Consumers currently place increasing importance on the values that companies represent. Modern values such as transparency, benevolence to society, sustainability and fairness are becoming more relevant, as noted by many major consulting firms among which are Nielsen (2013), the World Federation of Advertisers …

Nadat de hoogwaters van 1993 en 1995 hebben plaatsgevonden, zijn er langs de Maas tijdelijke voorzieningen aangelegd om het water te keren. Aangezien deze dijken een tijdelijke oplossing zou- den zijn, hebben ze in de eerste wet op de waterkering (1996) niet de status ‘primaire waterkering’ gekregen. …

Population size increase at the Balgzand intertidal in the western Dutch Wadden Sea suggested a growth decrease in both plaice and flounder populations over summer. Research into the seasonal growth of 0-group plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, confirmed this suspicion. The years 1995 and 1996 had contrasting …

SOVAK is een zorginstelling die zich richt op het bieden van zorg en ondersteuning aan mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. SOVAK beschikt over enorm veel persoonsgegevens van cliënten. De huidige privacyregelgeving, de Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens (hierna Wbp), is gebaseerd op de Europese Richtlijn …

Op de onderzoeksschool wordt in de groepen 1, 2 (en 3) aandacht besteed aan begrijpend luisteren. Vanaf groep 5 is die aandacht geheel verschoven naar begrijpend lezen. Groep 4 is een overgangsjaar. Een leerkracht van groep 4 heeft de taak de kinderen kennis te laten maken met begrijpend lezen. Dit is …

As the state retracts further in the Netherlands, the role of civil society increases. Only now the impact becomes visible due to changing arrangements in the social domain. Since enormous cuts in the welfare budgets have been implemented; creative innovations by civil initiatives are much needed to …

Since Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, the nature of its political decisionmaking processes have changed. Instead of creating laws purely based on the mandate of Swedish citizens, a portion of Sweden’s national legislation is now created taking the input of the 27 other EU Member States into …

The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and the failures made, which led to the Srebrenica genocide. All limitations of the mandate and the lessons of Bosnia/Srebrenica were summed up and compared with subsequent peacekeeping missions in order to see whether …

Although many pilots with new eHealth products have been developed, only very few of these products reach widespread adoption within healthcare organisations. The literature mentions a wide range of bottlenecks for the acceptance of new technology in the healthcare industry, among which insufficient …

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the iconic text of the first wave of Net criticism. The internet might have fundamentally changed in the last two decades, but their demolition of the neoliberal …