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Developing behavioral tests to support selection of police horses KU Leuven
© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The existence of personality in nonhuman animals is widely accepted, but the development of valid and reliable methods to measure and interpret it is ongoing. Personality can be important in selecting horses for particular roles and has the potential to improve welfare and safety for riders and horses. This is especially important for challenging roles such as police work. A custom-made behavioral test protocol was trialed ...
An ensemble-based feature selection framework to select risk factors of childhood obesity for policy decision making KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: The increasing prevalence of childhood obesity makes it essential to study the risk factors with a sample representative of the population covering more health topics for better preventive policies and interventions. It is aimed to develop an ensemble feature selection framework for large-scale data to identify risk factors of childhood obesity with good interpretability and clinical relevance. METHODS: We analyzed the data collected ...
Bayesian policy selection using active inference Ghent University
Selection of specific nutritional components for agricultural and rural development projects; a report to FAO, Division of Food Policy and Nutrition Institute of Tropical Medicine
Information Frictions and Adverse Selection: Policy Interventions in Health Insurance Markets KU Leuven
© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Despite evidence that many consumers in health insurance markets are subject to information frictions, approaches used to evaluate these markets typically assume informed, active consumers. We develop a general framework to study insurance market equilibrium in the presence of choice frictions and evaluate key policy interventions. We identify ...
A reflection of current oversight measures of the use of surveillance technology by the local police in Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Het artikel tracht na te gaan of de huidige toezichtsmaatregelen op de lokale politie in België voldoende zijn om nieuwe technologische ontwikkelingen aan te pakken en een reflectie te bieden over hoe dit kan worden verbeterd. Is het traditioneel kader dat toezicht op de politie regelt voldoende om de risico’s van nieuwe technologieën op te vangen? In een eerste deel zal kort ingegaan worden op de laatste ontwikkelingen in ...
Voting with your wallet? Municipal budget policy and election results University of Antwerp Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this research letter, we examine the impact of municipal budget policy on the percentage of votes for the incumbent majority parties in subsequent elections. We contribute to the academic literature by examining the combined influence of taxes, expenditures and debt. Based on data for Flanders (Belgium) between 1994 and 2012, we find no significant association between these budget variables and the actual election results.
Applying the realist evaluation approach to the complex process of policy implementation -the case of the user fee exemption policy for caesarean section in Benin Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Realist evaluation is making inroads in the field of health policy and systems research to a large extent because of its good fit with complex issues. Until now, realist studies focused on evaluating interventions or projects related to health care delivery, organization of health services, education, management and leadership of health workers in high income countries. With this paper, we apply the realist approach to the study of national ...