OBJECTIVE To provide insight into the differential effect of immigration on cesarean section (CS) rates, using the Robson classification. DESIGN A population-based study using birth certificates from the birth registry of 2009. SETTING All births in two of the three Belgian regions excluding Flanders. POPULATION 37 628 deliveries from Belgian and immigrant mothers from sub-Saharan Africa,...

BACKGROUND Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs) are private organizations or clubs of users that produce cannabis for non-profit distribution to adult members to meet their personal needs without having to turn to the black market. CSCs can be found in many countries, but the term often covers very different empirical realities. Inspired by the Spanish CSCs and similarly taking advantage of a grey area...

Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Belgian Program on 17 Interuniversity Attraction Poles and PRODEX program initiated by the Belgian Federal 18 Science Policy Office, Actions de Recherche Concertées (French community, Belgium) 19 and the European Space Agency (ESA) of the European Union. JJO is supported by the 20 Brains Back to Brussels program from the Brussels Region (Belgium)...

a Engineering Department, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium b Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Ringlaan 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium c KU Leuven, Dept. Electrical Engineering, ESAT – TELEMIC, Telecommunications and Microwaves, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, bus 244, 3001 Leuven, Belgium d KU Leuven, Dept. Electrical Engineering, ESAT, Advanced Integrated Sensi...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth curves of females to determine if mature size and relative rates of maturation among breeds differed. Body weight and hip height data were fitted to the nonlinear function BW = f(age) = A - Be(k×age), where A is an estimate of mature BW and k determines the rate that BW or height moves from B to A. Cows represented progeny from 28 Hereford,...

Recently, Belgian legislation has enabled the practical use of electronic signatures. Several implementation options are still open and different models for deployment on a wide scale are possible. This document describes two models that can be applied to the healthcare domain and summarises the recommendations as issued by the Belgian Health Telematics Standards Committee

The Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society Simon Stevin is published by The Belgian Mathematical Society, with financial support from the Universitaire Stichting van Belgie – Fondation Universitaire de Belgique and the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS). It appears quarterly and is indexed and/or abstracted in Current

s of the 27th meeting of the Belgian Endocrine Society To cite this article: (2017) Abstracts of the 27th meeting of the Belgian Endocrine Society, Acta Clinica Belgica, 72:sup3, 1-24, DOI: 10.1080/17843286.2017.1401362 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17843286.2017.1401362 Published online: 05 Dec 2017. Submit your article to this journal View related articles

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES In Belgium, as in many other countries, group B Streptococcus (GBS) is still the leading cause of sepsis and meningitis in neonates. In 2001, though no Belgian guidelines for their prevention were available, in some hospitals, obstetrical programmes included a GBS prevention policy. With an aim to reach a Belgian consensus for the prevention of perinatal group B streptoc...