Publications
Understanding sexual transmission dynamics and transmission contexts of monkeypox virus: a mixed-methods study of the early outbreak in Belgium (May-June 2022) Institute of Tropical Medicine
OBJECTIVE: The available epidemiological and clinical evidence from the currently ongoing monkeypox (MPX) outbreak in non-endemic areas suggests an important factor of sexual transmission. However, limited information on the behaviour and experiences of individuals with an MPX infection has to date been provided. We aimed to describe the initial phase of the MPX outbreak in Belgium, and to provide a more in-depth description of sexual ...
The two-degree-of-freedom Cable Pulley (2DCP) transmission system: An under-actuated and motion decoupled transmission for robotic applications Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Transmission systems with the ability to decouple the motion of several degrees of freedom (DoFs) can provide a solution for the coupling problem that arises between the joints of a kinematic chain when following a remote actuation approach. Additionally, they can be especially interesting in wearable robotic applications, such as exoskeletons, which benefit from the implementation of kinematic redundancy to compensate for joint misalignment ...
Strategies for tackling Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis : a systematic review and comparison of transmission models, including an assessment of the wider Taeniidae family transmission models Ghent University
Background: The cestode Taenia solium causes the neglected (zoonotic) tropical disease cysticercosis, a leading cause of preventable epilepsy in endemic low and middle-income countries. Transmission models can inform current scaling-up of control efforts by helping to identify, validate and optimise control and elimination strategies as proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Methodology/Principal findings: A systematic literature ...
Benchmarking the permanent magnet electrical variable transmission against the half toroidal continuously variable transmission Ghent University University of Antwerp
Assessment and prediction of tablet properties using transmission and backscattering Raman spectroscopy and transmission NIR spectroscopy Ghent University
This study investigated whether Raman and Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy could predict tablet properties. Granules were produced on a continuous line by varying granulation parameters. Tableting process parameters were adjusted to obtain uniform tablet weight and thickness. Spectra were collected offline and tablet properties determined with traditional analyzing methods. Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression was used to correlate spectral ...
The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice Ghent University
Vaccine effectiveness against infection and onwards transmission of COVID-19 : analysis of Belgian contact tracing data, January-June 2021 Ghent University
In Belgium, high-risk contacts of an infected person were offered PCR-testing irrespective of their vacci-nation status. We estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) against infection and onwards transmission, con-trolling for previous infections, household-exposure and temporal trends. We included 301,741 tests from 25 January to 24 June 2021. Full-schedule vaccination was associated with significant protection against infection. In addition, ...
The effect of cultural transmission on shared sign language persistence Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper, we revisit a mathematical model of sign language persistence by
Aoki and Feldman (Theor Popul Biol 39(3):358–372, 1991), which investigates the evolution of genes causing deafness, affected by an assortative mating parameter, and the cultural transmission of sign language. To assess their model, we reimplement it as an agent-based simulation to be able to easily represent structured relationships in a finite population. We ...
Aoki and Feldman (Theor Popul Biol 39(3):358–372, 1991), which investigates the evolution of genes causing deafness, affected by an assortative mating parameter, and the cultural transmission of sign language. To assess their model, we reimplement it as an agent-based simulation to be able to easily represent structured relationships in a finite population. We ...