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Société

Digital technology: a new tool for separated families

How can a family share life when it doesn’t share home? UCLouvain researcher Laura Merla is passionate about such eclectic family contexts, in which the use of information and communication technologies like Facebook and WhatsApp become tools for creating the co-presence crucial to having a...
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Environment

Biodiversity: an emergency

We’ll talk a lot about biodiversity this fall at UCLouvain but from an angle that is not often assumed: focusing on the interactions – we wouldn’t dare write ‘synergies’ – between causes of species decline. A conference awaits that will be well worth attending.  Caroline Nieberding,...
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Anonymous data ... or not!

Personal data are often shared anonymously. But we know that it’s possible to reidentify people. ICTEAM researchers have just developed a model that accurately estimates the probability of a person being correctly identified. The use of the Internet or mobile applications generates...
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Santé

Prebiotics in forgotten vegetables

On 12 September, UCLouvain Prof. Nathalie Delzenne presented FOOD4GUT’s conclusions and prospects. An interdisciplinary project funded by the Walloon Region, FOOD4GUT focuses on sustainable development in obesity prevention. After five years of work, it has found the means to propose innovative...
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Mission: satellite data training for ESA

This week, from 16 to 20 September in Louvain-la-Neuve, nearly 100 carefully selected researchers participate in the ‘Advanced Training in Land Remote Sensing’, a training in the exploitation of satellite data acquired by remote sensing. Commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA),...
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