(1) Laboratory for Hydrogeology, Department of Geology-Geography, Faculty of Exact Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (2) Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary (3) Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Department of Georesources, Geotechnologies and Building Materials (GEOMAC), University of Liè...

Healthcare practices are changing as focus shifts from treating acute illnesses to chronic diseases. The responsibility of managing the treatment has shifted from healthcare providers to the individual in a higher degree. To achieve good treatment the patients need to be empowered so that they understand their condition and can make informed choices throughout their self-care. A research throug...

For the past twenty years, model checking has been used successfully in many engineering projects. Model checkers assist the engineer in identifying automatically individual design flaws in a system. A typical model checker takes as input a model of the system and a correctness specification. It checks the model against the specification for erroneous behavior. If erroneous behavior exists, the...

Oxygen pipeline failure is a rare but potentially catastrophic event which can affect the care of patients throughout an entire hospital. Anaesthetists play a critical role in maintaining patient safety, and should be prepared to support an institution-wide emergency response if oxygen failure occurs. We tested the preparedness for this through observation of 20 specialist anaesthetists to a st...

Background: Extraterrestrial Encounter To date, humanity has not made any form of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). But we cannot rule out the possibility that one or more ETI exist in our galaxy, or that we could detect, communicate with, or in other ways have contact with them in the future. There have been many analyses of how contact would proceed, but these tend to focus na...

Illicit drug use creates significant burden at societal, family and personal levels. Every year substantial resources are allocated for treatment and the consequences of illicit drug use in Australia and around the world. Heroin is one of the major forms of illicit drugs. Several independent heroin treatment strategies or interventions exist and state-of-the art research demonstrates their effi...

failure scenario. Such a model regards node failure and recovery as random accidents in the system execution environment. However, for a distributed system deployed for real use, the exceptions are frequently caused by the incorrect operation or the heavy load on the distributed system. We further used Weevil to conduct an experiment with the CFS service network under such realistic failure sce...

First passage model specifies a credit default, when the underlying drops below a certain barrier. An investment failure often occurs unexpectedly and involves significant losses to the project value, which makes a great similarity to a default event preventing the investor paying back its debt. In this paper we aim to link the two theories, where an investment failure is determined through the...

The report issued by the Inquiry Board in charge of inspecting the Ariane 5 flight 50.1 failure concludes that causes of the failure are rooted into poor S/W Engineering practice. From the failure scenario described in the Inquiry Board report, it is possible to infer what, in our view, are the real causes of the 501 failure. We develop arguments to demonstrate that the real causes of the 501 f...

Worldwide food security and water safety issues necessitate countries with low water use efficiency of crop production (CWUE) to increase it and reduce regional CWUE variations. CWUE function was estimated with stochastic frontier analysis, and CWUE variation was decomposed on inter-continental, intra-continental and international level with variance decomposition method. It is proposed that in...