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For whom I love I want to be known : the scope of EU citizens' family reunification rights : addressing legal fragmentation in the European UnionU+2019s multi-layered legal order Ghent University
Family is everything, but the possibility to enjoy family life is not always self-evident. The right to exercise family life is a fundamental principle that is widely recognized in international human rights law, but this right does not include the privilege to choose a specific country where family life can unfold. Families who are disseminated over different countries are therefore dependent on the rules of migration law to be (re)united. The ...
The Italian Invert. A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola Vrije Universiteit Brussel
“Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. It’s fate that creates us and guides us throughout our lives: to fight against it would be little more than fruitless, foolish, and reckless!”
In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the ...
In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the ...
The Contribution of the European Court of Justice to the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice KU Leuven
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) past and present contribution both procedurally and substantivelyto the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. While it is too early to speculate what the ECJ's contribution to this area will be under the provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, the latter's modifications to the ECJ's jurisdiction merit close ...
Bending the Code civil: Married Women, Their Capacity to Engage in Contracts and the Partnership Between Spouses (Belgium, 1804-c. 1865) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The regime of marital authority, which had been written into the 1804 French Civil code, took the puissance of the husband and the obedience of his wife as starting points, rather than the conjugal partnership. The provisions of the Civil code were strict, and more severe than legislation of previous periods, but they allowed some progressive interpretation. In France, over the course of the nineteenth century legal scholars attempted to broaden ...
Dynamics of a Mutual Inhibition Circuit between Pyramidal Neurons Compared to Human Perceptual Competition KU Leuven
Neural competition plays an essential role in active selection processes of noisy and ambiguous input signals, and it is assumed to underlie emergent properties of brain functioning, such as perceptual organization and decision-making. Despite ample theoretical research on neural competition, experimental tools to allow neurophysiological investigation of competing neurons have not been available. We developed a "hybrid" system where real-life ...
Progressive deafness-dystonia due to SERAC1 mutations - a study of 67 cases Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
OBJECTIVE: 3-MEthylGlutaconic aciduria, Dystonia-Deafness, Hepatopathy, Encephalopathy, Leigh-like syndrome (MEGDHEL) syndrome is caused by biallelic variants in SERAC1.
METHODS: Multi centre study concerning the course of disease for each organ system, together with metabolic, neuroradiological and genetic findings.
RESULTS: 67 individuals (39 previously unreported) from 59 families were included (age range 5 days - 33.4 ...
Secondary Access to European Passenger Name Records Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article intends to demonstrate that access to the EU PNR data for further use, as defined by Directive 2016/681, is not limited to Member States’ competent authorities for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of terrorist offences and of serious crime, Europol and third countries competent authorities, as was probably the legislators’ intention. Through other legal instruments, based on a duty of information exchange and ...
Neural sensitivity to facial identity and facial expression discrimination in adults with autism KU Leuven
The fluent processing of faces can be challenging for autistic individuals. Here, we assessed the neural sensitivity to rapid changes in subtle facial cues in 23 autistic men and 23 age and IQ matched non-autistic (NA) controls using frequency-tagging electroencephalography (EEG). In oddball paradigms examining the automatic and implicit discrimination of facial identity and facial expression, base rate images were presented at 6 Hz, ...
The Order & Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics (OCTA): A systematic approach to study the relations between order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation KU Leuven
Do individuals prefer stimuli that are ordered or disordered, simple or complex, or that strike the right balance of order and complexity? Earlier research mainly focused on the separate influence of order and complexity on aesthetic appreciation. When order and complexity were studied in combination, stimulus manipulations were often not parametrically controlled, only rather specific types of order (i.e., balance or symmetry) were usually ...