Many believe that public international law is important and crucial in resolving international disputes. It is indeed an essential resource in controlling states and other international actors. The UN has developed advisory standards, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Other international …

Most arguments in favor of command line versus graphical user interface (GUI) computing are flawed by system administrator Platonism. A command like "cp test.txt /mnt/disk" is, however, not a single bit closer to a hypothetic "truth" of the machine than dragging an icon of the file.txt with a mouse pointer …

Colgate-Palmolive is an American company which operates on international level with the production and selling of oral, personal and home care products and pet nutrition products with a good price-quality relation. The organisation has set up a sales and marketing organisation in Spain in order to launch …

Nederlanders zijn gewoon digitaal Jaarboek ICT en samenleving 2007: Gewoon digitaal. • Gewoner en intensiever gebruik van nieuwe media • Internetgebruik van hoogopgeleiden is veelzijdiger en productiever dan van laagopgeleiden. • Meer ouderen online, maar achterstand blijft groot. • Belang van internet …

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People and their relations are the hart of success of every organization. Although there are no studies that directly relate company success to the happiness of the workforce, it is common sense that communities which are over longer periods working under tension are most likely to be less productive. …

Objective: To determine the effects on energy expenditure, health and fitness outcomes in sedentary older adults aged 55-65 after 6-month participation in the GALM program. Methods: In three Dutch communities, subjects from matched neighbourhoods were assigned to an intervention (n = 79) or a waiting-list …

ICT is veel meer dan een hulpmiddel bij onderwijs en opleiding: zij provoceert een voortdurend nieuwe kijk op de essentie van leren en daarmee ook op het leraarschap. Opvallend is dat ICT in onderwijs penetreert nog voordat er enig model of theorievorming over haar bijdrage gevormd is; dat is pragmatisch …

In this paper, I first discuss in some detail the current use of Learning Objects and show it to be wanting. Although their use, in principle, may offer much flexibility in creating content, in practice it will not, particularly since it does not support sufficient pedagogical flexibility. Then I offer …