Projects
'Jack The Bear': A comparative analysis of the innovations in jazz bass playing by Jimmie Blanton. University of Antwerp
Newspapers in Education: an inquiry into the project "Kranten in de klas" University of Antwerp
Metatranscriptomic insights into the spatiotemporal dynamics of microeukaryotic plankton in the Southern North Sea Ghent University
Towards theory-based behavioral interventions to improve early initiation of palliative care in people with cancer: application of the Theory of Planned Behavior Ghent University
Palliative care (PC) is often initiated too late. Theory-based behavioral interventions that improve early initiation of PC in the disease course are necessary. A desired patient behavior is to bring up PC with the family physician. The aim of this project is 1) to identify determinants affecting the
desired patient behavior, and 2) to systematically develop a theoretically-based behavioral intervention.
Planned Obsolescence: In Search of a Refined Legal Framework KU Leuven
Our today‘s society is often called a “throwaway society” based on a linear “take-make-use-dispose” economy. Many studies point out that median lifespans of certain consumer products are in decline. One of the main sources of this problem is the phenomenon of “premature obsolescence”, covering all practices that reduce product lifetime so that the product does not reach its optimal lifetime (from an environmental point of view), without it ...
Planned Lead Times in Production Planning under Demand Uncertainty Ghent University
Current production planning models typically do not account for the non-linear congestion effects, which arise during production, to plan production releases and allocate available capacity. This work focuses on the development of integrated models and solution algorithms that set planned lead times for different products and production units in production networks while taking into account resource utilization and demand uncertainty.
A Combined Multibody and Plantar Pressure Approach to Estimate and Predict Foot Kinematics Applied to 3D-printed Insoles KU Leuven
In Europe, over 200 million people suffer from disabling foot and ankle pain caused by a variety of pathologies as overloading injuries, degenerative joint disorders and systemic diseases (e.g. diabetes). Foot orthoses (FOs) or insoles are a popular conservative treatment to alleviate pain and prevent further deterioration of the pathological condition; the goal is to optimize a patient’s foot function by relieving symptoms and slow down or ...
FORTUNA - The fate of planets orbiting around ageing stars. KU Leuven
More than 4700 exoplanets have been discovered, over 90% orbiting main-sequence stars. Nearly all of these stars will evolve through the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase at the end of their life, during which the star expands, becomes very luminous and develops a strong stellar wind. The question then arises whether and how planets survive stellar evolution? Detecting planets orbiting AGB stars has remained tantalisingly out of reach ...
A comprehensive model of job search behavior: An integration of the Motivational Self -Regulatory Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior. Ghent University
The research project aims to theoretically build and empirically test a comprehensive model of job search behavior, integrating the Motivational Self-Regulatory Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior to identify the predictors of job search behavior. In addition, recent insight on the unfolding sequence of job search success are applied to add employment outcomes to the integrative model.