Zoekresultaten - 15 results
Bioaccumulation of organic and inorganic contaminants in biota: A long-term evaluation in the Belgian part of the North Sea
a harmful effect on the marine ecosystem. To fully understand the impact of these chemicals, monitoring programs should not only focus on sediment concentrations, but should also take into account the ...
Variability in Alternaria alternata spore characteristics under different culture conditions: implications for automatic detection using air flow cytometry
monitors, because of their significant implications for public health and agriculture due to their role as airborne allergen and plant pathogen. These systems require high-quality reference data for training ...
Analyzing the airborne birch and grass pollen monitoring network in Belgium
monitoring stations must be evaluated. Materials & Methods We explored the network quality (i) and coverage (ii) of the five current pollen monitoring stations in Belgium using the methodology developed ...
Impact of environmental nitrogen enrichment on birch pollen allergy
were extracted from modeled air concentrations and depositions from the European Monitoring and Evaluation Program (EMEP). Fresh pollen, leaf nitrogen and carbon content were measured (CHNS elemental ...
Holography-based aerobiological monitoring: a 2-year intercomparison campaign versus the standard Hirst method in Brussels, Belgium
prevent and treat respiratory symptoms and reduce the allergy burden, pollen grain concentrations have been continuously monitored using the standard Hirst method with a volumetric spore trap. However, this ...
The search for the best airborne pollen monitoring locations
reference data. For evaluating the network coverage of the current five monitoring stations we perform a footprint-based analysis. Footprints relate directly to the fraction of air reaching the monitoring device. ...
Holography-based aerobiological monitoring: a 2-year intercomparison campaign versus the standard Hirst method in Brussels, Belgium
alder, hazel and hornbeam) and an estimated 18% to grass pollen. To prevent and treat respiratory symptoms and reduce the allergy burden, pollen grain concentrations have been continuously monitored using ...
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium
trend toward urbanisation and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events emphasise the need for further monitoring and understanding of weather in cities. In order to gain information ...
Deepening of In Silico Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Detection RT-qPCR Assays in the Context of New Variants
Keersmaecker Source: Genes, Volume 12, Issue 4 (2021) Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; variants; detection; RT-qPCR; in silico specificity evaluation; bioinformatics tool; WGS data; mismatches; primers and probes ...
Use of Whole Genome Sequencing Data for a First in Silico Specificity Evaluation of the RT-qPCR Assays Used for SARS-CoV-2 Detection.
RT-qPCR methods were developed in January 2020 for initial in silico specificity evaluation and to verify whether the targeted loci are highly conserved. Now that more whole genome data have become ...