Projects
The relation between positive and negative affect in depression KU Leuven
How positive and negative feelings are interrelated in everyday emotional experience is a question that has intrigued affective scientists for decades. Can we experience levels of positive affect (PA) irrespective of the experienced level of negative affect (NA; i.e., affective independence), or do these emotional states represent the mutually exclusive ends of a single bipolar continuum (i.e., affective bipolarity)? The overarching premise ...
The effect of the social-cultural distance between natives and non-natives on the mutual perception and trust in government Hasselt University
BIOMOT Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Many economists and ecologists claim that biodiversity has total economic values running into the trillions of euros worldwide and ...
Proposed Research Title: The Ideological and Textual Research on Mozi’s Edition Compiled in the Yongle Canon KU Leuven
The Yongle Canon is the first and largest encyclopedia in the world which has only 815 volumes left. In 1986, Zhonghua Shuju中華書局 published a photocopy of the Yongle Canon’s 797 volumes. The 10th book preserved the whole catalogs of 22877 volumes, in which edited two lost volumes:“ Volume 54, ‘Shangtong’<尙同> chapter of Mozi《墨子》” and “Volume 1814, the Mohism墨家”. According to the Index of the Yongle Canon《永樂大典索引》, there are four existing ...
Building Brussels. Brussels city builders and the production of space, 1794-2015 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
New Language Constructs and Inferences for the Knowledge Base Paradigm: A Business and Multi-agent Perspective KU Leuven
In Artificial Intelligence, the scientific field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) is concerned with developing formal languages, to represent knowledge, and inference methods to solve tasks using that knowledge. Most of the existing approaches develop a formal language (a logic) together with an inference, to solve some type of computational task. The recently proposed Knowledge Base (KB) paradigm applies a strict separation of ...
Deterministic seismic hazard assessment in the Belgian Campine basin at the Mol/Dessel site: From seismic source to site effect KU Leuven
The objective of this PhD is to perform a deterministic seismic hazard assessment in comparison with existing probabilistic hazard assessments for the specific case of the Mol-Dessel site, which comprises different nuclear industries. In the rare case of a large earthquake, these might pose a threat to population and environment.
The expected results will consist in ground motion response spectra at the ground surface of the Mol-Dessel ...