In this PhD project two worlds were brought together: the world of the traditional musical instruments and the world of technology. This was achieved via an interactive music system, called ...read more
The emirs were the politico military elite of the mamluk sultanate since the mid-13 century. They were supposed to protect Islam against the infidel conquerors. The pluralist institutional structure of ...read more
The overarching conclusion of this study is that Lutheran astronomers of the Renaissance—represented here by Erasmus Reinhold, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Caspar Peucer, and Tycho Brahe—saw their work as taking place ...read more
This research deals with Zheng Banqiao’s (1693-1765) calligraphy Nande hutu难得糊涂 (‘It’s difficult to be muddled’) and its present popularity, including the popular ‘study’ that has been made of the concept ...read more
The main goal of this research is to empirically study Portuguese and Spanish infinitival constructions with specified subjects in adverbial contexts, on the basis of statistical analyses of corpus and ...read more
This work focuses on the composition of Saṅghabhadra's Shanjian lü piposha and on the nature of its relation with the Pāli Samantapāsādikā. Through thorough research into several aspects of T.1462, ...read more
In 2012 Frederik Le Roy obtained his doctoral degree at Ghent University with a dissertation entitled Verknoopte tijd, verfrommelde geschiedenis (Entangled Time, Crumpled History). Inspired by the philosophy of history of Walter ...read more
Ambiguity remains one of the major problems for current Machine translation systems. The example sentence "Apple has doubled its profits in 2005" will get translated by Babelfish (Babelfish.altavista.com) as "De ...read more