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Bos, M. et a. (2025) Objectivising Heritage Assessment with Values: Criteria-Based Grid and Constructivist Approach. Heritage, vol. 8, issue 4, nr 116.
The concept of value seems to have capital importance both in the scientific literature and in various heritage actors’ professional discourse. The actions undertaken to develop the built environment inherited from previous generations seem to depend on thevalue we assign it. In this essay, the concepts of value, assessor, and heritage assessment are discussed. Two historical contexts are compared: the classical axiology of the 19th century based on the Enlightenment search for rationality and the typologies of contemporary values struggling with complexity.
Van Den Berghe L., De Pauw S. & Vandevelde S. (2025) Pathway insights: exploring profiles and processes of drop-in students in relation to completion rates in second chance education. Frontiers in Psychology Volume 16 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1620330
Obtaining an upper secondary degree is highly esteemed for its economic and societal value. For students dropping out of school who return to education to earning an upper secondary degree (cf. high school—ISCED level 3)—termed “drop-in students” in this study—alternative pathways like “Second Chance Education” (SCE) have emerged. Empirical studies on these programs are limited, hindering theoretical progress and the understanding of drop-in students’ psychological and educational processes.
Himschoot L. et al. (2025) et al. Prevalence and clinical correlates of Gardnerella spp., Fannyhessea vaginae, Lactobacillus crispatus and L. iners in pregnant women in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 14:1514884. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1514884
Background: Gardnerella is a key pathogen in bacterial vaginosis (BV), but the role of the different Gardnerella species remains unclear. We investigated the role of four Gardnerella species, as well as Fannyhessea vaginae, Lactobacillus crispatus and L. iners in BV.
Corvilain P. et al. (2025) Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life. Imaging Neuroscience, Vol. 3, https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00489.
Characterizing the early development of the human brain is critical from both fundamental and clinical perspectives. However, existing neuroimaging techniques are either not well suited to infants or have limited spatial or temporal resolution. The advent of optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) has revolutionized magnetoencephalography (MEG) by enabling wearable and thus more naturalistic recordings while maintaining excellent sensitivity and spatiotemporal resolution. Nevertheless, its adaptation to studying neural activity in infancy poses several challenges.
Torres-Huerta A. (2025) Spatiotemporal Control of the Formation of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes in Liposome-Based Nanoreactors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition e202510471,
doi.org/10.1002/anie.202510471
The controlled mass transfer across compartmentalised environments in synthetic nanoreactors is essential for enhancing precise spatiotemporal manipulation of chemical transformations within confined spaces. In this study, we present a strategy that integrates a synthetic anion transporter in liposome-based nanoreactors, allowing for spatiotemporal control over the formation of metal–organic complexes in liposomes. This approach enables us to effectively modulate the assembly of luminescent lanthanide-benzenedicarboxylate nanostructures.
De Vlieger D. et al. (2025) Speed-dependent changes in the arm swing during independent walking in individuals after stroke. PLoS ONE 20(1): e0315332. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315332
Background
Increasing one’s walking speed is an important goal in post-stroke gait rehabilitation. Insufficient arm swing in people post-stroke might limit their ability to propel the body forward and increase walking speed.
Purpose
To investigate the speed-dependent changes (and their contributing factors) in the arm swing of persons post-stroke.
Material and methods
Surdi M., Tack P., Lycke S., Schöder S. & De Graef K. (2025) Synchrotron XRF spectroscopy for reading salt-encrusted cuneiform tablets. Scientific Reports 15:3283 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84394-0
Cuneiform tablets were a primary writing medium in the ancient Near East from the late fourth millennium BCE to the first century CE. Although these clay tablets were durable for daily use, prolonged burial over millennia has made them vulnerable to salt damage. Fluctuations in temperature and humidity cause the migration of salts to the surface of the tablets, damaging them and covering the inscriptions, making the text unreadable.
Heller M.P.,Ori F. & ASerantes A. (2025) Temporal Entanglement from Holographic Entanglement Entropy. Physical Review X 15, 041022.
Recently, several notions of entanglement in time have emerged as a novel frontier in quantum many body physics, quantum field theory, and gravity. We propose a systematic prescription to characterize temporal entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory in a general state for an arbitrary subregion on a flat, constant time slice in a flat spacetime.
Xinquan Hu (2025) The bacterial and fungal strawberry rootassociated microbiome in reused peat-based substrate. BMC Plant Biology 25:245.
Background Reuse of plant growing substrate can contribute to lowering the carbon footprint of horticulture production systems. Here, we assessed the impact of substrate reusing on the root-associated microbiome of strawberries. The cultivars Elsanta and Malling Centenary were grown in a substrate-based hydroponic system using either fresh peat-based substrate or substrate reused up to three times, with comparisons made between not steamed and steam-treated substrate.
Colon M. (2025) The big passion play in new venture: New insights from a moderated mediation model. European Management Journal.
Research increasingly highlights that more nascent entrepreneurs than once thought, even those passionate about founding a new venture, end up not starting a new business because of the vast challenges. This study provides new insights into how and when passionate nascent founders actually engage in new venture creation behavior. Applying a conditional moderated mediation analysis to a sample of 493 Belgian nascent entrepreneurs, we find that passionate nascent founders develop strategic action plans to reach their desired complex goal of starting a new venture.
Vandendriessche J. et al. (2025) Towards evidence-based biodiversity assessment tools for agroforestry systems. Ecological Solutions and Evidence. http://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70133.
1. Agroforestry can help to conserve biodiversity and enhance multiple ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, microclimate regulation and nutrient cycling. However, in land planning and biodiversity certification schemes it remains difficult to quantify the effect of agroforestry on biodiversity across time and space.
Nothomb N. et al. (2025) Understanding the effect of tailored heat treatment on Zr-modified Al7075 fabricated by laser powder bed fusion. Materials & Design 258, 114553.
Despite high-strength aluminium alloys now being widely processed by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), a specifically designed heat treatment (HT) for L-PBF Al7075 has yet to be identified and the microstructural -features responsible for strengthening remain to be fully understood. In this study, fully dense Al7075+1.8%Zr was processed without hot cracking. High temperature heat treatments between 350◦C and 525◦C were adopted, attaining the highest hardness (162HV) at 425◦C followed by an artificial ageing (AA).
De Roubaix A. et al. (2025) Understanding the impact of Developmental Coordination Disorder on Belgian children and families: a national survey study. PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320311. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320311
Background
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is an under-recognized and often trivialized neurodevelopmental condition impacting five to six percent of children. This study aimed to map the impact of DCD on children and their families in Belgium.
Methods
Van Acker J.W.G. et al. (2024) Vertical root fracture detection with conebeam computed tomography in Biodentine™ filled teeth. BMC Oral Health 24:1178, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-024-04947-7
Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of detecting vertical root fractures in Biodentine™-filled teeth using the Promax 3Dmax cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) unit compared to periapical radiographs. It tested hypotheses regarding CBCT’s diagnostic superiority in non-root-filled and Biodentine™-root-filled maxillary central incisors and assessed the impact of smaller field of view and lower intensity settings on detection accuracy.
Michel J. et al. (2025) What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception? SOIL, 11, 755–762, 2025 https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-755-2025
Priming effects in soil science describe the influence of fresh carbon (C) inputs on rates of microbial mineralisation of native soil organic matter, which can either increase (positive priming) or decrease (negative priming). While both positive and negative priming effects occur in natural ecosystems, the latter is less documented in the peer-reviewed literature and the overall impact of priming effects on the C balance of vegetated ecosystems remains elusive.