Department of Public Health

Failure to invest below-ground may limit the northern expansion of invasive knotweed: lessons from a two-phase transplant experiment

Abstract The ecological and evolutionary processes determining species distributions and range limits remain poorly understood. Ultimately, range limits depend on the species’ abilities to persist under heterogeneous conditions, by adaptive differentiation and phenotypic plastici...

Detection Techniques for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Their Metabolites: A Review

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of organic pollutants affecting the environment as well as individual health that has been linked to various diseases including cancer. Detection is focused on PAHs themselves for environmental analysis, and on urinary metabolit...

Reframing Adult Age Determination in Forensic Odontology Through a Certainty-Based Hybrid Human–AI Dental Maturity Approach

Forensic age determination in presumed minors is affected by a structural tension between biological uncertainty, juridical thresholds, and the ethical duty to protect childhood. Conventional dental age estimation methods provide point estimates of chronological age but do not di...

Influences of socioeconomic and environmental factors on STEMI incidence and related mortality: Insights from the Belgian Environmental Myocardial Infarction Risk (EMIR) Study

Abstract Background Current risk models for myocardial infarction incidence and post-event mortality primarily rely on clinical parameters and do not account for environmental or socioeconomic factors. We aimed to provide a more comprehensive assessment of determinants of ST-elev...

Development and benchmark validation of PubChat for PubMed-grounded multilingual biomedical literature retrieval

The rapid growth of biomedical literature has rendered traditional systematic reviews unsustainable. Although large language models (LLMs) offer automation potential, citation fabrication and unreliable evidence discrimination remain critical barriers. Here, using PubChat as a Pu...