Paper 99: design guidelines versus practices for the Upper Seascheldt, the inland waterway connection between Antwerp and Ghent

Design guidelines for inland waterways are so far a national matter. PIANC InCom Working Group 141 "Design Guidelines for Inland Waterways" is nevertheless working on a report with a summary of existing guidelines and a methodology for the concept and detailed design of canals and rivers. For tidal rivers the design is a difficult process and an example is given through the accessibility of the Upper-Seascheldt for CEMT class IV and Va inland vessels between the port of Antwerp and the locks in Merelbeke. A combined evaluation based on concept design guidelines for canals, practices measured during a full-scale voyage and detailed design using ship handling simulators is discussed and illustrated

The self in the mind’s eye: revealing how we truly see ourselves through reverse correlation

Is there a way to visually depict, for all to see, how people "see" themselves with their minds’ eyes? And if so, what can these mental images tell us about ourselves? We use a computational reverse-correlation technique to explore individuals’ mental ‘self-portraits’, of their faces and body shapes, in an unbiased, data-driven way (total N = 116). Self-portraits were similar to individuals’ real faces, but importantly, also contained ‘clues’ to each person’s self-reported personality traits, which were reliably detected by external observers. Furthermore, people with higher social self-esteem produced more true-to-life self-portraits. Unlike face-portraits, body-portraits had negligible relationships with individuals’ actual body shape, but as with faces, they were influenced by people’s beliefs and emotions. We show how psychological beliefs and attitudes about oneself bias the perceptual representation of one’s appearance, and provide a unique window into the internal mental self-representation, with important implications for mental health and visual culture

Creativity as development : discourse, ideology and practice

What the new global policy imaginary of "creativity" has amounted to is, on the one hand, a profoundly disintegrated research landscape with a heavy interest in creative “industries” (Cho, Liu, & Ho, 2018) and, on the other hand, an approach to development framed by a somewhat more general and hegemonic global ideology on culture, the arts, and development (Garner, 2016; Stupples, 2014). This “ideology” is mediated by global or UN-level policy and indeed specific to an age in which the neoliberal global economy has established an unprecedented degree of certitude and political consensus across the world on how we develop a prosperous society. Creativity has become a powerful signifier around which a rhetoric of dynamic trade, growth, and opportunity has evolved, and is subject to a broad assessment in this chapter

Sécurité et efficacité de l’insuline Détémir en pratique clinique : suivi à 26 semaines de la cohorte belge PREDICTIVE de patients diabétiques de type 1

Introduction : PREDICTICE (Predictable Results and Experience in Diabetes Through Intensification and Control to Target : an International Variability Evaluation) est une étude multinationale dont l’objectif est d’évaluer les paramètres de sécurité et d’efficacité de l’insuline Détémir en pratique clinique « de routine ». Le but de ce travail est de rapporter les résultats du volet belge de cet essai, incluant une cohorte de patients diabétiques de type 1 traités par schéma basal-prandial

Insulin detemir in routine clinical practice: a 26-week follow-up in type 1 diabetic patients from the Belgian PREDICTIVE Cohort.

AIM: PREDICTIVE (Predictable Results and Experience in Diabetes Through Intensification and Control to Target: an International Variability Evaluation) is a multi-national study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of insulin detemir (Levemir) in "real world" medical practice. The aim of the study is to report the PREDICTIVE results of the Belgian type 1 diabetic cohort. METHODS: Two hundred and thirty-two patients treated with a basal-bolus insulin scheme were considered for analysis. Seventy-eight percent of those patients were previously treated with insulin glargine as a basal insulin, while 22% received NPH, before switching to Levemir. RESULTS: Mean age and duration of diabetes were 45 +/- 15 and 18 +/- 13 years, respectively (means +/- SD). HbA1C was 8.3 +/- 1.2%. We observed (at weeks 12 and 26 after baseline) a significant reduction in all hypoglycaemic events including major hypoglycaemias after switching to detemir (p < 0.0007). There was no change in HbA1C. Fasting blood glucose decreased from 170 +/- 49 to 158 +/- 45 mg/dl at week 26 (p < 0.009), while fasting blood glucose variability was reduced from 69 +/- 35 to 57 +/- 30 mg/dl at week 26 (p < 0.0001). Total insulin doses increased during the trial from 0.74 +/- 0.28 to 0.82 +/- 0.14 U/kg/day (p < 0.0001). No weight gain was observed during the study. Patient's satisfaction increased significantly (from 6.3 +/- 1.5 to 7.2 +/- 1.6 at week 26, p < 0.0007). CONCLUSION: This report from the Belgian cohort of PREDICTIVE extends the safety and efficacy data of insulin detemir in type 1 diabetic patients treated with a basal-bolus insulin scheme

Design guidelines versus practices for the Upper Sea Scheldt, the inland waterway connection between Antwerp and Ghent

Design guidelines for inland waterways are so far a national matter. PIANC InCom Working Group 141 "Design Guidelines for Inland Waterways" is nevertheless working on a report with a summary of existing guidelines and a methodology for the concept and detailed design of canals and rivers. For tidal rivers the design is a difficult process and an example is given through the accessibility of the Upper-Seascheldt for CEMT class IV and Va inland vessels between the port of Antwerp and the locks in Merelbeke. A combined evaluation based on concept design guidelines for canals, practices measured during a full-scale voyage and detailed design using ship handling simulators is discussed and illustrated