Summary: As large-scale metabolic phenotyping studies become increasingly common, the need for systemic methods for pre-processing and quality control (QC) of analytical data prior to statistical analysis has become increasingly important, both within a study, and to allow meaningful inter-study comparisons. The nPYc-Toolbox provides software for t...
A uniform core-shell-structured W-coated Al powder was efficiently prepared by using fluidized bed chemical vapor deposition. The deposited W prevented the defluidization of Al powder and thereby enabled the controlled preparation of core-shell powder with different W-contents. Both the shell and activated sintering of the deposited nano-sized W pa...
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A new specification model of low energy electrons fluxes, included in GREEN model, has been developed at ONERA. This model is based on several data sets, from low altitudes with NOAA-POES measurements to higher altitudes with POLAR, THEMIS and LANL measurements. It provides mean electron fluxes versus L, B/B eq , MLT and energy (for energies betwee...
Published in Journal of viral hepatitis
Transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV) through transfusion of blood components has already been reported in several European countries. Here, we assessed the HEV prevalence in Flemish blood donors. This study is of importance in order to assess the risk of HEV transmission through blood transfusion. We analyzed 38,137 blood donation samples that w...
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SCOPE: Dietary choices modulate the risk of chronic diseases and improving diet is a central component of public health strategies. Food-derived metabolites present in urine could provide objective biomarkers of dietary exposure. To assist biomarker validation we aimed to develop a food intervention strategy mimicking a typical annual diet over a s...
We present experimental observations suggesting that non-diffusive avalanche-like transport events are a prevalent and universal process in the electron heat transport of tokamak plasmas. They are observed in the low confinement mode and the weak internal transport barrier plasmas in the absence of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities. In addition, th...
Published in Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Free-ranging animals are often used as bioindicators of both short- and long-term changes in ecosystem health, mainly to detect the presence and effects of contaminants. Birds, and gulls in particular, have been used as bioindicators over a broad range of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, we standardise the conditions for the use of...
Pediatric drug development, especially in disease areas that only affect children, can be stimulated by using juvenile animal models not only for general safety studies, but also to gain knowledge on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the drug. Recently, the conventional growing piglet has been suggested as juvenile animal model....
