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- Design Patterns for Derivatives Software
- This paper discusses the usage of design patterns in the domain of derivatives software. RiskMonitor is an object-oriented application to value positions in derivative products such as options on equity. In the dynamic world of derivatives, there is a constant stream of complicated new products. These new instruments have to...
- White papers
- Dealing With The "Flexibility-Security-Nexus": Institutions, Strategies, Opportunities And Barriers
- This paper discusses the "Flexibility-security nexus" which has become manifest in employment, the labour market and industrial relations. The starting point of the paper is the concept of "Flexicurity", viewed as a particular way of dealing with the aforementioned nexus. The analysis focuses on four EU-member states: Denmark, Belgium, Germany...
- White papers 2003-09-02
- Chances And Limitations Of " Benchmarking" In The Reform Of Welfare State Structures
- The concept of benchmarking, originally developed as a tool to improve the performance of business enterprises by learning from other's 'Best practice', is now increasingly applied in the areas of employment and social policy. Rising internal and external pressures on national welfare states, some-times reinforced by supra-national institutions, a rapid...
- White papers 2003-09-02
- E-Supply Chain Orchestration Using Web Service Technologies
- The world nowadays is witnessing a growing interest in conducting supply chain business processes electronically. Different supporting technologies are emerging, and many are already available on the market. The adoption of these technologies is hampered by the fact that organizations demand that their data and inner business processes remain hidden....
- White papers 2004-12-03
- Sunflower Management and Capital Budgeting
- In organizations, it is often necessary to engage in costly delegation of ideas; such delegation seeks to efficiently aggregate multiple information signals. What this paper shows is that those who delegate often find it impossible to separate the evaluation of the ideas they delegate from the evaluation of the abilities...
- White papers 2001-09-07
- Screening Disability Insurance Applications
- This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The empirical results show that intense screening reduces long-term sickness...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Chances and Limitations of " Benchmarking" in the Reform of Welfare State Structures-The Case of Pension Policy
- The concept of benchmarking, originally developed as a tool to improve the performance of business enterprises by learning from others best practice, is now increasingly applied in the areas of em-ployment and social policy. Rising internal and external pressures on national welfare states, some-times reinforced by supra-national institutions, a rapid...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- The Impact of the Locus-of-Control Personality Trait on the Earnings of Entrepreneurs Vis-a-Vis Employees
- This paper reports the results of a panel data study among a representative sample of 6,111 US young citizens who have been interviewed on a regular basis over a period of about two decades. It offers three contributions to the locus-of-control literature. First, it tests for the robustness of the...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Design of Home Game Systems From the User's Point of View
- Nowadays considering user centred design UCD is very important in the process of making a system; this holds for home game systems as well. User centred design starts with looking at what it is that makes a home game system well designed from the user's point of view. Important criteria...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- The Mirage of Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Market Countries
- The paper studies the determinants of stock market development and the growing migration of capital raising, listing, and trading activity to international exchanges. Economies with higher income per capita, sounder macro policies, more efficient legal systems with better shareholder protection, and more open financial markets have larger and more liquid...
- White papers 2004-01-25
- Explaining the Migration of Stocks From Exchanges in Emerging Economies to International Centers
- The paper studies the determinants of stock market development and the growing migration of capital raising, listing, and trading activity to international exchanges. Economies with higher income per capita, sounder macro policies, more efficient legal systems with better shareholder protection, and more open financial markets have larger and more liquid...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Time-Varying Market Integration and Expected Returns in Emerging Markets
- This paper uses a simple model in which the expected returns in emerging markets depend on their systematic risk as measured by their beta relative to the world portfolio as well as on the level of integration in that market. The empirical analysis for 30 emerging markets shows that there...
- White papers 2001-10-09
- Quality Improvement From The Viewpoint Of Statistical Method
- With the purpose of guiding professionals in conducting improvement projects in industry, several quality improvement strategies have been proposed which strongly rely on statistical methods. Examples are the Six Sigma programme, the Shainin System and Taguchi's methods. This paper seeks to make a rational reconstruction of these types of improvement...
- White papers 2003-08-01
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- Heineken, IBM, Safmarine and University of Amsterdam Launch Wireless "Beer Living Lab"
- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a new intelligent wireless project with Heineken, international shipping company, Safmarine, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam University of Amsterdam in conjunction with Dutch Customs, UK Customs and US Customs and Border Protection. The new project, called the "Beer Living Lab," will track cargo container shipments of...
- Research articles 2006-10-26
- Palm Oil Avantium Technologies BV. (Oils, Fats and Waxes in Brief).(collaboration with University of Malaysia)(Brief Article)
- PALM OIL Avantium Technologies BV, an Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based R&D company and the University of Malaya, Malaysia, have launched a project for palm oil ... PALM OIL Avantium Technologies BV, an Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based R&D company and the University of Malaya, Malaysia, have...
- Research articles 2002-06-24
- Clinquest Group acquires rights on clinical stage anti-inflammatory peptide from University of Utrecht
- - Clinquest will accelerate clinical development and commercialization - Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 04-10-2007 Clinquest Group of Amsterdam, The Netherlands has acquired the patent rights pertaining to the clinical stage F991 peptide from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. The F991 peptide shows promise in the treatment of a...
- Research articles 2007-10-09
- Proposed new member of Royal DSM N.V. Supervisory Board
- DSM proposes appointing Mrs Louise Gunning-Schepers as a member of its Supervisory Board. Mrs Gunning (56, Dutch nationality) is Chairman of the Executive Board of the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam and Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. She studied medicine and...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- Institutional changes and European social policies after the Treaty of Amsterdam.(Review) (book review)
- Blanpain, Roger (ed.); Colucci, Michele; De Smijter, Eddy; Engels, Chris; Hendrickx, Frank; Salas, Lisa. Institutional changes and European social policies after the Treaty of Amsterdam. The Hague, Kluwer Law International, 1998. xi + 419 pp. ISBN 90-411-10186. With the globalization of trade and the...
- Research articles 2000-09-22
- UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: UBC dental clinic te technology goes global.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 August 1999-UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: UBC dental clinic technology goes global C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:050899 The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Dentistry knows how to put its money where its mouth is. The largest dental...
- Research articles 1999-08-06
- Secret of Mona Lisa's smile revealed at last
- PARIS AFP — Now it's official: Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful and two percent angry. That's the conclusion of a University of Amsterdam computer that applied "emotion-recognition software" to Leonardo da Vinci's work, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's...
- Research articles 2005-12-14
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