Publicaties

OBJECTIVES: Malignant double obstruction, defined as the simultaneous presence of biliary and gastric outlet obstruction, represents a challenging clinical scenario. Previous retrospective experiences have demonstrated shorter dysfunction-free survival (DyFS) of endoscopic ultrasound-guided choledochoduodenostomy (EUS-CDS) versus EUS-hepaticogastrostomy (EUS-HGS) in this setting, but no prospective evidence is available. METHODS: Twenty ...

With the changing food allergen landscape in Europe, there is an increasing need for the monitoring of (non-)prepacked food products to improve the protection of consumers with food allergies. Although food allergy is a condition affecting up to 10 % of the consumers worldwide, a European harmonised approach for the management of precautionary allergen labelling, allergen reference doses, analytical methods or food product monitoring is not in ...

The paper investigates motivations behind linguistic and paleographic variation of Greek formulaic speech in the opening, body, and closing of Coptic legal documents. The primary corpus consists of late-seventh- and eighth-century legal deeds with Greek formulaic expressions from the area of Djeme, which is well-documented and allows diachronic observations on inter- and intra-writer variation. Documents mainly from the Hermopolite nome, dating ...

The imperative sustainable development goals of sustainable cities and transport have necessitated urban transformations. Buildings and transportation are pivotal elements shaping the morphology and structure of urban areas, yet they pose challenges and environmental concerns, particularly in terms of energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions. Addressing these issues and mitigating their impacts is crucial for enhancing sustainability and ...

This study investigates the synthesis and performance of polymeric membranes for their potential application in supported liquid membranes (SLM), using the extraction of -methylbenzylamine (MBA), 1-methyl-3-phenylpropylamine (MPPA), and isopropyl amine (IPA) as a reference. Three synthesis methods — phase inversion, electrospinning, and stretching — were evaluated, each impacting the membrane morphology differently. The polymer selection ...

Structural responses are vulnerable to perturbations when subjected to variable environmental and operational conditions, thereby contributing to the slow uptake of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) beyond academic research. More importantly, SHM systems using removable sensors face additional sensing variability due to the inherent uncertainty in sensor reattachment compared to permanently attached sensors. In this study, a novel probabilistic ...

While practitioners question whether employees' work-related social media use is a blessing or curse, few scholars have studied the content of employees' social media posts. Moreover, organizations increasingly regulate employees' online presence through social media governance tools, but research on their effectiveness is lacking. With an online survey among 502 Belgian employees, we quantitatively examined how social media governance affects ...

This paper gives an overview of the scarce occasions in which Japan came into contact with Western arithmetic and algebra before the Meiji restoration of 1868. After the refutation of persistent claims on the influence through Japanese students at Leiden during the seventeenth century, it concentrates on the reception of Dutch works during the last decades of the Tokugawa shogunate and the motivations to study and translate these books. While ...

For a long time, the taxonomic status of Denscantia, a genus endemic to the Atlantic Forest along the Brazilian coast, has been a topic of discussion. Phylogenetic analyses using two nuclear and four chloroplast DNA markers from 82 accessions representing 19 genera of the Spermacoce clade (tribe Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae) confirm that the Brazilian genus Denscantia is biphyletic. Together with the recovered phylogenetic relationships, the analyses ...

PURPOSE: Myocardial T1ρ mapping techniques commonly acquire multiple images in one breathhold to calculate a single-slice T1ρ map. Recently, non-selective adiabatic pulses have been used for robust spin-lock preparation (T1ρ,adiab). The objective of this study was to develop a fast multi-slice myocardial T1ρ,adiab mapping approach. METHODS: The proposed-sequence reduces the number of breathholds required for whole-heart 2D T1ρ,adiab mapping by ...