Publications

In this contribution, I consider the (prepositional) articular infinitive from the complementary perspectives of ‘syntax’ and ‘context’, on the basis of a corpus of documentary papyri. Syntactically speaking, the construction has been said to become increasingly nominal in the Post-classical period; using syntactic criteria drawn from typological studies, I argue that the articular infinitive retains its verbal character in the papyri, and is ...

With the branding of a city as green increasingly serving to amplify attractiveness andinvestment while also contributing to patterns of green gentrification, the incentive to link real estate development and green space is growing. Yet, little is known about the extent to which this incentive has generated a spatial relationship between green space and newly constructed housing at the city-wide level and in ways that can be compared between ...

Assessing the genetic diversity of local breeds is essential for conserving these unique breeds, which may possess unique traits. This study provides the genomic characterization of eight indigenous sheep breeds in Belgium based on pedigree and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis. A total of 687 sheep were genotyped and were subjected to a rigorous quality control, resulting in a set of 45,978 autosomal SNPs. Pedigree analysis showed ...

In this study, a realistic model of the respiratory tract obtained from CT medical images was used to solve the flow field and particle motion using the Eulerian-Lagrangian approach to obtain the maximum particle deposition in the bronchial tree for the main purpose of optimizing the performance of drug delivery devices. The effects of different parameters, including particle diameter, particle shape factor, and air velocity, on the airflow ...

BACKGROUND: Random forests have become popular for clinical risk prediction modeling. In a case study on predicting ovarian malignancy, we observed training AUCs close to 1. Although this suggests overfitting, performance was competitive on test data. We aimed to understand the behavior of random forests for probability estimation by (1) visualizing data space in three real-world case studies and (2) a simulation study. METHODS: For the case ...

The Piétrain pig is the last native Belgian pig breed with a viable population size. The breed originated in the vicinity of the village Piétrain during the first half of the 20th century, and the breed is characterized by its superior muscularity and black spots with a grey outline. After the formation of the breed, Piétrain pigs were exported worldwide from the 1960s on, leading to the formation of various Piétrain subpopulations nowadays. ...

Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) forests are experiencing severe dieback due to drought and related bark beetle infestations. These disturbances are amplified by poor tree vitality, which is linked to acidification in soils and exacerbated by atmospheric deposition. However, the large-scale deployment of rock dust as a soil-restoring amendment is hampered by uncertainties about its benefits in the long term. This study reassessed an experiment ...

Global warming and urbanization have exacerbated urban heat island issues in cities, affecting the liveability and long-term health and well-being of its citizens. This study explores how landscape composition and configuration regulate diurnal air temperature variations and the cooling potential of urban green spaces. Using a spatially-dense citizen science weather station network in Leuven (Belgium), mean night temperature, mean day ...