The severe shortage of donors is a major constraint facing European countries. In Europe more than 60,000 patients are on waiting lists for an organ transplantation. Because of the shortage of donated organs, every day almost ten people die in Europe while on the waiting list. But what are the causes …

This book is about markets for intermediate skills. It is also about the coordination within and between the (vocational) education system and the (sub-baccalaureate) labor market, and the institutions that govern them. Our goal was to improve our understanding of how particular governance regimes influence …

In het TEPE-jaarboek Teacher Education Policy in Europe : a Voice of Higher Education Institutions , beschrijven Marco Snoek, Ursula Uzerli en Michael Schratz hoe op Europees niveau een proces van peer learning tussen lidstaten impulsen probeert te geven aan de nationale beleidsvorming rond lerarenkwaliteit …

From June 28 to July 7 the National Arts Festival took place in Grahamstown, South Africa. For the 20th time Cue, a daily print newspaper about the Festival, was produced by Rhodes University journalism students. It was the first time that the newspaper was printed in full color. Cue is at the core …

Studieontwerp: De studie is opgedeeld in twee onderdelen: een systematische review en een interview met drie specialisten op het gebied van chronische a-specifieke lage rugklachten. Doelstellingen: De doelstelling van de systematische review is het evalueren van de effectiviteit van stabilisatie/coördinatie …

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger and malnutrition. On 26 November 1991 the European Union became the 161st Member of FAO, trough Resolution 7/91 which allowed Regional Economic Integration Organisations (REIOs) to accede as …

Het onderwerp duurzaam of maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen neemt binnen ING een steeds belangrijkere plaats in. Op verschillende terreinen en niveaus zijn of worden besluiten of maatregelen genomen op het gebied van duurzaamheid. Binnen ING FM is gekozen om duurzaamheid integraal in te bedden binnen …

The Internet is changing the way we organise work. It is shifting the requirement for what we call the ‘schedule push’ and the hierarchical organisation that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

In this article, we review the recent progress that has been made in the field of Lewis-acid catalysis of carbon carbon-bond-forming reactions in aqueous solution. Since water hampers the hard hard interactions between the catalyst and the reactant, it often complicates catalysis. However, once coordination …