The European Water Framework Directive has a high impact on current water management in Belgium. Several restoration scenarios have been worked out by the government. To compare the effect of these scenarios, a combination of a water quality (PEGASE) and ecological assessment models (data driven models based on regression trees) has been developed and applied for the major part of the large riv...

For our master thesis in medicine, we aimed to determine how many deaths were caused by and with dementia in 2014 and we compared our results with figures from abroad. The mortality rates of 2014 in Flanders were used to determine the amount of deaths related to dementia. These figures are collected by Vlaams Agentschap Zorg & Gezondheid (VAZG) and coded per ICD-10 classification. Of all deaths...

Review: Forgeries and Historical Writing in England, France, Flanders, 900–1200 By Robert F. Berkhofer III. The Boydell Press, 2022. Pp. xi, 348

Non-native species can cause negative impacts when they become invasive. This study entails a comparison of risk classifications for 25 aquatic non-native species using various European risk identification protocols. For 72% of the species assessed, risk classifications were dissimilar between countries. The pair-wise comparison of Freshwater Fish Invasiveness Scoring Kit (FISK) scores of in to...

We employed recently developed statistical methods to explore the epidemic behaviour of hepatitis C subtype 1a and subtype 3a among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Flanders, Belgium, using new gene sequence data sampled among two geographically distinct populations of IDUs. First the extent of hepatitis C transmission across regions/countries was studied through calculation of association indice...

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Global First Aid Reference Centre, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Paris, France National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, MSc...

In Flanders, sampling guidelines for investigations on contamination of soils are in development. One detailed sampling guideline is currently available with respect to the prospective investigation in the frame of the decree related to soil sanitation. Four strategies for sampling may be followed as a function of available information about pollution sources. Guidelines indicate what has to be...

Gender nonconformity refers to the extent to which a person's gender identity, gender role and/or gender expression differs from the cultural norms prescribed for people of a particular sex, within a certain society and era. Most data on gender nonconformity focus on the prevalence of gender dysphoria (which also includes a distress factor) or on the number of legal sex changes. However, not ev...

classification trees (j48) were induced to predict the habitat requirements of tench (tinca tinca). 306 datasets were used for the given fish during 8 years in the river basins in flanders (belgium). the input variables consisted of the structural-habitat (width, depth, gradient slope and distance from the source) and physic chemical (ph, dissolved oxygen, water temperature and electric conduct...