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Journal articles on the topic "Belgium (Province)"

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Peters, Jörg. "The dialect of Hasselt." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36, no. 1 (May 18, 2006): 117–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100306002428.

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Hasselt is the capital of the Belgian province of Limburg, with a population of some 68,000. The town is situated in the northern part of Belgium, about 35 km west of the national border between Belgium and the Netherlands, and 20 km north of the Dutch-French language border, which separates Belgium into a northern part (Flanders) and a southern part (Wallonia). The dialect of Hasselt belongs to the West-Limburgian dialect group (Goossens 1965). The number of dialect speakers is steadily diminishing, and the remaining ones are all bilingual with Standard Belgian Dutch (cf. Verhoeven 2005). An early comprehensive description of this dialect is given by Grootaers & Grauls (1930). The only available dictionary is Staelens (1989).
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Timmerman, Christiane. "Marriage in a ‘Culture of Migration’. Emirdag Marrying into Flanders." European Review 16, no. 4 (October 2008): 585–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798708000367.

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The persistently high popularity of migration marriages within large immigrant populations in Western Europe is an intriguing phenomenon. Why do so many young people born and raised in Western Europe opt for an unknown partner coming from a region that, although it is where their parents or grandparents came from, is by and large unknown to them personally? This contribution attempts to shed some light on the dynamics of this particular kind of migration which impacts significantly on the social fabric of Western European societies. Our focus here is specifically on the Belgian case, namely the so-called ‘Emirdag connection’. In Belgium, the majority of immigrants with a Turkish background come from the region of Emirdag, in the province of Afyon. Over the last 40 years a close relationship has been established between this region of emigration and a number of Turkish communities in Flanders and Brussels. Over the last decade chain migration became for most the most popular means to enter Belgium; in other words, the majority of newcomers arrived in Belgium as (future) spouses of Belgian residents. This certainly applies to Turkish migration. Particular to the Turkish residents in Belgium, including the second generation, is that the majority still marry a person who grew up in Turkey.
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Vandycke, S., and Y. Quinif. "Recent active faults in Belgian Ardenne revealed in Rochefort Karstic network (Namur Province, Belgium)." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 80, no. 3-4 (December 2001): 297–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600023891.

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AbstractThis paper presents observations of recent faulting activity in the karstic network of the Rochefort Cave (Namur Province, Belgium, Europe). The principal recent tectonic features are bedding planes reactivated as normal faults, neo-formatted normal faults in calcite flowstone, fresh scaling, extensional features, fallen blocks and displacement of karstic tube. The seismo-tectonic aspect is expanded by the presence of fallen blocks where normally the cavity must be very stable and in equilibrium. Three main N 070° fault planes and a minor one affect, at a decimetre scale, the karst features and morphology. The faults are still active because recent fresh scaling and fallen blocks are observable. The breaking of Holocene soda straw stalactites and displacements of artificial features observed since the beginning of the tourist activity, in the last century, also suggest very recent reactivation of these faults. This recent faulting can be correlated to present-day tectonic activity, already evidenced by earthquakes in the neighbouring area. Therefore, karstic caves are favourable sites for the observation and the quantification of recent tectonic activity because they constitute a 3-D framework, protected from erosion. Fault planes with this recent faulting present slickensides. Thus a quantitative analysis in term of stress inversion, with the help of striated faults, has permitted to reconstruct the stress tensor responsible for the brittle deformation. The principal NW-SE extension (σ3 horizontal) is nearly perpendicular to that of the present regional stress as illustrated by the analysis of the last strong regional earthquake (Roermond, The Netherlands) in 1992. During the Meso-Cenozoic, the main stress tectonics recorded in this part of the European platform is similar to the present one with a NE-SW direction of extension.The discrepancy between the regional stress field and the local stress in the Rochefort cave can be the result of the inversion of the σ2 and σ3 axes of the stress ellipsoid due to its symmetry or of a local modification at the ground surface of the crustal stress field as it has been already observed in active zones.
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Gussenhoven, Carlos, and Flor Aarts. "The dialect of Maastricht." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 29, no. 2 (December 1999): 155–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300006526.

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Maastricht (Mosae Trajectum in Roman times) is the capital of the Dutch province of Limburg and one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. Situated in the extreme south, close to the Belgian border, the city is fairly small, with a population of just over 120,000. Maastricht enjoys a world-wide reputation as the place where the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992. The dialect of Maastricht belongs to the south-eastern dialect group (Weijnen 1966: §§ 166, 173), which shares a number of properties with dialects in Belgium and Germany. A more recent classification (Belemans, Kruijsen & van Keymeulen 1998) assigns the dialect to Central Limburgian, which comprises seven subgroups in the Netherlands and Belgium, more particularly to Trichterlands. Two earlier descriptions are Houben (1905), which is historically oriented, and van Buuren (1991).
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MORI, M., M. VAN ESBROECK, S. DEPOORTER, W. DECALUWE, S. J. VANDECASTEELE, D. FRETIN, and M. REYNDERS. "Outbreak of leptospirosis during a scout camp in the Luxembourg Belgian province, Belgium, summer 2012." Epidemiology and Infection 143, no. 8 (October 14, 2014): 1761–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268814002763.

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SUMMARYAn outbreak of leptospirosis occurred in the South of Belgium, during August 2012, in teenagers who participated in two consecutive adventure scout camps near the Semois river. Among the symptomatic patient population (ten scouts), clinical manifestations included headache (70%), myalgia (50%), fever (50%), bilateral conjunctival injection (50%), general malaise (30%), vomiting (20%), anorexia (20%) and cough (20%). Some of the cases presented elevated blood creatinine (40%), or proteinuria (30%). Three patients were confirmed by serology and one by polymerase chain reaction. Potential risk factors included direct contact with a muskrat and indirect contact with potentially contaminated environments including the river water. Prospective environmental investigation carried out near the river banks 2 weeks after the outbreak identified Ondatra zibethicus (muskrat) as one Leptospira sp. reservoir.
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Bonner, Kris. "Performance and change management in the province of Antwerp, Belgium." TQM Journal 22, no. 4 (June 15, 2010): 435–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17542731011053352.

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Naesens, R., K. Magerman, I. Gyssens, A. Leenders, J. Meekelenkamp, M. Esbroeck, G. Coppens, et al. "Q fever across the Dutch border in Limburg province, Belgium." European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 31, no. 8 (January 31, 2012): 2053–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-011-1539-9.

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Belemans, Rob, and Reinhild Vandekerckhove. "Patterns of Variation in Two Dialect Areas in Northern Belgium." Variation in (Sub)standard language 13 (December 31, 1999): 131–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.13.08bel.

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Abstract. The article focuses on dialect change in the western and eastern periphery of the southern Dutch language area, i.e. in the province of West-Flanders and the province of Limburg. Both by a general survey of the dialect situation in these regions and by the analysis of two instances of phonological change, it is demonstrated that the actual state and dynamics of these areas is essentially different in terms of dialect loss and dialect vitality. The West-Flemish data reveal an intertwining of interdialectal and standard language influence, whereas the changes registered in the Limburg data unambiguously point to standard language influence.
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Miduturi, J. S., M. Moens, W. M. Hominick, B. R. Briscoe, and A. P. Reid. "Naturally occurring entomopathogenic nematodes in the province of West-Flanders, Belgium." Journal of Helminthology 70, no. 4 (December 1996): 319–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00015613.

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AbstractThe presence of naturally occurring entomopathogenic nematodes (epns) was surveyed in the West-Flanders province in the north-west of Belgium. In 21 sites of different agronomical situations, 130 soil samples were taken. Using the Galleria larva bait technique, 16 soil samples were found positive for epns. Fifteen samples were found to contain Steinernema spp. (nine S.feltiae, five S. affinis, one Steinemema species B3). The remaining positive sample contained Heterorhabditis sp. (North West European strain). The morphometric characters of the isolates were highly variable and did not correspond precisely to the original descriptions; however, biochemical characterization confirmed their identity. The epns were isolated from 50%, 18.8% or 12.3% of the samples taken in sand dunes, grassland or woodlands, respectively. S. feltiae and S. affinis were isolated in these three habitats; Heterorhabditis sp. was found in a grassland habitat. Steinernema feltiae was prevalent in loamy sand soils with a wide range of organic matter content; S. affinis, Heterorhabditis sp. and Steinernema species B3 were isolated in sandy loam soils. All the positive sample sites were in the pH range of 4.0–8.1. This is the first report of naturally occurring entomopathogenic nematodes in Belgium.
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Meijs, E. P. M. "The Veldwezelt site (province of Limburg, Belgium): environmental and stratigraphical interpretations." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw 90, no. 2-3 (November 2011): 73–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600001037.

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AbstractUphill and drainage line environments reveal many hiatuses or discordances, because of truncation by erosion. In downslope position accumulation often prevailed outside the drainage lines and prevented erosion, even during unstable periods. Consequently, downslope sections yield the most detailed environmental data, but often lack contact with uphill series. However, for stratigraphical correlation the contact between downslope and uphill series is essential. In the Veldwezelt loess sequence this contact is intact, which provides additional data on transitional processes. In view of these special palaeoenvironmental conditions, exhibiting a transition between downslope and uphill areas and a south-east trending stream, an extraordinarily detailed Late Saalian, Eemian and Weichselian loess sequence could be reconstructed. The Veldwezelt series furnished important pedological, sedimentological, faunal, tephrochronological and cryogenic data, on the basis of which palaeoenvironmental conclusions could be drawn and six types of pedo-sedimentological cycles distinguished. A stratigraphical overview was obtained by correlating the Veldwezelt section with other west European loess frameworks and tephra sequences; the sedimentary series at Harmignies (Mons Basin, southern Belgium) and the Greenland GRIP ice core.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Belgium (Province)"

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Bruss, Gesine. "Late Roman to early medieval transition in the province of Namur (Belgium)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439695.

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Schoon, Alain. "La demande touristique en Ardenne-Meuse et dans la Province de Luxembourg: une approche économétrique et multidimensionnelle. Le cas du camping." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213587.

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Plisnier, René. "Contribution à l'étude de la vie culturelle d'une ville de province au XIXe siècle: le cas de Mons (1795-1914); enseignement, musées, bibliothèques, théâtres; musique, beaux-arts et sociétés." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212113.

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Préaux, Céline. "Le déclin d'une élite: l'évolution du discours communautaire public des francophones d'Anvers et des anglophones de Montréal." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209907.

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La communauté nationale constitue le sujet d’analyse de départ de nombreuses études historiques contemporaines. Depuis la Révolution française, la nation, acteur légitimateur de l’État souverain, est considérée comme l’incarnation et l’expression d’une identité collective, elle-même composée de celle de la multiplicité des citoyens qui la constituent. Aussi, dès cette époque, les historiens se sont-ils attachés à édifier des histoires « nationales », coïncidant bien souvent avec une quête des éléments fondateurs essentiels de la nation. La doctrine élitiste et la tradition stato-nationaliste se sont longtemps conjuguées pour privilégier l’image de nations homogènes, faisant de ces histoires « nationales » en réalité l’histoire de la nation symboliquement majoritaire de l’État-nation censé représenter la diversité de ses citoyens. Or, la démocratisation et la diversification des sociétés occidentales ont progressivement invalidé ces postulats. Depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale la nécessité se fait ressentir de redéfinir la nation sur la base de la reconnaissance de son assise populaire et de la diversité de sa composition. Ce besoin se traduit par un intérêt croissant accordé aux minorités nationales, tant dans le monde politique que dans la communauté scientifique. Toutes les minorités ne bénéficient toutefois pas de cet élan, si bien que certaines restent encore largement ignorées à l’heure actuelle. Notre étude se penche sur deux d’entre elles :les francophones de Flandre et les anglophones du Québec, grands laissés pour compte des historiographies respectivement belge et canadienne. L’évolution de ces anciennes minorités dominantes, autrefois « définisseurs de situation » en Belgique et au Canada, est pourtant fondamentale pour comprendre les conflits linguistiques qui ont occupé (et occupent encore) ces pays. Elle est déterminante pour la forme que prennent les identités flamande et québécoise et, partant, les nations belge et canadienne. La comparaison de ces deux minorités permet, quant à elle, de cerner la complexité et la spécificité des nationalismes flamand et québécois. Partant du postulat que les nations sont des constructions sociales imaginées, cette étude a pour ambition de retracer les étapes de la formation nationale en Flandre et au Québec, en se concentrant sur le rôle de l’altérité dans celle-ci. Elle se focalise sur l’analyse des discours des minorités et des majorités dans ces régions, conçus comme des actes de définition identitaire interactifs et interdépendants. Elle se penche sur les villes d’Anvers et de Montréal, lieux de cristallisation des débats communautaires respectivement en Flandre et au Québec. Enfin, elle considère les périodes charnières au cours desquelles les majorités en ces régions se lancèrent à la « reconquête » de « leur » société, sanctionnant par là même la minorisation effective des francophones de Flandre et des anglophones du Québec. Ouvrant la porte d’un domaine laissé en friche, nous espérons ainsi donner une impulsion nouvelle à la recherche historique en Belgique et au Canada, en faisant (re)découvrir l’histoire de ces sociétés sous un angle inédit.
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Bedard, Pascale. "L'Art en pratique: éthos, condition et statut social des artistes en arts visueles au Québec et en Belgique francophone." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209178.

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Cette thèse présente les résultats d’une enquête sociologique sur la condition actuelle des artistes en arts visuels et plastiques, réalisée au Québec et en Belgique francophone. Il s’agit d’une étude comparative concernant les mondes de l’art dans lesquels évoluent ces artistes, mais également d’une recherche sur les représentations qu’ils entretiennent à l’égard de leur propre identité d’artiste, de leur rôle et de leur statut social aujourd’hui. Quels sont les enjeux d’une carrière artistique en 2013? En quoi consistent les épreuves et les balises, les facteurs de persistance ou d’abandon d’un tel parcours? Comment choisit-on de devenir artiste au tournant du XXIe siècle, ou de le demeurer? Quelles motivations orientent un tel choix? De quelles manières cette pratique professionnelle s’inscrit-elle dans l’univers contemporain du travail, de la production de biens ou de la culture mondialisée?

Trois objectifs principaux ont dirigé la recherche. En premier lieu, la thèse expose, au moyen des données disponibles dans chaque pays concerné (statistiques, législations, études diverses), les contextes sociaux, économiques et institutionnels dans lesquels évoluent les artistes en arts visuels. En second lieu, elle explore les différentes dimensions de la création plastique en tant que pratique concrète, à partir d’une trentaine d’entretiens compréhensifs menés auprès d’artistes de toutes disciplines et générations, au Québec et en Belgique francophone entre 2008 et 2012. L’enquête interroge les parcours professionnels et personnels afin de savoir selon quelles modalités s’organise le travail artistique aujourd’hui et quelles sont les spécificités contemporaines de ces métiers séculaires. En troisième lieu, cette enquête met en lumière, par le biais de l’analyse des récits recueillis, les univers de représentations et de valeurs qui guident les artistes dans leurs choix quotidiens. Se trouvent identifiés et analysés les critères justifiant leurs choix et leurs actions, leurs référents éthiques ainsi que le sens qu’ils accordent à leurs pratiques de création et, plus généralement, au phénomène de l’art dans la société.

Ce troisième objectif de la recherche permet d’ouvrir la question de l’ethos. En tant que concept heuristique ayant permis d’approcher, dans le cadre de cette enquête, la dimension des raisons d’agir, la notion d’ethos évoque le moment d’incarnation, dans la pratique concrète des individus, de l’ensemble des valeurs et idéaux qui les habitent. Ainsi, sur le plan conceptuel, cette thèse élabore une définition synthétique de la notion d’ethos à partir des multiples sens qui lui ont été accordés dans l’histoire des idées, depuis la Rhétorique d’Aristote jusqu’aux études actuelles en analyse du discours et en sociologie du travail, en passant par ses usages spécifiques chez Max Weber et Pierre Bourdieu.

Cette recherche se fonde sur une connaissance approfondie des études contemporaines et plus anciennes sur les artistes, leurs pratiques et leur statut, réel ou mythique. Néanmoins, dans la perspective méthodologique de la théorie ancrée, elle cherche à renouveler ces connaissances à partir d’une enquête de terrain, en portant une attention particulière aux catégories endogènes à travers lesquelles les artistes interprètent eux-mêmes leur réalité. La parole vive des personnes interviewées fut la source principale à partir de laquelle s’est accomplie l’étude de l’ethos artiste contemporain. C’est dans une approche d’inspiration pragmatiste, qui « prend au sérieux » les acteurs (selon l’expression de Luc Boltanski), qu’ont été menées les entrevues et les analyses de celles-ci. L’enquête révèle ainsi que les artistes d’aujourd’hui parviennent à négocier un espace de cohérence, dans leur vie professionnelle et personnelle, entre d’une part, leurs idéaux concernant l’art et l’authenticité de la pratique artistique, et d’autre part, les contraintes inhérentes à la réalité des mondes de l’art, de l’emploi et du capitalisme post-industriel. Dans une approche inductive, les différentes composantes de cette négociation se dégagent de l’analyse des entretiens, et permettent d’élaborer une sociologie du travail artistique qui tient compte de la dimension réflexive, épistémique, agissant au cœur des pratiques de création plastique.

Compte tenu des conditions économiques souvent difficiles de la pratique artistique, révélées par toutes les enquêtes sur le sujet, l’investissement personnel des artistes, en ressources de diverses natures, semble la condition essentielle à l’existence d’une production artistique, quelle qu’elle soit. Dans cette perspective, il demeure pertinent d’interroger la spécificité du statut et de la condition de l’artiste, particulièrement sous l’éclairage de l’ethos.
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Sacco, Muriel. "Lutter contre la dualisation socio-spatiale dans les quartiers défavorisés de Bruxelles et de Montréal: changements et convergences à l'épreuve des logiques d'acteurs et des dynamiques institutionnelles." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209799.

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Notre recherche doctorale porte sur les politiques de lutte contre la dualisation socio-spatiale menées à Bruxelles et Montréal. Ces politiques publiques ont été introduites à la fin des années 1980 dans un très grand nombre de villes occidentales (Equal Opportunity Policies et Urban Regeneration Policies dans le cadre du programme Action for Cities en Grande-Bretagne, Soziale Stadt en Allemagne, la politique de la ville en France, Urban et Objectif 2 au niveau européen, etc.) en raison de la montée de l’exclusion et de menace pesant sur la cohésion sociale urbaine. Ces politiques publiques se fondent sur la logique de ciblage territorial, de mobilisation locale et sur une approche intégrée mêlant des actions sur le bâti, les équipements collectifs et des actions sociales. C’est pourquoi elles introduisent plusieurs ruptures par rapport aux modes d’intervention publique à l’œuvre jusqu’alors. La diffusion de ces politiques publiques nous a incitée à interroger la standardisation et les transformations de l’action publique véhiculées par ce type de politiques publiques. Notre démarche se caractérise non seulement par la comparaison de deux villes, mais aussi de deux politiques publiques et de trois quartiers dans chacune des deux villes.

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Gayard, Grégoire. "Projection internationale des entités fédérées : comparaison des politiques internationales en matière de climat du Québec et de la Wallonie." Thesis, Paris 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA020002.

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Les entités fédérées sont de plus en plus actives au-delà des frontières nationales. Leurs stratégies de projection internationale dépendent en partie du contexte institutionnel et de la dynamique fédérale dans laquelle ces entités fédérées s’inscrivent. Les cas du Québec, au Canada, et de la Wallonie, en Belgique, illustrent les différentes manières dont ces acteurs peuvent participer à la politique extérieure de leur fédération et développer leurs propres marges de manœuvre pour agir directement sur la scène internationale. Au Canada, la faible institutionnalisation des relations entre Ottawa et les provinces et le silence des textes constitutionnels sur le partage des responsabilités internationales ont laissé la mainmise au gouvernement fédéral sur la politique étrangère de la fédération. Dans ce contexte, le Québec a pu se tourner vers la paradiplomatie pour agir de manière autonome sur la scène internationale, en parallèle à Ottawa. En Belgique, au contraire, les responsabilités en matière de relations internationales ont été partagées entre le gouvernement fédéral et les entités fédérées au fil des réformes institutionnelles. Les communautés et les régions disposent d’une grande autonomie en vertu du principe « in foro interno, in foro externo » et sont intimement associées au développement de la politique étrangère belge. Ces éléments éclairent les stratégies contrastées de ces deux entités fédérées pour s’impliquer dans les discussions internationales sur le climat. Alors que le Québec a privilégié la paradiplomatie, la Wallonie a surtout choisi de s’impliquer dans la coordination intra-belge pour défendre ses intérêts via la voix de la Belgique
Federated units are increasingly active beyond their national borders. The strategies they employ depends in part on the federal context and political dynamics of the Federation these units belong to. The cases of Quebec, Canada, and Wallonia, Belgium, offer a contrasted glimpse on how federated units can take part in the foreign policy of their federation and develop their own autonomous actions abroad. In Canada, the weak institutionalization of intergovernmental affairs and the gaps of the Canadian Constitution on the sharing of external policy responsibilities has effectively given Ottawa control of Canada’s foreign policy. In this context, Quebec has used paradiplomacy to develop its own actions abroad. In Belgium, by contrast, the responsibilities with regards to external affairs have been shared among the federal government and the federated units as the country moved from a unitary system to a federal organization. In accordance with the “in foro interno, in foro externo” principle, Belgian Communities and Regions enjoy a vast autonomy regarding external affairs and are deeply involved in the making of Belgium’s foreign policy. These elements help to understand the different strategies picked by Quebec and Wallonia to get involved in the international talks on climate change. Whereas Quebec primarily relied on paradiplomacy, the Walloons chose to focus on the Belgian internal cooperation to defend their interest through the voice of Belgium
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Labelle, Chantal. "Etude historico-critique de l'institutionnalisation de la bioéthique au Québec et en Belgique par une approche contextuelle et transdisciplinaire." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209796.

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La bioéthique a émergé aux États-Unis à la fin des années 1960. Peu de recherches ont porté sur son institutionnalisation dans d'autres pays ;les cas du Québec et de la Belgique sont ici étudiés.

Son émergence dans ces régions est, comme aux États-Unis, influencée par les questions suscitées par l'expérimentation chez l'humain à partir de la fin des années 1970. Dans ces trois régions, les premières formes d'institutionnalisation ont été celles de comités dont le mandat est de réviser les protocoles de recherches impliquant des sujets humains.

Peu de temps après les États-Unis, des centres de recherche universitaires ont été mis en place au Québec à la fin des années 1970 et au début des années 1980. Ces mêmes institutions sont retrouvées en Belgique à la moitié des années 1980. Il apparaît que dans ces trois régions les acteurs alors impliqués sont majoritairement des théologiens. La philosophie de l'époque ne s'intéresse pas aux questions éthiques suscitées par les avancées technoscientifiques du domaine médical.

À la fin des années 1980, davantage d'instruments procéduraux ont été publiés par diverses institutions québécoises afin d'encadrer les pratiques. Parallèlement, des programmes d'étude en bioéthique amènent le domaine à se professionnaliser. La période est marquée en Belgique par le débat entourant l'interruption de grossesse. Il devient évident que d'autres questions éthiques devront être débattues et personne ne souhaite que perdure la tension entre catholiques et laïques. Le colloque la Bioéthique dans les années '90 a permis la rencontre des acteurs dans un climat plus serein.

En 1996, après six ans de discussions, a été mis en place un Comité consultatif de bioéthique en Belgique. Son fonctionnement et la nature de ses avis tiennent compte de la présence de quatre piliers dans la culture belge, soit les Flamands, les Wallons, les catholiques et les laïques. Ce comité est devenu l'institution phare de la bioéthique. Il influence depuis les débats politiques et plusieurs lois du domaine de la bioéthique ont été votées. On remarque que dans les deux régions à l'étude, le langage du droit est de plus en plus présent et rend la bioéthique davantage juridicisée. Ainsi, au départ réflexive, la bioéthique est devenue davantage normative. Tant au Québec qu'en Belgique, les institutions de bioéthique sont de moins en moins un lieu de discussions et de rencontres qui permettent les échanges et la réflexion commune dans la durée.

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Bioethics emerged in the United States in the late 60's. Little research has been done on the institutionalization of bioethics in other countries ;the cases of Quebec and Belgium have been studied in this work, through documentary studies and interviews with twenty players in the domain.

Its emergence in those regions was, like in the United States, influenced by questions raised in the late 70's about the use of human subjects in studies. In Quebec and Belgium, the first forms of institutionalization were ethics committees who were given the mandate to revise experimental protocols.

Following the United States, at the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's, research centers were put in place in Quebec. In Belgium, they were set up in the mid 80's. In those three regions, it appears that theologians were the first to be involved. Philosophy, in those days, was not interested with ethical questions raised by medical technoscience advances.

By the end of the 80's, more procedural instruments were published by institutions in Quebec to guide ethic practices. In a parallel direction, universities offered more programs in bioethics and brought the discipline to become professionalized. This period was marked in Belgium by the debate over abortion. It became apparent that other ethical issues would have to be discussed, but nobody wanted to endure the tension between Catholics and Seculars. The conference Bioethics in the 90's brought together the players of the field in a calmer setting.

In 1996, after six years of discussions, the Advisory Committee on Bioethics was set in place in Belgium. Its function and the nature of its views reflect the presence of the four pillars in the Belgian culture :the Flemish, the Walloons, the Catholics and the Seculars. This Committee has become the flagship institution of bioethics. It influences political debates and several laws in the field of bioethics have been passed since its inception. In Quebec and in Belgium, the language of law is becoming more present and makes bioethics more « juridicialized ». Thus, initially more reflexive, bioethics is becoming more normative. In both regions, bioethical institutions are less and less an arena of discourse where meetings permit long exchanges and philosophical reflection.


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Stanard, Matthew G. "Selling the tenth province Belgian colonial propaganda, 1908-1960 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215171.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1490. Adviser: James D. Le Sueur. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed March 22, 2007)."
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Derreumaux, Marie. "Du terrain au terroir : appréhender les systèmes agraires grâce aux grands décapages : trois études carpologiques en territoires ménapien et arébate, de La Tène ancienne au Haut Moyen-âge : Arras "Actiparc", Dourges "Plateforme multimodale delta 3" et Villeneuve d'Ascq "La Haute Borne"." Paris 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA010609.

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Ces dernières années, les acteurs de l'archéologie préventive ont été amenés à intervenir sur de très vastes superficies. Ces opérations de 140 à 300 ha, permettent d'ouvrir de véritable fenêtre sur les campagnes protohistoriques et antiques, à l'échelle d'un terroir. Entre stratégie de prélèvements et d'échantillonnage, gestion du volume de sédiments à tamiser et temps de traitement du matériel et des données, l'étude carpologique des « grands décapages» ne va pas sans poser quelques problèmes méthodologiques. A l'échelle de la région, les sites étudiés permettent d'établir une première synthèse régionale sur les productions et l'alimentation végétales dans le nord de la Gaule Belgique au cours du deuxième Age du Fer et de l'époque romaine. Lors de La Tène ancienne, l'orge vêtue et l'amidonnier sont les principales céréales, de nombreuses autres cultures sont menées: épeautre, engrain, caméline, millet et avoine dont l'exploitation a été mise en évidence. L'orge et les blés vêtus demeurent les piliers de l'agriculture à la Tène finale et à la période romaine. Les blés nus sont cultivés dès le dernier quart du re, s. Av. J. -C. , mais demeurent une production secondaire pendant toute l'Antiquité. Lors de l'Antiquité, les facteurs principaux qui nous sont apparus, quant aux choix des cultures, sont les sols et la proximité des réseaux de circulation.
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Bloch, Jean-Pierre. Lexique des termes parlementaires en usage en Belgique, en France et au Québec. [Québec: Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale], 1986.

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Verhelst, Karel. Catalogus van de 16de-eeuwse drukken bewaard in Limburgse bibliotheken: Provinciaal Documentatiecetrum, Hasselt, Voormalig Kleinseminarie, Sint-Truiden, Fonds Govaerts, Sint-Truiden, Rijksarchief, Hasselt, Grootseminarie, Hasselt. Brussel: Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, 1997.

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Verhelst, Karel. Catalogus van de 16de-eeuwse drukken bewaard in Limburgse bibliotheken: Provinciaal Documentatiecentrum, Hasselt, voormalig Kleinseminarie, Sint-Truiden, Fonds Govaerts, Sint-Truiden, Rijksarchief, Hasselt, Grootseminarie, Hasselt. Brussel: Archief- en Bibliotheekwezen in België, 1997.

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Verhelst, Karel. Catalogus van de 16de-eeuwse drukken bewaard in Limburgse bibliotheken: Provinciaal Documentatiecetrum, Hasselt, Voormalig Kleinseminarie, Sint-Truiden, Fonds Govaerts, Sint-Truiden, Rijksarchief, Hasselt, Grootseminarie, Hasselt. Brussel: Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, 1997.

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Verlaeckt, Koen. Between river and barrow: A reappraisal of Bronze Age metalwork found in the province of East-Flanders (Belgium). Oxford, England: Tempus Reparatum, 1996.

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(Belgium), Archives générales du Royaume. Aperçu des archives et collections conservées aux Archives générales du Royaume: Producteurs d'archives issus de la province de Brabant flamand. Bruxelles: Archives générales du Royaume, 1999.

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Maerten, Fabrice. Du murmure au grondement: La Résistance politique et idéologique dans la province de Hainaut pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (mai 1940 -septembre 1944). Mons: Hannonia, 1999.

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van, Kersschaever Jasmina, Sonck Jacques, and Beerten Katelijne, eds. Kunstcollectie, Provincie Antwerpen. Antwerpen: Provincie Antwerpen, Departement Cultuur, Dienst Cultuurspreiding en Kunsten, 2006.

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Bibliothèque centrale de la ville et de la province de Liège (Belgium). Victor Hugo, 1802-1885: Bibliographie sélective d'ouvrages de la Bibliothèque centrale de la ville et de la province de Liège. Liége: Ville de Liège, 1985.

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Obalski, J. Province de Québec: Industries minérales : préparé spécialement pour l'Exposition de Liège, Belgique. [Québec?: s.n.], 1994.

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Daly, Peter M. "Emblematic Publications by the Jesuits of the Flanders Belgium Province to the Year 1700." In Imago Figurata. Studies, 249–78. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.ifstu-eb.4.00113.

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Mandin, Jérémy. "Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Belgian Citizens Abroad." In IMISCOE Research Series, 53–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51245-3_3.

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Abstract Belgium has a rich, but largely forgotten, emigration history. In July 2018, 471,401 Belgians were registered as living abroad. Yet, little academic attention has been given to this population and to the types of relations that the Belgium state maintains with it. This chapter aims to fill this gap by focusing on the policies developed in Belgium to provide forms of social protection to its citizens abroad. Based on the analyses of online and offline institutional documentation, applicable legislation, parliamentary documentation and specialized publications, the chapter describes the specificity of the Belgian involvement in the protection of its population living abroad. It is argued that the diaspora infrastructure of Belgium is largely characterized by a lack of specialized institutions at the federal level and by the relatively important role of Belgian subnational communities in organizing the relations with the Belgian population abroad. Regarding diaspora’s social protection, the chapter discusses the specificities of the Belgian policies and, in particular, the system of “Overseas Social Security” which takes its roots in the country’s colonial past.
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Lalova, Teodora, Anastassia Negrouk, Laurent Dollé, Sofie Bekaert, Annelies Debucquoy, Jean-Jacques Derèze, Peggy Valcke, Els J. Kindt, and Isabelle Huys. "An Overview of Belgian Legislation Applicable to Biobank Research and Its Interplay with Data Protection Rules." In GDPR and Biobanking, 187–213. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49388-2_10.

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AbstractThis contribution aims to present in a clear and concise manner the intricate legal framework for biobank research in Belgium. In Part 1, we describe the Belgian biobank infrastructure, with a focus on the concept of biobank. In Part 2, we provide an overview of the applicable legal framework, namely the Act of 19 December 2008 on Human Body Material (HBM), and its amendments. Attention is given to an essential piece of self-regulation, namely the Compendium on biobanks issued by the Federal Agency on Medicine Products and Health (FAMPH). Furthermore, we delineate the interplay with relevant data protection rules. Part 3 is dedicated to the main research oversight bodies in the field of biobanking. In Part 4, we provides several examples of the ‘law in context’. In particular, we discuss issues pertaining to presumed consent, processing of personal data associated with HBM, and information provided to the donor of HBM. Finally, Part 5 and 6 addresses the impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), suggests lines for further research, and outline the future possibilities for biobanking in Belgium.
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Howe, Patricia Chastain. "Stalemate in the Belgian Provinces, November–December 1792." In Foreign Policy and the French Revolution, 111–27. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230616882_8.

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Ford, John B., Altaf Merchant, Anne-Laure Bartier, and Mike Friedman. "Developing a Scale to Measure Brand-Evoked Nostalgia in Belgium and the United States: An Abstract." In Back to the Future: Using Marketing Basics to Provide Customer Value, 59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66023-3_25.

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Wheeler, Andrew J., Maxim Kozachenko, Andreas Beyer, Anneleen Foubert, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Michael Klages, Douglas G. Masson, Karine Olu-Le Roy, and Jörn Thiede. "Sedimentary processes and carbonate mounds in the Belgica Mound province, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic." In Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems, 571–603. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27673-4_28.

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Lieber, Sven, Ben De Meester, Ruben Verborgh, and Anastasia Dimou. "EcoDaLo: Federating Advertisement Targeting with Linked Data." In Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs, 87–103. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59833-4_6.

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Abstract A key source of revenue for the media and entertainment domain is ad targeting: serving advertisements to a select set of visitors based on various captured visitor traits. Compared to global media companies such as Google and Facebook that aggregate data from various sources (and the privacy concerns these aggregations bring), local companies only capture a small number of (high-quality) traits and retrieve an unbalanced small amount of revenue. To increase these local publishers’ competitive advantage, they need to join forces, whilst taking the visitors’ privacy concerns into account. The EcoDaLo consortium, located in Belgium and consisting of Adlogix, Pebble Media, and Roularta Media Group as founding partners, aims to combine local publishers’ data without requiring these partners to share this data across the consortium. Usage of Semantic Web technologies enables a decentralized approach where federated querying allows local companies to combine their captured visitor traits, and better target visitors, without aggregating all data. To increase potential uptake, technical complexity to join this consortium is kept minimal, and established technology is used where possible. This solution was showcased in Belgium which provided the participating partners valuable insights and suggests future research challenges. Perspectives are to enlarge the consortium and provide measurable impact in ad targeting to local publishers.
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Hakovirta, Mia, and Christine Skinner. "Shared Physical Custody and Child Maintenance Arrangements: A Comparative Analysis of 13 Countries Using a Model Family Approach." In European Studies of Population, 309–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68479-2_14.

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AbstractThis book chapter provides new insights to the question of how child maintenance policies have responded to changing post separation family arrangements and most specifically shared physical custody (SPC). We analyse how SPC is implemented and how it operates in child maintenance policies in 13 countries: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the U.S. The comparative analysis is based on vignette questionnaire collected in 2017. There are differences in how countries have acknowledged and recognized shared physical custody in their child maintenance policies. It varies from complete annulment of obligations, to some countries making finer grained adjustments to reduce child maintenance obligations and yet others’ making no changes as a result of shared physical custody, with the paying parent still having to provide the full amount of child maintenance. It seems there is no standard practice and nor do the different arrangements map easily onto child maintenance scheme typology. The latter is surprising, as it might have been expected that similarly structured child maintenance schemes would treat shared physical custody in similar ways. This variability demonstrates a lack of coherence across child maintenance policies on how to deal with this phenomenon of greater gender equality in post-separation parenting arrangements.
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Cerezo-Román, Jessica I., and Koen Deforce. "From Life to Death: Dynamics of Personhood in Gallo-Roman Funerary Customs, Luxemburg Province, Belgium." In Cremation and the Archaeology of Death. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798118.003.0017.

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This chapter explores the identification of, and changes in, aspects of personhood through the study and interpretation of funerary customs. The geographical and temporal foci are the Luxembourg province of south-eastern Belgium from AD 1–150 where variations in social and political organization are well documented but cremation funeral customs are not. This research explores one overarching question: how did the personhood of the deceased change throughout the different stages of cremation customs within and between two contemporary Gallo-Roman sites located in the Belgian province of Luxembourg? The sites selected are Weyler (Henrotay 2011; Henrotay and Bossicard 1999), located in Arlon, and Houffalize, located in Houffalize/Mont (Henrotay 2012) (Fig. 9.1). Two primary datasets were utilized: 1) biological profiles of the human skeletal remains, and, 2) posthumous treatments of bodies inferred from analysis of the remains within their burial contexts. In this chapter, we also contrast these findings with historical accounts of cremation customs among ancient Roman populations.We argue that Gallo-Roman mortuary practices mediated the dead from biological death through a liminal state where personhood was transformed from subject to object/subject before final burial. The concept of personhood is employed in identity research across the social sciences, and in recent years also has been applied in archaeology (e.g. Fowler 2005; Jones 2005). Our research employs the notion of personhood—what constituted the state or condition of being a person—to elucidate the portrayal of individuals in the past. This definition follows previous research in the concept (e.g. Brück 2006a, 2006b; Fowler 2010; Williams 2004a). Throughout an individual’s life social relationships change and new ones are formed. These also are dependent on the individual’s age, sex, class, race, disabilities, and particular group affiliations, among other factors. Mauss (1985) posited that frames of reference for personhood changed through time and space, according to distinct cultural ideologies. Building on this idea Meyer Fortes (1987) added that personhood also was negotiated and dependent upon social relationships and in light of specific moral codes. These ideas suggest that personhood is a social category, that it is inherently dynamic and relational and that it only takes on meaning through the enactment of relationships.
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"THE EARLY MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC SITE OF KESSELTOP DE SCHANS (PROVINCE OF LIMBURG, BELGIUM) AND ITS NORTHWESTERN EUROPEAN CONTEXT." In The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe, 33–200. Leuven University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1whm9j1.6.

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De Valkeneer, Michel, Michel Detilleux, Guy Nuyt, Jean-Pierre Fabry, Guy Demazy, and Luc Janssen. "Latest Developments About Spent Fuel Management in Belgium." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1210.

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Abstract In Belgium 57% of the electricity is presently generated by 7 nuclear units of the PWR type located in Doel and Tihange. Their total output amounts to 5632 MWe. Part of the spent fuel unloaded from the first three units has been sent till 2000 for reprocessing in the Cogema facility at La Hague. As the reprocessing of the spent fuel produced by the last four units is not covered by the contracts concluded with Cogema, Synatom, the Belgian utilities’ subsidiary in charge of the front- and back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle for all PWR reactors in Belgium, decided to study the possible solutions for a temporary storage of this spent fuel. End of 1993, the Belgian government decided that reprocessing (closed cycle) and direct disposal (open cycle) of spent fuel had to be considered as equal options in the back-end policy for nuclear fuel in Belgium. The resolution further allowed continued execution of a running reprocessing contract (from 1978) and use of the corresponding Pu for MOX in Belgian NPP’s, but requested a reprocessing contract concluded in 1990 (for reprocessing services after 2000) not to be executed during a five-year period. During this period priority was to be given to studies on the once-through cycle as an option for spent fuel management. Figure 1 is a chart showing the two alternatives for the spent fuel cycle in Belgium. In this context, Synatom entrusted Belgatom to develop a dedicated flask (called “bottle”) for direct disposal of spent fuel, to perform a design study of an appropriate encapsulation process and to prepare a preliminary feasibility study of a complete spent fuel conditioning plant. Meanwhile preparation works were made for the construction of an interim storage facility on both NPP sites of Doel and Tihange in order to meet increasing storage capacity needs. For selecting the type of interim storage facility, Belgatom performed a technical-economical analysis. Considerations of design and safety criteria as well as flexibility, reversibility, technical constraints, global economical aspects and construction time led to adopt dry storage with dual purpose casks (in operation since end 1995) for the Doel site and wet storage in a modular pool for the Tihange site (in operation since 1997). In parallel, ONRAF/NIRAS, the Belgian Agency for the management of radioactive waste and enriched fissile materials and the Belgian nuclear research centre, SCK•CEN, conduct underground investigations in view of geological disposal. The paper describes the methodology that Belgatom has developed to provide the utilities with appropriate solutions (reracking, dry storage in casks, wet storage in ponds, etc.) and how Belgatom demonstrated also the feasibility of spent fuel conditioning with a view to direct disposal in clay layers. The spent fuel storage facilities in operation in Belgium, designed and built by Belgatom, are then briefly presented.
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Wittebolle, V. "Last Developments About Spent Fuel Management in Belgium." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1202.

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Abstract In Belgium 57% of the electricity is presently generated by 7 nuclear units of the PWR type located in Doel and Tihange. Their total output amounts to 5632 MWe. Part of the spent fuel unloaded from the first three units has been sent till 2000 for reprocessing in the Cogema facility at La Hague. As the reprocessing of the spent fuel produced by the last four units is not covered by the contracts concluded with Cogema, Synatom, the Belgian utilities’ subsidiary in charge of the front- and back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle for all PWR reactors in Belgium, decided to study the possible solutions for a temporary storage of this spent fuel. End of 1993, the Belgian government decided that reprocessing (closed cycle) and direct disposal (open cycle) of spent fuel had to be considered as equal options in the back-end policy for nuclear fuel in Belgium. The resolution further allowed continued execution of a running reprocessing contract (from 1978) and use of the corresponding Pu for MOX in Belgian NPP’s, but requested a reprocessing contract concluded in 1990 (for reprocessing services after 2000) not to be executed during a five-year period. During this period priority was to be given to studies on the once-through cycle as an option for spent fuel management. Figure 1 is a chart showing the two alternatives for the spent fuel cycle in Belgium. In this context, Synatom entrusted Belgatom1 to develop a dedicated flask (called “bottle”) for direct disposal of spent fuel, to perform a design study of an appropriate encapsulation process and to prepare a preliminary feasibility study of a complete spent fuel conditioning plant. Meanwhile preparation works were made for the construction of an interim storage facility on both NPP sites of Doel and Tihange in order to meet increasing storage capacity needs. For selecting the type of interim storage facility, Belgatom performed a technical-economical analysis. Considerations of design and safety criteria as well as flexibility, reversibility, technical constraints, global economical aspects and construction time led to adopt dry storage with dual purpose casks (in operation since end 1995) for the Doel site and wet storage in a modular pool for the Tihange site (in operation since 1997). In parallel, ONRAF/NIRAS, the Belgian Agency for the management of radioactive waste and enriched fissile materials and the Belgian nuclear research centre, SCK•CEN, conduct underground investigations in view of geological disposal. The paper describes the methodology that Belgatom has developed to provide the utilities with appropriate solutions (reracking, dry storage in casks, wet storage in ponds, etc.) and how Belgatom demonstrated also the feasibility of spent fuel conditioning with a view to direct disposal in clay layers. The spent fuel storage facilities in operation in Belgium and designed and built by Belgatom are then briefly presented.
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Areias, L., B. Craeye, G. De Schutter, H. Van Humbeeck, W. Wacquier, L. Villers, and A. Van Cotthem. "Half-Scale Test: An Important Step to Demonstrate the Feasibility of the Belgian Supercontainer Concept for Disposal of HLW." In ASME 2010 13th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2010-40119.

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This paper presents results of a half-scale test performed by ESV EURIDICE, an Economic Interest Grouping between the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) and the Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (ONDRAF/NIRAS). The primary objective of the test was to assess the feasibility of constructing the Supercontainer and to provide experimental data to validate modelling calculations obtained using the finite element program HEAT/MLS. The test focused on the early-age behaviour of the concrete matrix materials and the practical aspects of construction. Generally, the results obtained from the half-scale test confirm that it is feasible to construct the Supercontainer with currently available techniques. The results also validate scoping calculations obtained earlier with the finite element model. These findings contribute an important step to demonstrate the feasibility to construct the Supercontainer and to validate the Belgian Supercontainer concept proposed by ONDRAF/NIRAS for disposal of high level waste (HLW) in Belgium.
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Klasky, Hilda B., B. Richard Bass, Terry L. Dickson, Sarma B. Gorti, Randy K. Nanstad, Mikhail A. Sokolov, William L. Server, and Paul T. Williams. "ORNL Evaluation of Safety Cases for Two Belgian Reactor Pressure Vessels Containing Quasi-Laminar Defects." In ASME 2017 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2017-65305.

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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) performed a detailed technical review of the 2015 Electrabel (EBL) Safety Cases prepared for the Belgium reactor pressure vessels (RPVs) at Doel 3 and Tihange 2 (D3/T2). The Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) in Belgium commissioned ORNL to provide a thorough assessment of the existing safety margins against cracking of the RPVs due to the presence of almost laminar flaws found in each RPV. Initial efforts focused on surveying relevant literature that provided necessary background knowledge on the issues related to the quasi-laminar flaws observed in D3/T2 reactors. Next, ORNL proceeded to develop an independent quantitative assessment of the entire flaw population in the two Belgian reactors according to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section XI, Appendix G, “Fracture Toughness Criteria for Protection Against Failure,” New York (both 1992 and 2004 versions). That screening assessment of the EBL-characterized flaws in D3/T2 used ORNL tools, methodologies, and the ASME Code Case N-848, “Alternative Characterization Rules for Quasi-Laminar Flaws”. Results and conclusions derived from comparisons of the ORNL flaw acceptance assessments of D3/T2 with those from the 2015 EBL Safety Cases are presented in the paper. The ORNL screening analyses identified fewer flaws than EBL that were not compliant with the ASME Section XI (1992) criterion; the EBL criterion imposed additional conservatisms not included in ASME Section XI. Furthermore, ORNL’s application of the updated ASME Section XI (2004) criterion produced only four non-compliant flaws, all due to design-basis loss-of-coolant loading transients. Among the latter, only one flaw remained non-compliant when analyzed using the warm-prestress (WPS) cleavage fracture model typically applied in USA flaw assessments. ORNL’s independent refined analysis of that flaw (#1660, which was also non-compliant in the EBL screening assessments) rendered it compliant when modeled as a more realistic individual quasi-laminar flaw using a 3-dimensional XFEM (eXtended Finite Element Method) approach available in the ABAQUS© finite element code. Taken as a whole, the ORNL-specific results and conclusions confirmed the structural integrity of Doel 3 and Tihange 2 under all design transients with ample margin in the presence of the 16,196 detected flaws.
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Yang, Jiansen, Xinyu Wang, and Xin Li. "Research on Dynamic Load of Belgian Event Based on Virtual Proving Ground." In WCX SAE World Congress Experience. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-0170.

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Cools, Mario, Ismaïl Saadi, Ahmed Mustafa, and Jacques Teller. "Calibration of MATSim in the context of natural hazards in Belgium." In CIT2016. Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/cit2016.2016.4098.

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In Belgium, river floods are among the most frequent natural disasters and they may cause important changes on travel demand. In this regard, we propose to set up a large scale scenario using MATSim for guarantying an accurate assessment of the river floods impact on the transportation systems. In terms of inputs, agent-based models require a base year population. In this context, a synthetic population with a respective set of attributes is generated as a key input. Afterwards, agents are assigned activity chains through an activity-based generation process. Finally, the synthetic population and the transportation network are integrated into the dynamic traffic assignment simulator, i.e. MATSim. With respect to data, households travel surveys are the main inputs for synthesizing the populations. Besides, a steady-state inundation map is integrated within MATSim for simulating river floods. To our knowledge, very few studies have focused on how river floods affect transportation systems. In this regard, this research will undoubtedly provide new insights in term of methodology and traffic pattern analysis under disruptions, especially with regard to spatial scale effects. The results indicate that at the municipality level, it is possible to capture the effects of disruptions on travel behavior. In this context, further disaggregation is needed in future studies for identifying to what extent results are sensitive to disaggregation. In addition, results also suggest that the target sub-population exposed to flood risk should be isolated from the rest of the travel demand to reach have more sensitive effects.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.4098
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Tvaronavičienė, Manuela. "ENERGY SECURITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY ISSUES: HOUSEHOLD PERSPECTIVE IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES." In Business and Management 2016. VGTU Technika, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/bm.2016.66.

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Aim of presented paper is provide the latest approaches towards energy security, to examine methodological foundations used, and to contribute to the contemporary discussion by providing new insights stemming from emerging needs of enhancing energy security. In the presented paper a role of energy efficiency among other constituents of energy security is being discussed. The second – analytical – part of paper is devoted to forecasting of long-term (until year 2050) energy intensities in household sectors in the following countries: Lithuania, Estonia, Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg and Bulgaria. Author claims, that revealed differences provide theoretically grounded foundations for further benchmarking of energy intensities.
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Buford, W. L., F. M. Ivey, J. P. Fogarty, and R. G. McMorries. "Inter-Rater Reliability of 3D Polygonal Reconstructions From CT Scans." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-206347.

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Computed tomography (CT) scans have long been used as a diagnostic tool in many areas of medicine. With advances in computer image analysis methods, it is now possible to generate 3-D polygonal reconstructions from CT scans, which provide an accurate representation of the muscles and skeleton of the patient. The Mimics program (Materialise, Leuven, Belgium) is one of several available software packages that through user dependent interactive techniques can create these 3-D reconstructions of body parts from CT scans.
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Li, Xiangling, Guangjing Chen, Jan Verstricht, Philippe Van Marcke, and Ioannis Troullinos. "The Large Scale In-Situ PRACLAY Heater and Seal Tests in URL HADES, Mol, Belgium." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96294.

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In Belgium, the URL HADES was constructed in the Boom Clay formation at the Mol site to investigate the feasibility of geological disposal in a clay formation. Since 1995, the URL R&D programme has focused on large scale demonstration tests like the PRACLAY Heater and Seal tests. The main objective of the Heater Test is to demonstrate that the thermal load generated by the heat-emitting waste will not jeopardise the safety functions of the host rock. The primary objective of the Seal Test is to provide suitable hydraulic boundary conditions for the Heater Test. The Seal Test also provides an opportunity to investigate the in-situ behaviour of a bentonite-based EBS. The PRACLAY gallery was constructed in 2007 and the hydraulic seal was installed in 2010. The bentonite is hydrated both naturally and artificially. The swelling, total pressure and pore pressure of the bentonite are continuously measured and analysed by numerical simulations to get a better understanding of this hydration processes. The timing of switching on the heater depends on the progress of the bentonite hydration, as a sufficient seal swelling is needed to fulfill its role. A set of conditions to be met for the heater switch-on and its schedule will be given.
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Mallants, Dirk, Diederik Jacques, and Theo Zeevaert. "Modelling 226Ra, 222Rn, and 210Pb Migration in a Proposed Surface Repository of Very Low-Level Long-Lived Radioactive Waste." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-4632.

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A generic concept for disposal of very low-level long-lived radioactive waste is currently being evaluated for radium bearing wastes that originated from a historical radium extraction plant at Olen, Belgium. A total volume of approximately 217 000 m3 of waste with an average radium content of 7 Bq/g has to be disposed of. Upon request by the Belgian National Agency for Management of Radioactive Waste and Nuclear Fuels, NIRAS/ONDRAF, a generic disposal concept was evaluated for the purpose of identifying the minimum disposal concept which guarantees long term safety. Such an analysis would provide useful input to the final design of the disposal concept, as the contribution of the different engineered barriers to the overall safety will have been assessed. The analysis focussed on the migration of 226Ra, 222Rn, and 210Pb to groundwater owing to infiltration of rainwater and the diffusive radon transport via the gas phase to the atmosphere. The generic design considered a waste dump with the contaminated material completely enclosed by a clay barrier. To protect the low-permeability clay from degradation by water and wind erosion, frost and desiccation, burrowing animals, and plant roots, among others, a multi-layer cap was designed to meet these requirements. In the performance assessment calculations, various cases were considered in which one component of the disposal concept was changed at the time. Cases considered included absence of clay layers, effects of hot spots, lower adsorption capacity of various materials, and the effect of separating the radium contaminated material from nearly uncontaminated material. Unsaturated flow calculations were done first to estimate the steady-state water content profile. Knowledge on the degree of water saturation is of paramount importance for radon transport through the gas phase. Based on the steady-state water content profile, advective dispersive transport calculations were done considering the decay chain reaction of 226Ra. In addition to the radon gas flux to the atmosphere, fluxes of 226Ra, 222Rn, and 210Pb to groundwater were also produced. Groundwater flow and transport calculations yielded radionuclide concentrations in a hypothetical well nearby the planned disposal site, whereas biosphere modelling provided the annual doses to the public considering the groundwater pathway and direct inhalation of radon in case of the atmospheric pathway. On the basis of the calculated radionuclide fluxes and doses the importance of the various model parameters and concept components will be evaluated and discussed.
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