Projects
Strategic Research Programme: End-of-life in cancer and non-cancer patients: public health, health services and clinical research. Addressing present and future challenges in palliative care. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Development and evaluation of assistive technology to improve chronic care KU Leuven
Today we notice a rising life expectancy in the Western countries. Together with an aging population we see an increasing prevalence of age-related diseases such as dementia. This results already in a lack of places in living and care centres. We also notice that the Western population has an unhealthy eating and exercising habit. This can be seen in a significant increasing prevalence of lifestyle diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular ...
Care organisation, a rethinking expedition in search for sustainability (CORTEXS). University of Antwerp
Care organisation, a rethinking expedition in search for sustainability (CORTEXS). University of Antwerp
Near-infrared spectroscopy in the neonatal intensive care unit: can it change treatment decisions? KU Leuven
I. Introduction and background
In this proposal for PhD project we present clinical studies in different patient groups to assess cerebral oxygenation as measured with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Near-infrared spectroscopy has evolved from a purely research instrument to a monitor that is increasingly introduced into the clinical environment and especially in the neonatal intensive care unit. It has mainly been used for the ...
Needs for preschool and after-school child care services in the city of Roeselare (Flanders-Belgium). KU Leuven
Process guidance for new forces in child care KU Leuven
This assignment provides for setting up a learning network and process guidance for future projects 'new forces for childcare'. The assignment includes: - Supporting and building expertise in the individual projects based on the learning questions of the projects themselves; both through individual support and through a collective offer; - Organizing and supporting a learning network between the participating organizations themselves and with ...
The role of lipids during sponge cake making and their impact on sponge cake quality KU Leuven
Flour, sugar and eggs are the main ingredients of sponge cake. This cake system therefore only contains lipids originating from flour and eggs (i.e. endogenous batter lipids). Cake making includes three stages: (i) mixing the ingredients into a batter, (ii) baking the batter until a cake is formed and (iii) cooling the cake to room temperature. Batter of sponge cake is a foam and thus an intrinsically unstable structure because of ...
Improving crop production by field management strategies using crop water productivity modeling: Case study of tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) production in Tigray, Ethiopia. KU Leuven
Increasing food production to feed the fast growing world population particularly in developing countries relies on two options: either increase the arable land or improve the productivity of the existing cultivated land. This research focuses on the highly populated highlands ofTigray (northern Ethiopia), where improving the productivity of land isthe only option for sustainable food production. In the drought-prone and highly ...