This chapter focuses on the construction of pueblo ‘people’ and patria ‘homeland’ in the Spanish discourse of Podemos and the party’s relation to la gente ‘the people’ between June 2016 and its second political conference, Vistalegre II (February 2017). The discursive analysis focuses on figures of speech, …

Ethics by Design concerns the methods, algorithms and tools needed to endow autonomous agents with the capability to reason about the ethical aspects of their decisions, and the methods, tools and formalisms to guarantee that an agent’s behavior remains within given moral bounds. In this context some …

In this research, which is part of my PhD research into the influence of the use of social media in higher education, I have lessened the amount of variables, from Tinto’s integration theory. By including only the best-proven predictive variables, based on previous studies, I avoid the capitalization …

Dit onderzoek, gericht op de behoeften van Alleenstaande Minderjarige Vreemdelingen (AMV’ers) in de Verlengde Asielprocedure (VA), heeft plaatsgevonden bij Nidos Groningen. Nidos voert de voogdijtaak uit over AMV’ers in de leeftijd van 0 tot 18 jaar. De voogdij-taak wordt uitgevoerd door jeugdbeschermers …

As part of my PhD research, I investigate the influence of the use of social media by first year students in higher education. In this research I have lessened the amount of variables, from Tinto’s theory, by including only the best-proven predictive variables, based on previous studies. Hereby, avoiding …

This chapter argues that critical discourse analysis (CDA) provides a fruitful methodology for CES. This is due both to its eclectic, abductive research methodology that engages in a dialogue between, theory(ies), methodology(ies), data and the socio-historical context (Reisigl and Wodak 2009). Secondly, …

This article provides a description of the emergence of the Spanish ‘Occupy’ movement, Democracia real ya. The aim is to analyse the innovative discursive features of this movement and to connect this analysis to what we consider the innovative potential of the critical sciences. The movement is the …

Het carpometacarpaal gewricht I (CMC I) bevindt zich tussen het os metacarpale I en het distale deel van het os trapezium. Door de vorm is het gewricht zeer mobiel en heeft het de stabiliteit nodig die gegeven is door het gewrichtskapsel, ligamenten en spieren. Door verschillende oorzaken kan het gewricht …

Prevalentiecijfers van dysfagie bij verpleeghuisbewoners variëren tussen de 30% en 75% (Lopez et al, 2012). Naast de verhoogde kans op voedingsproblemen, aspiratiepneumonie en overlijden, heeft dysfagie een (negatief) effect op kwaliteit van leven, de algehele gezondheidstoestand en intensiteit van zorg …