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Effect of foraminal enlargement on microcrack formation and apical transportation: a nano-CT assessment KU Leuven
The aim of this study was to evaluate the foraminal enlargement and its influence on microcrack formation and apical transportation in root canals with apical curvature. Eighteen maxillary lateral incisors with apical curvature were selected by using micro-CT images. Root canals were randomly divided in two groups (n = 9) according to root canal preparation using two working lengths: 1 mm short of the apical foramen (control group) and 1 mm ...
Decisional malaise after EU enlargement? Examining the substantive lourdeur of EU decision-making. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the fifth EU enlargement round on what Krislov, Ehlerman and Weiler (1986: 34) call the substantive lourdeur of EU decision-making. These authors use this concept to describe the decisional malaise after the Luxembourg Compromise (1966). The substantive lourdeur describes the difficulties the EU institutions and decision-makers experience to produce legislation of a certain quality standard. ...
ENP-EMP: Enlargement Lite or Orientalism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This book provides a systematic analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), by focusing on the impact of norms of justice and home affairs on EU external relations. Drawing on the literature of 'new governance', it designs a framework for analysis which clarifies the contents, tools, and processes of the external dimension of EU justice and home affairs. The book combines high quality chapters with a rigorously structured format, which ...
Long-term outcome of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients with severe left atrial enlargement and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
AIMS: Data regarding the efficacy of catheter ablation in heart failure patients with severely dilated left atrium and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) are scanty. We sought to assess the efficacy of catheter ablation in patients with reduced LVEF and severe left atrial (LA) enlargement, and to compare it to those patients with preserved left ventricular function and equally dilated left atrium.
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Democratic conditionality in the eastern enlargement: ambitious window dressing Ghent University
This article addresses the promotion of democracy in the enlargement process of the Central and Eastern European countries. We start by outlining EU democracy promotion during accession, with a particular focus on political conditionality. In a subsequent part we argue that the European Commission did not make a clear substantive distinction between the concepts of rule of law and democracy. In addition various drawbacks are identified which ...
PDIA in the Balkans : the Western Balkans Alumni Association (WBAA) as positive deviance : EU enlargement and regional cohesion Ghent University
This chapter aims to portray why and how WBAA, as an organism, organization, entity, agent, actor, network, … produces emergent effects as a regional entity is a Positive Deviance, as recognized in theory, and more specifically within the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation by Harvard’s Center for International Development. Positive Deviance is one of the core principles in the PDIA strategy—by “creating (and protecting) environments within and ...
The End of Enlargement? The EU’s Struggle with the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership Countries KU Leuven
War, taxation and the enlargement of farms in coastal Flanders (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) Ghent University
Wars always have had a huge impact on societies. If a war lasts for a long period of time, it is even capable of fundamentally changing economic structures. This was a factor in an evolution that took place in coastal Flanders during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this area, large farms became larger as they were able to absorb small leasehold farms that had gone bankrupt during periods of war. This article investigates the ...