HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts

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...

Advancing Automated Fire Safety Code Compliance: Automatic Annotation of BIM Door Elements

Automated code compliance checking often faces challenges due to insufficient semantic information in Building Information Modeling (BIM) models, particularly during the early design stages, when only basic geometrical and alphanumerical information may be available. This study e...

Active, explorative, and infected: a meta‐analysis of individual variation in behaviour and parasitism

Behavioural variation among individuals strongly influences how individuals interact with their environment and, consequently, their exposure to parasites. Parasite infections, in turn, can alter host behaviour by imposing energetic costs or manipulating hosts to enhance transmis...

Stable sentiment and persistent dynamics in U.S. economic news over 45 years

Abstract Collective emotion is often inferred from the tone of mass media, but such emotion is not directly observed. One approximation is to extract sentiment from text and use sentiment indexes as proxies to study the temporal organization of news sentiment. Using a daily index...

Machine learning-based rescoring with MS²Rescore boosts peptide identification and taxonomic specificity in metaproteomics

Abstract Background Metaproteomics, the study of the collective proteome within microbial ecosystems, has gained increasing interest over the past decade. However, peptide identification rates in metaproteomics remain low compared to single-species proteomics. A key challenge is...

Semisimplifying Frank Lie algebras

The Frank Lie algebras are simple Lie algebras that only occur over fields of characteristic 3. These come equipped with distinguished inner derivations that make them algebras in the category Rep ( α 3 ) . We apply the semisimplification functor to these Frank Lie algebras and o...

Optimizing efficacy to safety ratio of glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis models by leveraging PPARα agonism

ABSTRACT Objectives Glucocorticoids remain essential therapies for several immune- and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but are notorious for their (metabolic) side effects. Given the anti-inflammatory and metabolically favorable actions of peroxisome-proli...

A CRISPR‐Based Rapid Detection Assay for Crayfish Plague ( Aphanomyces astaci ) From Environmental Samples

Crayfish plague, caused by Aphanomyces astaci (Aa), is an infectious disease invasive in Europe, where its rapid spread has resulted in sharp declines of native crayfish species. Monitoring currently relies on a highly sensitive, but costly and time-consuming qPCR approach. Here,...

Associations Between Types of Imitation and Receptive and Expressive Language Skills in Preschoolers With Autism

Purpose: Imitation and language are associated in autistic children. However, imitation involves various types. This cross-sectional study examined the associations between different imitation abilities and receptive and expressive language skills in autistic preschoolers while c...

Electrostatic Reconfiguration of Photo‐Patterned Periodic Structures With Half‐Integer Twist Disclination Lines in Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals

ABSTRACT The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals, combining fluidity with spontaneous polarization, offer unique opportunities for engineering polar domain structures for (nonlinear) photonic applications. A central challenge lies in achieving precise contro...

Melanins Enhance Radical Scavenging Through Wavelength‐Selective Excited‐State Manifold Diversity

ABSTRACT Melanin is a ubiquitous pigment that mitigates photoinduced damage in biological systems through light absorption, heat dissipation, and radical scavenging. While these functions have traditionally been considered independent, recent studies suggest that they may be intr...

P1.005. Preliminary Pilot Study Cohort Results - Cost-Effective Surveillance Strategies and Prediction of Cancer Recurrence After Endoscopic Therapy for Barrett’s Esophagus (Endeavor)

Abstract Topic Esophageal Cancer: Barrett‘s Esophagus: High-Grade Dysplasia and Early Invasive Cancer Background In many European countries, esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) incidence is increasing [1]. Barrett’s esophagus(BE), strongly associated with EAC, can progress via dyspla...

Larval ExposureRather than Adult Worm Burden ShapesSystemic and Mucosal Th2 Immunity in Ascaris suum Infected Pigs

Abstract Ascariasis is a prevalent parasitic infection in both humans and pigs, resulting in significant human morbidity and economic losses in the porcine industry. Experimental infections are often studied by mimicking natural settings, exposing the host to frequent, small dose...

Defining Language Profiles in Young Autistic Children Across Verbal, Speaking, and Generative Dimensions

Language trajectories in autism are highly heterogeneous and cannot be captured by unidimensional classifications. Research and clinical practice often rely on verbal/non-verbal or speaking/non-speaking labels, but these categories, when used in isolation, obscure distinct lingui...

Derivation of a Bioavailability-Based Environmental Quality Standard for Copper in European Freshwaters under the Water Framework Directive using an updated methodology

Copper (Cu) is a river basin specific pollutant under the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). Compliance assessment under the WFD should be based on a tiered approach that considers a bioavailability correction integrating local physico-chemistry conditions. The existing pr...

Strategic Fit Matters: How Family Entrepreneurial Configurations Shape Performance in Coffee and Banana Family Farms in Uganda

Abstract Smallholder family farms are often depicted as constrained, subsistence-oriented, or pressured to “grow or go.” However, some small family farms outperform others despite operating under similar resource constraints. Using configuration theory, this study examines how fa...

Parents in the making: A critical encounter between bioethical theory and “Homegrown” accounts of moral parenthood

In this paper, we explore questions of moral parenthood by setting up a critical encounter between accounts developed by bioethicists and the perspectives of prospective PACT (Pre-conception Agreement-Based Co-parenting Together-apart) parents. This particular approach attends to...