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The challenges of modern democracy and European integration Universiteit Gent
This book is the very first creation of the Centre for Direct Democracy Studies (CDDS) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bialystok. The Centre was established in 2011 to foster and institutionalise research on direct democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Among its goals, the Centre aims to launch a series of peer-reviewed publications on democracy and European integration. For the first book in the planned series the Centre called ...
Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome and Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay: A Report of Two Male Sibs Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Background: Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the SACS gene (13q12) encoding the protein sacsin. It is characterized by early-onset cerebellar ataxia, lower limb spasticity, sensorimotor axonal polyneuropathy, and atrophy of the superior cerebellar vermis. Cerebellar disorders in general may be accompanied by the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome ...
Reconstructing the population history of European Romani from genome-wide data Universiteit Antwerpen
The Romani, the largest European minority group with approximately 11 million people [1], constitute a mosaic of languages, religions, and lifestyles while sharing a distinct social heritage. Linguistic [2] and genetic [3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8] studies have located the Romani origins in the Indian subcontinent. However, a genome-wide perspective on Romani origins and population substructure, as well as a detailed reconstruction of their demographic ...
On ways of being on the way Lexical, complex preposition and aspect marker uses KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
This article presents a case study of a set of constructions containing the related way-nouns road, way, track and route, exemplified by (i) the farm road to the house, (ii) A senior Soviet official is on his way to the Iraqi capital, (iii) spies Burgess and Maclean escaped from Britain en route to Moscow, (iv) Queensland is on track to become the top bowling state in Australia. These distinct constructions are a case of layering (Hopper 1991). ...
Linguïstische noden van mobiele medische professionals Universiteit Antwerpen
Connecting Islam and film culture Universiteit Antwerpen
This article reviews the complex relationship between religion and film-viewing among the Moroccan diaspora in Antwerp (Belgium), an ethnically and linguistically diverse group that is largely Muslim. A media ethnographic study of film culture, including in-depth interviews, a group interview and elaborate fieldwork, indicates that film preferences and consumption vary greatly along socio-demographic and linguistic lines. One particular ...
Expressing certainty and uncertainty in parent-teacher conferences: effects on legitimacy and role fulfillment Universiteit Gent
Parent teacher conferences represent a setting in which the social institutions school and family meet and are able to intersect and interact. They can be studied as one of several forms of institutional interaction, organized as a specialized system of turn-taking based on questions and answers. On first sight these meetings seem pre-defined and they seem to follow fixed structures that allocate specific roles to the teacher and the parent(s). ...
Infinitivo y sujeto en portugués y español: un estudio empírico de los infinitivos adverbiales con sujeto explícito Universiteit Gent
Infinitive and subject in Portuguese and Spanish. An empirical study on adverbial infinitives with explicit subjects. The main goal of my dissertation is to empirically investigate Portuguese and Spanish infinitival constructions with specified subjects in adverbial contexts, on the basis of statistical analyses of both corpus and experimental data. Within a functional-cognitive paradigm, the first three chapters offer a state of the art on ...
The use of lingála in the teaching of chemistry in DR Congo: a socio-terminological approach Universiteit Gent
In most African countries, former colonial languages continue to be used as languages of instruction (LOI) in the school system, based inter alia on the claim that African languages have not developed scientific and technical vocabularies. At the same time, however, the general public, including students, has a poor command of those LOI. This paper focuses on the situation of Lingála, which is the dominant language in Kinshasa, the capital of DR ...