Discussing the visibility and cultural factors that inf luence the position of women in the armed forces is the object of the study that is presented here. The Netherlands do not have a martial tradition and are believed to have a feminine ‘soft’ culture , but nevertheless women have always been underrepresented. Nowadays …

Worden ‘echte’ journalisten overbodig? Kunnen hun taken niet net zo goed vervuld worden door bloggers of lezers die usergenerated content aanleveren: tekst, filmpjes, foto’s – iedereen loopt immers met een volledig uitgeruste smartphone rond? We hebben toch “16 miljoen reporters” volgens Skoeps (2008) …

Worden ‘echte’ journalisten overbodig? Kunnen hun taken niet net zo goed vervuld worden door bloggers of lezers die usergenerated content aanleveren: tekst, filmpjes, foto’s – iedereen loopt immers met een volledig uitgeruste smartphone rond? We hebben toch “16 miljoen reporters” volgens Skoeps (2008) …

Small scale producers face many opportunities and also huge challenges in today’s markets. Market liberalization since the 1980s has cut back the support services provided by the state and forced producer to face the risks of often weak and volatile markets. Further more those who are able to access …

Often, simplified cultural explanations of a nation‟s economy are common sense and taken for granted. Amidst the debate about the propensity of European countries to compete with other prosperous knowledge economies, some consultants in The Netherlands postulate that the Dutch will never be able to match …

PURPOSE: To analyse how decisions to dichotomise the frequency and impediment of phantom pain into absent and present influence the outcome of studies by performing a sensitivity analysis on an existing database. METHOD: Five hundred and thirty-six subjects were recruited from the database of an orthopaedic …