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Subnationale overheden in governance voor duurzame ontwikkeling. Inter-subnationale netwerken als route voor Vlaanderen naar multilaterale besluitvorming? KU Leuven
Although subnational entities play an important role in governance for sustainable development, they are often not recognized as decision-making actors in multilateral bodies, where an important part of the policy debate takes place. Adopting a multi-level governance perspective, this article presents four alternative routes they can use to be involved in multilateral decision-making. It further zooms in on inter-subnational networks, an ...
The Operationalisation of Religion and World View in Surveys of Nurses' Attitudes toward Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide KU Leuven
Most quantitative studies that survey nurses’ attitudes toward euthanasia and/or assisted suicide, also attempt to assess the influence of religion on these attitudes. We wanted to evaluate the operationalisation of religion and world view in these surveys. In the Pubmed database we searched for relevant articles published before August 2008 using combinations of search terms. Twenty-eight relevant articles were found. In five surveys nurses ...
The significance of reciprocal and unilateral friendships for peer vlctimization in adolescence KU Leuven
The present study examined to what extent the number of friends and their social and personal characteristics were related to peer victimization in adolescence. Participants were 2,180 adolescents (1,143 girls), aged 11-18 (M = 14.2), who were classified as victims, bully-victims, or non-involved (i.e., adolescents who neither bullied others nor were victimized by others). Three types of friends were distinguished: reciprocal friends, desired ...
Flemish palliative care nurses' attitudes toward euthanasia: a quantitative study KU Leuven
AIM: To adequately measure the attitudes of Flemish palliative care nurses toward euthanasia, and assess the relationship between these attitudes and demographic factors and the (perceived) influence of experience in palliative care on death anxiety. METHOD: An anonymous questionnaire was sent to all nurses (n=589) employed in palliative care in Flanders, Belgium: 70.5% of the nurses (n=415) responded. RESULTS: A majority of the nurses supported ...
Welke overheid voor welk onderwijs? KU Leuven
Reeds geruime tijd is er in de onderwijsbeleidsliteratuur sprake van een veranderde relatie tussen overheid en onderwijsveld, die vaak wordt geduid als de overgang van een welvaartsstaat naar een voortgezet liberale vorm van beleid voeren. Hierbij worden een bepaald type overheid en een bepaald type onderwijsveld verondersteld. Aan de hand van een kritische analyse van diverse officiële beleidsdocumenten van de Vlaamse (onderwijs)overheid, gaan ...
Exact BER analysis for square orthogonal space-time block codes on arbitrary fading channels with imperfect channel estimation Universiteit Gent
In this contribution, we examine the effect of imperfect channel estimation on the bit error rate (BER) performance of square orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs). The propagation channels from the N-t transmit antennas to each of the N-r receive antennas are assumed to be affected by (possibly correlated) flat block fading with an arbitrary distribution. The transmitted symbols belong to a PAM or QAM constellation. The resulting average ...
Effect of MMSE channel estimation on BER performance of orthogonal space-time block codes in Rayleigh fading channels Universiteit Gent
We present a simple closed-form expression for the BER of orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) with MMSE channel estimation, assuming PAM and QAM constellations and flat Rayleigh block fading. The BER expression is exact for a certain class of OSTBCs, and provides a very accurate approximation for other OSTBCs.