Ghent University

Breaking the Blend: A multi-tracer kinematic decomposition method for IFS data applied to disentangling the AGN outflow and circumnuclear ring in NGC 5728 with JWST

Abstract Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) of the central kiloparsecs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) reveals a mixture of spatially coincident emission from star-formation and AGN feedback exciting the interstellar medium. Disentangling these components remains a challenge, as m...

Consumption and marrow extraction in 14th century Oudenaarde (Belgium): a zooarchaeological study of a late medieval cattle assemblage

This study reports on a late medieval collection of faunal remains from a pit in the historical centre of Oudenaarde (Belgium), which was characterized by a peculiar predominance of cattle mandibles. To investigate the human activities leading to the accumulation of this assembla...

Seigneurial institutions and Holland's seventeenth‐century miracle

Abstract This article revisits the claim that Holland owed much of its seventeenth‐century efflorescence to the absence of feudal constraints on its economy. Because Holland was relatively late to develop in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it supposedly missed the European Fe...

Creating an Ear and Hearing Health Culture for Professional Ear Users: Current Perspectives on Challenges, Management, and Recommendations

Professional ear users (PEUs), including musicians, instrument makers, or sound engineers, depend on highly trained auditory abilities for occupational performance. Given these demands, PEUs may benefit from tailored prevention, diagnostics, and treatment. Ear and hearing disorde...

Untimely follow-up after cervical cancer screening: A qualitative study among healthcare providers in Flanders (Belgium)

Background Cervical cancer remains a global health burden despite being largely preventable through vaccination, screening, and timely treatment. Delays in follow-up after abnormal screening undermine the effectiveness of organized cervical cancer screening programmes. In Flander...

Prevalence and predictors of abnormal dyspnea during exercise in persons with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study (PROTECTION trial)

Abstract Aim To determine the prevalence, characteristics, and predictors of abnormal exertional dyspnea in T2D during a maximal exercise test. Methods 97 adults with non-insulin-dependent T2D underwent spirometry, maximal upright cardiopulmonary exercise test with Borg 0–10 dysp...

Anthropogenic aerosol reduction contributes to faster flash drought onset in a changing climate

Flash droughts have emerged as severe hazards, posing growing challenges to natural and socioeconomic systems, yet the influence of recent aerosol reductions on their onset remains unclear. Here, we investigate the impacts of aerosols and their underlying mechanisms using multi-s...

Device-Measured Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Youth

Importance The evidence for benefits of higher physical activity and lower sedentary time on the cardiometabolic risk profile in youth is based on cross-sectional and small prospective studies. Objective To determine the prospective associations between device-measured physical a...

Photonic integrated recurrent spectrum slicer enabling low complexity direct detection over 200 GBaud dispersive links

Abstract The rising demand for data-intensive workloads in the network is driving the development of scalable and energy-efficient optical communication infrastructure. Intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD) remains the preferred choice for cost-sensitive systems but...

Fermentable sugars, pH and titratable acidity of paediatric over-the-counter oral medicines marketed in Belgium

Abstract Paediatric oral medicines are often formulated to improve palatability and stability using fermentable sugars and organic acids. Frequent or prolonged use of these excipients may contribute to caries risk and erosive tooth wear. An in vitro assessment of 20 paediatric or...

On the order-diameter ratio of girth-diameter cages

For integers $k,g,d$, a $(k;g,d)$-cage (or simply girth-diameter cage) is a smallest $k$-regular graph of girth $g$ and diameter $d$ (if it exists). The order of a $(k;g,d)$-cage is denoted by $n(k;g,d)$. We determine asymptotic lower and upper bounds for the ratio between the or...

Alpha-galactosylceramide as mRNA vaccine adjuvant modulates cellular immunity against tuberculosis and contributes to antigen-specific lung-associated T cells with a TRM-associated phenotype following prime-pull strategy

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent worldwide, highlighting the need for improved vaccines beyond the limited protection currently provided by the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. Here we investigated the immunological impact...

Chronology of a late Pleistocene sedimentary sequence at Lommel (Belgium): Insights from luminescence profiling and quartz OSL dating

The Campine region of NE Belgium forms part of the western European Coversand Belt and preserves an important record of Late Pleistocene landscape change and human occupation. At the Lommel–Molse Nete geo-archaeological site, this study uses portable OSL (pOSL) profiling and quar...

Developing AI‐driven decision support for the proactive identification and evaluation of financially distressed companies by Belgian commercial courts

Abstract The early identification and accurate evaluation of financially distressed companies by commercial courts is crucial for maintaining a healthy economic fabric. This enables timely support for struggling companies with recovery potential while also facilitating the swift...

The GPU Resilience Lottery: Understanding and Taming Real-World Hardware Errors in Heterogeneous AI Infrastructure

The booming LLM demand is driving a rapid increase in the scale and heterogeneity of modern AI infrastructure. To achieve high availability for sustained LLM workloads, infrastructure providers must contend with frequent and severe hardware errors. Without a holistic resilience u...

Calcium carbonate particle formation and distribution in mineralized spruce and beech wood

Wood as a building material has many advantages. Yet, its susceptibility to fire and fungal decay is a recurring concern. Wood mineralization with calcium carbonate is an environmentally friendly treatment that increases fire resistance. While mineralization has been investigated...

Synergistic non-thermal plasma-catalytic reforming of toluene over hierarchical Ni/mHZSM-5 catalysts for efficient syngas production

Biomass tar reforming is generally constrained by the high energy demand of conventional thermal processes because of the chemical stability of aromatic compounds. In this work, dielectric barrier discharge plasma was coupled with hierarchical Ni/mHZSM-5 catalysts for the steam r...

WELL-QUASI-ORDERS ON FINITE TREES AND TRANSFINITE SEQUENCES

Abstract We study the well-quasi-order (wqo) consisting of the set of finite trees with leaf labels coming from an arbitrary wqo Q , ordered by tree homomorphisms which respect the order on the labels. This is a variant of the usual Kruskal tree ordering without infima preservati...

Hydration‐Gated Photoinduced Electron Transfer in BODIPY Dyes

ABSTRACT Fluorescent probes based on photoinduced electron transfer (PET) are widely used to image intracellular environments. Here we report donor–acceptor dyads based on the BODIPY chromophore in which PET is selectively activated upon hydration. Replacing fluorine groups at bo...

Domino effect enables dynamic electronic structure evolution for stable and efficient water purification

The purification of water contaminated by persistent organic pollutants remains a critical global challenge, largely due to the intrinsic trade-off between high catalytic activity and long-term stability in advanced oxidation processes. Despite the tremendous potential of single-...