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Inbook Reference Natuursteengebruik als urbanisatie-indicator stadskern Leuven
SAMENVATTING. Natuursteen is een duurzaam element in de bouwgeschiedenis en als zodanig een goede indicator voor bouwjaar, stijl en mogelijke renovatie. Natuursteengebruik wordt doorgaans geanalyseerd vanuit typologie, scha- depathologie, marktpenetratie of geografische verspreiding. Hieruit kunnen trends worden gehaald over aanwending en waardering. Informatie over de globale impact van natuursteengebruik in het straatbeeld, daarin inbegrepen de ver- naculaire woningbouw, ontbreekt. Om hieraan tegemoet te komen werd een systematische inventarisatie uitgevoerd van het natuursteengebruik in gevels van gebouwen gelegen binnen een historische stadskern. De Leuvense binnen- stad leende zich uitstekend voor dit onderzoek omdat er vrijwel continu is gebouwd gedurende de 19de en 20ste eeuw, zonder uitgesproken dominante stijlen of materialen. Kwalitatieve kenmerken zoals natuursteengebruik, bouwjaar en –stijl werden ingevoerd in een GIS bestand zodat de evolutie van het materiaalgebruik kan worden gekoppeld aan de voortschrijdende verstedelijking. Dit laat tevens toe pijnpunten inzake conservering of verwaarlozing vast te stellen. SUMMARY. Natural stone use as an indicator for urbanisation of the historical city centre of Leuven (Louvain). The use of natural stone for building follows trends depending on changes in availability and appreciation, but is generally analysed in selected historical buildings for specific issues such as typology, market penetration, geographi- cal distribution or decay. Belgian historical cities are showcases of natural stones, even if these are not dominating the cityscape. Because of its durability, natural stone is a conservative construction element reflecting the building history, hence can be used as a proxy for age, style and renovation. In order to assess the architectural impact of natural stone use on the street view, a systematic inventory of natural stone occurrence, including the vernacular, has been made for the historical city centre of Leuven. This city centre has been built up throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, without a clear dominance of styles or materials. Qualitative properties, such as stone identification, its constructive or deco- rative use, age and style of the building were coupled with a GIS database of the buildings of the city of Leuven. This allows to link natural stone use to the progressive urbanisation and to highlight cases of neglect or in need of more suited conservation strategies.
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Unpublished Reference 5de Vlaams-Nederlandse Natuursteendag 15-16.5.2014, Brussel Betekenisvol gebruik van natuursteen - Excursie natuursteengroeven langs de Maas 16.5.2014 Gidsboek
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Unpublished Reference 5de Vlaams-Nederlandse Natuursteendag 15-16.5.2014, Brussel Betekenisvol gebruik van natuursteen - Excursie natuursteen Brussel
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Techreport Reference Etude archéozoologique d’Anthisnes – Brassine - Bas Moyen Age et Temps Modernes (Tamisage)
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Techreport Reference Etude archéozoologique d’Andenelle – Château Noël. Ateliers de potiers médiévaux
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Techreport Reference Analyse d’échantillons de sédiments à la recherche d’opercules de Bithynia (1)
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Techreport Reference Analyse d’échantillons de sédiments à la recherche d’opercules de Bithynia (2)
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Article Reference Fit for porpoise? Assessing the effectiveness of underwater sound mitigation measures
In this chapter, we review how developers complied with the environmental license conditions formulated to mitigate the potential negative impacts of pile driving on marine mammals in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS), whether this impacted the timing of development and what the likely consequences were for marine mammals. Between 2009 and 2020, offshore wind farm developers in the BPNS complied to a large extent with those environmental license conditions formulated to mitigate the potential negative impacts of pile driving on marine mammals. However, we did identify several possible improvements to these environmental license conditions, including changes in the use of acoustic deterrent devices, formalising obligatory mammal surveys, and requiring developers to comply with the national threshold for impulsive underwater sound. The reduction in the costs of applying noise mitigation measures ensures that these suggested improvements should not affect the economic viability of future projects.
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Article Reference MODIRISK: Mosquito vectors of disease, collection, monitoring and longitudinal data from Belgium
The MODIRISK project studied mosquito biodiversity and monitored and predicted biodiversity changes, to actively prepare to address issues of biodiversity change, especially invasive species and new pathogen risks. This work is essential given continuing global changes that may create suitable conditions for invasive species spread and the (re-)emergence of vector-borne diseases in Europe. Key strengths of MODIRISK, in the context of sustainable development, were the links between biodiversity and health and the environment, and its contribution to the development of tools for describing the spatial distribution of mosquito biodiversity. MODIRISK addressed key topics of the global Diversitas initiative, which was a main driver of the Belspo ‘Science for a Sustainable Development’ research program. Three different MODIRISK datasets were published in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): the Collection dataset (the Culicidae collection of the Museum of Natural History in Brussels); the Inventory dataset (data from the MODIRISK inventory effort); and the Longitudinal dataset (experiment data used for risk assessments.
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Article Reference Assessing the influences of bee’s (Hymnoptera: Apidae) floral preference on cashew (Anacardiacae) agronomics performances in Côte d’Ivoire.
This study aimed to assess the influence of bees’ floral preference on cashew agronomics performances in Côte d’Ivoire. Therefore, a sampling design with a total of 40 cashew trees preferred by bees and 40 trees that were not preferred by bees was established in 4 main producing regions. In addition, bees’ foragers and agronomics performances of trees were sampled. As results, a total of 46 bee’ species with a foraging activity of 4±0.32 visits per minute were observed. Apis mellifera (60% of visits, with 2.27±0.17 of visitors per minute) followed by Meliponula bocandei (23% of visits with 0.91±0.18 of visits per minute) contributes significantly to the reproduction of cashew trees, compare to the 44 other bees’ species (17% of visits; with an activity of 0.69±0.03 of visitors per minute). The preferred trees recorded 40.54±0.57 kg of nuts per tree, with 18.39±0.48 fruits per inflorescence, including 37.12±0.4% of useful kernel per raw nut (yield ratio of 65.45±0.66 pound of useful kernel). Conversely, the non-preferred trees obtained 5.24±0.44kg of nuts per tree, with 1.7±0.21 fruits per inflorescence, including 28.69±0.65% of useful kernel per raw nut (50.6±1.15 pound of useful kernel). Hence, the foraging preference of these two Apidae significantly increased the fruiting rate (83.7±0.01%), the yields (87.08±0.0%), and the kernel rate (22.68±1.76%) in raw cashew nuts. Based in these results, we suggest the foraging preference of Apis mellifera as good indicator of high-yielding cashew plants. Moreover, we suggests combination of apicultural and meliponicultrual in cashew farming to boost the yields and farmers livelihoods.
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