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Postcolonial Literary Studies
Elisabeth Bekers’ research focuses on literature from the African continent and its diaspora, with a particular interest in image and knowledge production, canon formation and intersectionality.
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Prediction of performance and lifetime of all solid state battery composite cathodes
Li-ion batteries are nowadays dominating the battery market. Yet, this technology shows its limitations in terms of safety, performance and lifetime. All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) are believed to be the key enabling technology to answer future needs.
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Print Culture and Periodical Studies
The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Studies welcomes experienced researchers with an interest in late nineteenth- and/or twentieth-century print culture and periodical studies.
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Productivity and usefulness of travel time in the age of digitalisation
In the last 15 years, an increasing number of studies argued that the disutility that we attach to travel time in transport appraisal can be reduced by attributing productive or enjoyable activities to journeys.
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Progressing a powerful human relevant in vitro model of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) towards disease modelling and therapeutic development applications
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent liver disease worldwide and is characterized by excessive accumulation of lipids in the liver (steatosis).
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Projects in the areas of migration, Big Data and computational social science
Interface Demography (ID), founded in 1977, is the research unit for population studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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Projects related to community and settings approaches to the social challenges of serious illness, death, dying and loss (Compassionate communities)
COCO welcomes project proposals in the following broad, interdisciplinary themes:
- Operationalizing and measuring compassion.
- Studying transitions towards and the sustainability of Compassionate Communities.
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Psychological treatment of personality disorders (PDs) in older adults: adapting protocols and clinical staging
On one hand research demonstrated PDs benefit from treatment and that different psychotherapy approaches have comparable effectiveness (Kramer, 2018) on the other hand age groups addressed in these studies were largely limited to patients up to forty years old (Videler, 2016).
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Public service broadcasting in a digital, international and polarised context
From its inception in the 1920s until the 1970s, public service broadcasting was – albeit firmly rooted in a project of political power maximisation – concerned with emancipation.
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RADAR and radio detection of the PeV-EeV cosmic neutrino flux
With the detection of the high-energy cosmic neutrino flux in the TeV-PeV energy range, IceCube has opened a new window to our universe, neutrino astronomy.
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