Projects
Gene therapy for HIV/AIDS based on the interaction of HIV-integrase with LEDGF/p75. KU Leuven
Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven
In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...
The use of social media for analyzing and predicting the impact of events on the popularity of places, products and people Ghent University
Data science is a field that has gained a lot of interest in the last few years, and has heavily influenced research and business practices. Many companies and organizations nowadays use data science to make better business decisions. Additionally, data science leads to new opportunities in the scientific community, not only to verify or disprove existing models, but also to consider problems from a totally different perspective and to model ...
Optimization of flood control strategies along river systems. KU Leuven
Flooding is a worldwide problem; it is the most frequent, deadliest and economically most costly natural disaster. As a consequence of climate change and anthropogenic activities such as rising urbanization and the expansion of impermeable surfaces, impact projections anticipate that the number of floods will further increase the next decades. For these reasons, there is a need for improved flood control management. One of the most promising ...
Authority and auctoritas. Italian poems on contemporary wars as an interface of powers (1530-1630) KU Leuven
This thesis investigates the interaction between different kinds of authority in Italian, narrative heroic poems, written between 1530 and 1630, on contemporary Habsburg wars in Europe.
The analysed corpus consists of approximately forty poems, that concern the siege of Tunis (1535), the Guelders wars, (1542-3), the Smalcaldic conflict (1546-7), the war of Cyprus (1570-71), and the military campaign in the Low Countries commanded by ...
Semiparametric inference for complex and structural models in survival analysis KU Leuven
Survival analysis examines and models the time it takes for events to occur. The typical event is death, from which the name `survival analysis' and much of its terminology derives. Since the data can only be collected over a finite period of time, the `time to event' may not be observed for all the individuals. This is the case for example when a patient leaves a clinical study before it ends or she/he is still alive by the end of the study. ...
Contributions to Measurement Error Problems KU Leuven
Survival analysis examines and models the time it takes for events to occur. The typical event is death, from which the name `survival analysis' and much of its terminology derives. Since the data can only be collected over a finite period of time, the `time to event' may not be observed for all the individuals. This is the case for example when a patient leaves a clinical study before it ends or she/he is still alive by the end of the study. ...
Multiwavelength observations of the interaction between CMEs and the glonetic field. KU Leuven
Effect of pembrolizumab on biomarkers related to intratumoral immunity, proliferation and apoptosis in early breast cancer KU Leuven
Up to thirty percent of patients with early breast cancer (BC) will eventually develop metastases. This results in an ongoing search for treatments to improve the long-term survival of these patients. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are one promising type of therapeutic targets and have shown good results in malignancies as melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer. In BC, and especially in triple negative BC (TNBC), a clinical benefit for ...