In deze bundel doen we verslag van de onderzoeksprojecten die de leden van de kenniskring in de periode 2010-2012 hebben uitgevoerd in het kader van het hiervoor beschreven programma. Het startpunt van de meeste van deze onderzoeksprojecten werd gevormd door de onderzoeksresultaten van twee grote kwantitatieve …

3 Die Lebensqualität von Kindern ist seit der Einführung der International Classification of Functioning (ICF) (WHO, 2001) in den Vordergrund gerückt und ermöglicht es Logopäden, Kinder auch auf ihrer Partizipationsebene zu betrachten. Ob Sprachauffälligkeiten Einfluss auf die Lebensqualität haben, ist …

Theoretical trends and schools of thought in the field of anthropology evolve rapidly. Anthropological literature must keep abreast, not only of these intellectual shifts, but also of pressing global, political, and social issues. Thus, this volume, like others before it, seeks to provide updates on …

Environmental or ‘green' education is an important driving force behind the ‘greening' of society as it plays a critical role in raising environmental awareness and preparing students for green jobs. None of the existing environmental attitudes and behavior measures is focused on the evaluation of green …

Change is endemic in modern society, and the educational systems that operate in it. In Higher Education societal trends such as globalization and economic rationalism are impacting on teachers. Changes in the student population, new educational methods derived from shifting perspectives on the role …

Exposure data available to developers of earthquake loss models are often very crudely aggregated spatially, and in such cases very considerable effort can be required to refine the geographical resolution of the building stock inventory. The influence of the geographical resolution of the exposure data …

Voor ons onderzoek hebben wij onderzocht op welke wijze de zes kerntaken van het maatschappelijk werk in Indiase instellingen/projecten voor HIV en AIDS cliënten vorm krijgen. Het gaat om de volgende zes kerntaken: 1. Psychosociale hulpverlening 2. Concrete en informatieve hulpverlening 3. Onderzoek …

Assessment of the seismic vulnerability of the building stock in the earthquake-prone Marmara region of Turkey is of growing importance since such information is needed for reliable estimation of the losses that possible future earthquakes are likely to induce. The outcome of such loss assessment exercises …

A damage estimation exercise has been carried out using the building stock inventory and population database of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and selected European earthquake loss estimation packages: KOERILOSS, SELENA, ESCENARIS, SIGE, and DBELA. The input ground-motions, common to all models, …

Insider ethnographic analysis is used to analyze change processes in an engineering department. Distributed leadership theory is used as conceptual framework.