Projects
Organizing central government: current trends in European public sector organization. KU Leuven
Childhood disability as a double disadvantage? An empirical investigation into poverty measurement, poverty trends and policy impacts among children with disabilities across European welfare states KU Leuven
Child poverty rates are alarmingly high and have increased in many European welfare states. Simultaneously, the prevalence of children with disabilities has also been rising. In the existing literature, it is assumed that disabled children are more likely to grow up poor than non-disabled children. This begs the question whether the rising prevalence of disabled children accounts for the rising trends in child poverty, which can only be ...
Retrospective analysis of temporal trends and variability in patient outcomes within the Belgian hospital landscape KU Leuven
This research falls within the framework of the research chair Zorgnet-Icuro, and is a retrospective analyis of quality and patient safety outcomes in Belgian hospitals
Three objectives have been determined within this research:
1. First, we aimed to uncover the international evidence-base concerning the impact quality improvement initiatives have on patient outcomes.
2. A second objective was to outline the ...
Update of the morphological trends at the Belgian coast Flanders Hydraulics
Mobile Processors for Scientific Use: A Critical Analysis of the Impact of Design Trends on Performance and Energy Use in Scientific Applications KU Leuven
The technical and market challenges that central processing unit (CPU) designers have experienced in the last decade or so has changed CPU's drastically. There is a focus on energy-efficient multi-core designs that was prompted by the rise of smartphones and the demise of Moore's Law. Examination of CPU specifications and the associated marketing statements suggest that the design focus has been on making the batteries of mobile devices last ...
Time-inconsistent choices in today’s society and market place: How emerging trends and developments affect consumers’ food choices Ghent University
In light of the enduring proliferation of obesity in today’ society, this research project
aims to contribute to the literature by shedding light on how emerging developments
within our society and market place affect consumers’time-inconsistent choices
between healthy and unhealthy foods.
Developments and trends within society and the market place affect consumers’daily lives in many respects, but ...
Are mixed forests more resilient to environmental change? Analysis of recent growth trends along a gradient of tree species diversity. KU Leuven
Forests provide important ecosystem services to humans. The EU renewable energy target can only be reached by massive use of forest biomass. This implies productive forests, while recent studies show climate change related decreasing growth trends. This project aims at evaluating the role of biodiversity to support the production function of forests. The hypothesis that mixed forests are more resilient to environmental change is tested by ...
Private security in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom: A cross-national comparative analysis of late modern policy trends in a Continental European and Anglo-American context. Ghent University
In the last few decades, Western countries have witnessed major transformations in the nature of domestic security provision; a development which has witnessed a rapid expansion of the private security industry as one of its most visible and significant trends. Whilst this phenomenon has led to increased theoretical sophistication in criminology, it is widely acknowledged that this has been characterized by an Anglo-American bias. However, ...