The article indicates how companies may prepare for and deal with cultural differences. Because the research base is still rather limited an overall perspective may not be realised. After discussing definitions and concepts of culture, as well as values, cultural differences between states are discussed, …

To reduce unintentional and avoidable adverse events in patients in hospitals in the Netherlands, a patient safety agency (VMS) programme was launched in 2008. Among the VMS topics, the programme optimal therapy in severe sepsis, according to the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC), aims to …

Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) as well as modern pedagogical perspectives have created new possibilities to facilitate and support learning in higher education (HE). Emerging technologies bring opportunities to reconsider teaching and learning. New ideas and concepts about …

Development cooperation has a long history, but in the last decade a considerable change has become visible: many organisations are shifting from traditional service delivery to the poor to a new approach that includes more people in life changing processes and makes them a part of that change themselves. …

Tijdens het afstudeerproject is onderzocht of het mogelijk is om de platformen van Sense Observation Systems(Sense-OS) en ASK Community Systems(ASK-CS) te koppelen aan een Android applicatie. Het onderzoek is gedaan aan de hand van een proof-of-concept Android applicatie. Een applicatie die herkent of …

Nowadays many schools are innovating and often do so by purchasing new electronic school boards. My training school did this as well. They bought several ActivBoards to modernize the school and its way of teaching. The only problem was that many teachers did not know how to use it and the school was …

Competitive and working papers as well as abstracts in these proceedings discuss recent academic insights and link academic research to the practice field in order to exchange knowledge on contexts and effects, potentials and challenges of CSR and communication, on best practices and newest developments. …

Traditional information systems for crisis response and management are centralized systems with a rigid hierarchical structure. Here we propose a decentralized system, which allows citizens to play a significant role as information source and/or as helpers during the initial stages of a crisis. In our …

Hoofdstuk 1 in Desarrollo y características de los diarios gratuitos en España van Ma Rosa Berganza Conde [et al.] Pocos paises en Europa-o incluso en el mundo- han vicedo una revolution en su prens diaria impresa comparable al lo sucedido en España en la primera decada del siglo XXI: La circulation …