Résultats de la recherche - 29 results
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
risks. Environmental burden of disease (EBD) studies try to estimate the impact of environmental stressors in terms of mortality or morbidity on a population level. Although environmental risks have been ...
The International cookbook for wastewater practitioners- Vol. 1 SARS-CoV-2
information gained was used to help monitor, communicate, and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Rapid and significant innovations in the field of WBS were realised in parallel in multiple jurisdictions globally. ...
Characterization of functional nanoparticles applied in face masks by STEM-EDX
synthetic fibres applied in face masks has been demonstrated [2], even when no specific information was provided on their packaging. Since TiO2 is a suspected carcinogen (IARC 2B) and potential negative ...
Evaluation of European Pollen Reanalysis
the total seasonal pollen production, i.e. the phenological models and their parameters were left completely intact. This allowed an almost-complete separation of the absolute values of the predicted ...
First European pollen reanalysis for allergenic trees
in Europe has been growing during the last several decades. Climate change is directly affecting the main factors driving the airborne pollen levels released by anemophilous plants. A retrospective ...
Holography-based aerobiological monitoring: a 2-year intercomparison campaign versus the standard Hirst method in Brussels, Belgium
prevent and treat respiratory symptoms and reduce the allergy burden, pollen grain concentrations have been continuously monitored using the standard Hirst method with a volumetric spore trap. However, this ...
Advancing automated identification of airborne fungal spores: Guidelines for cultivation and reference dataset creation
yield, clean spore isolation, dry aerosolization, and dataset cleaning have been explored for a series of 17 fungal species from the Belgian fungi collection BCCM / IHEM, including 5 Alternaria species ...
Phage-Mediated Digestive Decolonization in a Gut-On-A-Chip Model: A Tale of Gut-Specific Bacterial Prosperity.
Specific risk factors may trigger the conversion of these carriages into infections in hospitalized patients. Preventively eradicating these carriages has been postulated as a promising preventive ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2023
risks. Environmental burden of disease (EBD) studies try to estimate the impact of environmental stressors in terms mortality or morbidity on a population level. Although environmental risks have been ...
Exploring the multiple dimensions of perceived food access in the local food environment in Flanders: Perceptions of adults in socioeconomically disadvantaged situations
interviews (n = 16). Reflexive thematic analysis has been used to analyse our data through an access framework. Four overarching themes were constructed. The first two themes concern barriers to perceived food ...