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Building intelligent credit-risk evaluation systems using neural network rule extraction and decision tables
No full textTable of contentsNeo-classical reengineering: Returning to the promise of process in the post-Internet economyM. De Kegel and M. McDonaldTowards an integrative framework for software architectureR. Maes and G. DedeneComponent based development. From dinosaurs to small, adaptive, co-operating, replaceable creaturesG. Van Humbeeck, J. MerckxSeparating Business Process Aspects from Business Object behaviourM. SnoeckCOSMIC-FFP and MERODE: Applying the Next Generation Function Points to Object Oriented Enterprise ModelsG. PoelsOn the use of Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) for the structured design of XSL TransformationsG. DedeneRuling the business: about Business Rules, decision tables and Intelligent AgentsJ. VanthienenBuilding intelligent credit-risk evaluation systems using neural network rule extraction and decision tablesB. Baesens, R. Setiono, C. Mues, S. Viaene and J. VanthienenWeb service description, advertising and discovery: WSDL and beyondW. LemahieuDeveloping enterprise architecture: the case of KBC InsuranceF. Pieck, S. Viaene and G. Deden
Groupe VI/b Rapports sur le mémoire de M. Willy Viaene
No full textThoreau Jacques, Fripiat José Jean, Michot Paul. Groupe VI/b Rapports sur le mémoire de M. Willy Viaene . In: Bulletin de la Classe des sciences, tome 56, 1970. pp. 1404-1408
M & L Jaargang 1/4
No full textRedactioneelR.M.L.Z. afdeling Architectuur Renovatiestudie De Ring te Hamme. [Urban renovation of De Ring at Hamme, a proposal.]A. Maesschalk en J. Viaene De neo-gotische beelden van het stadhuis te Leuven, schepping va de 19-eeuwse restauratiedrang. [The Gothic Revival statues of the town hall in Leuven, a creation of the 19th century restoration urge.]M. Dubois en L. Daenens Ter Vaart. Een cottage van Paul Hankar in de Gentse Haven.
[Ter Vaart, a cottage by Paul Hankar in the port of Ghent.]R.M.L.Z. afdeling Landschappen Het Nederlandse Structuurschema Natuur- en Landschapsbehoud: een bruikbaar beleidsinstrument voor de Vlaamse Gemeenschap? [The Duch structural scheme on the conservation of nature and landscapes: a useful policy instrument to the Flemish Community?]SummaryBrochure "Vragen rond Monumentenzorg
The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
No full textThis paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced panel data that combines bilateral trade flows among 29 countries and the distribution of outward FDI stocks among these countries. The results reveal a complementarity between trade and investment and a relationship between trade and exchange rate volatility that depends on the sign of bilateral trade balances. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5 percent for Poland and 30 percent for Hungary.EMU, exchange rate volatility, foreign investment, trade diversion, vertical integration
MEASURING GERMANY’S ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: A STATISTICAL APPROACH
No full textThis thesis measured the degree of economic integration of the reunified German states
for the period between 1991 and 2011 by using the statistical method developed by Bowen, Munandar
and Viaene. This approach is based on three theoretical predictions with respect to the distribution of
output and production factors across the member states of an integrated economic area (IEA), where
there are no barriers to goods and factor movements and policies are harmonized. Empirical results
show that all predictions hold and that the distribution human capital is the furthest away from the
theoretically expected one. The applied integration statistic indicates that during the covered period
Germany became more economically integrated, however integration stagnated since 1999. A further
East-West migration of higher educated is expected, but could be reduced through policy
harmonization. Also the union of Bremen and Saarland with their circumambient states will lead to a
distribution of human capital in Germany that is closer to what is theoretically expected
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No full textGeneriekJo Braeken De Shell-building te Brussel. [The Shell building in Brussels.]Te land, te water en in de lucht: tegelijk de aanleiding tot een verkwikkelijk Nederlands beeldbuisgebeuren èn het thema van de Open Monumentendag Vlaanderen \u2794 Monumenten van vervoer(ing).Naast de - naar eigen mening alweer verrukkelijke gelegenheidscover van Ever Meulen gaat in dit nummer het licht op groen voor de energiebron die het 20ste-eeuwse transport bepalend beïnvloedde: petroleum.Met de hem bekende weetgierigheid ging Jo Braeken hierbij op zoek naar de bronnen van de deels utopisch gebleven Brusselse Shell Building.Patrick Viaene Het garagegebouw Citroën te Brussel. [The Citroën garage in Brussels.]Zijn door baanbrekende doubles chevrons\u27 aangedreven \u27tractions avant\u27 aan de man brengen op een nog onontgonnen markt - 1,2 auto\u27s per 100 inwoners in 1930! - bepaalde in ruime mate de architecturale filosofie van de Fransman André Citroën.De eerste buitenlandse vestiging te Brussel zou, na mindere try-outs, vanaf 1934 en onder toezicht van bedrijfsarchitect Ravazé in die zin vormgegeven worden door diens Belgische confraters Alexis Dumont en Marcel Van Goethem: een langsheen het kanaal gemeerd glazen en metalen schip waarin Patrick Viaene ons met kunde rondleidt.Wim Johnson Tussen hoop en wanhoop: een status questionis van het maritiem erfgoed in België. [Between hope and despondence: Belgiums maritime heritage, a state of the art.]Visserij en Binnenvaart krijgen slechts om praktische redenen vanwege Wim Johnson ruimer aandacht dan de even weinig rooskleurig bedeelde Koopvaardij en Pleziervaart.In alle gevallen leidden slechts matige belangstelling en zalvende slopingspremies immers tot de quasi verdwijning van dit merkwaardig plaatsgebonden maar wettelijk nauwelijks grijpbaar patrimonium. Een stand van zaken.Herbert Heller en Eric Keutgens Het buurtspoorwegmuseum te Schepdaal en het Antwerpse tram- en autobusmuseum te Edegem. [The light railway museum at Schapdaal and the Antwerp tram- and busmuseum at Edegem.]De oprichting in 1885 van een eigen Buurtspoorwegennet naast het reeds bestaande \u27groot spoor\u27 beoogde op de eerste plaats de ontsluiting van platteland en voorstad.Afgestemd op zowel reizigers als bulkgoederen behoren deze nostalgisch ogende rij tuigen nu alweer tot een te koesteren verleden.Een taak waar Herbert Heller voor het Buurtspoorwegmuseum te Schepdaal en Erick Keutgens voor het Antwerps tram- en autobusmuseum te Edegem zich niet zonder de nodige kopzorgen voor weten in te zetten.SummaryM&L Binnenkran
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Manure biochar as a potential promising adsorbent for Cd-polluted soil remediation
No full textThe Campine region in Flanders is well-known for its highly cadmium (Cd)-contaminated soils due to past anthropogenic activities. Enhanced Cd exposure can cause cellular damage in plants, and consequently reduces crop growth and plant quality (Jozefczak et al., 2014). Currently, few cost-effective and non-destructive remediation techniques exist (Tang and Ni, 2021). Therefore, alternative soil remediation techniques should be assessed. Biochar is a solid material that is produced by pyrolysis of biomass. Because of its functional surface, it can be used as a cost-effective adsorbent for various (in)organic pollutants in soils and waste waters (Sizmur et al., 2017). However, differences in biochar properties will affect their adsorption performance. Therefore, suitable biomass streams and biochar production conditions should be selected to increase adsorption efficiency. Biochars from eight biomass feedstocks (spent peat, green waste, chicken manure, coffee grounds, flax shives, insect frass, tree bark and apple wood) were subjected to pyrolysis at 450 and 600 °C (pilot-scale rotary kiln reactor) and evaluated for their Cd removal efficiency (CRE) in a buffered 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid (MES) solution (0.025 M Cd; pH = 6; 1:20 solid:liquid ratio) for ten days. The results show that CRE varied from 4 to 96 wt.% with the highest CRE by chicken manure biochars (94-96 wt.%). Insect frass biochar (produced at 450 °C) also had a high CRE (77 ± 4 wt.%). All the other biochars exhibited a CRE below 50 wt.%. A 10-day kinetic adsorption study in the MES solution was executed on four biochars (450 °C) (tree bark, spent peat, insect frass and chicken manure) due to their divergent adsorption performance. A 24-hr desorption step with 0.01 M Ca(NO3)2 was executed to investigate the leachability of the adsorbed Cd. Chicken manure biochar showed the fastest Cd removal rate with a removal of 93 ± 1 wt.% within one day, while the Cd removal of insect frass biochar started at 41 ± 2 wt.% and gradually increased to 77 ± 4 wt.%. Cd Leaching from the loaded biochar was limited (< 10 wt.%) but spent peat biochar leached approx. two times more Cd compared to chicken manure biochar. Future pot and large-scale plant growth experiments with these biochars will provide more insight on their performance in real-life scenarios. This will open new possibilities for the remediation of Cd-contaminated soils
Manure biochar as a potential promising adsorbent for Cd-polluted soil remediation
No full textThe Campine region in Flanders is well-known for its highly cadmium (Cd)-contaminated soils due to past anthropogenic activities. Enhanced Cd exposure can cause cellular damage in plants, and consequently reduces crop growth and plant quality (Jozefczak et al., 2014). Currently, few cost-effective and non-destructive remediation techniques exist (Tang and Ni, 2021). Therefore, alternative soil remediation techniques should be assessed. Biochar is a solid material that is produced by pyrolysis of biomass. Because of its functional surface, it can be used as a cost-effective adsorbent for various (in)organic pollutants in soils and waste waters (Sizmur et al., 2017). However, differences in biochar properties will affect their adsorption performance. Therefore, suitable biomass streams and biochar production conditions should be selected to increase adsorption efficiency. Biochars from eight biomass feedstocks (spent peat, green waste, chicken manure, coffee grounds, flax shives, insect frass, tree bark and apple wood) were subjected to pyrolysis at 450 and 600 °C (pilot-scale rotary kiln reactor) and evaluated for their Cd removal efficiency (CRE) in a buffered 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid (MES) solution (0.025 M Cd; pH = 6; 1:20 solid:liquid ratio) for ten days. The results show that CRE varied from 4 to 96 wt.% with the highest CRE by chicken manure biochars (94-96 wt.%). Insect frass biochar (produced at 450 °C) also had a high CRE (77 ± 4 wt.%). All the other biochars exhibited a CRE below 50 wt.%. A 10-day kinetic adsorption study in the MES solution was executed on four biochars (450 °C) (tree bark, spent peat, insect frass and chicken manure) due to their divergent adsorption performance. A 24-hr desorption step with 0.01 M Ca(NO3)2 was executed to investigate the leachability of the adsorbed Cd. Chicken manure biochar showed the fastest Cd removal rate with a removal of 93 ± 1 wt.% within one day, while the Cd removal of insect frass biochar started at 41 ± 2 wt.% and gradually increased to 77 ± 4 wt.%. Cd Leaching from the loaded biochar was limited (< 10 wt.%) but spent peat biochar leached approx. two times more Cd compared to chicken manure biochar. Future pot and large-scale plant growth experiments with these biochars will provide more insight on their performance in real-life scenarios. This will open new possibilities for the remediation of Cd-contaminated soils
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
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