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Social Media, Delinguistification and Colonization of Lifeworld: Changing Faces of Facebook Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The article critically investigates, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how the current evolution of social media—like social network sites—interferes with the balance between private, commercial, and public space. We build on the concepts of lifeworld and systems, developed in Habermas’ theory of communicative action. The discussion is supported and enriched by the work of Feenberg and van Dijck, integrating insights from Science and ...
Aerobic training as a means to enhance inhibition: what's yet to be studied? KU Leuven
Some of the neurodegenerative processes in healthy aging, including changes in structural and biochemical properties of the brain, are argued to affect cortical inhibitory functions. Age-related deficits in the ability to control cerebral inhibition may explain wide range of motor and cognitive deficits that healthy older adults experience in daily life such as impaired coordination skills and declines in attention, concentration, and learning ...
Nanoscale Study of Polymer Dynamics KU Leuven
The thermal motion of polymer chains in a crowded environment is anisotropic and highly confined. Whereas theoretical and experimental progress has been made, typically only indirect evidence of polymer dynamics is obtained either from scattering or mechanical response. Toward a complete understanding of the complicated polymer dynamics in crowded media such as biological cells, it is of great importance to unravel the role of heterogeneity and ...
Secure Remote Access to an Industrial Generator with Mobile Devices KU Leuven
© 2015 Infonomics Society. Industrial generators are increasingly often connected to networks to allow users to remotely control them. This greatly improves the usability, but it also introduces additional security risks. This work investigates the security considerations that must be taken into account when remotely accessing these generators. Three different remote access architectures are proposed and compared with each other with regards to ...
Sediment-petrological and geochemical characterisation of travertine - Travertine as a potential Pre-Salt carbonate analogue KU Leuven
Travertines are continental carbonates that precipitate due to CO2 degassing of supersaturated spring waters and are typically characterised by their eye-catching porosity. In addition to the more conventional brackish stromatolites, they have been envisaged as potential Pre-Salt reservoir rock in the South Atlantic. Studying outcrop analogues helps to better understand heterogeneities, lateral variability and properties of reservoirs. The ...
Essays on transport policy and technology. KU Leuven
This dissertation analyzes policy instruments to address road congestion externalities in a second-best world. First, it studies congestion pricing when only a part of the transport network can be priced and the government uses labor taxes for redistribution purposes although they distort agents' behavior. This analysis highlights the importance of the choice of the tax-revenue-recycling scheme when equity concerns are considered. Second, this ...
Presynaptic M3 muscarinic cholinoceptors mediate inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission in area CA1 of rat hippocampus KU Leuven Ghent University
Acetylcholine can modulate hippocampal network function through activation of both nicotinic and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs). All five mAChR subtypes have been identified in the hippocampus. Besides by their involvement in excitability of hippocampal cells, synaptic plasticity and memory, a large body of research has demonstrated the involvement of presynaptic mAChRs in the inhibition of glutamatergic transmission in the ...
Functional mesoporous silica materials obtained via supramolecular soft templating KU Leuven
Silica materials exist in all shapes and sizes, from crystalline to amorphous networks, from dense to porous materials with pores ranging from sub-nanometer to several nanometers. This work will focus on the ordered mesoporous silica materials. These materials are thus, mesoporous, i.e. having pores ranging 2 – 50 nm; contain mostly silica; and the order refers to regularity in pore arrangement, not the structure of the silica framework, which ...
Tomography: Lowering management overhead for distributed component-based applications KU Leuven
© 2015 ACM. This paper introduces the concept of tomography, a mechanism to lower management overhead for component-based IoT applications. Previous research has shown the advantages of component-based software engineering, wherein applications are built and reconfigured at runtime through the composition of components. While this approach promotes code-reuse and dynamic reconfiguration, the introspection and reconfiguration of distributed ...