440 research outputs found
Course System Architecting for Management
No full textThis article describes the condensed version the course System Architecture by the Center for Technical Training CTT. Trainer is the author of this article Gerrit Muller. At this moment this course is only accessible for Philips Employees
An extraordinary photograph: Gerrit Rietveld, Mart Stam and El Lissitzky at the Schröder House, 1926
No full textThe Schröder House, designed in 1924 by Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964) in closecollaboration with the client Truus Schröder-Schräder (1889-1985), has beenphotographed countless times.1 Most of the photographs of this well-knownmonument are architectural photographs, of its exterior or interior. Only a fewof them include one or both of the designers. One such photograph, from 1926,appears in many publications concerning Rietveld or the Schröder House. It is anintriguing shot; but what exactly does it tell us?Heritage & Value
Gerrit Rietveld 's shop designs in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1962
No full textThis essay investigates the shops as well as commercial buildings designed by Gerrit Rietveld in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1962, focusing on the relation between the interior and the exterior in each project. Gaining insight into his contribution to the history of shop designs. This research has been conducted through a combination of literature study, and the archive of Gerrit Rietveld in the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and provides elaboration on themes as the designs of the shop front, the interior, and the connection between them. These themes are addressed through observation of the images, and drawings in the archive and other resources. The essay also provides a critical view for the role of those shops in history, and their influences on subsequent shop designs after that. AR2A011Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
The sense of God’s presence in prayer
No full textThe awareness of God’s presence and the experience of his works – key notions in practices of prayer – find reasonable doubt in our secular age. Meanwhile, there are, worldwide, many communities of faith where people enthusiastically pray and hold that they hear the voice of God. How can we understand this sense of God’s presence?
In prayer, people express their hope and fear, and they do so with heart and mind. This subjective involvement is characteristic for prayer. At the same time, supplicants address God in the conviction that God is present and active. Critics of religion, however, criticise this ‘external’ realm of the divine and consider prayer a superstitious delusion. Passages of William James and John Calvin help us to get some insight in the ‘object’ of our religious consciousness. Furthermore, William Alston defends a non-sensory mystical perception of the divine. Using these insights, the author explores prayer as a conversation with God and reflects on the notion: hearing the voice of God
Nawoord: Over veldwerk en antropologie als wetenschap
No full textSince the 1970s anthropologists write in a more reflexive way about their fieldwork. Anthropologist and travel author Gerrit Jan Zwier wrote a book about the rise of this genre. He asked the historian and anthropologist Yme Kuiper to add an epilogue to a new edition of his classic (first published in 1980)
Public Management and Disaster Risk Reduction: potential interdisciplinary contributions
No full textThis article investigates the interdisciplinary nature of Disaster Risk Reduction as an emerging field of study. The development of this field of study is interpreted within the context of the evolution of Public Management as an academic discipline. The author argues that the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of both Public Management and Disaster Risk Reduction share commonalities. Thus, the foundational and functional aspects of Public Management did, and should continue to, inform and enrich the study of Disaster Risk Reduction
Public management and disaster risk reduction: potential interdisciplinary contributions
No full textThis article investigates the interdisciplinary nature of Disaster Risk Reduction as an emerging field of study. The development of this field of study is interpreted within the context of the evolution of Public Management as an academic discipline. The author argues that the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of both Public Management and Disaster Risk Reduction share commonalities. Thus, the foundational and functional aspects of Public Management did, and should continue to, inform and enrich the study of Disaster Risk Reduction.http://reference.sabinet.co.za/document/EJC51157http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/jemb
Shem Ṭov Ben Isaac, Glossary of Botanical Terms, Nos. 1-18
No full textThis article provides a critical edition and translation of the first eighteen items of the letter Aleph in the first list of the medico-botanical glossary compiled by Shem Ṭov ben Isaac of Tortosa in the second half of the 13th century. It is part of his translation into Hebrew of Book 29 of the medical compendium entitled Kitāb al-taṣrīf, whose original author is the Arabic physician al-Zahrāwī (10th century). The glossary is actually an autonomous one, composed by Shem Ṭov ben Isaac himself, containing two alphabetical lists of synonyms. The lemmata of the first list are Hebrew or Aramaic plant names gleaned from the Bible or rabbinic literature, in which each entry gives the Arabic, Latin, and Occitan synonyms. The second list is organized according to Old Occitan names of drugs and offers their Arabic, biblical/rabbinic, and sometimes also the Latin equivalents. For an Arabic equivalent to a rabbinic term Shem Ṭov ben Isaac consulted (as he tells us) medieval commentators, while for an equivalent to a biblical term he consulted Saʿadya Gaon (882-942) and R. Jonah ibn Janāḥ. The edition of the complete glossary is part of an interdisciplinary project at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies of the University of Cologne and at the Department of Romance Philology of the Free University of Berlin, the goal of which is the edition and the analysis of unedited texts of medico-botanical literature written in Middle Hebrew
Metapoëtiese raakpunte in die poësie van Gerrit Kouwenaar en Breyten Breytenbach
No full textPrompted by the poem "brief in een fles voor breyten" in which a certain poetic relationship between the Dutch poet Gerrit Kouwenaar and the Afrikaans poet Breyten Breytenbach is implied, the author of this article traces the outlines of a meta-poetics common to both poets and through which their poetry has intertextual links with the poetics of among others Poe, Mallarme and Wallace Stevens. The following common denominators are found in Kouwenaars’s body of works and Breytenbach’s ("yk") and Lewendood: the proliferation of the subject, the ‘killing’ of life in language, the extended metaphor of food, eating and excretion and the living poem as a present absence
Probing strategy-project alignment: The case of the South African Social Security Agency
No full textPublic institutions, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) increasingly function in multi-project environments to translate strategies successfully into service-delivery initiatives. However, this ‘projectification’ often causes projects to be designed and executed haphazardly. This can lead to budget and schedule overruns, and the general wastage of an organisation’s resources. Project failures often occur where organisations do not ensure that specific projects are aligned with their core strategies. The purpose of this article is to combine the theories and principles of organisation, management, strategic management, and project management in an effort to pinpoint core determinants that can help establish the extent to which an organisation manages the alignment of its strategic projects. In the present study, the author applied the principles of interdisciplinarity, systems thinking, and organisational integration. The combined core determinants that were uncovered were then used in an empirical investigation of SASSA. The purpose of this investigation is to identify particular challenges the organisation faces in aligning their strategies and projects successfully. Thereafter, a number of recommendations follow to address these challenges
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