Flemish Institute for Technological Research

Public Perceptions of Personal Data Spaces for Citizen-Centered Health Data Governance in Belgium: Cross-Sectional Survey

Background/Objectives: Personal Data Spaces (PDSs) are promoted as infrastructures that strengthen citizen participation in health data governance through transparency and individual control. However, empirical evidence on citizens’ views of PDSs remains limited. This study exami...

On-line analysis of N 2 O isotopic composition during biological nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment to disentangle production and reduction processes

Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is a potent greenhouse gas, and emissions from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) represent a significant and highly variable source. Understanding the dynamics in microbial pathways of N 2 O formation and reduction during biological nitrogen removal is ess...

Toward the Use of Real‐World Data for Regulatory and HTA Decision‐Making: Experiences and Recommendations from Six EU ‐Funded Projects

Real-world data are increasingly important for regulatory and health technology assessment decision-making, yet their effective use across Europe remains limited by technical, methodological, regulatory, and societal challenges. Drawing on the experiences of six Horizon Europe pr...

Beyond optimisation: Revisiting energy demand management

Energy demand reduction (EDR) in households has re-emerged as a central pillar of climate and energy transition strategies in Europe and beyond. While energy efficiency has long dominated policy frameworks, growing evidence shows that efficiency alone is insufficient to achieve a...

Enhancing Solubility Predictions of Plastic Additives in Depolymerization Solvents Using Quantum Chemical Conformer Analysis and COSMO-RS

Abstract The success of recycling plastics by means of depolymerization requires the selective purification of regenerated monomers from complex mixtures. This can be assisted by accurate prediction of the phase behavior of large, flexible, and multifunctional additive molecules,...

Enhancing Urban Air Quality Mapping through Novel Measurement and Modelling approaches, and Citizen Science: Actionable Insights from the RI-URBANS Project

Air Quality is among the most pressing environmental issues impacting upon urban populations. Traditional air quality networks can assess time trends and assess compliance to air quality regulations, but lack the spatial and temporal resolution to understand individual exposure t...

Connecting earth observation anomalies to farmer surveys for monitoring impacts of agricultural drought on rainfed rice yields in Nigeria

Abstract. Agricultural drought threatens rainfed rice production in Nigeria, where smallholder farmers depend on rainfall and have limited capacity to buffer climate shocks. While meteorological drought indices such as the SPI and the SPEI are widely used in national early warnin...

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...

Selective removal of zinc, lead, and arsenic from zinc production sludge via roasting and room-temperature leaching

Hydrometallurgical zinc production generates large quantities of iron-rich sludges that pose a hazardous waste challenge due to their heavy metal content. This study presents a method for the selective removal of heavy metals from jarosite-type sludge through optimized roasting f...

AI for tumour proportion scoring of programmed death‐ligand 1 immunohistochemistry in non‐small cell lung cancer: a review of commercial and non‐commercial tools

Programmed death‐ligand 1 (PD‐L1) expression, commonly quantified as tumour proportion score (TPS), is a key biomarker guiding immunotherapy in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Manual scoring of PD‐L1 immunohistochemistry (IHC) is time‐consuming and challenged by preanalytical...

Photoactive Lignin-Derived Nanolayers for Camouflaged Bioaromatic Interfaces

Abstract Bioaromatic polymers derived from lignin have largely been confined to bulk materials or dispersed (nano)particles, limiting their ability to control interfacial phenomena at the nanoscale. Here, we establish lignin as a platform for programmable photoactive bioaromatic...

Accelerating biomass loss from forest disturbances across Europe

Abstract Forest disturbances are rising globally due to climate change and land-use pressures, weakening the terrestrial carbon sink. However, declines in aboveground biomass from tree cover loss remain poorly quantified, limiting our understanding of the role of disturbances in...

Learning a unified graph transformer with mamba-based dynamic state evolution for 3D multi-object tracking

Abstract 3D multi-object tracking is crucial for autonomous driving, providing environmental sensing. To enhance multi-type tracking cues, we introduce DUG-Track (Dynamic Unified Graph Tracker), a novel tracker that pioneers a deeply integrated framework of dynamic state evolutio...