Explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) is seen as a solution to making AI systems less of a “black box”. It is essential to ensure transparency, fairness, and accountability – which are especially paramount in the financial sector. The aim of this study was a preliminary investigation of the perspectives …

Purpose. Psychological contracts (PC) capture employees’ mental schema of the exchange agreement between themselves and their organizations, through which they make sense of their daily work environment (Rousseau, 2001). PCs are not only influenced by (large) organizational changes (Freese et al., 2011), …

Deze maanden wordt de overconsumptie flink gestimuleerd met Black Friday en de feestdagen om de hoek. In het woud van promoties en aanbiedingen is het voor consumenten niet eenvoudig om duurzame keuzes te maken. De eco-labels en UPV (Uitgebreide Producenten Verantwoordelijkheid) moeten volgend jaar gaan …

In dit krantenartikel pleit Bianca Harms in het kader van duurzame consumptie voor het boycotten van Black Friday.

Global issues, including the current pandemic and ongoing climate change, shape voluntary and forced international migration flows in inequitable ways. Anti-immigrant discourses in the Global North seek to capitalize on public concerns about border control. Meanwhile, the greatest immigration challenges …

Tijdens de Black Lives Matter protesten van 2020 was Charlotte Wekker bij de sit-in op de Grote Markt in Groningen. Het was indrukwekkend. Op deze dag besloot ze dat ze zich nog meer ging inzetten voor rechtvaardigheid en gelijke kansen. Op de manier die bij haar past, als bruggenbouwer en verbinder.Het …

We present a novel architecture for an AI system that allows a priori knowledge to combine with deep learning. In traditional neural networks, all available data is pooled at the input layer. Our alternative neural network is constructed so that partial representations (invariants) are learned in the …

There are currently about 2220 individual ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) living in Madagascar, which has caused the species to be red-listed as critically endangered since 2018. To prevent the species from going extinct conservation strategies have been established. Because ring-tailed lemurs have …

Alsem houdt een pleidooi om je als ondernemer niet aan te sluiten bij Black Friday omdat dat je duurzame reputatie niet ten goede komt.

The profiles from data-driven profiling applications are a model of the reality. The interpretability of these profiles for end users, e.g. policymakers, is often far from trivial. How and why these models are obtained by the applications are often regarded as a black box. In recent years several profiling …