PANELFIT: Participatory Approaches to a New Ethical and Legal Framework for ICT Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Traditional manufacturing systems lack the necessary flexibility and reconfigurability that can allow short production cycles and fast deployment of the updated system. Although the use of automation technologies based on industrial robots can increase the adaptability of a production line, the desired flexibility cannot be achieved until abilities for genuine collaboration of the robots with the human workers are developed. CoLLaboratE will ...
Producing light with low energy consumption and low production costs is of vital importance for both the display and lighting industries and also to exploit energy resources more efficiently. The goal of BLOLEDs is to attain long-lasting and highly-performant blue organic-light emitting diodes (OLEDs) thanks to the help of state-of-the-art first principles tools. In contrast to red or green OLEDs, the fabrication of a highly-efficient blue ...
In order to achieve a sustainable management of our scarce water resources, it is crucial to be able to accurately predict the potential future changes in their behavior. Climate change but also changing land use and increasing urbanization or changes in water demand can put an increasing amount of stress on our water supply. Governments, decision makers and water system operators are forced to take appropriate adaptation measures that limit ...
Over the past decades, the science of fear has shown spectacular progress with the development of behavioral and neurological tools that provide almost complete control over fear in the rodent and human laboratory. The hope was that these pre-clinical insights would significantly improve the treatment of clinical anxiety, but substantial change stays away. Clinical psychologists have argued that the propensity to avoid all things feared is ...
Turning microorganisms into highly efficient microbial cell factories (MCFs) is a daunting process due to the enormous cellular complexity, i.e., the vast metabolic network superimposed by a multilevel regulatory layer and the fragmentary knowledge thereof. Typically, to steer the strain engineering process a “Design-Build-Test-Learn” (DBTL) cycle is iteratively run. In this project, to move more successfully through this cycle and, hence, ...
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are molecular groups that are added to proteins after
translation. As is the case throughout most of proteomics research, the method of choice for their
analysis is tandem mass spectrometry. However, because the analysis of PTMs is not as
straightforward as the analysis of normal proteins, many PTMs remain undetected. One of the
most abundant and most studied PTMs is ...
The field of speech processing is highly developed from scientific and technological points of view. The special attention accredited to speech is clearly deserved since it is one of the most important manners of communication between humans. At the same time, other sounds can also carry meaning relevant to everyday life: a door being opened, footsteps, a car approaching, a baby screaming, an alarm bell ringing, etc. However, the domain of ...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global health concern and a major cause of mortality and lifelong disability, affecting millions of people of all ages yearly. Victims of bicycle accidents are particularly prone to focal and diffuse TBI, with cerebral contusion being one of the most frequently observed focal injuries. Since reversing the outcome of TBI is, as of yet, therapeutically impossible, research on prevention and protection ...