Title Promoter Affiliations Abstract "Caritas et Memoria. A Study of the Interplay Between Poor Relief and Commemoration is Cosmopolitan Bruges during the Late Middle Ages - Early Modern Period based on the Organization and Functioning of Parochial Poor Tables." "Paul Trio" "Medieval History, Kulak Kortrijk Campus" "This research investigates the interaction between poor relief and memoria in the late Middle Ages and sixteenth century. While it is well-known that food distributions to the poor were a form of memoria,   its implications for the daily practices of charity remain unclear, as both topics belong to different historiographical traditions. By exploring one well-chosen example, i.e. the parochial poor tables of Bruges, the current study examines how this type of institution combined poor relief and memoria, and how the ratio between these two elements evolved under the influence of socioeconomic, political and religious changes in society. The chosen methodology combines a number of different methods with a quantitative analysis of the endowments at the heart.Throughout the study it has become clear that poor relief and memoria were intricately interwoven. On a theoretical level, the practice of charity was believed to aid the salvation of the soul. Moreover, memoria was always present in the details of the endowment, the choice for the poor table, and the moment of the hand-out. Similarly, food distributions were especially popular in combination with an anniversary, or a personal memorial service. Yet, these distributions were not just a part of the liturgical service, but also functioned as independent elements. This research shows that the endowments provided the necessary new capital and guaranteed the continued existence of the poor tables. And even though the liturgical obligations were a burden, the poor tables were remarkably flexible:  the endowments may have lasted forever in theory, but the poor tables reduced, combined or even abolished endowments frequently, if necessary. The close connection between poor relief and memoria remained present until the end of the sixteenth century and was not altered by the reform movement in the beginning of this century. The reform did, however, cause a decline in the independence of the poor tables as both the urban and the ecclesiastical authorities increased their control over the institutions." "Improving soil, potato crops, human health and forage quality in a climate change context - EMPOCHA" "geen abstract" "Comparative empiric analysis of the performance of compliance mechanisms in the context of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD)" "Jelle Laverge" "Department of Architecture and urban planning" "The objective of proposed research project is to empirically assess the role of the different compliance mechanisms implemented by the EU member states since the Energy Performance of Buildings directive (EPBD) in the collective failure of the member states to meet their targets for improving the energy efficiency of their building stock and how these compliance mechanisms can be improved." "Unraveling past urbanisation: geoarchaeology brings to light the invisible record of towns in Northwestern Europe" "Multidisciplinary Archaeological Research Institute, Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality" "In Northwestern Europe, two so-called “waves of urbanisation” can be distinguished that date to the Middle Ages. Archaeologically and historically, these have been the subject of longstanding debate. However, several important questions about towns’ origins, formation, and character remain unanswered, as research regarding their very core, namely the sedimentary matrix from which artefacts are retrieved, has remained largely untapped. Moreover, for the Early Medieval Period, written sources are scarce. For the High Medieval Period, these have been used as a dominant source to shape past narratives. In the meantime, archaeological data have held a far less prominent position in the debate on late medieval towns despite their ability to provide a vast amount of unique and complementary information. This project will challenge this status quo by investigating two types of stratigraphical challenges commonly faced in urban archaeology, namely Dark Earths and thinly stratified deposits. Dark Earths, seemingly homogeneous deposits, represent some of the least known aspects of town development. Thinly stratified deposits are too thin to investigate by the naked eye. Geoarchaeology, and micromorphology in particular, is the ideal method to overcome these challenges. This method is applied in an integrated study in order to answer fundamental questions about medieval towns, through characterisation of human activities, natural processes, and taphonomical changes that shaped them. Ultimately, this leads to a synthesis of how the geoarchaeological research of towns significantly shapes, alters, and enhances our understanding of medieval towns." "Gassendi and the Science of Optics: the Genesis of a Continental Empiricism" "Maarten Van Dyck" "Department of Philosophy and moral sciences" "This project focuses on the French philosopher and physicist Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). It explores the articulation between his empiricism understood as a theory of knowledge based on the senses, and new optical theories and experimental practices.I concentrate on three main topics and show their connection to Gassendi’s epistemology: the physics of light, the physiology of vision, the psychology of vision." "Identity and Interaction in the Neolithic Island Aegean. The Production, circulation and Consumption of Ceramic Vessels on Chios." "Ilse Schoep" "Archaeology, Leuven" "Currently understanding of the Neolithic period (c.7000-3100/3000 BC) in the Aegean islands lags behind that of neighbouring regions, principally because the islands lack datasets of the necessary quality and range to allow secure insights into social reproduction and interaction.This project will address this lacuna by pursuing a fully integrated and contextual characterisation of pottery from the excavated sites of Ayio Gala and Emporio on Chios, which together span the ceramic Neolithic. This exceptional set of material includes pottery from the earlier Neolithic (c.6500-5300 BC), the provenancing of which will provide an entirely new window on the first Neolithic occupation of the islands. Integrated ceramic characterisation collects a much wider range of attribute data, using both macroscopic and microscopic techniques of analysis, and integrates technology and provenance with existing typologies of form and finish. It extends characterisation, beyond a traditional focus on the object, to the human practices in which pottery is implicated. Similar such characterisation work in the Aegean has transformed understanding of technology, production, exchange and consumption and thereby social practice. The project is expected to revolutionise our understanding of how people operated and interacted in island environments in the Aegean and how this changed during the Neolithic." "EM-POLITE: How to get the most out of your e-mail? An experimental study exploring the impact of im/politeness, social status and gender on our responses to e-mail communication." "Sofie Decock" "Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication" "In the current context of globalization, a significant part of our daily communication happens online, and the first communicative exchange creating a new relationship often occurs via e-mail. E-mails are widely used because of their speed and efficiency, but they lack information available face-to-face, such as intonation, facial expressions, gestures. This makes it challenging to adapt our e-mails to our addressee. However, little is known about how people emotionally react to im/polite e-mails. In addition, there is a knowledge gap concerning how sender-recipient social status (e.g., a boss vs. an employee), sender gender, and recipient gender influence recipients’ emotions online. To address these shortcomings, I will investigate the relationship between these variables and im/politeness using as case studies requests for action, requests for information, and criticisms, realized with varying degrees of im/politeness. A corpus of Dutch e-mails containing these speech acts will be compiled, and their im/politeness will be experimentally assessed. In another series of experiments, the interaction of relative social status and gender on affective evaluations of im/politeness in e-mails will be explored. Then, surveying participants’ eye movements and emotions when reading these e-mails and in a subsequent face-to-face interaction in virtual reality will enable me to see whether the intensity of the experienced emotions goes together with the degree of im/politeness." "Science in search of dialogue: 104 years of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz." "Christiane Stallaert" "Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)" "This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand CAPES. UA provides CAPES research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.According to M.A.K. Halliday, to learn science is to learn the language of science (2004 p. 138), which is to say that scientific practice is derived from and embedded in dialog. When applied collectively, however, this proposition takes on new dimensions involving concepts from organization studies with respect to multilingualism and language policy. As a case study, the complete corpus from the journal of a leading Brazilian public health/tropical disease institute, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, will be analyzed to map the networking involved in its developmental trajectory, which mirrors the development of science in Brazil. The changing roster of partners, particularly regarding scientific institutions in France, Germany and North America, and their type and degree of involvement over its 100+ years is reflected in the journal's widely vacillating language policy, which has culminated in an English only format shortly after going online in 1996 and the foreign outsourcing of translation and language editing in 2013." "Efficient Uncertainty quantification For Optimization in Robust design of Industrial Applications (EUFORIA)." "Stefan Vandewalle" "Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NUMA)" "Develop an efficient methodology for optimizing industrial processes with regard to uncertainties. Uncertainties of parameters affecting the process, as well as those of the design variables themselves, will be charged in the optimization cycle. The emphasis is on a large number of design variables and uncertainties." SFFACCEL "Koen De Bosschere" "Department of Electronics and information systems" "SFFACCEL is an iniave of 11 HEIs, three R&B centers, one naonwide entrepreneurial associaon, and two European regional valleys commied to the vision to develop a holisc but inclusive entrepreneurial transformaon model where responsible innovaon actors and entrepreneurs ulize disrupve technologies across industry vercals to develop innovaons that serve people and planet.SFFACCEL builds on the posive effects and results achieved in the EIT HEI Iniave and other EU projects: EUACCEL, TANDEM +,and EUFORIA (all contribung to Start for Future framework which connects over 30 HEIs) and further develops their entrepreneurial concepts addressing the Deep Tech Talent Iniave and calls to acon defined by The New European Innovaon Agenda."