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Do Work-Family Reconciliation Policies 'Work' for Native Groups with a Migration Background? Costs, opportunities, Policy design & Experiences (COPE) in a Mixed Methods Approach. University of Antwerp

Karel Neels
Centre for Population, Family and Health
Unprecedented increases in female employment and declining fertility levels have undoubtedly been the most important household transformations in post-war Europe. In response to these changes, European governments developed policies geared towards the reconciliation of (female) employment and family formation such as formal childcare and parental leave. Higher fertility and a relatively weak tension between work and family in countries like ...

Class-based environmentalism: Towards a multidimensional and mixed methods approach. University of Antwerp

Frederic Vandermoere
Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
This project examines the relation between social class and environmentalism. Environmentalism refers to both attitudes about environmental problems and pro-environmental behaviour. The key research question is: "How and why do people from different social classes differ in their tendency towards environmentalism?" While previous research has been dominated by a unidimensional understanding of both social class and environmentalism, these ...

Integration of the bond behaviour into the numerical modelling and the design of mixed cement composite – concrete structures. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tine Tysmans
Mechanics of Materials and Constructions
Composites are increasingly applied as alternative or additional external reinforcement in
concrete structures. The non-corroding reinforcement can solve the often occurring durability
issues in aggressive environments. This rising technology can also avoid the demolition and
new construction of existing concrete structures by strengthening and/or protecting them, or
even lead to the design of new lightweight concrete ...

Advanced mixed mode circuit design in organic/oxide based technologies. KU Leuven

Paul Heremans
ESAT - MICAS, Microelectronics and Sensors

The purpose of this PhD is to explore the possibilities of organic/oxide transistors on foil in design. Experts in production technology have come to a point where these transistors can be produced with reasonable accuracy and predictability, but only the first small designs have been presented up to now, most of them coming from imec (the partner organization). The technology is extremely slow compared to standard CMOS. However for a lot of ...

Optimal design of steel structures according to the Eurocodes using mixed-integer linear programming methods KU Leuven

Mattias Schevenels
Architectural Engineering, Structural Mechanics Section

In structural design, achieving minimum cost is the main goal. Structural design optimization plays a crucial role in reaching this goal. It can reduce both the consumption of natural resources by the construction industry and the engineering effort and therefore cost by automation of some of the most repetitive tasks in the design process. However, practicing structural engineers are reluctant to adopt optimization as a daily design tool. ...

Potential of processing to modify flavour of single and mixed vegetable systems KU Leuven

Ann Van Loey
Centre for Food and Microbial Technology

Due to the consumer demand, food industries have shown an increased interest in the production of healthier, more natural and more tasty vegetable-based products. In that context, a major challenge is to (re)design the manufacturing processes of such food products in order to comply with the increasingly important requested criteria. Flavour is one of the most important quality attributes in foods affecting consumers’ acceptance. The flavour ...

Unscrambling mixed elements with single atom sensitivity using quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy. University of Antwerp

Sandra Van Aert
Electron microscopy for materials research (EMAT)
The goal of this project is to develop and design a powerful method in order to unscramble mixed element nanostructures at the atomic scale in three dimensions (3D). Therefore, novel quantitative measurement tools will be combined with aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). Visualisation at the atomic scale in 3D using state-of-the-art STEM is nowadays possible for modellike systems with 1 type of chemical element ...

Advocacy by non-profit organizations in a post-co oratist welfare state: a mixed method analysis. University of Antwerp

Peter Raeymaeckers
Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
This proposal aims to assess how non-profit organizations (NPO's) adapt their advocacy role and strategies to the new governance context of the post-co oratist welfare state. The recent emergence of market-oriented modes of governance increasingly erode the long-established government-nonprofit relationships in co oratist welfare states, leading to more volatile relationships. We want to advance existing research by empirically analyzing how ...

Design and design automation of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits KU Leuven

Georges Gielen
Electronic Circuits and Systems (ECS)

Microelectronic/nanoelectronic integrated circuits are the underlying technology for the many ICT applications that increasingly impact our daily lives: computing, communication, multimedia, entertainment, transport, healthcare, etc. While more and more applications are becoming digital in nature, analog and mixed analog-digital integrated circuits remain an essential part in electronic systems for the countless applications that interact ...