What does it mean to position anthropos in the center? Questioning anthropocentrism is far more than an academic exercise of debating the dominant cultural motif of placing humans at the center of material and ethical concerns. It is a fertile way of shifting the focus of attention away from the problem-symptoms …

Als de Leidse burgemeester dit voorjaar besluit om een vrijkomende exzedendelinquent huis vesting te bieden, zijn de rapen gaar. Bewoners vernemen het nieuws eerst via de media en zien zich vervolgens geconfronteerd met de beslissingen over hun leefomgeving. De woede wordt vanzelfsprekend soepel versterkt …

Purpose Due to the recent economic crisis, competition has considerably increased in the legal profession in the Netherlands. However, marketing in legal services is mostly in its infancy and value research in this context is scarce. We therefore used a contingency approach in exploring the origin of …

As an essential basic principle of the European Union, the free movement of workers has been on everyone’s lips with the European Enlargement of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007. With the complete abolishment of the restrictions on the free movement of workers for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens in Germany …

In this paper we discuss mixed-method research in HCI. We report on an empirical literature study of the NordiCHI 2012 proceedings which aimed to uncover and describe common mixed-method approaches, and to identify good practices for mixed-methods research in HCI. We present our results as mixed-method …

Purpose The conceptual and modularization of project management maturity models is based on the principle of process control. This research was designed to challenge these boundaries to reveal non-process factors. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach A multimethod research …

Youths in Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Region in the rural north of Ghana suffer health and social problems that are caused by their premarital and unsafe sexual behaviour. This study provides more knowledge of and insight into the youths’ conceptions, motives and practices concerning premarital …

Turbine blade cooling has been a topic of significant interest, as increasing turbine entry temperatures result in higher cooling requirements. The present numerical method divides the blade into a finite number of elements in the span and peripheral directions and solves the heat transfer fundamental …

Dit rapport beschrijft de resultaten van een onderzoek naar de onderscheidendheid van kernwaarden van zorgorganisaties.Door middel van een vragenlijst die eind 2011 is ingevuld door 161 zorginstellingen uit diverse zorgsectoren is inzicht verkregen nb in welke kernwaarden zorginstellingen zelf wensen …

Samenvatting: Dit rapport beschrijft de resultaten van een onderzoek naar de onderscheidendheid van kernwaarden van zorgorganisaties.Door middel van een vragenlijst die eind 2011 is ingevuld door 161 zorginstellingen uit diverse zorgsectoren is inzicht verkregen in welke kernwaarden zorginstellingen …