This research project aims to pick up where Incommunicado left off, to look past conferences organized in the West, the debates sponsored by western organizations, and to instead look through the lens of the individual end users on the ground. This project aims to embed itself amongst the people living …

Zimbabwe is a country where rainfall is unreliable and its frequency and intensity has decreased for the last ten years now. This is affecting the growth of crops especial for most smallholder farmers who are depending on rain fed agriculture. In order to improve maize productivity in the areas affected …

OBJECTIVE: The Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) tool was designed to classify randomized clinical trials (RCT) as being more pragmatic or explanatory. We modified the PRECIS tool (called PRECIS-Review tool [PR-tool]) to grade individual trials and systematic reviews of trials. …

IT-based networking trends such as the rise of social media, crowd sourcing, open innovation, and cloud computing enable a profoundly different way of working and collaborating that challenges significantly traditional approaches of companies towards governance, i.e. the mechanisms a company employs …

Primary schools are challenged to continuously improve their teachers' teaching and their students' learning. Through an iterative process, we have developed a method to stimulate teachers to collectively collect and analyze data, derive consequences from their analyses, take actions and evaluate outcomes. …

Social work is a profession that is very much part of and contributes to an ever changing and evolving society. It is therefore essential that social work is able to respond to the diverse and dynamic demands that it may encounter in that society and in the future. The critique of social work is, however, …

Military operations, whether in the field, in the air or at sea, are characterized by their complexity, the high risks that are involved and the specialized teams who have to reach their goals under these circumstances. The improvement of high-tech equipment and the increasing complexity and uncertainty …

The aim of this paper is to give the reader a comprehensive approach to the topic of the emerging Regional Policy in Bulgaria and its progress. The issue gained a large scope of attention since Bulgaria started working her way to the European Union. The regional policy has a great importance for the …

The ANWB department in Lyon helps Dutch people who have problems with their car in France. This department works with Dutch staff, but is situated in Lyon, France. Therefore it has to work closely together with French services. An international working environment can create a stimulating atmosphere …

Introduction Innovation is crucial for companies who have to react to constantly changing markets. Several national and European research institutes stress the importance of developing innovation for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). This was a trigger to design a minor on strategic innovation …