Abstract COVID-19 impacts the daily lives of millions people. This radical change in our activities affected many aspects life, but acted as well a natural experiment for research into spatial distribution 911 calls. We analyse impact measures on pattern police interventions. Crime is not uniformly distributed across street segments, how does affect these patterns? To this end, Gini coefficient...

During the last decade, outbreaks of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been reported among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) in several European countries. To study this emerging infection in MSM in Antwerp, Belgium, we reviewed all cases of newly acquired HCV infection in HIV-positive MSM followed from 2001 to 2009 at the HIV/sexually transm...

Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia: Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, Founding Elections. By Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 255p. $120.00 cloth. - Volume 20 Issue 4

1613 I 1577, Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen, Germany, to Belgian parents from Antwerp. He lived there until he was 10 years old, when his father died and his mother moved the family back to Antwerp. By age 13, Rubens knew he wanted to be an artist. In 1600, he traveled to Italy where he studied firsthand Renaissance and classical works by masters such as Michelangelo, Bassano, Titian, and...

1 International Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 3 Sexually Transmitted Infection Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 4 University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape,...

Abstract Ashkenazic Hebrew is a unique language variety with centuries-long history of written use among Central and Eastern European Jews. It has distinct phonological grammatical features attested in texts composed by Jews (e.g. adherents the Hasidic Maskilic movements) Europe prior to twentieth century. While commonly believed have been replaced Israeli century, this traditional actually con...

Timo Vesikari, yPierre Van Damme, zCarlo Giaquinto, §Jim Gray, jjJacek Mrukowicz, Ron Dagan, #Alfredo Guarino, Hania Szajewska, and yyVytautas Usonis, Expert Working Group Vaccine Research Centre, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland, {Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgiu...

PURPOSE To provide a detailed assessment of the techniques, technical features, and practical use of 6 aberrometers made available to our institution from September 2002 to January 2004. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. METHODS A number of technical and practical parameters are listed for the Visual Function Analyzer (Tracey), the OPD-scan ...