Scriptiebank is een vrij toegankelijke online databank. Deze bevat alle artikels en full text scripties van deelnemende bachelors en masters aan de Vlaamse Scriptieprijs.

STATISTIEK ALS GLAZEN BOL: Wat is de kans op een miskraam?

Helene Vermeulen
Gebruik van 'joint latent class' models voor het voorspellen van een miskraam tijdens het eerste trimester van de zwangerschap.

Resettlement preferences from landslide prone areas in the Bamboutos caldera: Willingness to move, reasons to stay

Midas Baert
Information about resettlement preferences is important for voluntary resettlement programs to be a successful disaster risk reduction strategy. This study combines semi-structured interviews and structured household surveys which includes a discrete choice experiment to elicit ex-ante resettlement preferences of households that live in landslide prone areas. We use a mixed logit model and latent class model to assess resettlement preferences and to investigate differences in preferences between socioeconomic groups. We find that, in general, people are willing to resettle away from a landslide prone area to a safer area and to an area that is accessible by roads. The willingness to resettle increases when additional arable land is provided, when the extended family can come along and when monetary compensation is offered. However, the relative importance of these attributes varies among socioeconomic groups. More wealthy households show a greater willingness to resettle and attach more importance to improved road infrastructure, while poorer respondents are less willing to resettle and attach more importance to whether their family can move along. Although the majority of households are willing to resettle, previous resettlement attempts were not always successful and individual willingness is not translated into actions. This can be attributed to the fact that little unused land is available in highly populated areas which may results in border disputes at the resettlement destination. In addition, resettling is costly and the effective monetary compensation received by resettlers is often low (and not in line with the government’s promises). Finally, group dynamics also play a role: households mainly want to resettle along with their (extended) family. Hence, if there is no consensus among a large part of the community to resettle, the status quo remains.

Freeze-outs of minority shareholders: a comparative law and economics approach

Tom Vos
This master thesis aims to determine what constitutes an efficient legal framework for eliminating minority shareholders from a company (so-called "freeze-outs"). First, the legal framework in the United States is compared with the situation in Europe in general and the Netherlands and Belgium in particular. Then, these legal systems are evaluated against their economic efficiency.

Design of fault-tolerant genetic algorithm for application placement in heterogeneous cloud environments

Ruben Mennes
Het plaatsen van applicaties is een niet triviaal probleem in heterogene cloud omgevingen. In deze scriptie wordt een methode voorgesteld om applicaties te plaatsen op een cloud waarbij applicaties een minimale beschikbaarheid hebben. Deze methode is maakt gebruik van een genetisch algoritme.