Publications by authors named "B Gielen"
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- * Although many studies are being done, there isn't a common way to conduct these studies, making it hard to compare results and use them in real-life medicine.
- * The review shows that while only a few studies are good enough to compare, they have promising results that emphasize the need for standard methods so doctors can better choose patients who will benefit from immunotherapy.
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- This study analyzes the appropriateness of end-of-life care for patients in Belgium with advanced illnesses like cancer, COPD, or dementia, based on population-level data from 2010-2016.
- The research indicates a notable increase in the involvement of family physicians, specialist palliative care, and emergency department usage during patients' last days of life.
- While palliative care utilization has risen, there are concerns about inappropriate care practices, highlighting the need for improved care strategies to enhance quality of end-of-life experiences for patients.
Background And Aims: Quantifying the Earth's forest above-ground biomass (AGB) is indispensable for effective climate action and developing forest policy. Yet, current allometric scaling models (ASMs) to estimate AGB suffer several drawbacks related to model selection and uncertainties about calibration data traceability. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) offers a promising non-destructive alternative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAltered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
October 2020
Drought and heat events, such as the 2018 European drought, interact with the exchange of energy between the land surface and the atmosphere, potentially affecting albedo, sensible and latent heat fluxes, as well as CO exchange. Each of these quantities may aggravate or mitigate the drought, heat, their side effects on productivity, water scarcity and global warming. We used measurements of 56 eddy covariance sites across Europe to examine the response of fluxes to extreme drought prevailing most of the year 2018 and how the response differed across various ecosystem types (forests, grasslands, croplands and peatlands).
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