Wetenschappelijke artikelen

De Universitaire Stichting kan subsidies verlenen om het publiceren te bevorderen van wetenschappelijke artikelen in internationale tijdschriften met "peer eview" . De subsidie kan enkel toegekend worden aan werken die aantoonbaar voortkomen uit onderzoek in een Belgische onderzoekseenheid. 

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Wetenschappelijke artikelen gesubsidieerd door de Universitaire Stichting

Wat volgt is een lijst van wetenschappelijke artikelen waaraan recent subsidie werd toegekend door de Universitaire Stichting. De artikelen zijn gesorteerd op jaar van uitgave en per titel.

Martin Taton et al.

Taton M. et al. (2024) HIV-related immune activation attenuates polyfunctional IgG and memory B-cell responses to Tdap immunization during pregnancy. eBioMedicine 104:105179.

Summary Background Maternal pertussis vaccination with Tdap vaccine is recommended to protect newborns from severe postnatal infection. HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) infants have a higher incidence of pertussis infection and may particularly benefit from maternal immunization. The impact of HIV infection on the quality of IgG and memory B cell (MBC) responses to Tdap vaccination in pregnant women (PW) living with HIV (PWH) is unknown.

Marjan De Graef et al.

De Graef  M. et al. (2024) Implementation of Pharmaceutical Technical Assistants on Hospital Wards and Their Impact on Patient Safety and Quality of Care: A Qualitative Study on Nurses’ Experiences and PerceptionsJournal of Nursing Management, Volume 2024, Article ID 7894331, https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/7894331.

To explore nurses’ experiences and perceptions of implementing pharmaceutical technical assistants on hospital wards for medication dispensation.*estudy focuses on implementation, role development, and impact on safety and quality of care, identifying critical success factors and improvement opportunities. Methods. In a qualitative descriptive study, between December 2022 and March 2023, 16 semistructured interviews were carried out with a strati5ed purposive sample of nurses across internal, surgical, and geriatric wards.

Camille van der Rest et al.

van der Rest C. et al. (2024) Improving the fatigue life of laser powder bed fusion Scalmalloy® by friction stir processing. Materials and Design, August 2024,113193.

A major concern about parts produced by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) are intrinsic defects or porosities that are difficult to overcome by simply optimizing the process parameters. As these defects and porosities play a crucial role in the mechanical behaviour, especially in fatigue, additive manufactured parts are often subjected to thermo-mechanical post-treatments. To this end, this work proves Friction Stir Processing (FSP) to be an effective post-treatment to drastically reduce the porosity level.

Natalia de Souza Araujo, Fernando Ogihara, Pedro Mariano Martins and Maria Cristina Arias

Araujo N. et al. (2024) Insights from Melipona bicolor hybrid genome assembly: a stingless bee genome with chromosome-level scafold. BMC Genomics 25:171 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10075-x

Background The highly eusocial stingless bees are crucial pollinators of native and agricultural ecosystems. Never theless, genomic studies within this bee tribe remain scarce. We present the genome assembly of the stingless bee Melipona bicolor. This bee is a remarkable exception to the typical single-queen colony structure, since in this spe cies, multiple queens may coexist and share reproductive duties, resulting in genetically diverse colonies with weak kinship connections. As the only known genuinely polygynous bee, M.

Álvaro Ceballos-Viro & Kristine Van den Berghe

Ceballos-Viro A. &  Van den Berghe K. (2024) La autoficción en la práctica. Un estudio de recepción empírica. Ocnos 23(2),. https://doi.org/10.18239/ocnos_2024.23.2.446.

¿Hasta qué punto es objeto de consenso el carácter literario o factual de los textos? Para responder a estapregunta hemos estudiado la recepción en Goodreads de seis autoficciones hispanoamericanas recientes,asignando a cada comentario de los lectores un índice de literariedad.

Marlies Boeren et al.

Boeren, M. et al. (2024) Lack of functional TCR-epitope interaction is associated with herpes zoster through reduced downstream T cell activation. Cell Reports 43, 114062.

The role of T cell receptor (TCR) diversity in infectious disease susceptibility is not well understood. We use a systems immunology approach on three cohorts of herpes zoster (HZ) patients and controls to investigate whether TCR diversity against varicella-zoster virus (VZV) influences the risk of HZ. We show that CD4+ T cell TCR diversity against VZV glycoprotein E (gE) and immediate early 63 protein (IE63) after 1-week culture is more restricted in HZ patients.

Floris Voorthuijzen, Cedric Stroobandt , Wim Van Criekinge, Tine Goovaerts and Tim De Meyer

Voorthuijzen F., Stroobandt C., Van Criekinge W., Goovaerts T. & De Meyer T.  (2024) Loss-of-Imprinting of HM13 Leads to Poor Prognosis in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Biomolecules 14, 936. 

Genomic imprinting refers to the epigenetic silencing of one of both alleles in a parent-oforigin-specific manner, particularly in genes regulating growth and development. Impaired genomic imprinting leading to the activation of the silenced allele, also called canonical loss-of-imprinting (LOI), is considered an early factor in oncogenesis. As LOI studies in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) are limited to IGF2, we performed a genome-wide analysis in 128 kidney normal solid tissue and 240 stage 1 ccRCC samples (TCGA RNA-seq data) to screen for canonical LOI in early oncogenesis.

Claudia Schönborn, Katia Castetbon & Myriam De Spiegelaere

Schönborn C., Castetbon K. & De Spiegelaere M. (2024)  Maternal birthplace and experiences of perinatal healthcare in Belgium:  Evidence from a cross-sectional surveyMidwifery, vol. 138, 104139 & 104172.

Background: Patient experience is an important part of perinatal care quality. Migrant women in high-income countries often report more negative experiences than non-migrants, but evidence in Europe is patchy. In this study, we compared the experiences of two migrant populations with non-migrants, taking into account socioeconomic characteristics.

Aude INGELS et al.

Ingels A. et al. (2024) New hemisynthetic derivatives of sphaeropsidin phytotoxins triggering severe endoplasmic reticulum swelling in cancer cellsScientific Reports, vol. 14 (art 14674)

Sphaeropsidins are iso-pimarane diterpenes produced by phytopathogenic fungi that display promising anticancer activities. Sphaeropsidin A, in particular, has been shown to counteract regulatory volume increase, a process used by cancer cells to avoid apoptosis. This study reports the hemi-synthesis of new lipophilic derivatives obtained by modifications of the C15,C16-alkene moiety.

Houtan Ghaffari & Paul Devos

Ghaffari, H. and Devos, P. (2024), On the role of audio frontends in bird species recognition, Ecological Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102573.

Automatic acoustic monitoring of bird populations and their diversity is in demand for conservation planning. This requirement and recent advances in deep learning have inspired sophisticated species recognizers. However, there are still open challenges in creating reliable monitoring systems of natural habitats. One of many open questions is whether predominantly used audio features like mel-filterbanks are appropriate for such analysis since their design follows human’s perception of the sound, making them susceptible to discarding fine details from other animals’ vocalization.

M. Pigeolet et al.

M. Pigeolet et al. (2024) Outcomes of external versus internal fixation for traumatic lower limb fractures in low- and middle-income countries. Bone and Joint Open 5(11): 1020–1026, DOI: 10.1302/2633-1462.511.BJO-2024-0163.

Aims Lower limb fractures are common in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and represent a significant burden to the existing orthopaedic surgical infrastructure. In high income country (HIC) settings, internal fixation is the standard of care due to its superior outcomes. In LMICs, external fixation is often the surgical treatment of choice due to limited supplies, cost considerations, and its perceived lower complication rate.

Siem Buseyne, Amelie Vrijdags, Sameh Said-Metwaly, Thierry Danquigny, Jean Heutte, Fien Depaepe & Annelies Raes

Buseyne S. et al.(2024) Peering into the team role kaleidoscope: the interplay of personal characteristics and verbal interactions in collaborative problem solving. Frontiers in Psychology, 15:1345892, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1345892.

The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between personalityand peer-rated team role behavior on the one hand and team role behavior and verbal behavior on the other hand. To achieve this, different data types were collected in fifteen professional teams of four members (N = 60) from various private and public organizations in Flanders, Belgium. Participants’personalities were assessed using a workplace-contextualized personality questionnaire based on the Big Five, including domains and facets.

T. Van Den Berghe et al.

Van Den Berghe T. et al.  (2024)  Predicting cytogenetic risk in multiple  myeloma using conventional whole‑body MRI, spinal dynamic contrast‑enhanced MRI, and spinal diffusion‑weighted imaging  Insights into Imaging 15:106  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-024-01672-1

Objectives Cytogenetic abnormalities are predictors of poor prognosis in multiple myeloma (MM). This paper aims to build and validate a multiparametric conventional and functional whole-body MRI-based prediction model for cytogenetic risk classification in newly diagnosed MM.

Babette Demeester, Maïté Verloigne, Sara Willems, Kenji Leta & Emelien Lauwerier

Demeester B., Verloigne M., Willems S., Leta K. & Lauwerier E. (2024) Preventing smoking initiation in adolescents living in vulnerable socioeconomic conditions: Study protocol of the KickAsh!-interventionScandinavian Journal of Public Health DOI: 10.1177/14034948241236232.

Aims: Adolescents living in vulnerable socioeconomic conditions are confronted with tobacco-related health disparities. As school-based interventions appear to be less effective among these youngsters, other approaches are necessary. One promising avenue is youth social work settings that offer sport and recreational activities (SR-settings). SR-settings have been examined as a levering context for health promotion, but evidence regarding smoking prevention is currently lacking.

Sofie Van Nerom, Kobe Buyse, Filip Van Immerseel, Johan Robbens, and Evelyne Delezie

Van Nerom, S. et al (2024) Pulsed electric field (PEF) processing of microalga Chlorella vulgaris and its digestibility in broiler feed. Poultry Science 103:103721 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2024.103721.

Microalgae have potentially beneficial  effects  on  animal  health  and nutritional value when added  to  feed. Crucial  hereby  is that intracellular  bio-active molecules are released in  the intestinal tract. Digestibility of Chlorella vulgaris and its impact on total digestibility of broiler feed is a first step in assessing its characteristics as feed supplement. Different methods could be used to increase the digestibility of the algae.

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