KU Leuven

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...

Responsible agrivoltaics in temperate Europe: Making systems work for plants, people, and climate

Societal Impact Statement Agrivoltaics, the co‐location of solar panels and crops, is increasingly promoted to expand renewable energy without compromising agricultural areas. However, systems that are poorly designed impact productivity, landscape, and ecology, and face public c...

‘For the Wounded and Belgian Refugees’: The Agency of Wives of Belgian Diplomats in the Belgian Relief Fund in Tokyo (1914–1919)

Less than a month after the German army invaded Belgium in August 1914, Japan declared war on Germany, joining the First World War on the side of the Entente Powers. Similarly to the West, Japanese humanitarian organisations and charity initiatives actively tried to relieve the d...

Spheres with parallel mean curvature in $\mathbb{S}^{2}\times \mathbb{H}^{2}$

It is known that a surface with parallel mean curvature vector field in a Riemannian product of two surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature carries a holomorphic quadratic differential. In this paper, we consider the Riemannian product of a sphere and a hyperbolic plane of opposi...

Conscientious objection to euthanasia: a qualitative study of palliative care physicians’ perceptions

Abstract Background Conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare is a pressing issue, particularly in euthanasia, where legal permissibility coexists with moral disagreement. CO is commonly framed as a principled refusal based on moral or religious convictions, often emphasizing te...

Unifying Nanosecond Electrical and Optical Excitations in Perovskite Light‐Emitting Diodes

ABSTRACT Metal halide perovskites offer a promising pathway toward solution‐processable monolithic lasers. In the pursuit of direct electrical pumping, optical excitation is widely employed as the primary route for investigating the gain potential at the device level. However, th...

The Effect of Small Quasi-Cash Rewards on Prosocial Behavior: The Case of Voluntary Plasma Donations

To better understand how prosocial behavior can be effectively encouraged, we study four unresolved issues: whether small rewards also motivate prosocial behavior, how short-term effects differ from longer-run behavioral adjustments, whether incentives induce substitution away fr...

A Physics‐Informed Machine Learning Model for Predicting Fatigue Delamination Growth With Fiber Bridging‐Defined Confidence Intervals in Composite Laminates

ABSTRACT In fatigue delamination growth (FDG), for different fiber bridging intensity and load ratios ( R ‐ratios), the Paris‐type law on FDG rate ( da/dN ) is formulated using strain energy release rate ( SERR ) on the crack tip Δ√ G tip and effective SERR Δ√ G eff as similitude...

AdventML: Advanced Enzyme Temperature Prediction with Transformer-Based Embeddings and Resampling Strategies

Abstract Accurate prediction of enzyme optimal catalytic temperature (Topt) is important for enzyme applications, particularly for identifying biocatalysts stable in extreme conditions, but experimental measurement remains costly and time-consuming. Here, we present AdventML, a m...

Synaptic connectome of a neurosecretory network in the Drosophila brain

Abstract Hormones mediate inter-organ signaling which is crucial in orchestrating diverse behaviors and physiological processes including sleep and activity, feeding, growth, metabolism and reproduction. The pars intercerebralis and pars lateralis in insects represent major hubs...

An Efficient Mixed‐Integer Formulation and an Iterative Method for Optimal Control of Switched Systems Under Dwell Time Constraints

ABSTRACT This paper presents an efficient mixed‐integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) formulation for systems with discrete control inputs under minimum dwell time (MDT) constraints. By viewing such systems as switched systems, the problem is decomposed into a sequence optimizati...

Capturing the Capture: Branching Ratios of O2 Addition in Isoprene Peroxy Radicals via Quasiclassical Trajectories

Abstract A central unresolved question in isoprene chemistry concerns the branching ratio between the α- and γ-addition channels of O2 capture by the Z,Z’-OH-allyl hydroperoxy radical forming second-generation peroxy radicals, which ultimately determines the respective importance...

Validation of a Revised V-Slope Algorithm for Automated First Ventilatory Threshold Detection in Healthy Adults

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The first ventilatory threshold (VT1) is a key indicator of submaximal aerobic fitness. Its determination typically relies on visual assessment, which is time-consuming and subject to interobserver variability. Automated solutions may offer a more objec...

Autocrine feedback maintains homeostatic neuropeptide expression in a peptidergic hub neuron

Abstract Neuronal circuits sustain stable function by self-regulating their gene expression and neurosecretion. Patterns for autocrine feedback by neuropeptides are widespread across nervous systems, but how they contribute to neuronal homeostasis is less well understood. Here, w...

Sepsis in the major burn patient

Abstract Background Sepsis in the context of major burn injury presents a significant challenge to clinicians. It affects a substantial proportion of patients with major burn injury and is the leading cause of death in those that survive to hospital. Due to the complex and profou...

Between Ideals and BoPo: Daily Associations Between Exposure to Appearance Content and Body Image Among Young Individuals with Visible Differences

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Identification of optimal ERA5 model level for wind resource assessments in mountainous terrain

Abstract. Accurate estimation of hub-height wind speed is crucial for wind resources assessment at prospective sites. Traditionally, long-term wind speed series are derived from short-term site observations combined with reanalysis products, most commonly the ERA5 single-level da...

Beyond Hill-Type Models: Aligning Experiments and Modeling to Understand Dynamic Muscle Function

Muscle models underpin how exercise, rehabilitation, and human-movement sciences infer muscle force during activity, yet profound gaps remain between traditional measures and models of muscle function and the dynamic features of muscle in natural movement. We review evidence for...

Recycling and Reprocessing of Flax/Acrylic Biocomposites: A Dissolution Method Using Acetone as Solvent and Water as Non-Solvent

This study explores the second-generation biocomposites utilising flax fabric reinforcement with liquid thermoplastic Elium® (acrylic) resin. The surface tension and wettability of the liquid acrylic resin with flax fabric were characterised through experimental techniques. Subse...

Sex-dependent DNA methylation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) shows well-established sex differences in incidence, age at onset and progression, but their biological basis is unclear. We hypothesised that the DNA methylation changes associated with ALS differ between the sexes, which would point to sex-sp...