Genomic analysis and replication kinetics of the closely related EHV-1 neuropathogenic 21P40 and abortigenic 97P70 strains by Eslam Mohamed, Ines Zarak, Nick Vereecke, Sebastiaan Theuns, Kathlyn Laval, Hans Nauwynck

“…The genome and replication kinetics of the Belgian EHM isolate 21P40, associated with the Valencia outbreak, and the well-characterized abortigenic strain 97P70 were compared. …”
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Introducing the non-invasive prenatal test for trisomy 21 in Belgium: a cost-consequences analysis by Mattias Neyt, Frank Hulstaert, Wilfried Gyselaers

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Developing national frameworks for climate services: Experiences, challenges and learnings from across Europe by Nicola Golding, Keith Lambkin, Louise Wilson, Rozemien De Troch, Andreas Marc Fischer, Hans Olav Hygen, Angela Michiko Hama, Anita Verpe Dyrrdal, Ella Jamsin, Piet Termonia, Christopher Hewitt

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Construction d’un outil d’évaluation de la qualité des actions d’accompagnement pédagogique. Synthèse d’échanges et d’analyse de pratiques professionnelles en Communauté française... by Didier Salmon, Dorothée Baillet, Marie Boulvain, Bernard Cobut, Michel Coupremanne, Dominique Duchâteau, Anne-France Lanotte, Pascale Dubois, Sabine Goemaere, Bernadette Noël, Mireille Houart, Pauline Slosse

“…A team of teachers and researchers from different Belgian higher education institutions, active in these fields, has explored the quality assurance process of these services in order to outline their main features, their difficulties and their limits.The members of the team confronted their experiences and elaborated a framework for assessment practices that was presented at the 25th AIPU congress held in May 2006 in Montpellier.This paper presents a framework that highlights the key questions that must be addressed in the assessment process of a student learning support unit. …”
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Les usages du numérique actuels dans le supérieur en Suisse et en Belgique by Aurélien Fiévez, Natasha Noben

“…This research involves studying the digital uses of 221 Swiss and Belgian university teachers. The aim is to understand the uses actually implemented in higher education in these two countries. …”
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Galaxy @Sciensano: a comprehensive bioinformatics portal for genomics-based microbial typing, characterization, and outbreak detection by Bert Bogaerts, Julien Van Braekel, Alexander Van Uffelen, Jolien D’aes, Maxime Godfroid, Thomas Delcourt, Michael Kelchtermans, Kato Milis, Nathalie Goeders, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, Nancy H. C. Roosens, Raf Winand, Kevin Vanneste

“…Many of these pipelines are part of the routine activities of Belgian national reference centers and laboratories, some of which use them under ISO accreditation. …”
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Sud de Chantal Akerman ou une histoire de territoire et de terre : le Sud comme espace de mémoire by Marie Liénard

“…The article examines Chantal Akerman's work Sud (South) filmed in 1999. The Belgian filmmaker had always been fascinated by the Southern part of the United States. …”
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La sociabilité des chaises longues by Paul Aron

“…The study of the case of the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont and the French essayist Roland Barthes confirms the importance that human relations and the literary discussions of the sanatorium have had for them.…”
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Evaluating the toxicity of sea-dumped conventional and chemical munition degradation products to fish and human cells using a combination of cell viability assays by João Barbosa, Colin R. Janssen, Marijke Neyts, Koen Parmentier, Frédéric Laduron, Kris Geukens, Philippe François, Jana Asselman

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Lire un dossier de documents à visée informative et y circuler : un « objet enseignable » au début du secondaire ? by Séverine De Croix, Jessica Penneman

“…Some findings about frequently used supports in the Belgian public school system will be explained. Those supports for informative texts are characterized by a versatility of form, which brings some difficulties for the students. …”
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Entre libéralisme et progressisme : l’influence d’Adolphe Prins (1845-1919) dans la théorisation de la défense sociale et la construction de la protection de l’enfance en Belgique... by Sylvain Wagnon

“…More generally, he was influential in the transformation of Belgian criminal law between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …”
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‘L’Amour aux Antipodes’: Tasma, Australia and the French Connection by Judith Johnston

“…This article investigates Tasma's only known French publication, ‘L'Amour aux Antipodes’ (‘Love in the Antipodes’) which first appeared in August 1880 in the Parisian periodical La Nouvelle Revue, possibly to capitalise on the popularity of a series of lectures on Australia which she had delivered in various French and Belgian cities. I argue that the novella is designed specifically for a French readership, not only in terms of setting, but also because Tasma's usual critique of gender ideology is replaced with a determined anti-clericalism, possibly in response to current debates in Paris at the time and a wish to avoid the fraught gender politics of the Third Republic.…”
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"LETTER TO THE KING" BY JULES DESTRY: FROM SEPARATISM TO UNITARISM IN BELGIUM by E. V. Ermakova

“…The "Letter to the King", written by eminent Belgian politician and writer, socialist Jules Destree (1863 - 1936 gg.), is one of the most interesting sources on the history of Belgium of this period, It became a kind of manifesto of balance between the ideas of separatism and unitarianism. …”
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Assessment tool addresses implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes by Ibon Galparsoro, Natalia Montero, Gotzon Mandiola, Iratxe Menchaca, Ángel Borja, Wesley Flannery, Stelios Katsanevakis, Simonetta Fraschetti, Erika Fabbrizzi, Michael Elliott, Maria Bas, Steve Barnard, GerJan Piet, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Maren Kruse, Ben McAteer, Robert Mzungu Runya, Olga Lukyanova, Telmo Morato, Annaïk Van Gerven, Steven Degraer, Stefan Neuenfeldt, Vanessa Stelzenmüller

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Human adaptation and diversification in the Microsporum canis complex by Xin Zhou, Sarah A. Ahmed, Chao Tang, Maria Eduarda Grisolia, José Francisco Ghignatti Warth, Kristen Webster, Andrea Peano, Silke Uhrlass, Claudia Cafarchia, Marie Pierre Hayette, Rosalie Sacheli, Tadeja Matos, Yingqian Kang, G. Sybren de Hoog, Peiying Feng

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Mémoire et minorité : l’identité collective dans la littérature germanophone de Belgique by Arvi Sepp

“…The complex historical, political and linguistic context of this region in a multilingual country, bordered by Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, is of utmost importance to understand the differing conceptualizations of collective Belgian germanophone identity.…”
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Étude exploratoire des obstacles à la transition universitaire selon le vécu d’étudiants français et belges by Mikaël De Clercq, Cathy Perret

“…In order to address this limitation, this paper realized an exploratory comparison of first year student experience between a French and a Belgian university. The results highlighted similarities and important changes in student’s experience. …”
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Se souvenir du tribun et de l’apôtre. John Ruskin par son traducteur Émile Cammaerts (1878-1953) by Julie Lageyre

“…Émile Cammaerts (1878–1953) was a Belgian poet, journalist and dramatist. He was one of the most important translators of John Ruskin in French. …”
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Spirometry-Related Pain and Distress in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: The Role of Acceptance by Annabelle Casier, Liesbet Goubert, Tine Vervoort, Marleen Theunis, Danielle Huse, Frans De Baets, Dirk Matthys, Geert Crombez

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La Fabrique scolaire bruxelloise, urbanisme de proximité pour les quartiers populaires by Geoffrey Grulois, Benoit Moritz, Louise Carlier, Géry Leloutre

“…With the regionalization of 1989, the Brussels-Capital Region, made up of 19 municipalities, has gained political autonomy in terms of urban planning and development. However, the Belgian federalism model establishes education as a competence of the three Communities (Flemish, French, German-speaking). …”
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