Projects
Essays in Development Economics: Evidence from East Africa KU Leuven
This dissertation is divided into four chapters, each built around a different research paper that falls under the broad field of `development economics'. The analysis in all chapters is mostly empirical, relying on primary data collected in recent years from East Africa. Of course, theory plays a key role in directing the analysis. Chapters 1 and 2 study different aspects of female empowerment and household decisions in Tanzania. Chapters 3 ...
User modeling for personalized Ad retrieval KU Leuven
The era of Social Media-as we know it today-started around the early 2000s. Social media enable a form of virtual content sharing that is fundamentally different than before. Social media content is no longer created and published by specific individuals, but instead is continuously modified by all users in a collaborative fashion. Nowadays, users around the world are taking advantage of social media as one of their key components of ...
Discourse analysis in the European Parliament. An investigation and comparison of Dutch and Polish Parliamentarians' interventions. KU Leuven
The objective of this research project is to investigate and analyse Polish and Dutch Members' of the European Parliament (MEP) interventions, explore the use of their argumentation methods and make a comparative analysis. In the light of Parliamentarians' cultural and linguistic traditions and conventions, the project will compare and analyse the rhetoric from different perspectives such as i.a.: use of language levels, value-laden or ...
The palaeodemographic and palaeopathological study of the St.Rombout's cemetery, Mechelen KU Leuven
Contextual archaeo-anthropological studies – whereby skeletal and archaeological analyses are treated as one whole – are still uncommon. The detailed study of a sub-sample of 400 individuals from the excavation of St. Rombout’s cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries AD) nevertheless demonstrates its enormous potential. A macroscopic study of mortality patterns and age and sex composition (palaeodemography) and the investigation of ...
BIOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BICYCLE ACCIDENTS RELATED HEAD INJURIES KU Leuven
Because I am Greek: Polyonymy and the Expression of Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt KU Leuven
Inspired by the Gods: Theophoric Names in Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt KU Leuven
The reason for the focus on personal names is twofold. ...
MirreM : Measuring Irregular Migration and related Policies (EU BONUS OZR) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
population and dynamics of irregular migration, as well as about the effects of policy measures. Yet, quantitative data relating to
irregular migration are scarce, often outdated and contested. The inadequecy of current data makes it challenging for stakeholders to
develop and monitor policies. How do legal ...