Boek 8 'Bewijs' : het eerste boek van het nieuw Burgerlijk Wetboek

Bij de wet van 13 april 2019 werd een nieuw Burgerlijk Wetboek in het Belgische recht ingevoerd, dat uit negen boeken zal bestaan. Deze wet voerde echter nog maar één van deze boeken effectief in, namelijk Boek 8 «Bewijs», dat op 1 november 2020 in werking treedt. Deze bijdrage wil een overzicht bieden van de krachtlijnen van dit Boek 8 «Bewijs». Dit Boek brengt geen revolutie in het bewijsrecht teweeg, maar houdt voornamelijk een codificatie in van de in de wet en de rechtspraak aanvaarde oplossingen, met enkele verduidelijkingen, versoepelingen en vernieuwinge

Data for Good: How Big and Open Data Can Be Used for the Common Good

New ways of capturing, sharing and analysing data have the potential to transform how community and voluntary sector organisations work and how social action happens. However, while analysing and using data is core to how some of the world's fastest growing businesses understand their customers and develop new products and services, civil society organisations are still some way off from making the most of this potential. This report explores how capturing, sharing and analysing data in new ways can transform how charities work and how social action happens

Modeling storm-induced sediment transport on the inner shelf: Effects of bed microstratigraphy

Sediment transport during a storm event on the inner continental shelf was detailed through the development of models based on field experiments conducted at Duck, North Carolina in October 1994. A vertical one-dimensional model (1DV model) was developed by coupling the Grant and Madsen (1986) model with bed stratigraphy to consider real seabeds. Sediment was divided into seven size classes and fractional transport was estimated. Mixing depth and total depth from a simplified sediment conservation equation provided the basis for changing bottom sediment, sediment availability for transport, and armoring processes. These processes involve a feedback between hydrodynamics and bed stratigraphy. A horizontal one-dimensional, depth-resolved model (1DH model) was developed to predict inner-shelf morphological changes. Flow and shear stress fields were calculated using a simple wave transformation model combined with the Jenter and Madsen (1989) model. Sediment flux was computed in relation to fractional transport and armoring processes. The sediment conservation equation was numerically solved to yield bed elevation changes associated with individual size classes. Predictions of suspended sediment concentrations from both models were adjusted by the resuspension coefficient &\gamma\sb0&, resulting in &\gamma\sb0& = 0.001 for the 1DV model and &\gamma\sb0& = 0.002 for the IDH model, respectively. The coupling in the 1DV model was critical to predicting suspended sediment concentrations. Hydrodynamic variables, however, were not significantly affected by changing bottom sediment. Predicted suspended sediment concentrations were higher during the waning phase of the storm than during the erosional phase. Modeled bed stratigraphy showed fining upward sequences. Wind-driven processes on the inner shelf were interpreted using the 1DH model. The magnitude and the direction of horizontal sediment flux were explained in terms of wind-driven currents. Waves produced a sigmoidal-shaped vertical concentration distribution, explaining horizontal gradients of suspended sediment concentrations. The steepness of the sediment flux gradient due to the waves was correlated with wave height. Synchronization of currents and waves was necessary for large flux divergence and morphological changes. During downwelling currents, deposition occurred on the shoreface whereas upwelling currents were accompanied by shoreface/inner shelf erosion. The inner shelf thus responded as either the sink of sediment or the source of sediment

Schumpeteriaanse innovatiedrift en beurstuimel in de westerse economie

Multinational corporations are increasingly seen as excessively big and powerful, and as having dramatically increased in size and power. This perception has led to the view that the big corporations are threatening democratic institutions of the nation-states and that they pervert the cultural and social fabric of countries. In this paper we analyse the size of large corporations and the recent trends in this size. Using value-added data (instead of sales) we find that multinationals are surprisingly small compared to the GDP of many nation-states. In addition, if anything, the size of multinationals relative to the size of nations has tended to decline somewhat during the last 20 years. Finally, we argue that there is little evidence that the economic and political power of multinationals has increased in the last few decades.

Het nieuwe zekerheidsrecht

Dit boek bevat de verslagen van de studieavond van 24 oktober 2013 over de hervorming van het zekerheidsrecht door de wet van 11 juli 2013