Projects

The aim of the project is to validate a new therapy that can be used in addition to adequate antibiotic treatment in patients with systemic Staphylococcus aureus infections (bacteriaemia).

The rule of law allows that laws enacted by parliament are subjected to control by the Constitutional Court. When he legislates, the legislator in principle has certain goals of public interest in mind. These goals are key to the scrutiny by the Court. That is because if laws infringe upon constitutional values, such as fundamental rights, the Court needs to know the (true) goals pursued by the legislator, in order to evaluate if his actions ...

If the Constitutional Court evaluates the constitutionality of a law, which infringes upon constitutional values, it must consider the goals pursued by the legislator. This project proposes to develop a conceptual framework for judicial review of legislative intent, to analyze the existing case law of the Court and to tailor the developed general theory to the Belgian context.

Physician well-being is increasingly recognised as essential to high-quality healthcare, as it influences clinical performance, patient safety, organisational functioning, and workforce sustainability. Burnout, typically characterised by emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy, emerges early in medical training and is driven by factors such as heavy workload, work–home conflict, and high performance ...

The employment rate of people with an occupational disability is low in Flanders, certainly in comparison with the situation in Sweden and Finland. The aim of the project is to investigate how the job of the employment broker / coach can be adapted to promote the employment intentions of the employers. Which tools and methodologies can we transform from Sweden, Finland and Ireland into the Flemish context and vice versa?

This study test is if we can understand the relationship between national pride and prejudice by considering the complexity and meaningfulness of the way in which individuals draw ethnic boundaries around themselves and others, and the role of schools in doing so. The latter is studied through qualitative research that feeds into a quantitative study that focuses on the former.

The possibility to extend the concept of linguistic data summaries employing the bipolarity of user preferences are studied. Yager's linguistic summaries may be derived using a fuzzy linguistic querying interface. We look for a similar analogy between bipolar queries and the extended form of linguistic summaries. We propose an extension of bipolar queries, namely the "contextual" queries and derive from them the "contextual" data ...