This article discusses poetical evolutions in Jesuit theater Flanders through a comparison between plays of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. While most research field focusses on first centuries order, disregarding century because its decreased social relevance, this surveys significant changes eighteenth-century plays. Although continuities baroque spectacle different phases order have ...

BACKGROUND In Belgium, socio-economic inequalities in mortality have long been described at country-level. As Belgium is a federal state with many responsibilities in health policies being transferred to the regional levels, regional breakdown of health indicators is becoming increasingly relevant for policy-makers, as a tool for planning and evaluation. We analyzed the educational disparities ...

In the study of software development, Ralph Flanders is a minor historical gure who’s connected to agile methods only through a long chain with many rusted and incomplete links. Generally known as a business leader and politician, his moment of glory came in 1954 when he introduced the motion into the US Senate that would censure his colleague Senator Joe McCarthy. Yet, early in his career, aft...

Cultural and creative sectors are a significant driver of local development both through direct job creation income generation but also indirectly by spurring innovation across the economy. Beyond their economic impacts, they have social from supporting health well-being to promoting inclusion capital. Flanders (Belgium) has placed cultural as priority in region’s strategy. This paper provides ...

This article provides an overview of the historiography on seigneurial accounts in Flanders from circa 1450 until end Old Regime. The main objective is hereby to explore characteristics this socioeconomic source material, and how it has been used historical studies premodern Flanders. Furthermore, possibilities methodologies for future research based financial administrative documents are cover...

Large speech corpora (LSC) constitute an indispensable resource for conducting research in speech processing and for developing real-life speech applications. In 2004 the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN) became available, a corpus of standard Dutch as spoken by adult natives in the Netherlands and Flanders. Owing to budget constraints, CGN does not include speech of children, non-natives, elderly peop...

Let F be an arbitrary field and let J¢/', (F) denote the linear space of all matrices of order n over F. Let W be a subspace of J/t, (F). Let r be an integer with 1 ~< r ~ n. Flanders [21 considered the question of how large the dimension of W must be to guarantee that W contains a matrix whose rank is at least equal to r. There exist spaces W of dimension ( r 1 ) n containing no matrix of rank...

A Flemish official interviewed by Van Dam (1997) as part of a large survey on the relations between linguistic groups in Belgium explained the unfavorable situation of Wallonia in comparison with Flanders in the following terms: “Wallonia suffers from a mentality which does not favor economic development. The prevailing culture is socialism. The socialist party sets the tone (...) Walloons tend...

Belgium, and especially the northern region called Flanders, has been a center of expertise in cochlear implants and early hearing screening for many years. Some of their surgeons and engineers were pioneers in the development of cochlear implants and in 1998 Flanders was the first region in Europe to implement a universal hearing screening program for all neonates. The Belgian National Institu...