Risques d’inégalités liés à certaines caractéristiques des manuels contemporains de langues modernes en Belgique francophone by Germain Simons, Daniel Delbrassine, Florence Van Hoof

“…French-speaking Belgian teachers often use textbooks in their foreign language classes, especially at elementary and intermediate levels. …”
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Modelling the Environmental Effects of Railway Vibrations from Different Types of Rolling Stock: A Numerical Study by Georges Kouroussis, David P. Connolly, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, Olivier Verlinden

“…Four vehicle types (Thalys, German ICE, Eurostar, and Belgian freight trains) are investigated using a multibody approach. …”
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Prelabour Caesarean Section following IVF/ICSI in Older-Term Nulliparous Women: Too Precious to Push? by E. Gillet, E. Martens, G. Martens, H. Cammu

“…An anonymous postal questionnaire is sent to all Belgian gynaecologists. Result. Both groups are comparable with respect to maternal age, gestational age, and birth weight. …”
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Bone mineral density in human femurs of documented age-at-death in a comparative context by Emmanuel Gilissen, Sarah Tayach, Rosine Orban

“…This contribution aims at answering the question of the how and the why of invasive, micro-invasive and non-invasive analysis of anthropobiological remains, through the study of a collection comprising 51 skeletons of known age and sex (27 males and 24 females born between 1837 and 1916) stored in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. We have attempted to identify possible age-related trends in femoral bone mineral content in the context of modern clinical references and archaeological skeletal series. …”
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EURAD State-of-the-Art Report: Assessment of the chemical evolution at the disposal cell scale – part II – gaining insights into the geochemical evolution by Guido Deissmann, Erika Neeft, Diederik Jacques

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Association of Dietary Habits and Interest for Food and Science versus Weight Status in Children Aged 8 to 18 Years by Els Vanderhulst, Aicha Faik, Johan Vansintejan, Inès Van Rossem, Dirk Devroey

“…We examined in a cross-sectional study 525 children aged between 8 and 18 years, who attended the Brussels Food Fair or the Belgian Science Day in 2013. They were divided into three groups: special interest in science, special interest in food, and a general control group. …”
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Kościół na drodze ku „Nostra Aetate”.Zarys relacji chrześcijańsko-żydowskich w XX w. przed II wojną światową by Andrzej Tulej

“…This applies above all to the letter of Pope Benedict XV considered by some to be the most important act of opposition to Antisemitism, the encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" by Pius XI, opposing the idolatrous relationship to race, nation, state or power and emphasizing the value of the religion of Israel and the Old Testament and the famous formula spoken during the meeting of Pope Pius XI with the Belgian pilgrims: "spiritually, we are all Semites". …”
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Une vulnérabilité délibérément acceptée par les pouvoirs publics ? Extraction du charbon et inondations dans la vallée de la Haine, 1880-1940 by Kevin Troch

“…Yet, collieries were not involved in rivers landscaping projects. The Belgian State accepted even to carry on the burden of rivers landscaping works and the management of collapsed areas without involving the collieries at all. …”
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Terminal Complement Pathway Deficiency in an Adult Patient with Meningococcal Sepsis by F. Staels, W. Meersseman, P. Stordeur, K. Willekens, S. Van Loo, A. Corveleyn, I. Meyts, G. Meyfroidt, R. Schrijvers

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On Cytheridella whitmani sp. nov. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA), with a reappraisal of the taxonomy of the genus by Koen Martens, Nadiny Martins de Almeida, Michael Shribak, Janet Higuti, Isa Schön

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Resisting Material Binaries: Unpacking persisting dichotomies of building materials in Central Africa by Robby Fivez

“…In the first section, the material preferences of a Belgian architecture firm working in Rwanda in 2012 are related to the binaries of the architecture firms operating in this region in the 1970s and 1980s. …”
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EURAD State-of-the-Art Report: ACED assessment of the chemical evolution at the disposal cell scale—part I—processes at interfaces and evolution at disposal cell scale by Erika Neeft, Guido Deissmann, Diederik Jacques

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ANA IIF Automation: Moving towards Harmonization? Results of a Multicenter Study by Stefanie Van den Bremt, Sofie Schouwers, Marjan Van Blerk, Lieve Van Hoovels

“…One of the three samples had been sent in 2012, before the era of ANA IIF automation, by the Belgian National External Quality Assessment (EQA) Scheme. …”
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Triptorelin in the Relief of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Advanced Prostate Cancer Patients: The RESULT Study by Alexandre Peltier, Fouad Aoun, Vincent De Ruyter, Patrick Cabri, Roland Van Velthoven

“…This prospective, noninterventional, open-label, multicentre, Belgian study assessed the prevalence of moderate to severe lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in patients with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer scheduled to receive triptorelin therapy and its effects on LUTS were evaluated focusing on symptom relief and changes in quality of life (QOL) related to urinary symptoms (November 2006 to May 2010). …”
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La forêt linéaire by Denis Delbaere

“…Such a change in the perception of this potential forest may be considered as the heritage of long-standing landscape projects such as the Belgian Green Plan of 1958 or the Nord-Pas-de-Calais regional forest and the "new forestry model" the latter has come to represent. …”
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Sankce vůči českým královským městům roku 1547 v kontextu habsburské politiky první poloviny 16. století („Gentský ortel“ v politické propagandě stavovského odboje)... by Petr Vorel

“… At the time of the Bohemian Estates Revolt in the year 1547, the Czech translation of a verdict from the year 1540, in which Emperor Charles V of Habsburg punished the present-day Belgian town of Ghent which had rejected the Emperor‘s tax demands, was published and disseminated in the press in Prague. …”
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Role of Transbronchial Lung Cryobiopsies in Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases: Interest of a Sequential Approach by Benjamin Bondue, Thierry Pieters, Patrick Alexander, Paul De Vuyst, Maria Ruiz Patino, Delphine Hoton, Myriam Remmelink, Dimitri Leduc

“…The diagnostic yield and safety data of TBLCs, as well as the result of SLB performed after TBLCs, were analysed in a multicentric Belgian study. A SLB was performed after TBLCs in absence of a definite pathological diagnosis or if a NSIP pattern was observed without related condition identified following multidisciplinary discussion. …”
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Choosing to die with the help or by the hand of a doctor (medically-assisted death): Limitations and safety profiles by F. Cembrani, D. De Leo

“…In this study, we comment on the exemplar case of a Belgian lady, Mrs. Godelieva de Troyer, who made that request and obtained the desired outcome. …”
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Cochrane Corner: how effective are interventions for reducing symptoms and signs resulting from jellyfish stings? by Jorien Laermans, Tine D'aes

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