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Opinion 130 deals with a Request for an Opinion asking the Judicial Commission to clarify whether the genus name Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980) is illegitimate. The Request is approved and an answer is given. The name Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980) is illegitimate because it is a later homonym of the validly published cyanobacterial name Hansgirg 1884.

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Objective: To explore and characterise the discrimination and racism experienced in healthcare from the perspective of Dutch patients with a migration background.

Design: This was a qualitative phenomenological study incorporating an inductive thematic analysis of the answers provided to a free form online survey. Descriptive and differential analyses were conducted for the closed-ended questions.

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Purpose: To assess performance of Etest®, Vitek®2 and BD Phoenix™ to determine the susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains to penicillin, ampicillin and cefotaxime.

Methods: Sixty unique S. pneumoniae challenge strains were selected to cover a wide range of penicillin, ampicillin and cefotaxime minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs).

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Anthropogenic climate change and the associated increase in sea temperatures are projected to greatly impact marine ecosystems. Temperature variation can influence the interactions between species, leading to cascading effects on the abundance, diversity and composition of communities. Such changes in community structure can have consequences on ecosystem stability, processes and the services it provides.

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Ultra-wideband (UWB) has gained increasing interest for providing real-time positioning to robots in GPS-denied environments. For a robot to act on this information, it also requires its heading. This is, however, not provided by UWB.

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Background: It is unclear when people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their family carers think about their future, what they would prefer in terms of care, and how their ideas change over time.

Aim: Understanding experiences with advance care planning of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their family carers-and if, when, how, and why these experiences change over time.

Design: A qualitative longitudinal interview study.

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Aim: Blood Sampling Guidelines have been developed to target European emergency medicine-related professionals involved in the blood sampling process (e.g. physicians, nurses, phlebotomists working in the ED), as well as laboratory physicians and other related professionals.

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Background: Digital interventions are a promising avenue to promote physical activity in healthy adults. Current practices recommend to include end-users early on in the development process. This study focuses on the wishes and needs of users regarding an a mobile health (mHealth) application that promotes physical activity in healthy adults, and on the differences between participants who do or do not meet the World Health Organization's recommendation of an equivalent of 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity.

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  • The paper examines the impact of displaced persons' camps on children's upbringing in northern Uganda, particularly since WWII.
  • It investigates how these camps shape children's development and how caregivers adapt their parenting strategies both in the camps and upon returning to their previous homes.
  • Through interviews and discussions with 48 caregivers, the study highlights the complex interplay of new and old connections in upbringing influenced by camp life and post-conflict experiences.
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Comparing physical therapy students' attitudes and beliefs regarding chronic low back pain and knee osteoarthritis: an international multi-institutional comparison between 2013 and 2020 academic years.

Braz J Phys Ther

March 2024

Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Pain in Motion International Research Group (PiM), Belgium; Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Health and Rehabilitation, Un

Background: In 2013, physical therapy students demonstrated low guideline-adherent recommendations regarding chronic low back pain (CLBP) for spinal pathology, activity, and work.

Objectives: To assess the differences in physical therapy students' attitudes, beliefs, and adherence to guideline recommendations regarding CLBP and knee osteoarthritis between 2013 and 2020.

Methods: In 2013 and 2020, second and fourth-year physical therapy students were recruited from 6 Belgian and 2 Dutch institutions.

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Complex advance care planning intervention in general practice (ACP-GP): a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Br J Gen Pract

February 2024

End-of-Life Care Research Group, VUB & Universiteit Gent, Brussels; Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, VUB, Brussels.

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is an iterative communication process about patients' preferences for future care. In general practice, there are barriers to ACP at patient, GP, and healthcare-system levels. A complex intervention may be necessary to reduce barriers.

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Unraveling the micro- and nanoplastic predicament: A human-centric insight.

Sci Total Environ

March 2024

Entity of In Vitro Toxicology and Dermato-Cosmetology, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.

Micro- and nanoplastics are vast anthropogenic pollutants in our direct surroundings with a robust environmental stability and a potential for a long-lasting and increasing global circulation. This has raised concerns among the public and policy makers for human health upon exposure to these particles. The micro- and nanoplastic burden on humans is currently under debate, along with criticism on the experimental approaches used in hazard assessment.

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The best of both worlds: a proposal for further integration of names into the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes.

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol

January 2024

Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, C/. Prof. Garcia Gonzalez 2, ES-41012 Sevilla, Spain.

The naming of prokaryotes is governed by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) and partially by the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (ICN). Such codes must be able to determine names of taxa in a universal and unambiguous manner, thus serving as a common language across different fields and activities. This unity is undermined when a new code of nomenclature emerges that overlaps in scope with an established, time-tested code and uses the same format of names but assigns different nomenclatural status values to the names.

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Ten questions to guide reflection and assessment of the "good" in robotics projects are suggested.

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Unlabelled: Nowadays, public concern is focused on the degradation of water quality. For this reason, the development of innovative technologies for water treatment in view of (micro)pollutant removal is important. Indeed, organic (micro)pollutants, such as pharmaceuticals, herbicides, pesticides and plasticizers at concentration levels of μg L or even ng L are hardly removed during conventional wastewater treatment.

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When the security measure meets bordered penality: Release procedures for persons who are not criminally responsible without residence rights in Belgium.

Int J Law Psychiatry

December 2023

Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Department of Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law, Universiteit Gent, Universiteitstraat 4, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Electronic address:

Offenders considered to be persons not criminally responsible (hereafter Persons NCR) in Belgium, are subjected to a security measure. This is executed by means of a forensic care trajectory, often beginning in high-security prison units or forensic psychiatric facilities, and moving through medium and lower security psychiatric facilities, with the intention to ultimately integrate them back into society. Within this group there are 145 persons without residence rights.

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Objective: Prenatal tracheal occlusion (TO) promotes lung growth and is applied clinically in fetuses with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). Limited data are available regarding the effect of duration versus timepoint of TO. Our objective was to document the impact of TO on lung development in the near-term period in rats with nitrofen-induced CDH.

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In this Letter, we present the design and performance of the frequency-dependent squeezed vacuum source that will be used for the broadband quantum noise reduction of the Advanced Virgo Plus gravitational-wave detector in the upcoming observation run. The frequency-dependent squeezed field is generated by a phase rotation of a frequency-independent squeezed state through a 285 m long, high-finesse, near-detuned optical resonator. With about 8.

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Objective: To identify the optimal dose and type of physical activity to improve functional capacity and reduce adverse events in acutely hospitalised older adults.

Design: Systematic review and Bayesian model-based network meta-analysis.

Data Sources: Four databases were searched from inception to 20 June 2022.

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Aging, a fundamental physiological process influenced by innumerable biological and genetic pathways, is an important driving factor for several aging-associated disorders like diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. In the modern era, the several mechanisms associated with aging have been deeply studied. Treatment and therapeutics for age-related diseases have also made considerable advances; however, for the effective and long-lasting treatment, nutritional therapy particularly including dietary polyphenols from the natural origin are endorsed.

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Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide.

Behav Brain Sci

July 2023

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, https://www.shenhavlab.org.

Research on human reasoning has both popularized and struggled with the idea that intuitive and deliberate thoughts stem from two different systems, raising the question how people switch between them. Inspired by research on cognitive control and conflict monitoring, we argue that detecting the need for further thought relies on an intuitive, context-sensitive process that is learned in itself.

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Objective: We aimed to develop and validate a fully automated machine learning (ML) algorithm that predicts bone marrow edema (BME) on a quadrant level in sacroiliac (SI) joint magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Methods: A computer vision workflow automatically locates the SI joints, segments regions of interest (ilium and sacrum), performs objective quadrant extraction, and predicts presence of BME, suggestive of inflammatory lesions, on a quadrant level in semicoronal slices of T1/T2-weighted MRI scans. Ground truth was determined by consensus among human readers.

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Advance Care Planning in Belgium.

Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes

August 2023

End-of-Life Care Research Group, Dept of Family Medicine & Chronic Care, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Dept of Public Health and Primary Care, Universiteit Gent, Belgium; Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University of California San Francisco (U

This paper aims to 1) describe current levels of Advance Care Planning (ACP) development since 2002 in Belgium, 2) report on challenges and opportunities to inspire other countries with similar contextual characteristics and 3) support further development of ACP practice and research in Belgium. To address these aims, we consulted local researchers, 12 domain experts and (grey) literature (regulatory documents, reports, policy documents and practice guidelines) on ACP, palliative care, and related healthcare topics. Since 2002, when the Patient's Right Law was passed in the federal Parliament, Belgium has had a specific medicolegal context for ACP.

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Parental criticism affects adolescents' mood and ruminative state: Self-perception appears to influence their mood response.

J Exp Child Psychol

November 2023

Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Department of Head and Skin, UZ Gent/Universiteit Gent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Psychiatry, UZ Brussel/Vrije Universiteit Brussel-VUB (Free University of Brussels), 1090 Brussels, Belgium; Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University

Feeling and/or being criticized is a known risk factor for various psychiatric disorders in adolescents. However, the link between the experience of social stressors and the development of psychopathological symptoms is not yet fully understood. Identifying which adolescent subgroups are more vulnerable to parental criticism could be of great clinical relevance.

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