Publications by authors named "H De Clercq"
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- This study examines how different relative humidity (RH) levels affect the crystallization of salt mixtures, which is important for fields like building preservation and geology.
- The researchers used various methods, including time-lapse imaging and microstructural analysis, to observe how composition and RH rates influence crystallization and dissolution behaviors.
- Findings indicate that rapid and slow humidity changes significantly impact salt phase transitions, leading to deviations from predicted models, which could inform better preservation techniques and understanding of geological processes.
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- Salt weathering of stones is influenced by crystallization pressures in pore spaces and is driven by Relative Humidity (RH).
- Most research has focused on single salts, highlighting the need to study salt mixtures to better understand weathering.
- The study identifies 14 common salts and their critical RH points, providing valuable insights into weathering processes and guiding future experimental research on stone weathering.
Purpose: Falling is a multifactorial condition that can cause severe injury and even death in older adults. Early identification of fall risk factors, as the first step of preventive health care, can assist in reducing the negative and often debilitating effects of falls in older adults. By using the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework to develop an ICF code set to identify fall risk factors in older adults, health care practitioners could obtain health information in a multidimensional way.
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- Understanding salt mixtures is essential for assessing damage in building materials, which often show signs of deterioration due to salt.
- The study analyzes a dataset of 11,412 samples from 338 sites, applying charge balance calculations to evaluate ion concentrations of common salts like Na, Cl, and SO.
- The findings help identify typical salt compositions and theoretical carbonates that affect mixture behavior, providing useful data for thermodynamic modeling.
Celeriac F hybrid seed production is currently complicated due to the instability of cytoplasmic male sterile lines. To develop alternative alloplasmic CMS lines, an asymmetric protoplast fusion and hybrid screening methodology was established. Celeriac suspension cells protoplasts were used as the acceptor and carrot, coriander and white celery mesophyll protoplasts as the donor for protoplast fusion experiments.
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