603 research outputs found
Diagnostic approach to pancreatic cystic lesions
No full textCysten (goedaardige gezwellen of blaasjes) in de alvleesklier worden steeds vaker bij toeval gevonden door het toenemend gebruik van geavanceerde radiologische beeldvormende technieken. Een deel van deze cysten kan kwaadaardig worden. De enige behandeling bestaat uit verwijdering van de cyste; dit brengt echter risico’s met zich mee. Het is daarom van groot belang de aard van een cyste vast te stellen, zodat deze optimaal kan worden behandeld. Koen de Jong volgde prospectief een cohort van patiënten met alvleeskliercysten om zo de beste diagnostische strategie te ontwikkelen
Who is responsible for safe vaccines?
No full textNu vaccins volop in de aandacht staan, dook Koen van Zon in de geschiedenis van de regulering van vaccinveiligheid. Daarbij stuitte hij op het softenonschandaal uit de jaren ’60. In deze video gaat hij met hoogleraar privaatrecht Elbert de Jong in gesprek over de vraag wie de verantwoordelijkheid draagt voor veilige vaccins
Who is responsible for safe vaccines?
No full textNu vaccins volop in de aandacht staan, dook Koen van Zon in de geschiedenis van de regulering van vaccinveiligheid. Daarbij stuitte hij op het softenonschandaal uit de jaren ’60. In deze video gaat hij met hoogleraar privaatrecht Elbert de Jong in gesprek over de vraag wie de verantwoordelijkheid draagt voor veilige vaccins
Wie is verantwoordelijk voor veilige vaccins?
No full textNu vaccins volop in de aandacht staan, dook Koen van Zon in de geschiedenis van de regulering van vaccinveiligheid. Daarbij stuitte hij op het softenonschandaal uit de jaren ’60. In deze video gaat hij met hoogleraar privaatrecht Elbert de Jong in gesprek over de vraag wie de verantwoordelijkheid draagt voor veilige vaccins
Flexicurity in the European Union: flexibility for outsiders, security for insiders
Full text linkFlexicurity is at the heart of European policy debates. Its aim is to overcome the tensions between labour market flexibility on the one hand, and the provision of social security for workers on the other hand. To date, there is little insight into whether flexicurity policies have been adopted across the European Union. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyse to what extent labour market policies have been reformed along the lines of the flexicurity concept across 18 European countries over the period 1985-2008. Focusing on the main axes of the flexicurity concept, new datasets are used to examine changes in employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labour market policies. Data on the strictness of employment regulation indicate that reforms have been influenced by labour market insiders, since the level of flexibility has been increased more for temporary employment, the labour market outsiders, than for regular employment, the insiders. Although gross unemployment replacement rates suggest that unemployment benefits have become more generous, net replacement rates indicate that the level of income security from benefits actually has been decreased. Moreover, data illustrate that larger shares of European labour forces have temporary contracts. As such, the gap between insiders and outsiders on the labour market has been increased. This development is contrary to the goals of the European Commission.Flexicurity, insider-outsider theory, labour market policy, welfare state, political economy
Caractérisation et discours direct: le cas de Plangon.
No full textIn a perspective which combines elements of modern literary theory on characterization with concepts already present in rhetoric, the character Plangon is analysed through direct speech, which the author considers to be a technique of characterization. After a quick outline which situates this technique of characterization in its context, instructions for ethopoia in ancient treatises on rhetoric are discussed, and applied to the concepts developed in the character of Plangon, to provide a more balanced portrait of her, correcting previous theses.Dans une perspective qui allie des éléments de la théorie littéraire moderne sur la caractérisation des personnages à des concepts déjà présents dans la rhétorique antique, le personnage de Plangon est analysé à travers les discours directs qui lui sont prêtés et que l’auteur considère comme une technique métonymique de caractérisation. Après une brève esquisse qui situe cette technique de caractérisation dans son contexte, il s’intéresse aux prescriptions de l’éthopée dans les traités rhétoriques anciens, puis applique les concepts développés au personnage de Plangon pour arriver à dresser d’elle un portrait plus équilibré, corrigeant les thèses antérieures.De Temmerman Koen. Caractérisation et discours direct : le cas de Plangon. In: Discours et débats dans l’ancien roman. Actes du colloque de Tours, 21-23 octobre 2004. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2006. pp. 63-75. (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen ancien. Série littéraire et philosophique, 36
Paths to justice in the Netherlands: looking for signs of social exclusion
Full text linkIn 2003 Genn's Paths to Justice study for the UK was replicated in the Netherlands. A survey was held among 3.500 citizens into their experiences with problems for which there might be a legal solution.The data were collected by internet questionnaires, which were addressed to a random sample of an internet panel. In this paper we present some major findings on: (1) the incidence of justiciable problems within the population; (2) the kind of strategies people choose to solve their problems; (3) the outcome of different strategies for resolving justiciable problems; (4) the public's perceptions of the legal system. More specifically, we study differences with respect to age, marital status, educational level, income level and social class, in order to shed some light on the role and scope of social exclusion. Our results suggest that access to justice in the Netherlands is not so much restricted by the supply of legal advice and the organisation of the legal system, as well as by insufficient social-psychological capabilities of the citizens concerned.Legal procedure, legal system, social exclusion
Russia's role in fostering the CIS trade regime
Full text linkThe CIS trade regime can be characterised as a mix of, partly overlapping, weak, bilateral, subregional, and multilateral agreements. This is a result of the design of the CIS, which was explicitly constructed to allow its member states to participate in only those parts that they deemed in their best interest and not to participate in other parts. The dissolution of the Soviet Union forced the successor states to create a trade regime. Initially, they turned to one another not to disrupt trade any more than needed. However, Russia carried most of the financial burden of the initial arrangements and started to push for bilateral agreements. The others followed this example, but were careful not to commit too much sovereignty in these agreements. At a later stage, sub-regional agreements substituted for the CIS framework as well. The CIS states remained ambivalent, however, to submit too much sovereignty, whereas Russia formally stayed out of the multilateral free trade agreements altogether. The countries did work together multilaterally and committed themselves to these agreements where it concerned specific issues. In this paper, we look for causes of the myriad of agreements in the actual economic developments. We will therefore present and discuss the major trade agreements with economic arguments. We will also briefly discuss the developments in the volume and direction of trade. Although we expect the gradual improvement of the agreements and the ‘rationalisation’ of the complex arrangement, we do not foresee a consolidated ‘hard’ multilateral framework in the short or even medium term.trade agreements, economic integration, CIS
Acceptance conditions in automated negotiation
No full textIn every negotiation with a deadline, one of the negotiating parties has to accept an offer to avoid a break off. A break off is usually an undesirable outcome for both parties, therefore it is important that a negotiator employs a proficient mechanism to decide under which conditions to accept. When designing such conditions one is faced with the acceptance dilemma: accepting the current offer may be suboptimal, as better offers may still be presented. On the other hand, accepting too late may prevent an agreement from being reached, resulting in a break off with no gain for either party. Motivated by the challenges of bilateral negotiations between automated agents and by the results and insights of the automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC), we classify and compare state-of-the-art generic acceptance conditions. We focus on decoupled acceptance conditions, i.e. conditions that do not depend on the bidding strategy that is used. We performed extensive experiments to compare the performance of acceptance conditions in combination with a broad range of bidding strategies and negotiation domains. Furthermore we propose new acceptance conditions and we demonstrate that they outperform the other conditions that we study. In particular, it is shown that they outperform the standard acceptance condition of comparing the current offer with the offer the agent is ready to send out. We also provide insight in to why some conditions work better than others and investigate correlations between the properties of the negotiation environment and the efficacy of acceptance conditions.MediamaticsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Scholierendebat 2020 Bibliotheek Den Haag
No full textDebat met auteurs Charlotte Van den Broeck, Stephan Enter, Oek de Jong, en Koen Sels naar aanleiding van hun nominatie voor de Boekenbon Literatuurprijs 2020
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