Projects
Urban land cover mapping based on medium spatial resolution multispectral satellite imagery KU Leuven
Global urbanization has been happening for decades and will continue in the future, converting substantial amounts of natural land cover types into urban surface types. This human-caused global land cover change has induced environmental issues that can affect the quality of urban life, such as heat waves and air pollution. Accordingly, preventing and regulating these urban environmental problems has become a common concern for scientists and ...
Measures of Uncalculated Risk? Simulating investment value at risk under uncertainty with fuzzy cognitive maps based on non-probabilistic narratives. KU Leuven
Mainstream asset valuation models typically neglect idiosyncratic (i.e. firm-specific) risk. In contrast, recent research finds that real-life investors do care about asset-specific risks and shows that idiosyncratic risk factors do influence asset prices in many securities markets. At the same time, other contemporary researchers have succesfully applied textual analysis techniques to company disclosures and other news sources to estimate ...
MAPPING AND EVALUATION OF CARBON CAPTURE AND UTILIZATIONTECHNOLOGIES FOR LOW-FLOW OR LOW-CONCENTRATION INDUSTRIAL CO2 EMISSIONS
Catalisti
The Map-it CCU project is a VLAIO intercluster COOCK+ project, supported by the spearhead clusters Catalisti and FLUX50. The project was shaped within the CAPTURE community, with a blueprint based on current and future needs of Flemish companies: They require access to a structured overview and selection of feasible cleantech technologies and value chains for their sustainability ...
Mapping urban composition and green infrastructure using remote sensing in support of urban ecosystem service assessment KU Leuven
Urbanization presents one of the major challenges to humankind in the current century. Our cities are true drivers of global environmental change, but at the same time also represent the most susceptible areas to be suffering from the local impacts of these ongoing changes (e.g. through heat waves, flooding and air pollution). Sustainable urban management and development therefore focuses on safeguarding the local quality of life by reducing ...
Adaptive robust control of general anesthesia with event-based surgery mapping and variable patient models Ghent University
In this project, innovative concepts of fractional order control, combined with event-triggered supervisory control loops are designed and tested on a full anesthesia-hemodynamic patient simulator. Added features to allow such validation and demonstrator tools are necessary to be implemented in the existing patient simulator: i.e. patient models variability, blood loss effects in time constant and steady-state values, disturbance profiles ...
Digital mapping of soil hydraulic properties for crop growth modelling in the Zambezi River Basin KU Leuven
In a context where water availability is declining and competition for water is increasing, it is imperative to produce more crop per drop. To this end, rainfed and irrigated crop production systems must be designed which are adapted to the local soil, climate and socio-economic conditions. Integrated and well parameterized crop growth models are key to designing such crop production systems. Whereas today in most crop growth and hydrological ...
MINIMAL: Minimally Invasive colon cancer surgery through Immunomics and optical mapping of the sentinel Lymph Node Ghent University
Colon cancer (CC) kills by metastatic spread to locoregional lymph nodes (LN's) and distant organs. One of the major unresolved issues in CC biology is, whether lymphatic spread is a stepwise, orderly process (Halsted model) or a stochastic process, in which metastasis to nearby nodes, more distant nodes, and distant organs occur randomly (Fisher model). The surgical standard of care for CC is wide resection of the tumor and the associated ...
An integrative framework for history teachers' adoption of inquirybased learning: Explaining current adoption and mapping short- and long-term effects of training offering extended support during implementation Ghent University
Inquiry-based learning is an instructional approach that provides students with authentic problems, and the materials necessary for drawing their own conclusions. According to educational research, inquiry-based learning is one of the most promising approaches to teaching history, as it contributes to an understanding of the content, as well as the ability to reason with historical information. Unfortunately, history lessons are often ...
On Worn Out Landscapes. Mapping Wasteland in the Charleroi and Veneto Central Territories KU Leuven
Across Europe wastelands apparently show great similarities; however, they are intrinsically different.
Going beyond the idea of brownfields, this thesis focuses on the meaning of wasteland in the European territories. Moreover, this research studies the analysis and interpretation of the genesis of wasteland as a concept that has crossed conventional classifications, and in the prospect of investigating its territorial dimension. In ...