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Social inequality and social justice in the early modern world
Wouter Ryckbosch' research is concerned with inequality in the early modern period (1500-1800), and focuses in particular on the interaction between economic, social and cultural dimensions of hierarchy and inequality.
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Social innovation for social inclusion: participatory practices
Abstract: Research within the Department of Educational Sciences comprises three focal research areas: ‘Innovative change in educational contexts’, ‘Community development’ and ‘Cultural education’.
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Structural Bioinformatics
There are now 200 million protein sequences in UniProt, but for the majority of these nothing is known about their overall behaviour in terms of conformation and dynamics.
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Surface and corrosion properties of 3D printed (stainless) steel by various additive manufacturing methods
Additive manufacturing (AM) or the so-called 3D printing of metals is opening an unexplored avenue for new metal applications. AM can be used for the layer-by-layer creation of metal products but is also revealing interesting opportunities for metal repair applications.
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System identification with missing data: A behavioral approach
The behavioral approach to systems and control, put forward in the late 70s by Jan C. Willems, has a number of advantages.
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The “constructivist turn” in the literature on political representation
Increasingly, scholars working on the subject of political representation emphasize its constitutive aspects. Representation does not simply mirror socio-political realities (an understanding of re- praesentare that centres on the spatial-temporal gap between the citizenry and its leaders).
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The Acquisition of Reference and Anaphora Resolution
Referring to entities is a fundamental issue in communication. To refer to persons and things in the world, speakers can opt for different kinds of referential expressions (e.g. proper names, noun phrases, apposition, overt and null pronouns, etc.).
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The addition of stereotactic body radiation therapy as an immune stimulator to a multimodal immunotherapeutic approach in oligometastatic NSCLC patients
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) being the most common subtype, accounting for approximately 85% of lung cancers.
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The affective dyadic processes underlying leadership
Leadership, being a social influencing process aimed at obtaining cooperation from others to achieve organizational goals, puts connecting to others front and center.
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The combinatorics of the Yang-Baxter equation
The research team investigates mathematical structures that are important in the study of the Yang-Baxter equation (YBE). Although the YBE has its origin in physics, it is now a fundamental mathematical object.
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