Projects
The role of programmed cell death in the pore formation of pome fruit KU Leuven
Oxygen is essential for plants and detached plant organs (ie., fruits and vegetables) due to its role in energy metabolism. As plants are sessile, they have limited ways to respond to oxygen deficiencies. Bulky plant organs including apple and pear fruit maintain their internal oxygen levels via the development of an intricate pore network during fruit growth. The air channels are created as part of normal tissue development. One example of ...
The role of the home environment in school performance of 5-years-old preschool children in Flanders: A study based on the International Early Child Study 2024. KU Leuven
This doctoral project is part of the International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study 2024 (IELS). The Flemish participation in IELS 2024 must provide reliable, valid and internationally comparative information about the development of 5-year-olds in Flanders. Their early numeracy (VC), early literacy (VL), self-regulation (ZR) and social-emotional development (SO) will be assessed. In addition to answering the general research ...
The development of executive functioning at the transition from kindergarten to elementary school. The role of the home and school context and its importance for academic functioning. KU Leuven
Executive functioning (EF) refers to a set of cognitive functions used to control our behavior, cognition and emotions. It is a complex concept consisting of three core EFs, working memory, inhibition and cognitive flexibility, which are in itself multi-dimensional constructs that can be broken down into subcomponents. Well-developed EFs are essential for school functioning, especially at times of school transition (e.g., from kindergarten to ...
The role of exploration and experience in the development of spatial behaviour: home ranges and dispersal in the Great Tit. University of Antwerp
Performing kinship with illegalised migrants. Comparing hospitality practices in Brussels and Rome Ghent University
While the so-called European migration crisis has been echoed with increasingly hostile EU border policies and anti-migrant rhetoric, it has also prompted many citizens' solidarity initiatives towards migrants across the continent. In this context, hosting migrants at home emerged as a new, puzzling and exciting phenomena. This project aims to be one of the first to conduct a systematic analysis of the hospitality practices - providing ...
The Contribution of Inscriptional Evidence for the Analysis of the Vulgar Latin Vowel System (ranging from the Republican age to the Proto-Romance Period). Rome and Italy: a comparative study. Ghent University
The project studies how the vowel system of so-called "Classical Latin" (CL) evolved into the vowel system of the Romance languages from a diachronic, diatopic, and sociolinguistic perspective (the former system was based on distinctions of vowel quantity, while the latter is mostly based on quality oppositions). To this end, the research considers two different kinds of evidence: metalinguistic testimonies in Latin grammarians ("the indirect ...