January 2011

• 07 jan
  Efficient synthesis of 4-amino-tetrahydro-2-benzazepin-3-one containing opioid peptides with mixed µ/δ opioid receptor agonistic properties.

  doctoraatsverdediging door Bart Vandormael

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 11 jan
  Princes, pasha’s, diplomats and consuls. Political and economical relations between Belgium and the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Leopold I (1831-1865)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jan Anckaer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 11 jan
  Time series reconstruction of environmental proxy records

  doctoraatsverdediging door Veerle Beelaerts

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 12 jan
  Current-assisted sensor devices for 3D time-of-flight imaging

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ward Van Der Tempel

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 13 jan
  A numerical framework for electrochemistry – application to the study of gas-evolving electro-chemical reactions

  doctoraatsverdediging door Pedro De Mendonca Bernardo Maciel

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 jan
  The euthanasia practice in Belgium. Behavior and attitudes regarding reporting and adherence to legal safeguards

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tinne Smets

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 14 jan
  End-of-life care in older people. A study of advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making in Flanders, Belgium

  doctoraatsverdediging door Cindy De Gendt

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 17 jan
  Multirate cascaded ΔΣ converters for wireless applications

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lynn Bos

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 21 jan
  Microstructured fiber bragg grating sensors: from fiber design to sensor implementation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Thomas Geernaert

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 21 jan
  Development of new radiofluorinated methylphenylalanine analogues for tumour imaging with PET

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ken Kersemans

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 jan
  Use and modeling of overtone resonances in FBAR resonators operating at RF frequencies

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mohamed Reda Amin El Barkouky

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 jan
  Contribution to the design of a multimodal PET / US imager for breast cancer

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jun Dang

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

February 2011

• 01 feb
  Executable Models for Extensible Workflow Engines

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mario Sánchez Puccini

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 01 feb
  Preservation of Functional Beta Cell Mass, Assessed by Hyperglycaemic Clamp, in Human Type 1 Diabetes

  doctoraatsverdediging door Evy Vandemeulebroucke

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 02 feb
  Essays on the New Dynamics in International Business

  doctoraatsverdediging door Paul Brugman

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 02 feb
  A non-invasive approach for evolving Model Transformation Chains

  doctoraatsverdediging door Andrés Yie Garzón

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 feb
  De arbeidsrelatie, de zelfstandige en de ondernemer. Begrippenanalyse ter (re)constructie van (het personele toepassingsgebied van) het arbeidsrecht

  doctoraatsverdediging door Koen Nevens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 feb
  Electoral Systems and Constituency Representation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Audrey André

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 09 feb
  China's Regional Dilemma: An Inquiry into the Limits of China's Economic and Military Power

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jonathan Holslag

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 09 feb
  Countering Inflammation-related Muscle Weakness in Geriatric Patients

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ingo Beyer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 10 feb
  Development of an atmos-pheric pressure plasma process for the generation of antimicrobial coatings on steel

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sanaa Sarghini

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 feb
  Characterization of an in vitro mouse follicle bioassay to study the effects of endocrine disrupters on ovarian homeostasis and gametogenesis

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sandy Lenie

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 15 feb
  Evolution of gene clusters in amphibians: a phylogentic and genomic approach

  doctoraatsverdediging door An Mannaert

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 feb
  Polarization properties and nonlinear dynamics of quantum dot lasers

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lukasz Olejniczak

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 17 feb
  Development of an inverse method for the identification of the elasto-plastic behavior of plate-like materials

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ioannis Vasilakos

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 feb
  VUB Bedrijvenweek '11 - jobbeurs

  Jobbeurs door CareerCenter1

• 24 feb
  Does the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Understanding provide the Requisite Balance for Development?

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mervin Martyn

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 feb
  Het perspectief van de multitude. Agamben, Machiavelli, Negri, Spinoza, Virno

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sonja Lavaert

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 25 feb
  The Uneven Development of the Microfinance Sector

  doctoraatsverdediging door Annabel Vanroose

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 25 feb
  Deterministic and probabilistic active contour models for medical image segmentation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Yanfeng Shang

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 25 feb
  Diversity, source and biocontrol of spoilage bacteria in modified-atmosphere-packaged artisan-type cooked ham

  doctoraatsverdediging door Charalampos Vasilopoulos

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 feb
  Sprachkonfliktforschung in Sprachkontaktgebieten: die öffentliche Meinung zu Aspekten der Position der deutschsprachigen Belgier im belgischen föderalen System.

  doctoraatsverdediging door Anneleen Vanden Boer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 feb
  From analogue to digital: the silent (r)evolution? A qualitative study on the domestication of interactive digital television in Flanders

  doctoraatsverdediging door Wendy Van Den Broeck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

March 2011

• 01 mrt
  Deployable tensairity structures – development, design and analysis

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lars De Laet

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 02 mrt
  Nonlinear and dynamical models for temperature reconstructions from multi proxy data in bivalve shells

  doctoraatsverdediging door Maite Bauwens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 04 mrt
  Atheistic Religiosity. A Pragmatic Analysis in the Vein of William James, Erich Fromm and Leo Apostel

  doctoraatsverdediging door Wim Van Moer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 04 mrt
  Predicting peptide interactions using protein building blocks

  doctoraatsverdediging door Peter Vanhee

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 mrt
  Loonsystemen, Arbeidsorganisatie en Arbeidsverhoudingen in de Belgische Glas- en Textielnijverheid, 1886-1914

  doctoraatsverdediging door Widukind De Ridder

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 11 mrt
  Acoustic source identification with applications in aeroacoustics

  doctoraatsverdediging door Flavio Augusto Presezniak

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 mrt
  Accumulation of Trace Elements in Mussels, Fish and Marine Mammals from the Black Sea

  doctoraatsverdediging door Dorina Bolba

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 mrt
  Biochemical and structural study of the interaction of carbohydrate-based inhibitors with the FimH adhesion

  doctoraatsverdediging door Adinda Wellens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 mrt
  Reflectometric analysis of transmission line networks

  doctoraatsverdediging door Carine Neus

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 mrt
  Teatro dell’ascolto (“Worüber man nicht sprechen kann, muss man spielen”)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jan Michiels

• 24 mrt
  Frequency domain measurement and identification of linear, timevarying systems

  doctoraatsverdediging door John Lataire

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 mrt
  Impact of competition by invasive aquatic weeds on native macrophytes: roles of environmental factors

  doctoraatsverdediging door Josphine Njambuya

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 mrt
  Preferences of advanced lung cancer patients for information and participation in medical decision-making: a longitudinal multicentre EOLIC study

  doctoraatsverdediging door Koen Pardon

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 mrt
  Projectile identifcation in terrestrial impact structures and ejecta material

  doctoraatsverdediging door Steven Goderis

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 mrt
  Conservation genetics, utulization and effects of Cyperus papyrus harvesting: making ecosystem management work in Kenyan wetlands

  doctoraatsverdediging door Taita Terer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

April 2011

• 01 apr
  End-of-life care in Belgium. A nationwide study via the representative sentinel network of general practitioners

  doctoraatsverdediging door Koen Meeussen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 04 apr
  When the Flemish mental health care meets the Yiddish community... Research on cultural sensitive assistance

  doctoraatsverdediging door Gila Schnitzer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 06 apr
  Environmental impact of small scale pellets boilers in the context of Belgian quality labeling

  doctoraatsverdediging door Vijay Kumar Verma

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 26 apr
  The Analysis of Contextual Factors in Youth Martial Arts Practice

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jikkemien Vertonghen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 apr
  Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Gastro-esophageal Reflux, focusing on Indonesian Infants

  doctoraatsverdediging door Badriul Hegar Syarif

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 27 apr
  The role of esophageal impedance in the diagnosis of gastro-esophageal reflux in infants and children

  doctoraatsverdediging door Silvia Salvatore

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 28 apr
  Production of conjugated fatty acids by bifidobacteria and lactobacilli

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lara Gorissen

May 2011

• 04 mei
  Nonlinear dynamic systems: blind identification of block- oriented models, and instability under random inputs

  doctoraatsverdediging door Laurent Vanbeylen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 04 mei
  Applications of semiconductor lasers with optical feedback: novel concepts for tunable lasers and chaos control

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ilya Ermakov

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 05 mei
  The Efficiency of the Listing and Disclosure Rules of the Palestine Stock Exchange: a Critical Review

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mahmoud Dodeen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 05 mei
  Study of 3D position determination of the interaction point in monolithic scintillator blocks for Positron Emission Tomography

  doctoraatsverdediging door Zhi Li

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 06 mei
  Some practical applications of the best linear approximation in nonlinear block-oriented modeling

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lieve Lauwers

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 06 mei
  Antenatal care in Brussels. Determinants of care trajectories

  doctoraatsverdediging door Katrien Beeckman

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 10 mei
  Gene expression in endometrial biopsies as predictive marker for clinical pregnancy after IVF

  doctoraatsverdediging door Inge Van Vaerenbergh

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 12 mei
  Species diversity, community dynamics and metabolite kinetics of the cocoa bean fermentation process worldwide

  doctoraatsverdediging door Zoi Papalexandratou

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 13 mei
  Development and design of a Z-source inverter for electric vehicle applications

  doctoraatsverdediging door Omar Ellebban

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 mei
  European Trade Policy Making as an Exchange of Goods between Public and Private Actors in Multilevel Networks

  doctoraatsverdediging door Hongyu Wang

• 17 mei
  Towards a Health Promoting Hospital in Rural South Africa. Evidence-based framework for a sustainable public health intervention

  doctoraatsverdediging door Peter Delobelle

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 20 mei
  Ultrasonic characterization of materials with applications in bone tissue modelling

  doctoraatsverdediging door Roberto Longo

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 20 mei
  The Evolution of Grounded Spatial Language

  doctoraatsverdediging door Michael Spranger

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 mei
  Robustness and consistency results for support vector machines

  doctoraatsverdediging door Arnout Van Messem

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 mei
  Place of death and circumstances of dying. Studies in a metropolitan, national and international context

  doctoraatsverdediging door Dirk Houttekier

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 25 mei
  Eredoctoraten 2011

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 25 mei
  Parents’ perspective on the care trajectory of their congenitally deaf child

  doctoraatsverdediging door Stefan Hardonk

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 27 mei
  A longitudinal study on adolescent sprint athletes covering physical development, specific physical performance and nutritional habits

  doctoraatsverdediging door Dirk Aerenhouts

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 mei
  Exploring the genotoxic potential of nanoparticles using amorphous silica nanoparticles

  doctoraatsverdediging door Laetitia Gonzalez

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

June 2011

• 06 jun
  People seeking Power. A Qualitative Analysis of Local Coalition Formation in Belgium

  doctoraatsverdediging door Fanny Wille

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 06 jun
  Development of an early warning system for flash floods in Wadi Watier – Sinai desert

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ahmed Youssef Sayed Abd El Khalek

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 06 jun
  Beta cell regeneration and normoglycemia restoration in diabetic mice through myeloid celldriven angiogenesis

  doctoraatsverdediging door Xiangwei Xiao

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 07 jun
  Do Values Matter in the EU's Relations with China and Taiwan? The Arms Embargo Debate (2003-2005)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Anna Rudakowska

• 10 jun
  Thermal subpixel estimation in urban areas with spaceborne sensing

  doctoraatsverdediging door Essa Wiesam

• 14 jun
  De determinanten van de promotiekloof en de verticale segregatie van vrouwen en mannen op de Belgische arbeidsmarkt

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nick Deschacht

• 14 jun
  Bilingual-Bicultural Language Acquisition of Prelingual Deaf Children

  doctoraatsverdediging door Iris Antoons

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 jun
  Optimization and immune monitoring of a dendritic cell based HIV vaccine

  doctoraatsverdediging door Brenda De Keersmaecker

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 15 jun
  Planning, Friction, Strategy. The Politico-Military Dynamics of Crisis Response Operations

  doctoraatsverdediging door Alexander Mattelaer

• 15 jun
  Studie van anatomische varianten van de A. Maxillaris en M. Pterygoïdeus lateralis: hemodynamische invloeden

  doctoraatsverdediging door Thyl Snoeck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 16 jun
  Conventional, early and immediate single implant treatment in the anterior maxilla: diagnostic considerations and results

  doctoraatsverdediging door Aryan Eghbali

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 16 jun
  Turning point based fatigue testing using pneumatic artificial muscles as light-weight actuators

  doctoraatsverdediging door Kristel Deckers

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 17 jun
  An Analysis of the Relative Performance of Auditors' Going-Concern Opinions and Statistical Failure Prediction Models for Listed Companies in Jordan

  doctoraatsverdediging door Bahaaeddin Alareeni

• 17 jun
  Advancing 3D projection displays: toward compactness, high efficiency and autostereoscopic visualization

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lawrence Bogaert

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 20 jun
  Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Request Refusals in Palestinian Arabic and British English. Implications for Language Learning in Palestine

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sufian A.M. Abuarrah

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 20 jun
  Biogeochemical consequences of sewage discharge on mangrove environments

  doctoraatsverdediging door Perrine Mangion

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 22 jun
  Endogenous and exogenous visual attention: the interaction between bottom-up and top-down mechanisms

  doctoraatsverdediging door David Henderickx

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 jun
  Optimization of accelerator based radionuclide production

  doctoraatsverdediging door Razvan Adam Rebeles

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 jun
  The role of amino acid metabolism in response to biotic and abiotic stress factors in Arabidopsis thaliana

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sigrid Brauč

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 jun
  Aspects of Type II Superstring Theory. Supersymmetric D-branes, T-Duality and Holographic Thermalization

  doctoraatsverdediging door Wieland Staessens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 jun
  Foundations of Fuzzy Answer Set Programming

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jeroen Janssen

• 27 jun
  Stimulating the Purchase of Environmentally Friendlier cars: A Socio-Economic Evaluation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Laurence Turcksin

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 jun
  Extracellular factors regulate pancreatic fate of human embryonic stem cells

  doctoraatsverdediging door Bing Chen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 28 jun
  Sparse Interactions in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  doctoraatsverdediging door Yann-Michaël De Hauwere

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 jun
  Applications of alanine/EMR dosimetry in radiotherapy

  doctoraatsverdediging door Robert Schaeken

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 jun
  Networks of Delay-Couples Oscillators: how delay and topology affect synchronisation and dynamical properties

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ottilde D'Huys

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 jun
  Using targeted subsidies to improve access to health care for the poor in low-income countries: lessons from Cambodia 2000-2009

  doctoraatsverdediging door Por Ir

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 29 jun
  Cell-cell adhesion by Flo1 and Flo11 proteins from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  doctoraatsverdediging door Katty Goossens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

July 2011

• 01 jul
  The transformation of offender rehabilitation?

  doctoraatsverdediging door Aline Bauwens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 04 jul
  A Question of Sovereignty? The EU's Policy on Taiwan's Participation in International Organizations

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sigrid Winkler

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 04 jul
  Adsorption of long chain alkanes on Fisher-Tropsch wax hydroconversion catalysts: an experimental and modeling study

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ben Li

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 04 jul
  A computational fluid dynamics study of the factors influencing the kinetic properties of chromatographic columns

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sander Deridder

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 06 jul
  Discovery of glutamate transporters as novel drug targets for epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease

  doctoraatsverdediging door Anneleen Schallier

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 07 jul
  Modularising Context Dependency and Group Behaviour in Ambient-oriented Programming

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jorge Vallejos

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 07 jul
  Involvement of galectin-3 in inflammation-associated immunopathology elicited during African trypanosomiasis

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ann Vankrunkelsven

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 07 jul
  The variable scope of the exclusive economic rights in copyright: exploring the articulation of law and technology through the case of web search engines

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sari Depreeuw

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 jul
  Revolutionary Road? Looking back at the position of the European film sector and the results of European-level film support in view of their digital future. A critical assessment

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sophie De Vinck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

August 2011

• 22 aug
  Evolution of specificity in peptide recognition domains

  doctoraatsverdediging door Erik Verschueren

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 aug
  Study of sediment transport processes using Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes and Large Eddy Simulation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Patryk Widera

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

September 2011

• 05 sep
  Evaluation and assessment of the effects of Blast Loading by means of a Ballistic Pendulum

  doctoraatsverdediging door Dimitrios Kakogiannis

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 05 sep
  Educational and participative perspectives on policy innovation: the development of a national sustainable tourism policy for Suriname

  doctoraatsverdediging door Henry Ravindredath Ori

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 09 sep
  Tasteful groceries: an archaeological study of iconography, material culture and identity in Belgian food retailing c. 1870-1940

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nelleke Teughels

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 12 sep
  Data management in the cognitive neurosciences

  doctoraatsverdediging door Dirk Derom

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 sep
  Environmental assessment of conventional and alternative vehicles and fuels in a Belgian context

  doctoraatsverdediging door Faycal Boureima

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 sep
  Essays on the Analysis of Trends Affecting Governance in Transition Countries

  doctoraatsverdediging door Munira Aminova

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 sep
  Lineage tracing of pancreatic exocrine cell plasticity

  doctoraatsverdediging door Isabelle Houbracken

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 19 sep
  The effect of mild hypothermia on the neuroinflammatory response in experimental stroke

  doctoraatsverdediging door An-Gaëlle Ceulemans

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 19 sep
  Spermatogonial stem cells as a source for fertility preservation and regenerative medicine

  doctoraatsverdediging door Liang Ning

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 20 sep
  Why do some hospitals perform better than others? A realist evaluation of the role of health workforce management in well-performing health care organisations

  doctoraatsverdediging door Bruno Marchal

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 22 sep
  The Solemnity of the Gnat. Nietzsche’s Tragic Affirmation of Life in a Remote Corner of the Universe

  doctoraatsverdediging door Robrecht Vandemeulebroecke

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 22 sep
  Sensitive and Accurate Bioluminescence Imaging: Influencing factors in cells and mice

  doctoraatsverdediging door Marleen Keyaerts

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 23 sep
  Poverty Reduction and Human Health Improvement Strategies in Developing Countries: The Role of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) Farming in Ghana

  doctoraatsverdediging door Albert Ahenkan

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 23 sep
  Elementary Process Theory: Axiomatic Introduction and Applications

  doctoraatsverdediging door Marcoen J.T.F. Cabbolet

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 sep
  Enabling the rural poor access to health services through innovative health interventions in Cambodia

  doctoraatsverdediging door Bart Jacobs

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 23 sep
  Gender mainstreaming en vakbonden. Hindernissen en hefbomen voor een syndicaal gelijkekansenbeleid

  doctoraatsverdediging door Saskia Ravesloot

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 sep
  Opening academiejaar 2011-2012

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 sep
  Molecular imaging with radiolabeled anti-HER2 nanobodies for improved diagnosis and follow-up of breast cancer - the road to clinical translation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ilse Vaneycken

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 29 sep
  Planning and design of rainwater harvesting infra-structure in the Middle East

  doctoraatsverdediging door Muamaraldin Mhanna

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 sep
  Nanobody-Loaded and –Coated Microbubbles : A Tool for Drug Delivery and Molecular Imaging

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sophie Hernot

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 30 sep
  ‘In de put’. De dagelijkse werking van de arbeidsmarkt voor mijnwerkers in Belgisch-Limburg (1900-1966)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Bart Delbroek

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 30 sep
  Numerical and experimental study of vapor cloud explosions – mitigation by inhibitors

  doctoraatsverdediging door Leopold Hoorelbeke

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

October 2011

• 02 okt
  Brussels Marathon en Half Marathon
• 04 okt
  Is Economic Efficiency the Be-All and End-All of Modern Antitrust Enforcement? The past, current and future role of non-efficiency considerations in the application of art

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ben Van Rompuy

• 04 okt
  New antiviral tools targeting the capsid of poliovirus for use in late stage poliomyelitis eradication strategies

  doctoraatsverdediging door Bert Thys

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 06 okt
  The Role Of Histone Deacetylases During Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation And Fibrogenesis

  doctoraatsverdediging door Inge Mannaerts

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 07 okt
  ‘Everything has an edge’: Intermedial references to the plastic arts in the work of Peter Verhelst (19872005)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Kim Gorus

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 okt
  Measurement and modeling of sound and vibration fields using a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer

  doctoraatsverdediging door Cedric Vuye

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 okt
  Radiotherapy in non-small cell lungcancer: is the only way up?

  doctoraatsverdediging door Samuel Bral

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 21 okt
  Functional role and development of a starter culture of lactic acid bacteria and acetic bacteria for controlled cocoa bean fermentation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Timothy Lefeber

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 okt
  The Role of Institutional Governance in Reforms: The Case of Transition Countries

  doctoraatsverdediging door Azim Raimbaev

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 25 okt
  Measurement of the b-tagging efficiency in the CMS experiment with the first LHC collisions

  doctoraatsverdediging door Abideh Jafari

• 25 okt
  Identification of candidate genes implicated in the virulence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli UTI89

  doctoraatsverdediging door Veerle Derous

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 26 okt
  Measurement of the Jet Energy Scale in the CMS exepriment with the first LHC Proton Collisions

  doctoraatsverdediging door Maryam Zeinali

• 26 okt
  In vitro primary human lymphocyte flow cytometry micronucleus assay: simultaneous assessment of cell proliferation, cell cycle changes, apoptosis and micronucleus induction

  doctoraatsverdediging door Magdalena Lukamowicz

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 26 okt
  Experimental investigation of free rotor noise using a simplified rotor configuration

  doctoraatsverdediging door Michael Bilka

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 okt
  Variazioni su un tema: le riscritture per musica dei "Promessi sposi"

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ann Peeters

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 okt
  Analysis and optimization of cyclone separators using RANS & LES methodologies

  doctoraatsverdediging door Khairy Elsayed

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 okt
  Regulation and function of alternatively activated macrophage markers: a focus on E-cadherin

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jan Van Den Bossche

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 okt
  Nocturne: Brainstormen in Brussel

  tentoonstelling door Studenten en Alumni Relaties, VUB

November 2011

• 03 nov
  Key Determinants of Ethnic Differences in Diabetes Morbidity and Mortality

  doctoraatsverdediging door Hadewijch Vandenheede

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 07 nov
  Quantum aspects of Cryptography: From Qutrit Symmetric Informationally Complete Projective Operator Valued Measure Key Encryption to Randomness Quality Control

  doctoraatsverdediging door Frederik Vanden Berghe

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 07 nov
  The Changing Role of the European Council in the Institutional Framework of the European Union: Consequences for the European Integration Process

  doctoraatsverdediging door Frederic Eggermont

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 nov
  Ambient-Oriented Dataflow Programming for Mobile RFID-Enabled Applications

  doctoraatsverdediging door Andoni Lombide Carreton

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 09 nov
  The euthanasia practice in Belgium. Evaluation of the mandatory consultation procedure between physicians

  doctoraatsverdediging door Yanna Van Wesemael

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 10 nov
  Nanobody aided investigation of β2-microglobulin amyloidogenesis

  doctoraatsverdediging door Katarzyna Domanska

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 10 nov
  Mapping, monitoring and modeling urban areas with medium-resolution satellite imagery: A multi-resolution approach for characterizing the dynamics of urban form and function

  door Tim Van De Voorde

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 nov
  The European Union as a collective actor in the World Trade Organization. An analysis based on the principles of transparency, accountability, legitimacy and democracy

  doctoraatsverdediging door Asja Serdarevic

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 nov
  Essays on the multinational’s market introduction of product innovation in less developed countries

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sofie Van den Waeyenberg

• 28 nov
  Design and evaluation of channel models for DSL applications

  doctoraatsverdediging door Wim Foubert

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 30 nov
  Analysis of Written and Oral Grammatical Errors in the Production of Palestinian English Majors: A Case Study of English Majors at the American University in Jenin (AAUJ)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tareq K.Y. Fawekhreh

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

December 2011

• 06 dec
  he Impact of Banking Market Structure on Bank Performance and SMEs' Acces to Finance in Institutionally Weak Transition Economies: Three Papers on Ukraine

  doctoraatsverdediging door Muzaffarjon Ahunov

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 09 dec
  Confrontation and Communication. Experiments on deliberative democracy in linguistically divided Belgium

  doctoraatsverdediging door Didier Caluwaerts

• 13 dec
  Structural features and properties for the short pentraxins and carbohydrate-binding IgMs from the serum of Vietnamese striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophtalmus)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Thi Huong Giang Duong

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 15 dec
  Trust in B-to-C Electronic Commerce Interactions: The Retailers' and Consumers' Perspectives

  doctoraatsverdediging door Farhod Karimov

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 15 dec
  Contribution to the isolation and hepatic differentiation of postnatal stem/progenitor cells from human adipose tissue

  doctoraatsverdediging door Feras Fayez Abdellatif Albattah

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 15 dec
  The Gendered Production of Audit Quality

  doctoraatsverdediging door Kris Hardies

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 dec
  Detection and generation of CO2 laser pulses

  doctoraatsverdediging door Werner Vandermeiren

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 dec
  Small numbers, big problems. Het levensverhaal en (jeugd)delinquente traject van vrouwelijke gedetineerden.

  doctoraatsverdediging door An Nuytiens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 dec
  Sociale media als schandpaal

  Debat door EMSOC

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 20 dec
  Environmental resources sustainability indicators: an integrated assessment model for Tanzania

  doctoraatsverdediging door Aloyce Hepelwa

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 20 dec
  Determinants of medication use in a multiethnic population of pregnant women

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mohamed Abdelhamid Mohamed Baraka

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 21 dec
  Language use, language norms and linguistic identities in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A historical sociolinguistic perspective on Southern Dutch in the early nineteenth century

  doctoraatsverdediging door Rik Vosters

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 22 dec
  Simulation of turbulent diffusion flames using large Eddy simulation and conditional moment closure

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mahdi Zakyani Roudsari

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 22 dec
  Chemical Reactivity Concepts from Density Functional Theory: Theoretical Developments and Application to Supported Metal Oxide Catalysts

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tim Fievez

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 dec
  Restoration of ecological quality in eutrophic peri-urban ponds through complete fish removal and water drawdown: biotic interactions, evaluation and implications for management

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sylvia De Backer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus