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Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Van Praet
No full textDaunou Pierre-Claude-François. Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Van Praet. In: Mémoires de l'Institut national de France, tome 14, 1ᵉ partie, 1845. pp. 151-164
The role of state aid control in improving bank resolution in Europe
No full textThe financial crisis exposed EuropeÂ?s inadequacy in developing an effective banking resolution framework that could bring together national authorities and set guidelines for their coordination. The European Commission, through its assessment of state aid cases, managed to avoid single market distortions and mitigate moral hazard. This Policy Contribution explains why in the long-term Europe needs a single resolution authority. The authors Bruegel Senior Research Fellow André Sapir, Mathias Dewatripont, ULB and CEPR; Gregory Nguyen, National Bank of Belgium, and Peter Praet, National Bank of Belgium, show how in the short-term, the European Commission, through its state aid control discipline, can set the foundation for a new crisis resolution architecture. It can act as a substitute to improve coordination among member states and complement a European resolution authority once it is set up.
Predictors and Dynamics of the Humoral and Cellular Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccines in Hemodialysis Patients: A Multicenter Observational Study
No full textBackground Preliminary evidence suggests patients on hemodialysis have a blunted early serological response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Optimizing the vaccination strategy in this population requires a thorough understanding of predictors and dynamics of humoral and cellular immune responses to differentSARS-CoV-2 vaccines.Methods This prospective multicenter study of 543 patients on hemodialysis and 75 healthy volunteers evaluated the immune responses at 4 or 5 weeks and 8 or 9 weeks after administration of the BNT162b2or mRNA-1273 vaccine, respectively. We assessed antiSARS-CoV-2 spike antibodies and T cell responses by IFN-? secretion of peripheral blood lymphocytes upon SARS-CoV-2 glycoprotein stimulation (QuantiFERON assay) and evaluated potential predictors of the responses.Results Compared with healthy volunteers, patients on hemodialysis had an incomplete, delayed humoral immune response and a blunted cellular immune response. Geometric mean antibody titers at both timepoints were significantly greater in patients vaccinated with mRNA-1273 versus BNT162b2, and a larger proportion of them achieved the threshold of 4160 AU/ml, corresponding with high neutralizing antibody titers in vitro(53.6% versus 31.8% at 8 or 9 weeks, P Conclusions The mRNA-1273 vaccine's greater immunogenicity may be related to its higher mRNA dose. This suggests a high-dose vaccine might improve the impaired immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients on hemodialysis.This research was supported by Amgen (DONATION-331036).
A. De Vriese and J. Van Praet designed the study; R. Caluw e, A. De Bel, A. De Vriese, P. Doubel, L. Heylen, M. Schoutteten, J. Van Praet, B. Van Vlem, and L. Viaene provided study materials or patients; D. De Bacquer, A. De Vriese, M. Reynders, and J. Van Praet analyzed the data; D. De Bacquer and J. Van Praet made the figures; A. De Vriese drafted the paper; D. De Bacquer, M. Reynders, and J. Van Praet revised it critically for important intellectual content; all authors approved the final version
of the manuscript. The authors are indebted to Tessa Acke, Manuela Caster, Evelyne Deglorie, Mirjam Demesmaecker, Suzanne Driessens, Inne Hoebrekx, Annelien Leunen, Carine Lowis, Isabel Moyaert, Danny Pauwels, Joris Penders, Melissa Renders, Carmen Reynders, Sofie Tombeur, Katrien Uyttersprot, Femke Van Den Berg, Kristel Van Varenbergh, Tine Verheyen, Manon Verhulst, and Sophie Vleeschouwers for their invaluable help in the collection of the patient data and analysis of the samples
Forecasting aggregate demand components with opinion surveys in the four main EC-countries - Experience with the BUSY model. Economic Papers No. 46, May 1986
No full textSAFE Newsletter : 2013, Q3
No full textResearch: Joachim Weber, Benjamin Loos, Steffen Meyer, Andreas Hackethal "Individual Investors' Trading Motives and Security Selling Behavior"
Ignazio Angeloni, Ester Faia "Monetary Policy and Prudential Regulations with Bank Runs"
Helmut Siekmann "Legal Limits to Quantitative Easing"
Policy Margit Vanberg "SAFE Summer Academy 2013 on 'International Financial Stability'"
Guest Commentary Peter Praet "Cooperation between the ECB and Academia
Visual abstract – Supplemental material for Single-Center Experience With a Self-Expandable Venous Cannula During Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pptx-1-inv-10.1177_15569845221131534 for Single-Center Experience With a Self-Expandable Venous Cannula During Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery by Karel M. Van Praet, Markus Kofler, Alexander Meyer, Simon H. Sündermann, Matthias Hommel, Volkmar Falk and Jörg Kempfert in Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery</p
3D volumes of suspended particulate matter in the Belgian part of the North Sea
No full text<p>This dataset comprises 3D volumes that display the converted mean mass concentrations of suspended particulate matter (SPMC) for different size ranges (1-500 µm, 1-3 µm, 3-20 µm, 20-200 µm, 200-500 µm). These 3D grids (2 m resolution) were made for five campaigns, which were conducted during 2020-2021 in the Belgian part of the North Sea. </p>
<p>This dataset was used in the research article in Remote Sensing titled "The potential of multibeam sonars as 3D turbidity and SPM monitoring tool in the North Sea" by Praet et al. (2023).</p>Five campaigns were conducted with the RV Simon Stevin in the Kwinte (KW) and Westdiep (WD) areas during fall/winter (October 2020, February 2021) and spring/summer (March 2021, May 2021, July 2021). During each campaign, 3D multibeam water column (EM2040) and in-situ optical sensor (LISST-200X) datasets were collected to yield an empirical relation using linear regression modelling. This relationship was then used to predict SPM volume concentrations from the 3D acoustic measurements, which were further converted to SPM mass concentrations using calculated densities.
The raw and processed LISST-200X datasets can be consulted on the Marine Data Archive (DOI: doi.org/10.14284/572).
This research was conducted in the framework of the TIMBERS project (grant number SR/00/381), the STURMAPSS (dissemination) project (grant number SR/L9/221) and the TURBEAMS project (grant number RV/21/TURBEAMS). All projects were funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office BELSPO
Michel Foucault over S/M over Michel Foucault
No full textIn a number of interviews he gave in his latter years, Michel Foucault seemed to be developing a coherent theory on sadomasochism. A few years after his demise a biography was published interpreting his entire oeuvre as the intellectual sublimation of a life-long obsession with Eros and Thanatos. This contribution will try to establish the link between Foucault's explicit S/M theory and his unfinished History of Sexuality. It will argue that his thought was not so much dominated by S/M as by a wider refusal of categorisation, establishing both ancient Greek sexual morals and S/M techniques as escape routes out of the Christian-Freudian sexual hermeneutics and the modern bio-power
[catalog] Catalogue de livres choisies et curieux, tres-bien conditionnés, provenants de la bibliothèque de J. B. de M***, amateur des belles lettres : dont la vente se fera le mardi 13 Mai 1777 à l'Hôtel du Commerce à 10 heures du matin; & à 2 hures de revelé sous la dir. de Joseph Van Praet.
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