Projects
Predictive data mining: new techniques and applications. KU Leuven
Marriage Migration: Integration, Identity and Empowerment among Muslim Women in Belgian Society Ghent University
When marriage migrants leave their familiar environment they face the double challenge of building partner and family relationships and integrating into a new society. Regardless if this new place is a better one, it still involves struggles and difficulties. Especially for female marriage migrants, family and kinship ground the social order and form a crucial network of support. Hence the role of the immediate new family, kinship ties and ...
PrevenD 2.0: Implementation of gamified cognitive control training to prevent recurrence of depression Ghent University
The goal of PrevenD 2.0 is to deliver a freely accessible, cost-effective,
preventive intervention for (recurrent) depression and guide
implementation in clinical practice. For this purpose, we aim to
maximize the impact of a recently developed and proven effective
preventive gamified cognitive control training (CCT) procedure for
remitted depressed patients (developed and tested in PrevenD 1.0). In ...
The Voice of the People. Displays of Public Opinion in the News and Their Influence on Audiences. University of Antwerp
Analyzing cyber security on the web with visual analytics. KU Leuven
Sound research practices are the foundation of valid, reliable, and trustworthy research results. In the context of web security research, the importance of measurements that yield the empirical real-world data for analyzing and improving security on the web emphasizes the need to use sound data sets and methods that allow these measurements to be accurate, comprehensive, representative, and transparent. In this PhD project, we discuss three ...
Physiological and molecular-genetic characterisation of the neuropeptide SIFamide in Caenorhabditis elegans . KU Leuven
Internet of Animals: Wireless Spatio-Temporal Observation of Dairy Goats Using Unsupervised Deep Learning Ghent University
The dairy goat industry has been growing quickly, in Flanders it already houses over 26 000 animals, which produce over 30 million liters of milk annually. As the industry becomes more commercialized the customers become more concerned with the overall welfare of livestock and farmers are looking to further increase the profit margins. This creates a need for wireless monitoring systems that can provide the farmers with real-time insights ...
Minors and online sexual acts: a study of legal qualifications and regulatory approaches from a children's rights perspective Ghent University
Minors are engaging with technology, such as mobile applications or social networking services, to establish and maintain intimate relationships and develop their sexual identity. This may fall within the scope of children’ freedom of expression and privacy yet may sometimes be part of sexual abuse or cause harm. The proposed research aims to examine the interplay between technology and regulation of a comprehensive range of online sexual ...