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Showing 1 to 20 of 222 for “"Belgium"”.
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Analysis of insider trading in Belgium
In essence, insider trading is the trading of securities by corporate insiders such as owners, managers and directors. As insiders often possess securities within their companies in exchange for their contributed capital or as part of their remuneration package, trading by insiders is common …
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Cryptosporidium and Giardia in calves in Belgium
Cryptosporidiosis mainly occurs in calves younger than 1 month, and causes a mild to profuse diarrhea. In contrast, a Giardia infection is most frequently diagnosed in calves older than 1 month and clinical symptoms comprise a chronical and intermittent diarrhea, and ill thriving. Cattle are …
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Tourism and Rural Identity in the Waasland, Belgium
The northern portion of Belgium, a region known as Flanders, is one of the most densely settled, industrialized areas in the world. Existing in small, isolated tracts, are "green spaces" mainly devoted to agricultural output. The Flemish way of life and environment has become increasingly …
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Neutrality in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1899-1914
By 1914, Belgium and the Netherlands had maintained a foreign policy of neutrality for nearly a century. For these two similarly sized, neighbouring countries in northwest Europe, it was not an occasional stance, but a long-term position that persisted in times of peace. Belgium had been …
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Multimetric assessment of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities in Flanders, Belgium
… should be taken into account. In Flanders, Belgium, the Belgian Biotic Index (BBI; De Pauw and Vanhooren, 1983), based on macroinvertebrates, has been applied in routine monitoring schemes by the Flemish Environment Agency (VMM) since 1989, confirming the reliability and robustness of this …
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Consumer perception and behaviour towards tropical fruits in Belgium
Increased health consciousness and growing importance consumers attach to fruit in the diet lead to an increasing demand for various tropical fruits in Europe. Also food industries are making greater use of novel tropical fruits to meet the growing interest in innovations in healthy food products. …
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Historicist Composition for the Catholic Church: France and Belgium, 1894–1937
This thesis explores efforts to “reform” the composition of Catholic church music by imitating medieval and Renaissance models, with a focus on francophone Europe from the zenith of this historicism at the turn of the century to its gradual sublimation between the World Wars. Chapter 1 describes …
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Chickens in the archaeological material culture of Roman Britain, France, and Belgium.
… mean to the people of Roman Britain, France, and Belgium? The physical remains of these birds are the clearest sign that people were keeping them, and fragments of eggshell suggest they were being used for their secondary products as well as for their meat. By expanding zooarchaeological research …
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Intimate Encounters and the Politics of German Occupation in Belgium, 1940-44/45
Throughout the German military occupation of Belgium in the Second World War, German troops and Belgian civilians lived alongside one another and interacted in everyday life, in spite of repeated efforts of the German High Command and Nazi party to incite German men in uniform to avoid contact with …
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The General Receiver of Flanders, 1262-1372: A Study in Administrative History (Belgium)
Between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth centuries, the position of general receiver of Flanders gradually evolved from an assortment of ad hoc functions performed by some non-specific member of the count of Flanders' household into an identifiable administrative office. Initially the …
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Macrolide and lincosamide resistance patterns in invasive and colonizing group B streptococcus isolated in Belgium
… and lincosamides resistance patterns in Belgium has been conducted. Antimicrobial susceptilities to erythromycin and clindamycin were determined by Etest® (EUCAST interpretive criteria) on 275 clinical isolates (N1) obtained from the Belgian surveillance for invasive GBS disease in …
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Rene Magritte's segmented women: Studies based on two paintings in the Menil Collection (Belgium)
Rene Magritte, Surrealist painter, represented women in segmented forms. He enclosed portions of female anatomy in frames and painted representations of broken, sculpted torsos. In this he was inspired by the example of de Chirico's poetic painting, Rodin's use of partial forms to represent whole …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… negative perceptions on the representation of Belgium in Victorian literature, but also those of more positive associations, particularly in the literature that more closely followed Belgium's independence. The study focuses on works by Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, Dante Gabriel …
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Trade union influence under austerity in Europe (2018-2016), a study of Greece, Ireland and Belgium.
… concerns trade union responses to austerity in Belgium, Greece and Ireland (2008-2016). It explores the power resources trade unions in Europe have drawn on during these crisis years, and seeks to establish if unions are cultivating new sources of power and influence, as traditional sources …
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Everyday practices and Shariʿah interpretations: the dynamics of Shariʿah interpretations in the life of Muslims in Belgium
… of Shariʿah in the daily life of Muslims in Belgium as a case study as they face daily challenges to engage meaningfully in European life. Besides containing substantial analyses of the data, as qualitative research, the thesis privileges ordinary Muslims and represents their diverse voices …
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Keeping promises in federal systems: the legal status of intergovernmental agreements with special reference to Belgium and Canada
… proper technique of statutory incorporation. In Belgium, by contrast, cooperation agreements are mainly conceived as a novel – if ill defined – type of negotiated norm of public law. Legislative assent is frequently granted, which confers on Belgian IGAs legal force erga omnes in the legal orders …
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