Cross-Cultural Management: With Insights from Brain Science explores a broad range of topics on the impact of culture in international business and vice versa, and the impact of businesses and individuals in shaping a culture. It provides critical and in-depth information on globalization, global/glocal …

Ulus Baker (1960 – 2007) was a Turkish-Cypriot sociologist, philosopher, and public intellectual. He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1960. He studied Sociology at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, where he taught as a lecturer until 2004. Baker wrote prolifically in influential Turkish journals …

This project explores and develops methods for open archiving of socalled "new naturals". A number of tools and templates were created to facilitate collaborative, global - but context-aware and localized - documenting and archiving of "new naturals":

This article explores how the combination of research approaches in Research Through Design (RTD) can contribute to generating applicable urban design knowledge. The article is based on learnings from the ‘Really cooling water bodies in cities’ project, a pragmatist RTD combining post-positivist, constructivist …

It is argued that pop music has long been locked up in the exploitation phase. Boring, more boring and even more boring seems to be the motto, and only extreme, as now boring monotonous hip hop from Chicago / London - called drill - in which "respect" is enforced by the real killing in quarrels between …

This chapter explores how various organizations are engaging millennials in the energy transition. In the climate accord from Paris, almost all countries in the world agreed upon reducing greenhouse gasses, so climate change will be limited. In order to do so, we do need to cut down on our use of fossil …

This thesis explores the process of empowerment, the conceptualisation of women empowerment, the dimensions of women empowerment through tourism and presents an advice to the project group 'Flavours of Málaga '.

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) with Polyamide 12 is increasingly used for production of functional components for prototyping and end-use. Common grades of PA12 powders age and cause a stock of unsintered powder material that cannot be re-used within the SLS process. This research explores and validates …

This essay explores the notion of resilience by providing a theoretical context and subsequently linking it to the management of safety and security. The distinct worlds of international security, industrial safety and public security have distinct risks as well as distinct ‘core purposes and integrities’ …

This qualitative study explores perspectives towards motherhood of young Millennial women for preconception care purposes. The findings highlight the specific views that Millennial women have of motherhood: Mental mood boards portray both realistic and idealistic images of childbearing and motherhood. …