Wash. U. works with foreign schools in first-of-its-kind training program Kathryn Kuznitsky moved to St. Louis to attend law school at Washington University with hopes of someday working in a foreign country. Now the school is launching a program that may be just what she's looking...
Kathryn Kuznitsky moved to St. Louis to attend law school at Washington University with hopes of someday working in a foreign country. Now the school is launching a program that may be just what she's looking for. It's partnering with Utrecht University in the Netherlands...
"Shadow World: How many dimensions space has could all be a matter of perspective" (SN: 11/17/07, p. 315) incorrectly stated that Niklas Beisert is at Princeton University. He is at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. His collaborators were his Max Plan& colleague...
LEIDEN, The Netherlands, December 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - Researchers Expect Groundbreaking Results Today Top Institute Pharma presents a new and highly promising research project. The TI Pharma project is a large-scale study into the brain material of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients, who...
- 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...
In an article e-published on July 31 ahead of print in Molecular Psychiatry, Geuze et al. from The Netherlands Ministry of Defense Utrecht and the Utrecht University Medical Centre reported on an 11C-flumazenil PET study assessing benzodiazepine 7-aminobutyric acid (GABA[A]) receptors in the prefrontal cortices of veterans with and without...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c42871) has announced the addition of Tensions within the Internal Market - The Functioning of the Internal Market and the Development of Horizontal and Flanking Policies to their offering There are obvious tensions in the relationship between horizontal and flanking policies, such as...
Researchers from Utrecht University believe the Black Death caused Europe's temperatures to fall. The team estimated that the Black Death would have caused an agricultural crisis, as trees flourished on land no longer being cultivated. Tests on pollen and leaves in the southeast Netherlands suggest these...
This paper investigates the forces driving output growth, namely technological, efficiency, and input changes, in 80 countries over the period 1970-2000. Relevant past studies typically assume that: Countries use resources efficiently, and the underlying production technology is the same for all countries. This paper addresses these issues by estimating a...
The walls of one of ancient Rome's huge underground cemeteries have yielded surprising clues about links between two major religions. Rather than arising as a strictly Christian tradition, as many researchers and scholars had assumed, subterranean graveyards, known as catacombs, originated in Rome's Jewish community more than 100 years before...
ROME: A Jewish catacomb predates its Christian counterparts by at least 100 years, a study has claimed, indicating that burial in the city's underground cemeteries may not have begun as a Christian practice. Scholars have long believed Christians were the first to bury their dead in Roman catacombs. But experts...
Ever since the introduction of an 'IT productivity paradox' by Robert Solow, the business value of Information Technology IT has been the topic of many debates by practitioners as well as by academics. In these discussions a distinction can be made between the variance approach, investigating what the relationship between...
The paper in which software is developed determines its evolution. Specifically for software developed as a product by startups, the uncertainty of market, platform and team not only determine the evolution of the product, but also of the process. During the lifecycle of the product the organization changes and different...
The paper will, firstly, explore general trends towards 'Management by measurement' in public sectors. Next, it will explore how new regulatory rules have been set for professional policy-making. It will discuss outcome-based rules for regulating collective action. Then, it will introduce the Dutch VBTB-operation, and it will explore how VBTB...
On the 29th of July, 2003, Kees Braams, founding father of the Dutch research on nuclear fusion, suddenly passed away at the age of 78. He was born on the 5th of July, 1925, in the Netherlands, where he also spent his youth. After the...
A Abing, Kevin J. 1 A Fall from Grace: Thomas Johnson and the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, 1839-1862 Ph.D., 1995, Marquette University Abraham, K. A. 2 A...
Abstract: This study reports data gathered via extensive interviews with some of the leading authorities on the euthanasia policy that were conducted in the Netherlands. They were asked: It has been argued that the policy and practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands is the result of undeveloped palliative care. What...
THE ECONOMICS OF INCOME DISTRIBUTION: HETERODOX APPROACHES. Edited by Joep T.J.M. van der Linden and Andre J.C. Manders. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp. 209, ix. The editors of this work are from the Department of Social Economics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. They are also organizers of the 1996...
The central question of this research project addresses the structural consequences of the introduction of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP in organizations. The aim of this paper is to compare the technical demands and the social-organizational consequences of different ERP systems. It first suggests an exploring case study research design to...
Optimality-theory provides a framework to deal with conflicts in interpretation in a systematic way by means of constraint-ranking. In 2002, NWO, the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, funded a project proposal submitted by Petra Hendriks Groningen University, Helen de Hoop University of Nijmegen and the first author of this paper...
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