Projects
Sacred Power and Sacrificial Punishment. On Sacrifice as a Politico-Theological Paradigm for the History of Criminal Law KU Leuven
Sacrifice, this interdisciplinary investigation asserts, offers a fascinating hermeneutical paradigm to shed new light on the history of criminal law and political power from about the later Middle Ages until the fall of the ancien régime. By teasing out sacrificial tenets of Western political theology, the sacrificial interpretation of penal history which I propose can be contextually embedded. René Girard, above all others, ...
Study Of Cooperating Oncogenes In The Development Of T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Using CRISPR/Cas-Generated Cell And Mouse Models. KU Leuven
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive hematological disease, which arises from the malignant transformation of developing T-cell progenitors. Survival rates are nowadays up to 90% in children and 40% in adults. However, current therapy is associated with many short-term and long-term side effects, and survival rates after relapse or primary resistance remain very low. To address this challenge, current research is ...
The role of the Dutch fresh in the development of innovative forms of European versification of the early modern period Ghent University
This project studies the origins, evolution and transformation of the alternating (syllabotonische) versification in poetry and euml behold from the early modern period and analyzes the role of the Dutch verse in the diffusion of these versification in Europe. Shortly after the Dutch po & euml; see syllabotonische system – was; and especially the iambic metra – the main form of versification in many countries. A proper understanding of ...
Supramolecular structure-function relationship of naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides. Ghent University
Very little is known about the structure-function relationship of the class of antimicrobial peptides known as CLPs, short for cyclic lipodepepsipeptides. Thanks to recently developed NMR methodology within our lab, we demonstrated that self-assmebly of the CLP pseudodesmin A into larger supramolecular, pore-like structures, provides the structural basis to explain its biological activity. This proposition is further explored in our ...
Microaeration of high-rate anaerobic (USAB) reactors for biogas desulphurization Ghent University
This phD research project is focused on the reduction of H2S emissions from anaerobic bioreactors with granular biomass, by applying microaerobic conditions. The applied methodology comprises short-term and long-term lab-scale experiments, complemented with mathematical modeling and numerical simulations. The main objectives are to gain more insight in the mechanisms of sulfide oxidation during microaeration and to design an adequate control ...
Spikes and Striae as a Fine Structure of the Solar Decameter Radiation KU Leuven
The present thesis is devoted to observations and analysis of fine structured solar radio burstsat decameter wavelengths.
The observations of the Sun exploit the entire electromagnetic spectrum including its optical, radio, X-ray, gamma ranges, etc. Among these the observations in the radio range turns out to be an important tool for the remote determination of the solar coronal parameters and the processes that occur in it at different ...
format of questions and possible answers for the tests - information processing and acquisition - silent reading test text - in the context of the entrance examination doctor / dentist Ghent University
This contract is for part of the exam section "Information Acquisition and Processing (IVV)" of the entrance examination to develop the "silent reading text test". This examination component test understanding and assimilation capacity. The candidate must be able to answer questions about 6 short scientific texts, which describe all the different aspects of the same problem.