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Electromagnetic risk analysis and electromagnetic resilience in mission- and safety-critical communications KU Leuven

Tim Claeys
Waves: Core Research and Engineering (WaveCore)
Electromagnetic interference, familiar to most people as the annoying sound from a radio when a mobile-phone call is coming in, is becoming much more than just an annoyance. With the digital revolution, the complexity of our electronic equipment in our cars, factories and hospitals exponentially increases. Such equipment is not only more susceptible to electromagnetic disturbances (EMDs), it also creates more EMD s than before. As technology ...

Legal Risk Management in Tort Law: A Positive Legal Theory Based on a Comparative Analysis Ghent University

Marc Kruithof
Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law

The doctoral research has two main goals. First, it aims at an encompassing analysis of the theoretical models and concepts used internationally to assess different techniques used for legal risk management in tort law. Based on this analysis, it will provide a positive legal theory for the better understanding of the situation under Belgian law.

Risk Factor Knowledge in Medical Sciences. A Philosophical Analysis of Benefits and Potential Dangers Ghent University

Erik Weber
Department of Philosophy and moral sciences

We investigate different meanings of the notion risk factor in their relation with the concepts of U+201EcauseU+201F and U+201EdiseaseU+201F. We examine the explanatory power and importance for prevention of risk factor knowledge in its different meanings. We examine whether/when it can be theoretically justified to interpret risk factors as diseases on their own and whether/when this entails disease mongering.

Analysis of pesticide residueas in major food items and consumer risk assessment in Ethiopia Ghent University

Department of Crop protection

Consumer exposure to pesticides may cause a health risk for the people living in Ethipia. pesticide residues analysed on selected food items may exceed internationally safety leveld. Sepcific objectives -To initiate the determination of type and resudues levels of pesticides in teff, maize, coffee and cow milk - to investigate fot the first time the effect of local food processing on the elimination or reduction of pesticide residues in food ...

Understanding heterogeneity in preschoolers at risk for struggling with mathematics learning: profile analyses and dynamic assessments KU Leuven

Bert De Smedt
Parenting and Special Education, University of Melbourne
It has been repeatedly observed that children vary substantially in their levels of mathematical knowledge prior to school entry with some children already showing difficulties in their mathematical skills. These difficulties have been labelled to be highly heterogeneous, although the existing body of evidence has not investigated this heterogeneity on a fine-grained level. Against this background, the current project will examine heterogeneity ...

Assessment of atmospheric environmental risks related to artworks in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage complex of Alhambra (Granada, Spain) with the emphasis on the analysis of a unique collection of authentic pigment samples. University of Antwerp

Rene Van Grieken
AXES (Antwerp X-ray Analysis, Electrochemistry and Speciation)
The present research aims to characterize the materials and gaseous and particulate atmospheric pollutants at the Alhambra monumental complex in order to assess their contribution to the weathering processes on its artworks. A combination of micro-analytical techniques will be applied for in-depth characterisation of materials and pollutants. A plan for preventive conservation of the monument will be proposed based on the achieved results.

Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Advanced Risk Analytics in a Dynamic Insurance and Finance Environment. KU Leuven

Wim Schoutens
Research Centre Finance, Leuven, Statistics and Risk, Research Centre Insurance, Leuven
The financial and insurance industry is subject to unprecedented changes: new fundamental theories are introduced, a tsunami of data is nowadays at our disposal, computer-power is abundantly available leading to new developments in data science and artificial intelligence. At the same time, new products are finding their way to globalized financial and insurance markets, recent events have shown the devastating consequences of a systemic crisis ...

Flexible analytics for characterizing and exploiting the time-variation in financial risk. KU Leuven

Kris Boudt, Piet Sercu
Research Centre International Finance, Leuven, Department of Financial Management, Antwerp Campus

Investors trade-off risks and rewards when making financial decisions. A difficulty in this process is that not all risks are rewarded equally at all times. Therefore, an investor may benefit from understanding the drivers of the time variation of the risks to which he is exposed such that he can optimize his risk taking behavior. In this thesis, I focus on the time variation of financial risk from three perspectives. In Chapter One, I ...

Systematic risk in long-term insurance business. KU Leuven

Jan Dhaene
Research Centre Insurance, Leuven

The classical approach to manage insurance risk consists in selling a sufficiently large number of policies. This strategy allows the insurer to reduce the variations of the claim payments per-policy around the corresponding theoretical mean. Nevertheless, the insurer remains exposed to a systematic risk which cannot be completely eliminated by increasing the portfolio size. The presence of this risk is essentially due to the fact that the ...

Understanding the neurocognitive impact of preventive gaming and listening to enhanced speech in kindergarteners at risk for dyslexia KU Leuven

Pol Ghesquière
Parenting and Special Education, Research Group Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology
Although the most effective period of reading remediation is at the very start of reading acquisition, the diagnosis of dyslexia is often only given after years of reading failure, hence early remedial help is generally not provided. Recently, dyslexia research has explored behavioral and neuroimaging variables that can enhance accurate identification of preschool children who will develop dyslexia later on. Yet, until now, evidence is lacking ...