Publicaties

A 40-year-old woman developed an itchy, expanding cutaneous lesion with two erythematous rings after visiting Senegal. Fungal culture revealed Microsporum audouinii, a fungus causing tinea corporis or capitis commonly in Africa but increasingly reported in outbreaks in Europe.

Dermatophytes are among the most common fungal agents causing superficial skin infections worldwide. Epidemiology of these infections is evolving and variable in every country. This report presents the Belgian epidemiological data regarding the distribution of dermatophytes species isolated by the two national reference centers for mycosis during a period of 5 years (2012-2016). Trichophyton rubrum was the most frequently isolated species, ...

The role of the Coriolis effect in the initial formation of bottom patterns in a tidal channel is studied by means of a linear stability analysis. The key finding is that the mechanism generating oblique tidal sand ridges on the continental shelf is also present in confined tidal channels. As a result, the Coriolis effect causes the fastest growing pattern to be a combination of tidal bars and oblique tidal sand ridges. Similar as on the ...

Photocatalysis stands out as a promising method for treating pollutants in both water and air, gaining significant attention in recent years. This technology involves the activation of heterogeneous photocatalysts by photon energy, leading to the generation of reactive oxygen species capable of degrading pollutants. To enhance our understanding of the intricate mechanisms governing photocatalysis and enable predictions of system behavior under ...

As a consequence of several structural failures in the last decades, the European Standard EN 1990 (2002) ‘Basis of structural design’ incorporated the following requirement with respect to robustness: “A structure shall be designed and executed in such a way that it will not be damaged by events such as explosion, impact and the consequence of human errors to an extent disproportionate to the original cause”. In addition, the European Standard ...

A Sagdeev pseudopotential analysis is developed for the propagation of nonlinear periodic ion-acoustic waves in a plasma comprising cold fluid ions and various models of nonthermal electron descriptions. In plasma nonlinear wave studies, whether addressing solitary or periodic modes, the more common nonthermal distributions are the Cairns, kappa, and Tsallis models. A mathematically and physically consistent description incorporates three ...

This Research by Drawing uses linear perspective in the reconstruction of Proto-Renaissance (hence pre-perspectival) painted space, in such manner that the act of drawing becomes a re-observation of as well as a dwelling in the unlocked imaginary world that exists behind the canvas. Drawing (by hand) and reading drawings is harnessed as a way of exploring other works and, thereupon, the idea of space and how we look at it. By reading ...

Background Comprehensive and comparable estimates of health spending in each country are a key input for health policy and planning, and are necessary to support the achievement of national and international health goals. Previous studies have tracked past and projected future health spending until 2040 and shown that, with economic development, countries tend to spend more on health per capita, with a decreasing share of spending from ...

© 2016 Author(s). A field theoretical approach, applied to the time-reversible system described by the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, exposes the full generality of MHD spectral theory. MHD spectral theory, which classified waves and instabilities of static or stationary, usually axisymmetric or translationally symmetric configurations, actually governs the stability of flowing, (self-)gravitating, single fluid descriptions of ...