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Working on the quality of working life
Developments in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In November 1975, the German Marshall Fund of the United States agreed to support a proposal from the International Council for the Quality of Working Life for study of 'cross-cultural com munication' on developments associated with the quality of work ing life -a shared interest of the fund and...
Dynamic International Oil Markets
Oil Market Developments and Structure 1860-1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Writing this book would have been impossible without the help of certain institutions and persons. For a gas-producing and oil-processing country like the Netherlands, there was surprisingly very little, publicly available, research material. Public libraries' collections contained, with a certain...
Governance in Modern Society
Effects, Change and Formation of Government Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is the immediate result of the co-operation of a great number of scholars in the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). NIG is an interuniversity research school. As such it has a double task. In addition to offering a Ph.D program to students in Public Administration it also is a research...
Drinking Water Supply and Agricultural Pollution
Preventive Action by the Water Supply Sector in the European Union and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Agricultural pollution (with nitrates and pesticides) is one of the biggest threats to drinking water resources. At many places regional and local water authorities, together with the water supply industry, are involved in preventive action aimed at farming practices. Three national case studies (Germany,...
Nuclear Test Ban
Converting Political Visions to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Nuclear tests have caused public concern ever since the first such test was conducted, more than six decades ago. During the Cold War, however, con- tions were not conducive to discussing a complete ban on nuclear testing. It was not until 1993 that negotiations on such a treaty finally got under...
Out of Time
The Consequences of Non-standard Employment Schedules for Family Cohesion
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution. ‘Out of time - the Consequences of Non-standard Employment Schedules for...
Privacy and Data Protection Issues of Biometric Applications
A Comparative Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book discusses all critical privacy and data protection aspects of biometric systems from a legal perspective. It contains a systematic and complete analysis of the many issues raised by these systems based on examples worldwide and provides several recommendations for a transnational regulatory...
Recent Developments in Infant Nutrition
Scheveningen, 29 November – 2 December 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After 17 years, the Nutricia Symposium retumed to its horne grounds in The of the 10th Nutricia Netherlands, where the first five Symposia were held. The objective Symposium was to bring together a limited number of opinion leaders and key researchers in selected topics of infant nutrition to discuss...
Environmental and Technology Policy in Europe
Technological Innovation and Policy Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book contains six studies on various national environmental policies and environment -oriented technology policy systems in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, sandwiched between this introductory and a concluding chapter. These studies were conducted as...
The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
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Environmental Technology
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Environmental Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22–26, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Five billion people, at present the world population, inevitably affect the quality of the environment. The general public in an increasing number of countries is getting more and more concerned about this deterioration in quality. As a result many people cast doubts upon the desirability of the increase...
Securing Electricity Supply in the Cyber Age
Exploring the Risks of Information and Communication Technology in Tomorrow's Electricity Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
This book presents the contributions from a workshop entitled "Electricity security in the cyber age: Managing the increasing dependence of the electricity infrastructure on ICT," which was organized in the Netherlands in May 2009.
European Business Ethics Casebook
The Morality of Corporate Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline. Analysis and reflection on the morality of business often is triggered by concrete cases. After four introductory chapters into recent developments within business ethics and the value of case analysis, the present volume offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Building on the breakthrough text Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda, this book offers 30 chapters covering conceptual and substantive developments in the philosophy of engineering, along with a series of critical reflections by engineering practitioners. The volume demonstrates how reflective...