Projects
The Novels of Michael Chabon and the Politics and Poetics of Postmodernism KU Leuven
Even though the heyday of postmodernism is behind us, its legacy still persists in contemporary American fiction. This dissertation discusses the complex relationship between the politics and poetics of postmodernism and Michael Chabon's novels. Every chapter consists of a theoretical framework on an aspect of postmodern literature and a reading of one of Chabon's novels in the light of that theoretical framework.
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The offender’s experience of punitiveness : a descriptive phenomenological study KU Leuven
Imposing a penal sanction generally implies the intentional infliction of suffering or pain on a person convicted of committing criminal offenses. On the one hand, this added suffering is being legitimized by penal goals, whether or not they are being made explicit, on the other hand this practice is being legitimized by respecting the principles of fair sentencing, such as proportionality and equality. When determining the punishment and the ...
Cognitive Functional Therapy in nurses with persistent low back pain: an intervention based on an individualised multidimensional evaluation KU Leuven
Nurses perform essential healthcare tasks within our healthcare system and adequate nursing health is crucial for the provision of effective, empathic and efficient health care. However, occupational Low Back Pain (LBP) is very common among nurses. Lifetime prevalence ranges from 35 to 84% and annual prevalence is approximately 70%. LBP is worldwide the leading cause of disability and has a significant personal, social and economic impact. ...
Development and validation of active and passive immunotherapy targeted at protein Tau in transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease KU Leuven
ERC-Opvangproject: Low-level Object Capabilities, Formally Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Creation of Yang Zhu as A Philisopher in The Republican Era KU Leuven
The fame of Yangism was, in ancient times, as great as Confucianism and Mohism. As a matter of fact, Mohism and Confucianism were considered as equals during the Warring States period and the Han Dynasty, while Yangism being the third greatest school among the Hundred Schools of Thought. It is not until later times that Yangism and Mohism were deemed less than Confucianism. And after the Book Burning and Burial of the Scholars in the Qin ...
Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in Coupled Human and Natural Systems - interactive effects of anthropogenic stressors on the evolution of freshwater species and the socio-ecological consequences Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Disaster Governance: Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability KU Leuven
English summary
Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...
Hormones and neuroplasticity: image guided discoveries of molecular mechanisms in neuroplasticity KU Leuven
During juvenile development, male songbirds exhibit a high amount of neuroplasticity in the brain regions responsible for song learning and production, called the 'song control nuclei'. Additionally, seasonal learners display a cycle of song control nucleus growth and regression throughout a year: song control nuclei increase in volume when the days get longer in early spring and regress again when days get shorter. Both neuroplastic ...