Belgium – Flemish Community

2019 ◽  
pp. 337-352
Keyword(s):  
Flemish Community

scholarly journals Being a journalist in a multilingual country: Representations of Dutch among Belgian French-speaking journalists

Multilingua ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Bouko ◽  
Olivier Standaert ◽  
Astrid Vandendaele
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Daily News ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
Tv News ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
French Speaker

Abstract In this paper, we examine how the francophone TV audience is introduced to the Flemish community and its language through daily news broadcasts. More specifically, our research looks at how the Dutch language is used when francophone journalists prepare and produce their reports – during all stages of the process –, up until the actual broadcast. We therefore conducted 15 qualitative interviews with TV news journalists employed by the Belgian French-speaking public broadcaster. The interviews were organized around eight topics, e.g. the place of Dutch in the newsroom and the languages chosen during interactions with Dutch-speaking interviewees. From a discursive point of view, we focused on the selected lexical terms and rhetorical tropes (the various uses of the litotes, in particular) to unpack the journalists’ practices, in relation to their representations of Dutch. Our study provides notable insights into their representation of the differences between French- and Dutch-speaking Belgians as a generational issue, their tendency to assess their proficiency in Dutch measured against bilingualism, as well as their wish to beat the cliché of “the unilingual French-speaker”. These observations are coupled with criteria which explain why French might be preferred in the end: the TV audience’s comfort, general intelligibility and subtitling constraints.

Accounting for the spatial rainfall variability in urban modelling applications

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Williams ◽  
J. Berlamont
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Rainfall Variability ◽  
Hydrodynamic Modelling ◽  
Correction Factors ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
Urban Modelling ◽  
Urban Catchments ◽  
Stochastic Simulation Model

In hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling of urban catchments, the spatial variability of rainfall is often neglected. This spatial variability encloses two aspects: (1) the spatial variability of the statistical properties of rainfall, and (2) the non-uniform spatial distribution of rainfall over the modelled catchments. In an ongoing research project for the Ministry of the Flemish Community (Belgium), the influence of this spatial rainfall variability on the results of modelling applications is studied. At the same time, most efficient methods to reduce this influence are determined. The results of the research can be applied directly in Flanders. They consist of a combination of unified IDF-relationships, spatial correction factors (generally applicable formulas), a stochastic simulation model for spatial rainfall (software) and a methodology for improving the spatial correction factors in a case-specific way by performing simulations with the model.

DSM-5 section III personality traits and section II personality disorders in a Flemish community sample

2016 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 290-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Bastiaens ◽  
Dirk Smits ◽  
Marc De Hert ◽  
Dominique Vanwalleghem ◽  
Laurence Claes
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Flemish Community

OECD Reviews of School Resources: Flemish Community of Belgium 2015

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Nusche ◽  
Gary Miron ◽  
Paulo Santiago ◽  
Richard Teese
Keyword(s):  
School Resources ◽  
Flemish Community

Monitoring Quality in a Federal State with Shared Powers in Healthcare: The Case of Belgium

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Fornaciari ◽  
Arthur Vleugels ◽  
Stefaan Callens ◽  
Kristof Eeckloo
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regulatory Powers ◽  
Monitoring Quality

AbstractThe Belgian healthcare system consists of a complex of more or less autonomous groups of healthcare providers. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure that the fundamental right to qualitative healthcare is secured through the services they provide. In Belgium, the regulatory powers in healthcare are divided between the federal state and the three communities. Both levels, within their area of competence, monitor the quality of healthcare services. Unique to the Belgian healthcare system is that the government that providers are accountable to is not always the same as the government that is competent to set the criteria. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the main mechanisms that are used by the federal government and the government of the Flemish community to monitor healthcare quality in hospitals. The Flemish community is Belgian’s largest community (6.2 million inhabitants). The overview is followed by a critical analysis of the dual system of quality monitoring.

Sagalassos 1989

1990 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 185-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Waelkens ◽  
Stephen Mitchell ◽  
Edwin Owens
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
University College ◽  
British Institute

During 1989 the Pisidian survey project continued for its fifth season at Sagalassos. The survey was directed in the first half of the season by Dr. S. Mitchell (University College of Swansea) and in the second half by Prof. M. Waelkens (Catholic University of Leuven and National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium). The team consisted of Prof. W. Viaene (geologist), Dr. M. Lodewijckx, R. Degeest, E. Scheltens, L. Vandeput, H. Bracke, A. De Daele, P. De Jonghe (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), Dr. E. Owens (University College of Swansea), Dr. Chr. Lightfoot (The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara), Mr. R. Fursdon, R. Harrison and A. Young (topographers, University of Newcastle), and F. Richards (Sydney University). For 3 weeks we were joined by Selçuk Baser, director of the Museum of Burdur, who with M. Waelkens, directed a rescue excavation in the potters' quarter. Muhsin Endoǧru (Boǧazköy Museum) represented the Turkish Antiquities Department. The main financial support came from the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium), the Prime Ministry of the Flemish Community (Belgium), the Flemish Ministry of Education (Belgium), the British Academy and the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

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