross- national randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness and cost- effectiveness of 2 psychosocial and educational interventions (eHealth and nurse- led face- to- face) aimed at improving the quality of life and wellbeing of patients with advanced cancer and their family care givers ,evaluated through a randomized controlled trial.
Advance care planning (ACP) with people with dementia and their caregivers: development of an ACP communication in dementia skills training for physicians Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Medicine and Catholicism since the late 19th Century University of Antwerp
Cross-border access to end-of-life services in Europe: a legal analysis KU Leuven
Within Europe, cross-border access to end-of-life services is quickly gaining in importance and, very recently, Belgium has become one of the main countries of destination. The proposed research project will be the first to systematically analyse the legal challenges that arise when European citizens want to access end-of-life services in another European country. The focus will be on assisted suicide tourism; euthanasia tourism; the import ...
Excelling in equality: A new method to improve life-long uniformity and resilience of livestock via precision livestock breeding KU Leuven
The Piétrain pig breed is the last native Belgian pig breed with a viable population size. The breed originated in the vicinity of the village Piétrain during the first half of the 20th century, and the breed is characterized by its black spots with a grey outline and superior muscularity. After the formation of the breed, Piétrain pigs were exported worldwide from the 1960s which led to the formation of various Piétrain subpopulations ...
Tackling psoroptic mange susceptibility in Belgian Blue cattle by a genomic approach KU Leuven
Genomic tools, such as single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays, are nowadays commonly used in animal breeding and research. As they have become widely available and affordable, these SNP arrays allow the collection of genomic information from (breeding) animals to obtain better characterizations of our local livestock breeds. This PhD research covers three aspects of the use of SNP genotyping arrays in these local breeds: the ...
Research on humane methods for killing individual poultry on-farm Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
This research study, requested by the Flemish government, evaluated the most appropriate methods to kill weak or ill chickens and turkeys. The euthanasia has to be performed humanely to prevent unnecessary suffering of terminally ill or weak animals, according to the European Council Regulation 1099/2009. Alternative methods to kill individual poultry do exist, however, which may prove to be ...
The gut-renal axis: link between plasma levels of intestinally generated uraemic toxins and gut microbiome profiles in consecutive stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Ghent University
The project envisages to link the composition and stability of the intestinal microbiome in CKD patients to plasma levels of intestinally generated protein-bound uraemic toxins through a series of comparative analyses at different stage of CKD. It will reveal measures to alter the intestinal generation, lowering circulating levels, aiming at decreasing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in CKD patients.