Built between 1900 and 1904 along the avenue Louise in Brussels, the hôtel Aubecq is considered one of the masterpieces of Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta. But it was also one of the first victims of the disaffection from which this ephemeral artistic movement suffered and of the real estate speculation that led, in the post-World War II period,...
In this paper, a nonlinear active damping strategy based on force feedback is proposed. The proposed device is composed of a pair of collocated actuator and force sensor. The control law is formed by feeding back the output of the force sensor, through one single, one double integrator and another double integrator of its cube. An equivalent mechan...
België bevindt zich vandaag in een uitzonderlijke situatie: de wetgevende macht staat op standby, de federale uitvoerende macht bestaat uit een zeer kleine minderheid en een reeks fundamentele burgervrijheden zijn aanzienlijk ingeperkt. Dan is er alleen een vraag te stellen: zijn dit de juiste omstandigheden om burgers te vragen na te denken over h...
Critically ill patients often experience stress-induced hyperglycaemia. Elevated blood glucose levels are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Glycaemic control demonstrated improved outcomes for these patients. However, other studies failed to replicate the results, primarily blaming the increased risk of hypoglycaemia and glycaemic ...
The use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) has rapidly grown in many civil applications since the early 2010s. Nowadays, a large variety of reliable low-cost UAS sensors and controllers are available. However, contrary to ultralight aircrafts (ULAs), UASs have a too small operational range to efficiently cover large areas. Flight regulations prevail...
Cette carte blanche questionne le caractère opportun du maintien de la consultation publique fédérale belge organisée par l'ONDRAF/NIRAS dans un régime d'exception.
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Background STAR is a model-based, personalised, risk-based dosing approach for glycaemic control (GC) in critically ill patients. STAR provides safe, effective control to nearly all patients, using 1-3 hourly measurement and intervention intervals. However, the average 11-12 measurements per day required can be a clinical burden in many intensive c...
Quantitative MRI (qMRI) finds increasing application in neuroscience and clinical research due to its greater specificity and its sensitivity to microstructural properties of brain tissue. Multi-parameter mapping (MPM) is a comprehensive qMRI protocol [1], including an acquisition, modeling, and processing framework that ultimately provides high-re...
In the context of the climate and biodiversity crisis facing our planet, tropical forests playing a key role in global carbon flux and containing over half of Earth’s species are important to preserve. They are today threatened by deforestation but also by forest degradation, which is more difficult to study. Here, we performed a systematic review ...
