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Groundwater drought: influencing factors, effects and efficacy of potential adaptation measures
During the past years, Europe has been confronted with frequent, long and intense periods of drought. This has also affected groundwater levels, which have been low or very low in many areas.
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High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy to unravel the dynamics of biomolecular processes
The advent of atomic force microscopy (AFM) nanoimaging techniques heralded a new era for imaging and analysis of biomolecules and cells.
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Historical Sociolinguistics
As historical sociolinguistics is currently one of the strategic research priorities of VUB (‘SRP growth funding’), we welcome experienced researchers to work on any aspect of historical sociolinguistics, including (but not limited to) language history from below, standardization, language variat
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History of Migration, Labour Relations and Social Policy, c. 1500-1914
Anne Winter (MA VUB 2001, MSc LSE 2002, PhD VUB 2007) is Professor of History and Director of the research team Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST) at the VUB.
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Human Physiology and Sports Physiotherapy
Our research is focused on 'Exercise and the Brain in Health & Disease' on three levels: fundamental, applied/clinical and policy-making/benchmarking.
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Human-environment interactions at Hala Sultan Tekke, SE Cyprus: changing landscapes, human impact and sustainability
The archaeological site of Hala Sultan Tekke has been excavated for more than 40 years by the Swedish archaeological expeditions, in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel since 2001.
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Identifying and targeting the support of never healing wounds, cancer associated fibroblasts in liver tumors
Chronic liver disease results in fibrosis, thereby creating a suitable environment in which primary liver tumors develop. Furthermore, the liver is an important site for metastasis of other tumors such as colon, breast, lung and melanoma cancer.
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Improving health for people suffering from chronic pain
Chronic (post- and non-cancer) pain affects up to 30% of the Belgian population and its prevalence is much higher than any other chronic disease1,2 , thereby far outnumbering diseases like cancer and diabetes.
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Inspection of engineered composites for sustainable construction
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Non-destructive Inspection (NDI) are two concepts, strongly connected to sustainability.
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Interactive Paper and Augmented Reality
Over the last 15 years, a number of frameworks and toolkits for the design of hybrid paper- digital user interfaces and applications based on Anoto's Digital Pen and Paper as well as other technologies have been proposed.
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