Province of Antwerp

Developing COLLAT: Initial validation of a multidimensional collocation awareness assessment using signal detection and Rasch modeling

Research on multiword expressions—including collocations, idioms, and lexical bundles—has advanced substantially; however, most assessments focus on accuracy- and knowledge-oriented measures rather than the awareness processes underlying that knowledge. This article reports the d...

Premedication practices prior to neonatal laryngoscopy: a nationwide observational study in Belgian NICUs

Intubation or less invasive surfactant administration (LISA) in neonates both require laryngoscopy, a stressful and painful procedure. This study aimed to document premedication practices before laryngoscopy in Belgium and explore reasons for absence of premedication. Sub-analysi...

Smoking habits, smoking cessation, and stigma in a population-based lung cancer screening pilot study in Belgium: a focus group study

Lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can reduce lung cancer mortality, but implementation depends on understanding how individuals at increased risk experience screening, smoking cessation and stigma. This study explored smoking habits, cessation experie...

When AI sees more than organizations can govern: Closing the accountability gap in radiology

AI in radiology is scaling diagnostic influence faster than hospitals are redesigning responsibility. Drawing on twenty-five semi-structured interviews with three senior radiologists and radiology leaders in the United States, Belgium, and Denmark, two executives from global medi...

The Ideological Boundary of Belief Change

ABSTRACT This article investigates the relationship between political ideology and the extent to which individuals revise their beliefs when confronted with counter‐attitudinal information. Across two preregistered experiments conducted with demographically quota‐matched Polish s...

Parametric Physically Grounded Rendering of Otoscopic Morphology for Synthetic Medical Image Generation

The tympanic membrane (TM) is a thin, semi-transparent structure whose morphology and optical appearance provide important diagnostic cues. In the early stages of middle-ear pathology, subtle shape and compliance alterations may precede overt clinical signs, making them valuable...

The enduring role of sulfasalazine in the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a retrospective cohort study on safety and effectiveness

Abstract Background Sulfasalazine (SSZ) is a commonly used disease-modifying antirheumatic drug for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) that is primarily recommended within the group of juvenile spondyloarthropathies. Current treatment guidelines increasingly limit its role in th...

BIOCOST: A Costing Tool for Belgian Biobanks

BACKGROUND: Biobanks are essential infrastructures for biomedical research, yet their long-term sustainability is increasingly challenged by complex and often underestimated costs. While numerous cost-accounting approaches have been proposed over the past decade, comparable empir...

Declines in European bumblebee habitat suitability attributable to climate change

Climate change is increasingly implicated in the decline of insect pollinator populations, which provide critical ecosystem services. Isolating its contribution from other co-occurring environmental stresses remains challenging yet crucial for informing conservation strategies an...

Clean up your mesh! Part 1: plane and simplex

Abstract We revisit the geometric foundations of mesh representation through the lens of plane-based geometric algebra (PGA), investigating its efficiency and expressiveness for discrete geometry. We find how k-simplices (vertices, edges, faces, …) and k-complexes (point clouds,...