The Web bears the potential of being the world%E2%80%99s greatest encyclopedic source, but we are still far from fully exploiting this potential. Valuable scientific and cultural content is interspersed with a huge amount of noisy, low-quality, unstructured text and media. The proliferation of

The numerical treatment of the multi-dimensional problems of scientic computing requires nonstandard numerical methods since the computational complexity of the traditional approaches scales exponentially in the dimension d. Recent tensor numerical approximation provides the efficient

The course will cover how to study structure and function of biological macromolecules, mainly proteins, by multidimensional multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. The objective is to master the basic theoretical principles and to obtain skills for sample preparation, data collection, data analysis and

Importance of separation in analytical chemistry, classification of separation techniques, steps in analytical method development, laboratory exercises in the analysis of environmental samples. The course will facilitate research and teaching into chemical systems/processes in the environmental and

Are you drowning in high-throughput amplicon (marker gene) sequence data? How to filter it, cluster it, classify it and extract some ecological information from those hundreds of thousands of reads of variable quality? More and more microbial ecologists and environmental scientists now have

Zebrafish are increasingly being used as animal model in neuro-behavioural and neuro-endocrine research. Reasons for this are, among others, the low costs, easy management and a well-defined genome. Given this, zebrafish now replace mice in many paradigms. While this may be valid from one

Today's youths are facing a world increasingly saturated with advertisements. In addition to traditional marketing venues like television and radio, they now encounter advertising messages on the internet, on their smart phones, in films and in video games. The commercial media environment offers

The summer of 1914 marked the start of a series of commemorations of the Great War, as it is still called in Belgium, France and Great Britain. And although the last soldiers who had fought in the trenches have passed away, the Great War does not belong to the past. Traces from the tragedy of World

Are you interested in understanding how we behave? Are you fascinated by the way human behaviour varies in different social contexts? Or are you fascinated by the difference between normal and pathological behaviour? Or by the way our behaviour changes over time - as we develop and as we learn? If

Why does a government spend too much money? Why don't we get rid of government agencies that are no longer needed? Why do medical boards take too long to release life-saving medications? Why is there so much corruption (and rent-seeking) in the world? Why is Transparency International so important?