Search results - 11 results
Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment
and assessed effect modification by individual characteristics, preexisting chronic health conditions and residential environment (population density, built-up area and air pollutants: PM2.5, NO2, O3 ...
Mapping abundance distributions of allergenic tree species in urbanized landscapes: A nation-wide study for Belgium using forest inventory and citizen science data
science data. Following a two-step approach, we first built species distribution models (SDM s) to predict species habitat suitability, using environmental characteristics as predictors. Second, we used ...
Towards a European health research and innovation cloud (HRIC)
health infrastructure. Creating a European Health Research and Innovation Cloud (HRIC) within this environment should enable data sharing and analysis for health research across the EU, in compliance with ...
Disentangling the Link between Built/Non-Built Environment and Mental Health in Brussels
Clercq Source: The International Societies of Exposure Science (ISES) and Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) joint conference on the built, natural, and social environments: impacts on exposures, ...
Taxonomic annotation of public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment- A report from an April 10-11, 2017 workshop (Aberdeen, UK)
C Wurzbacher; S Van Den Wyngaert; N Yilmaz; U Koljalg; K Abarenkov Source: MycoKeys, Volume 28, Number 82 (2018) Keywords: built environment Fungi Indoor mycobiome metadata molecular identification open data ...
A statistical model for predicting the inter-annual variability of birch pollen abundance in Northern and North-Eastern Europe.
Severova, Elena; Lucie Hoebeke; Ramfjord, Hallvard Source: Sci Total Environ, Volume 615, p.228-239 (2017) Abstract: The paper suggests a methodology for predicting next-year seasonal pollen index (SPI, a sum ...
Biomarkers in patients admitted to the emergency department after exposure to acrylonitrile in a major railway incident involving bulk chemical material.
Thomas; An Van Nieuwenhuyse; De Paepe, Peter Source: Int J Hyg Environ Health, Volume 220, Issue 2 Pt A, p.261-270 (2017) Keywords: acrylonitrile ADOLESCENT Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Belgium Biomarkers ...
Airtightness in Belgian high biocontainment facilities
airtightness of their high-containment area by means of a blower-door test (norm NBN EN 13829:2001). Four institutions, representing different construction types, were selected. These were a newly built and ...
Identification of filamentous fungi isolates by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry: clinical evaluation of an extended reference spectra library.
reference spectra. To this end, a large in-house library containing 760 strains and representing 472 species was built and evaluated on 390 clinical isolates by comparing MALDI- TOF MS with the classical ...
Impact of the (Non-) Built Environment on Mental Health in Brussels : The NAMED PROJECT
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/impact-non-built-environment-mental-health-brussels-named-project
these pathologies is acknowledged, the interaction with urbanized environment is little understood. This recently launched research project (NAMED) intends to investigate the impact of the (non-)built ...