New clues to break through Brucella's armour
A team of microbiology researchers from UNamur has just published in the journal Nature Communications. The work focuses on the Brucella bacterium that causes Brucellosis, a disease that infects livestock and can be transmitted to humans. This research aims to better understand the molecular mechanisms of the bacterium's growth in order to better combat it.
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Skin infections: UNamur partners in Win²WAL research project
The TineaDiag project is a research project run by UNamur and ULiège with funding from the SPW Research Win²WAL program. It tackles dermatophytoses, skin infections responsible for ringworm, which can affect both humans and animals. The aim? To identify, in dermatophytes, precise cellular markers in order to detect them with sensitivity and certainty, and thus identify infections caused by antifungal-resistant strains.
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Is watching gaming gaming? Twitch and the video game revolution
… change. Video games are no longer just a pastime: they've become an object of study in their own right. And Fanny … monetized, professionalized. " We've gone from the game you buy once, to the "game as a service" model, and to … like Candy Crush , e-sport competitions or collaborative online adventures, the uses are multiple and reflect the …
Security and privacy
… they are not without their questions, particularly when it comes to privacy protection. The digital revolution has … of hybrid records in Belgian federal administrations in order to facilitate the transition to a trustful, secure and … is to study and analyze the legal framework for preserving online information and enabling the web archiving in …
Collaborative economy
… report predicts that five key sharing sectors (P2P finance, online recruitment, P2P hosting, ride-sharing and … economy (in particular, consumer protection, labor law and competition law). . Publications P. Alexiadis and A. de … of the Ninth International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT 2018), ACM, New York, NY, …
Smart cities and e-government
… Mon, 09/23/2024 - 10:02 New developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) have enabled public … which refers to the use of ICT by government entities, in order to deliver their information and services in a more … security requirements, open data, development of online services, citizen participation, stakeholder …
Digital education
… platforms, cybersecurity, etc., digital education has become a major issue for our society. Educational initiatives … in teaching that aims to integrate a digital culture in order, in particular, to prepare students for the "digital … Study day Betternet Lab: Moving away from sluts \& macho's online, Brussels, 23rd January 2020. Collard, A.-S., Henry, …
Research
… - 13:24 At the NaDI-CeRCLe research laboratory, we are committed to producing high-quality, high-impact research. … being also our inter/pluridisciplinary approach and our commitment to current issues enable us to generate … and Hammedi, W. (2022), "Patients' experience sharing with online social media communities: a bottom-of-the-pyramid …
Annual Research Day
The program
2:00 pm | Keynote lecture on the use of AI in research - Hugues BERSINI, Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles: "Can science be just data driven?" 3:00 pm | Presentations by UNamur researchers3:00 pm | Catherine Guirkinger: Use of AI in an economic history project3:15 pm | Nicolas Roy (PI: Alexandre Mayer): AI at the service of innovation in photonics and optics: revealing the secrets of scrolls through the classification of animal species15:25 | Nemanja Antonic (PI: Elio Tuci): An in silico representation of C. elegans collective behaviour<15h35 | Nicolas Franco : The benefits and dangers of "predicting the future" with covid-like machine learning models 15h45 | Michel Ajzen : Managerial and human implications of AI in organizations <15h55 | Robin Ghyselinck (PI : Bruno Dumas) : Deep Learning for endoscopy: towards next generation computer-aided diagnosis4:05 pm | Auguste Debroise (PI : Guilhem Cassan) : LLMs to measure the importance of stereotypes within gender representations in Hollywood films16h15 | Gabriel Dias De Carvalho : Learning practices in physics using generative AI16h25 | Sébastien Dujardin (PI : Catherine Linard) : Where Geography meets AI: A case study on mapping online flood conversations16h35 | Jeremy Dodeigne : LLMs in SHS: revolutionary tools in a Wild West Territory? Reflections on costs, transparency and open science16h45 | Antoinette Rouvroy : Governing AI in Democracy17h00 | Keynote lecture on ethics and guidelines to consider when using AI in research projects and writing research articles - Bettina BERENDT, Professor at KU Leuven18h00 | Benoît Frenay and Michaël Lobet : Creation of an IA scientific committee at UNamur18:10 | DrinkA certificate of attendance, worth 0.5 cross-disciplinary doctoral training credits, will be issued on request. Contact: secretariat.adre@unamur.beThis event is free of charge, but registration is required.
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Ethics and technology
… in the concept and design of information technologies, in order to make them visible and debatable, and thus to foster … education (biometrics for remote assessment), urban community (smartcity). The third axis explores the impacts … governmentality to a new rule of law. La Deleuziana: Online Journal of Philosophy, 3(1), 6-29. Rouvroy, A. …
Covid-19, five years on: A look back at UNamur's major role in the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic is a human tragedy that has caused millions of deaths worldwide and put our entire society under great strain. But it has also been a tremendous collective moment for many UNamur scientists, whose research continues in an attempt to better understand this disease and its consequences.
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