Ongeveer 1 op 1000 kinderen wordt doof geboren terwijl 95% van hun ouders volledig horend zijn. Dankzij een cochleair implantaat kunnen doof geboren kinderen voor een groot deel de wereld auditief waarnemen en gesproken moedertaal leren beheersen. De integratie in de horende wereld vraagt echter veel inspanningen, zowel van het dove kind zelf als van zijn ouders, leerkrachten en andere betrokkenen. De horende omgeving moet voldoende kennis hebben en begrip tonen om deze integratie te doen slagen.

That concert is performed live is essential to its definition, particularly in contrast with non-live performances on recordings or radio broadcasts. Yet, despite the centrality of the issue, there is little research asking whether there is indeed a distinctive nature to performing live. This master thesis employs techniques of ethnographic research, analysis and qualitative interviewing to explore empirically originating understandings of how ‘liveness’ influences music performance from artist’s perspective. The topic is highly relevant and challenging as it explores the importance of performing live as opposed to mediatised performance (radio, TV broadcasts, CD recordings). ‘Liveness’ is a concept that applies to the theatre and music but not to the other forms of arts, such as visual arts, literature since the core of ‘liveness’ lies within the simultaneous presence of the artist and the audience. In terms of scope of literature in this area, this specific topic is still rather under-researched with growing interest in its relevance. Whereas there are many researchers and articles exploring ‘liveness’ in theatre or from audience perception, this thesis fills the niche of the impact of performing live upon the artist in the field of music.

Nowadays, performing multitasking activities on the move has become more and more popular. Such propensity has increasingly attracted lots of attentions from scholars. In this streamline, the thesis is to explore how multitasking activities are performed in different modes of public transport (PT) in Brussels city, and whether they are affected by the demographics, distance and level of crowdedness factors. In addition, it looks into the way and how PT passengers interact with their information and communication technology (ICT) devices. Structured observation is used to conduct the survey of 1216 PT passengers (on bus, tram and metro) in May 2016. The result shows, on the one hand, that the length of the journey and demographics have significant impact on passengers’ decision to multitask. On the other hand, it proves that the frequency of using ICTs not only being influenced by demographics, but its relationship with the transport types is also moderated by crowdedness level. On top of that, a comparison with a previous study which adopted a different methodology but in the same context is conducted both to confirm the reliability and validity of this paper and to give an insight about Brussels public transport and its users’ multitasking tendency.

Several controversy concerning the management of MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) and their environmental issues. To reduce the volume of waste about 70-90% the process used is the incineration. However, the material resulting from the plant are produced by an uncontrolled process, therefore they have hazardous chemical composition. To replace MSWI as the raw material in concrete, they should be treated with different process. In this research the ashes (from INDAVER) were treated with water, NaOH and Carbonate and after submitted to the compress strength test, TGA (Termogravimetric Analysis) and ASR (Alkali-Silica Reaction, with glasses aggregate) to evaluate the quality. Relevant the role of the Elemental Al, for this analysis new set up was realize. Results conduced that the MSWI was appropriate to replace raw materials in concrete after treatments.

In mijn scriptie wordt voornamelijk nagegaan op welke wijze vrijwilligerswerk kan hoog opgeleide anderstaligen helpen om een betere aansluiting te vinden met de arbeidsmarkt. Het is een combinatie van theoretische en praktijkgerichte/evaluerende studie in het kader van 3de jaars stage binnen het Servicepunt Vrijwilligerswerk.

That concert is performed live is essential to its definition, particularly in contrast with non-live
performances on recordings or radio broadcasts. Yet, despite the centrality of the issue, there is
little research asking whether there is indeed a distinctive nature to performing live. This master
thesis employs techniques of ethnographic research, analysis and qualitative interviewing to
explore empirically originating understandings of how ‘liveness’ influences music performance
from artist’s perspective. The topic is highly relevant and challenging as it explores the
importance of performing live as opposed to mediatised performance (radio, TV broadcasts, CD
recordings). ‘Liveness’ is a concept that applies to the theatre and music but not to the other
forms of arts, such as visual arts, literature since the core of ‘liveness’ lies within the
simultaneous presence of the artist and the audience. In terms of scope of literature in this area,
this specific topic is still rather under-researched with growing interest in its relevance. Whereas
there are many researchers and articles exploring ‘liveness’ in theatre or from audience
perception, this thesis fills the niche of the impact of performing live upon the artist in the field of
music.

Dit onderzoek handelt over migratie- en inburgeringsprocessen bij hoogopgeleide migranten. Er wordt daarbij gekeken naar het taalverwervingsproces van het Nederlands bij hoogopgeleiden met een migratieachtergrond die ten minste een bachelordiploma hebben behaald, hun positie en hun slaagkansen in het volwassenenonderwijs en naar het verloop van hun inburgeringsproces.

The Cofán people of Zábalo, a community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, have always engaged pragmatically on an everyday basis with their forest-based lifestyle and relations with the government, corporations and outsiders (fuesu a’i). However, in recent years the community has been dealing with growing uncertainty, internal economic inequality, high unemployment, and an Ecuadorian state that extends governmental control, while also neglecting the needs of people in this region. A myriad of factors discussed in this paper, including the increased integration of outside commodities into the Cofáns’ daily life, have led me to believe that unless the Cofán gain access to a steady source of financial income to purchase basic supplies and commodities (such as bullets, gasoline and salt), many people will have to look for work outside the community or allow oil companies to exploit their resources. The growing accumulation of wealth by just two families in the community, increasing dependence on money, lack of access to jobs, and internal political divisions have increased distrust and bad talk (ega afa’cho). Through a two-month stay with the community, where I interviewed 25 individuals (collecting 67 hours of semi-structured interviews) and produced 7 short films , I mainly sought to answer the following three questions: What political and economic changes have these people encountered in recent years? What is the community’s relationship with money, commodities and other sources of value? Can the Cofán maintain an ideal tranquil (opatssi) life and take care of the forest (tsampima coiraye), while simultaneously engaging with external influences, including restrictive laws, expansion of the capitalist frontier, commodities, the Socio Bosque environmental conservation government scheme, populist local politicians, and the potential of oil exploitation?

I conclude that Zábalo is currently a frontier of ‘negligent hegemonic control’ and is becoming more assimilated into the global economic market, creating a greater dependence on money and commodities, which is both changing people’s relationship to the concepts of opatssi and tsampima coiraye and also making them more likely find a pragmatic solution to their economic problems, such as allowing oil exploitation. Finally, this paper advocates for an engaged, activist anthropology in the context of a neoliberal world with increasing inequality, marginalized indigenous peoples, and increasing environmental degradation.

A secure attachment relationship in childhood is closely related to the development of an individual. Attachment to the father especially predicts children’s exploratory behavior. It is of importance to gain more insight into the role of father’s attachment in the cognitive development of the offspring. Experimental studies with laboratory mice are theoretically and practically feasible alternatives to study the attachment relationship and its outcomes in a more controlled manner. In this study, we aimed to investigate the social preference and exploratory tendency of C57BL/6 laboratory mice, and the effects of cohabitant father, mother sensitivity and age on social preference and exploratory tendency.
Three main research questions were formulated: (1) Do pups show a preference to the mother or the father in case they have a cohabitant father? (2) Do pups show a preference to the mother or to the outside cohabitant father in case they are tested with an outside cohabitant father? (3) Do pups show a preference to their own father or the outside cohabitant father in case they have a non-cohabitant father? In the meantime, the research questions also incorporated the effect of father cohabitation, mother sensitivity and age of the pups on the social preference and exploratory tendency of the pups. Three testing conditions were designed: mother vs. father, mother vs. other father and father vs. other father, to cover all planned comparisons. The social preference data was collected with the assistance of ANY-maze video tracking system.
The statistical results showed that pups preferred mother to father and outside cohabitant father, and pups in general showed equal preference to the father and the comparison father. However, pups with own non-cohabitant father preferred the outside cohabitant father to their own father. Father cohabitation effect was found to be significant in affecting the social preference and the exploratory tendency of the pups in all three conditions. Age was found significant in predicting the exploratory tendency of the pups in all three conditions, and sensitivity was found significantly predicting the exploratory tendency in mother vs. father condition and social preference significant in mother vs. other father condition.
Our results suggest that father cohabitation has a positive effect on the social preference of the pups to the father and the exploratory tendency of the pups. The study can be used as a prototype to study father attachment in laboratory mice.