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Like brother, like sister: Sibling influence on their respective life courses. University of Antwerp

Dimitri Mortelmans
Centre for Population, Family and Health
Whether and how family of origin influences the steps someone takes later in life, is a fundamental question in the social sciences. Intergenerational influences have already been studied in life events like leaving the parental home, union formation, and union dissolution. But previous research has only focused on how children imitate the family formation of their parents (i.e. intergenerational inheritance). In this project, we shift the focus ...

Improving the physical activity level and quality of life of patients with chronic lower limb lymphedema. KU Leuven

Nele Devoogdt
Research Group for Rehabilitation in Internal Disorders
Around 20% of the patients develop lower limb lymphedema after cancer treatment, and around 1/4th of all lymphedema patients have primary lymphedema. These patients have significant physical disabilities, as well as psychosocial impairments. The added value of supervised exercise therapy on the physical activity level during the maintenance phase of decongestive lymphatic therapy, has not yet been investigated in these patients. Therefore, I am ...

The 30-hour workweek: the temporal impact of a collective working time reduction on the daily life of employees and their families Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ignace Glorieux
Sociology
Femma, a Flemish women's organisation, experiments with the 30- hour workweek in 2019. In this proposed research project we want to investigate the effects of this collective working time reduction on the integration of work and private life, from a time-use perspective. Throughout the 20th century, contracted working time has been reducing collectively. However, in the last decades, more individual solutions are put forward for the challenging ...

Predictors and consequences of (poor) perinatal mental health. Influences of job activities, social support, and free time on perinatal mental health, and the consequences for the development during the first year of life. Hasselt University

Environmental Biology
This research project focusses on the predictors of mental health and resilience of professionally active and inactive (expectant) mothers and their partners during the perinatal period, the consequences for the parents themselves, and for the offspring during the first year of life. The goal is to develop and adequately evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of potential intervention strategies. Data from four different sample will be used. ...

Options to extend the product life time by implementing reparability criteria for energy related products KU Leuven

Wim Dewulf
Manufacturing Processes and Systems (MaPS), Industrial Management/Traffic and Infrastructure (CIB)

The aim of this study is to ivestigate extending product life time by exploring reparability criteria for products. the implementation of these criteria into a product standard could be used to:

  • set minimum requirements that can help making products last longer
  • make relevant information available; allowing consumers to choose to purchase products that can be more easily repaired and upgraded and whose parts and materials ...

Predictors and consequences of perinatal mental (un)health. Influence of professional activity, social support, leisure time on perinatal mental health and health and consequences for development in the 1st year of life KU Leuven

Annick Bogaerts
Woman and Child

This research proposal focuses on predictors of experienced mental problems and resilience of professionally active and non-professional (expectant) mothers and their partners during the perinatal period, and on the consequences for the parents themselves and for the offspring in the first year of life, with the aim of to draw up prevention strategies and to be able to adequately estimate their efficiency and effectiveness .

Vulnerability for depression during the life span: the influence of time perspective on attentional bias for negative versus positive interpersonal information Ghent University

Rudi De Raedt
Department of Experimental clinical and health psychology

This project investigates the relationship between time perspective, attentional bias for affective stimuli and mood in a life span perspective. Because attentional bias is a vulnerability factor for depression, and because it is a bias that occurs at later stages of information processing, it is clinically relevant to investigate which top-down processes influence this bias, to underpin possible therapeutic interventions.

SBO project: Nanobody Life Time imaging to Enhance Surgery (NLITESurgery) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tony Lahoutte
Leiden University Medical Center, Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum, Ghent University, Electronics and Informatics, Laboratorium for Micro- and Photonelectronics, Centre for Reproductive Medicine - Gynaecology, Clinical sciences, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Imaging, Supporting clinical sciences
During surgery, the surgeon can merely rely on visual inspection.
NLITESurgery aims to investigate novel intraoperative imaging
applications based on time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging (tdFLI)
that will surpass the more traditional fluorescence guided surgery field
by increasing image specificity and providing new information on
(patho)physiological processes. More specifically, we propose to
conceive a ...

Nutritional labels to nudge consumers towards healthier food choices: persistence over time, effect of informational interventions and situational factors (time pressure and price) as moderators. University of Antwerp

Nathalie Dens
Marketing
Numerous tags and labels try to convince customers in the supermarket to choose their product. This is called 'nudging'. Although food labels are all over the place, little is known about the nudging effect of food labels on buying behavior. This project builds on insights from behavioral economics to tackle some of the gaps in nudging literature and add to a better understanding of the nudging effect of front-of-pack food labels. We will study ...

Sustainable Building Lime Applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches Ghent University

Nele De Belie, Veerle Cnudde, Nico Boon
Department of Structural Engineering and Building Materials, Department of Geology, Department of Biotechnology

Lime is one of the earliest industrial commodities known to man and it continues to be one of the essential building blocks of modern Society. The global lime market is anticipated to approach the value of 44 Billion Euros by the end of 2026 and resulting in various growth opportunities for key players. The SUBLime network aims to develop the most advanced technology in lime-based materials modelling and characterization for industrial use ...