Working paper 2009

OBJECTIVE: Based on prospective and retrospective disease cohort studies, the aim of this review was to determine common prognostic factors for work disability among employees with rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, and ischemic heart disease (IHD). …

Onlangs heeft het Hof van Justitie van de Europese Gemeenschappen (verder: HvJ EG)1 te Luxemburg antwoord gegeven op de door de Hoge Raad2 gestelde prejudiciële vragen in de zaak Stichting Centraal Begeleidingsorgaan voor de Intercollegiale Toetsing (verder: Stichting). Uit het antwoord van het HvJ EG …

In April 2005, the report titled ‘Internationals for SMEs’ was published (Braaksma 2005). The authors aim to focus on the ‘international’ in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME), by giving an account of the professional profile of the more highly educated for international positions in SMEs. The …

There is a difference between enterprise and management. Enterprise is about creation and management is the rational continuation of enterprise. Being rational comes natural to entrepreneurs, but a good entrepreneur has to develop both aspects. To achieve this is an important aspect of management for …

A Chinese colleague of mine said to me the other day: “You’re an old man!” I was really hurt by this remark, because first of all do I not feel old and secondly, there are things that I would definitively not like to hear from a young woman. My colleague on her part probably wondered why my reaction …

Een begrijpelijke brief schrijven zonder als juridische instelling aan gezag te verliezen. Is dat mogelijk? Rechtbank Arnhem ging de uitdaging aan door haar standaardbrieven te herzien. Wij vroegen vervolgens in een grootschalig evaluatie-onderzoek lezers om hun reacties. De resultaten zijn geruststellend, …

Background The experiences of residents who have communication difficulties such as dysphasia are largely absent from the literature. Aim To illuminate the everyday experiences of four residents with severe communication difficulties living in a residential care setting in the Netherlands. Methodology …

From the article: Abstract Over the last decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that the brain constitutes only one of several contributing factors to cognition, the other factors being the body and the world. This position we refer to as Embodied Embedded Cognition (EEC). The …