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In recent years the right to die has emerged from the fringes as a global movement - locally tailored - advocating for patient access to medically assisted-death. Although proposed and actualized models of assisted-death vary in method and level of accessibility, a majority of right to die advocates are motivated by a belief that suffering can at times be “unnecessary”. Based on an overview of the anthropology of suffering and fieldwork in Quebec, Ontario, and Belgium, my research focuses on right to die advocates’ conceptualization of suffering in relation to assisted-death and on how their understanding suffering shapes their views on when assisteddeath should be permitted. I argue that those supporting assisted-death are brought in a form of solidarity through the belief that at times suffering is meaningless and devoid of deeper significance.

This work deal with construction of personal and corporate income tax. It characterizes the tax burden and its measuring methods.

This thesis analyzes the investment environment in Belgium using SWOT analysis. Within the scope off this analysis there are discussed the most important aspects of political, legislative, economic, socio-cultural and technological nature. Due to this fact, this thesis provides a comprehensive view on the Belgian investment environment and allows potential investors to become familiar with the local characteristics. Belgian investment environment namely disposes of many sectors, which are not apparent at first glance and which can carry investment potential. Therefore, despite the complexity of the Belgian administration, legislation and regional support programs, Belgium provides a convenient place for a particular business.

In 1883 a group of Belgian artists wishing to challenge the hegemony of the Brussels Academy founded the organization, Les Vingt, on the principles of egalitarianism and artistic freedom and elected Octave Maus, editor of the self-proclaimed avant-garde journal, L'Art Moderne, as its secretary. Henceforth, Les Vingt assumed the identity of Belgium's leading visual exponent of modernité and L'Art Moderne became its foremost champion. In actuality, the alliance the Vingtistes formed with L'Art Moderne allowed Octave Maus and his co-editor Edmund Picard to gain control of the group's operations. The journal's editors, through their association with the Belgian social reform movement, had formulated an artistic concept they called l'art social and Les Vingt was to become the incarnation of this new doctrine of social art. During the period of 1887 to 1889, however, while the Belgian workers' movement erupted in a succession of strikes and demonstrations, Maus and Picard radically changed their strategy in marketing Les Vingt to its viewing public. They campaigned for a revised, "depoliticized" avant-garde identity for the group, and the model they chose to represent this new identity was French divisionism. The group's appropriation of divisionism, however, signified a forfeiture of many of the group's original ideals. Furthermore, it became a point of conflict for those Vingtistes who chose to remain loyal to their own styles. This conflict is evident in the case of James Ensor, one of the group's important founding members. During this period, he developed his own personal imagery that was a synthesis of Flemish and modern themes and motifs. This imagery made a bold, critical attack upon Les Vingt's capitulation to French divisionism, which signified an acqui-esence to the ardently Francophile tastes of the Brussels bourgeoisie. The focus of this thesis is an analysis of Les Vingt's avant-garde identity as it evolved out of its relationship with L'Art Moderne, and how that relationship led to the importation of divisionism. Ensor's conflict with Les Vingt and his provocative Flemish imagery is also examined as a means of assessing the significance of Les Vingt's adoption of the French art style. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

The aim of the master thesis is to introduce Belgium as a tourist destination. The work is devided into 6 chapters giving the basic information about Belgium, describing its prerequisites and conditions for the development of the tourism and covering the relation between Belgium and the Czech republic. The responses of the questionnaire about the interest in mutual tourism are included. The last chapter presents the analysis of tourism in Belgium, also related to the Czech Republic.

This thesis compares the different trauma received at the three major hiding places for Jewish children in Belgium during the Holocaust: Christian establishments, private families, and Jewish orphanages. Jewish children hidden at Christian establishments received mainly religious trauma and nutritional, sanitary, and medical neglect. Hiding with private families caused separation trauma and extreme hiding situations. Children staying at Jewish orphanages lived with a continuous fear of being deported, because these institutions were under constant supervision of the German occupiers. No Jewish child survived their hiding experience without receiving some major trauma that would affect them for the rest of their life. This thesis is based on video interviews at Shoah Visual History Foundation and Blum Archives, as well as autobiographies published by hidden children.

Cette recherche vise à analyser le rôle des référentiels de compétences sur le pilotage de la formation à l’université et sur les pratiques d’enseignement et d’évaluation des enseignants. Cette analyse cherche également à explorer les liens entre le rôle joué par un référentiel (son usage, ses effets) et les conditions qui ont présidé à sa réalisation :motivation de départ, méthode d’élaboration et de diffusion. La méthodologie utilisée est double. D’une part, nous avons mené une étude croisée reprenant 10 cas, soit 10 équipes d’enseignants ayant élaboré un référentiel en Belgique, en France, aux Pays-Bas et au Canada. D’autre part, nous avons suivi, durant trois années, l’élaboration du référentiel de formation de l’Ecole polytechnique de l’ULB. Entretiens semi-dirigés et observation participante ont été les deux outils respectifs de cette double méthodologie. Nous avons pu montrer que dans la plupart des cas, les référentiels ont joué un rôle dans le pilotage de la formation et dans les pratiques d’enseignement et d’évaluation mais nous avons également identifié d’autres rôles joués par les référentiels tels un rôle de gestion des ressources humaines (outil d’engagement et d’intégration de nouveaux engagés, outil de construction d’une identité collective, outil de communication interne) ou encore de communication à caractère promotionnel. Nous pouvons également formuler des hypothèses quant aux conditions susceptibles de favoriser l’usage du référentiel dans le pilotage et dans les pratiques d’enseignement et d’évaluation. Par contre, nous n’avons pas identifié l’impact de la forme du référentiel (concept de référence ou modèle théorique) sur son usage, l’usage du référentiel étant davantage lié à une politique qui l’englobe et dont il est sans doute l’un des rouages.<p>Enfin, en regard de nos résultats et de notre échantillon, le référentiel ne semble pas constituer un levier pour accroître la professionnalisation de la formation mais se trouve au contraire en équilibre entre professionnalisation et académisation, en ce qui concerne les formations initiales de deux cycles dans un contexte universitaire ou assimilé.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences Psychologiques et de l'éducation / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

No / A predictive modelling technique was employed to estimate wastewater temperatures in sewer pipes. The simplicity of abductive predictive models attracts large numbers of users due to their minimal computation time and limited number of measurable input parameters. Data measured from five sewer pipes over a period of 12 months provide 33,900 training entries and 39,000 evaluation entries to support the models' development. Two simple predictive models for urban upstream combined sewers and large downstream collector sewers were developed. They delivered good correlation between measured and predicted wastewater temperatures proven by their R(2) values of up to 0.98 and root mean square error (RMSE) of the temperature change along the sewer pipe ranging from 0.15 degrees C to 0.33 degrees C. Analysis of a number of potential input parameters indicated that upstream wastewater temperature and downstream in-sewer air temperature were the only input parameters that are needed in the developed models to deliver this level of accuracy.

Subsequent to the growing need for internationally mobile talent, alternative forms of international assignees have arisen (Collings, Scullion and Morley 2007; PricewaterhouseCoopers 2010). This study focuses on such newly appointed internationally working employees, particularly International Business Travellers (abbreviated to IBTs). Inspired by a lack of research attention relating to this labour population, this DBA project opens up the black7box of the IBT working partnership. This is achieved by surveying the role of the IBT as well as the distinctiveness and the state of the psychological contract that the employees involved have with their current employer. The research described and substantiated in this work was devised from the IBT’s perspective, and occurs within a Belgian context. Consistent with a – methodologically revitalising – interpretive phenomenological framework, the study was operationalised on the basis of qualitative, semi7structured interviews with nine IBTs. The thematic data analysis carried out indicated the multifarious, intercultural and strategic role of the IBT, and brought skills specifically characterising the IBT to light. The IBT psychological contract was summarised by eighteen content7related obligations, which contemporaneously display contrasts and similarities with related reference research. The contract in question proved to be evaluated generally positively by the research participants and to develop itself in a unique manner through a noteworthy relational base mixed with a non7negligible transactional facet. Along with a discussion of the principal insights found/contributions made, this thesis includes a number of study limitations, recommendations for further research and implications for successful IBT psychological contract management. Personal reflections are, where relevant, also provided throughout this work.