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From egalitarian to exclusionary: Profiling youth acceptance of discrimination in the digital age
No full textsponsorship: The authors thank Anouk Allegaert and Midas Stiers for their assistance with data collection, and the editor and reviewers for their constructive feedback. (Onderzoeksraad, KU Leuven)status: Publishe
Learning Analytics Dashboard with Peer Comparison for Student Feedback in Conceptual Modeling Education
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On the normal form of linear time-delay systems with application to output feedback stabilization
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Operando evaluation of passivation phenomenon during ECM/Laser-ECM: Direct and on-machine evidence of passivation evolution
No full textThe performance of electrochemical micromachining (ECM) is compromised when processing highly passivating materials like Ti6Al4V, which can be improved through hybrid laser-ECM (LECM) which facilitates passivation weakening. To date, passivation phenomenon has been mostly analysed through metallography and potentiometric techniques. Metallography provides oxide formation details over a limited observation area after machining, which have limited relevance for manufacturing. Whereas, potentiometric techniques cannot replicate ECM conditions to provide accurate transpassive regime conclusions. The dynamic phenomenon of passivation during ECM requires an on-machine analysis technique to provide production-oriented process history, thereby improving fundamental understanding of passivation at different processing conditions. Therefore, in this study we propose a framework based on high frequency in-process current signals which reflects the operando change in passivation for on-machine evaluation of the passivation phenomenon. We validated this framework through experiments, which demonstrated that this approach can quantitatively capture the dynamic passivation behaviour and is sensitive to different processing conditions and microstructure of the same material. The results showed that passivation weakening improved with increasing voltage up to 30 V and with LECM. In addition, the samples prepared by selective laser melting (SLM) were more resistant to EC-dissolution compared to rolled samples and the material porosity led to inhomogeneous material dissolution. Therefore, since the proposed on-machine analysis technique provides both the overall influence of passivation and its process history, it is useful for mechanistic studies and has the potential to be further developed towards process optimisation and process control.sponsorship: Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G099420N, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|12ZZ622N, KU Leuven|C3/23/060status: Publishe
Het creëren van interculturele moraliteitsboeken: tekstuele, morele, religieuze en gemeenschapspraktijken in 17e-eeuwse Chinese christelijke interacties
No full textThis dissertation investigates Sino-European cultural exchanges through the lens of "morality books" (shanshu 善書) produced by Chinese Christian converts in the 17th century. As a popular genre aimed at promoting virtuous behaviour, morality books occupied a central place in late Ming literati culture and beyond, providing invaluable insight into the moral anxieties, intellectual ambitions, and religious aspirations of contemporaneous society. Emerging from the interactions between Chinese and European Christian individuals, texts, and moral, literary, and religious traditions, the morality books examined here represent a distinctly "intercultural" phenomenon. This dissertation explores how processes of cultural interaction unfold within intercultural morality books by isolating on four areas of practice: textual, moral, religious, and community. For each topic, it analyses cases of intercultural interaction within these texts—specifically, how interaction occurred in the process of textual production, referring here to the entire book cycle from book production to survival, in the representation of moral contents, in the conception of religious ideas, and in the formation of the community. On the one hand, the study demonstrates that existing cultural elements came to be shaped, infused with both Chinese and Christian characteristics, and transformed into something that was neither exclusively Christian nor Chinese, ultimately making the texts truly intercultural.On the other hand, it positions Chinese Christian authors and their texts as integral components of the broader late Ming cultural matrix, offering an alternative perspective on the genre itself, the practices associated to it, the aspirations and functions invested in it, and its significance for local communities in late Ming China. The study is based on three main intercultural morality books: Lixiu yijian 勵修一鑑 and Wenxing cuichao 文行粹抄 by the Fujian convert Li Jiugong 李九功 (zi Qixu 其敘, ?-1681), and Duoshu 鐸書 by the Shaanxi convert Han Lin 韓霖 (ca. 1600-1649), all produced between 1630s and 1680s. These texts contribute to a deeper, multifaceted view of the genre's relationship with Christianity and the ways in which Christianity became part of the existing entanglement of textual, moral, religious, social landscape of late Ming China.status: Publishe
'In en out'? Ethische en methodologische beschouwingen uit criminologisch onderzoek naar de ervaringen van gedetineerde LGBTQI+ personen
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Tolerantie en liberale democratie. Onopgemerkte aannames en historische onjuistheden in liberale debatten over tolerantie aan het einde van de twintigste eeuw.
No full textThis dissertation explores the concept of toleration as both an attitude and a virtue within the context of late twentieth-century liberal debates. Specifically, it examines the influential theory of toleration developed by Nicholson, Mendus, Warnock, Heyd, Fletcher, Horton, Scanlon, and Williams, highlighting some of its unnoticed assumptions and historical inaccuracies. Methodologically, it combines conceptual analysis, historical critique, and philosophical reflection on seminal thinkers such as Spinoza and Locke.
This dissertation argues that, despite its influence, the conception of toleration developed by Nicholson et al. is less clear than these authors believed. For instance, while the theory effectively demonstrated how toleration aligns with liberal democracy and multiculturalism, it failed to clearly establish why it should be regarded as a virtue. Consequently, the dissertation advocates for approaching the topic of toleration from a new perspective, specifically through the lens of classical virtue ethics. It argues that toleration should be seen as the virtue Aristotle described as "being even-tempered," and which is often referred to in biblical contexts as 'meekness' or 'gentleness.' This reframing highlights toleration as a virtue rooted in self-control and the mitigation of anger, rather than in its compatibility with liberal democratic values or its distinction from indifference.
Keywords: Toleration in Political Philosophy, Liberal Democratic Theory, Multiculturalism and Pluralism, Moral and Political Virtues, Philosophical Critique of Tolerationstatus: Publishe
Selective Inference in Regression Models
No full textClassical methods for inference in statistics assume that a model is given before looking at the data and that this model perfectly describes how the data were generated. Statistical practice proceeds in another fashion: the data are used, either visually via plots, and/or by fitting several models, performing variables selection, model selection or regularization to arrive at one or more plausible models. Those selected models are then used for statistical inference. In this thesis, a study will be made of how to obtain valid inference with honest p-values for hypothesis testing and with confidence intervals that have a correct coverage when models are used that have been selected in some form.status: Publishe
