Over the past decades, international terrorism started to reach its ideological peak, challenging and disrupting whole societies and governmental organs. This modern form of terror contains violent implications, psychologically pressing the innocent masses. Initially inspired by occasional, domestically …

The objective of this dissertation is to investigate how Czech historical events during the twentieth century influenced Czech society and politics in relation to Europe. During the twentieth century, the Czech Republic experienced highlights and downfalls. The founding fathers, Masaryk, Beneš, and Štefánik, …

Paper presented at the RENT XXV conference. The point of this paper is to improve our understanding on the added value of M&A advisors in SMEs, an important segment of the economy and merger industry. To predict the added value of professional advice we contrast two theories: the agency theory and the …

Introduction Nowadays, humans are used to sit a lot during daily activities. Most of the time this happens in a relaxed way. This position is also called ´slouching´ or ´slouched posture´. In the slouched posture the pelvis and the lumbar spine are flexed and places the muscle spindles, muscles and ligaments …

Verschillende studies hebben aangetoond dat taalvaardigheid een sterke invloed heeft op schooluitval en een verminderd studierendement onder meertalige hbo-studenten. In dit project hebben wij een taalscreeningsinstrument genormeerd voor volwassen NT2- sprekers, met als doel het vroegtijdig signaleren …

Untrained listeners demonstrate implicit knowledge of syntactic patterns and principles. Untrained generative music ability, for example singing, humming, and whistling, is a largely unconscious or intuitive application of these patterns and principles. From the viewpoint of embodied cognition, listening …

Crustaceans that are very common in streams were often used as the testing of water quality standards. Therefore, it is effective to select Crustaceans as an indicator to examine the influence of decreasing water flow. Climate change induced the extremely dry summer in the Netherlands. Water flow decrease …

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago (IL), April 1997 Romanowski onderzoekt op welke manier de waarden en ervaringen van docenten de les beïnvloeden. Romanowski gaat ervan uit dat dit zo is. Hij baseert zich op een eerdere publicatie, die zegt …

Organisations are more and more aware of the need to really understand the motives, needs and desires of their guests in order to be hospitable. Offering food in a physical environment is a service which influences how people feel. The two (pilot) studies presented in this paper resulted in a first step …

Ghanaian farmers suffer from a decline in cocoa production partly due to damages and diseases from insect pests. To increase predation by bats on insects on the cocoa plantations we installed two different types of bat boxes on 15 plantations around the village of Buoyem. Bat activity, bat species composition …