Furosemide is included in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) list of prohibited substances because it can be used by athletes to mask the presence of performance-enhancing drugs in urine and/or excrete water for rapid weight loss. But how effective is furosemide in masking prohibited substances in …

Supportive relationships between students and their educational faculty and staff can foster positive outcomes such as students’ involvement and development. However, research investigating how students perceive the quality of their relationships with educational faculty/staff (i.e., relationship quality) …

Public Summary Talk Up Front The Influence of Language Matters on International Military Missions with a Particular Focus on the Cooperation between Soldiers and Interpreters Andrea van Dijk How do language issues affect military operations, and how in particular do soldiers and interpreters cooperate …

A special Women's Day edition of the podcast with the leading ladies of our Centre of Expertise on Global Governance. Your hosts Mendeltje and Ruud have a talk with Alanna O'Malley, Barbara Warwas en Sylvia Bergh on the international position of women and their research on the UN, alternative ways of …

Emancipation of law, violence and information dehumanizes us and therefore makes us a little more dangerous. The more "technical" the communication is, the lower the threshold for colliding with each other. Technology (or methodology) makes it possible to sharpen the contours of the conflict and thus …

Onderzoek naar de manier waarop de leerkrachten van groep 4 tot en met 8 de leerlingen kunnen begeleiden bij de effectieve communicatie tijdens het (zelfstandig) oplossen van conflicten. Het ontwerp bestaat uit een stappenplan voor het oplossen van een conflict. Tijdens de uitvoer van het ontwerp is …

The changes that have taken place in higher education in the last decade, such as output-based funding, global competition, and the marketization of higher education, call for a re-focus on the establishment of bonds between students and their educational institution. Previous studies have emphasized …

The principles of international humanitarian law (IHL) have evoked considerable debate in the practice of humanitarian support, particularly in terms of emerging tensions with sovereign (national) law. Drawing on organization studies, we examine the emergent strategies aimed at resolving the ambiguous …

Na bijna twintig jaar War on Terror en het uitvoeren van de tweede hoofdtaak zijn krijgsmachten zich aan het heroriënteren. Het omarmen van het traditionele interstatelijke conflict, de conceptuele comfort zone, ligt voor de hand. Maar het huidige en toekomstige dreigingsbeeld gaat eerder uit van …

During the last two decades the operational environment for Western armed forces has been dominated by the global war on terror and irregular warfare.1 Both modes of conflict are strongly associated with unorthodox units and tactics resulting in special operations forces occupying, or at least sharing, …