Projects
Analysis of time varying relationships in multi-country monetary time series. KU Leuven
The main goal of empirical macroeconomics is to understand the relationships between macroeconomic variables, such as the gross domestic product (GDP), inflation and interest rates. This allows for better macroeconomic predictions and helps macroeconomic policy makers to set a sound fiscal and monetary policy. For example, understanding the effect of the short term interest rate on inflation is essential for a central bank, which is ...
Working time and time off in labour law: a legal research on work-life balance. KU Leuven
Belgian working time law has come into existence against the background of a social context that differs significantly from today’s reality. Working time law originated at the beginning of the 20th century. It was coordinated and laid down in the ’60 and ’70. Since then, many social evolutions took place that challenge working time law. Only few adaptions, however, have been made over the years. Together and partly as a consequence of this, ...
Relevance of alternative representations of time, time intervals and temporal relations for instructional approaches to foster the development of time-related competencies of primary school children Ghent University
The study focusus initially on a state-of-the-art about the empirical and theoretical grounding of the development of the concept of time, time intervals and time relationships. On the base of an analysis of the literature, an overview will be developed of didactical strategies to influence the development of the concept of time, time intervals and time relationships in learners of 5-12 years in primary school. In a second phasea ...
A matter of time - leveraging time series data for business applications. KU Leuven
The global topic of this dissertation is nicely reflected by its title – 'a matter of time' –, as we explore the different uses of data, i.e. 'matter', that is collected sequentially in time and how this data type can be integrated and leveraged within business contexts. Time series data represents the changes that a given feature goes through over time and can be collected for any target or explanatory variable. Time series have therefore ...
Development of a forensic molecular clock to determine time of death and blood trace deposition time KU Leuven
The time and date of a person’s death are two of the major questions police detectives and investigative judges ask a forensic pathologist as it provides a specific time frame in which the investigators can base their further investigations on. The current time of death estimation techniques produce large error ranges as environmental and endogenous factors have to be taken into account. The most widely accepted and accurate model is based on ...
Time in Augustine’s Theology: A Pluri-disciplinary Study of Augustine’s Time Theory KU Leuven
Augustine has reflected on the theme of time throughout his life. He leaves us many descriptions and discussions about time, which are diverse and inconsistent. This research aims to contribute a consensus by working on the text and reconstructing the context. It will collect all time discussions of Augustine and establish a reference network. After this, it will reveal the reception of Augustine’s time theory and its modern interpretations. ...
Time parallel time integration methods for multiscale systems, with application in uncertainty quantification and optimization KU Leuven
Time parallel methods iteratively refine a cheap but inaccurate time integration by computing a sequence of corrections on different portions of the time domain in parallel. Such methods promise extra opportunities for parallellisation on exascale high performance computing architectures. In this PhD, we will study time parallel time integration methods for multiscale systems and apply them in the context of uncertainty quantification and ...
TIME for change in health promotion research: a focus on the DYNAMIC nature of individual and environmental determinants of physical activity and sedentary time Ghent University
Engaging in sufficient physical activity (PA) and limiting sedentary time (ST) have major physical and mental health benefits Despite many previous theory-based interventions, the population prevalence of physical inactivity and ST remains high Three major shortcomings of previous behavior change interventions are (1) they do not consider the dynamic (time- and context-varying) nature of determinants, (2) they neglect the role of the ...