Doven en slechthorenden in Nederland hebben een slechtere gezondheid dan gemiddeld. Hoe kan dit? Tegen welke problemen lopen zij aan? En hoe kunnen zowel doven en slechthorenden als medisch hulpverleners er samen voor zorgen dat dit verbeterd? Dit proefschrift beschrijft de resultaten van het eerste grootschalige onderzoek naar medische hulpverlening aan doven en slechthorenden in Nederland. Een ‘must read’ voor mensen die zelf doof of slechthorend zijn en voor de hulpverleners die met d...

The words ‘technology’ and ‘innovation’ are almost automatically linked with American companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Tesla or Amazon in most people’s minds. But this association has created a huge blind spot in the West.

While the world focuses on what is happening in Silicon Valley, the Chinese innovation train has left the station and is moving forward at high speed. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are the well-known standard-bearers of this fast and furious innovation surge, ...

The Fun and Frustration of Modern Working Life presents an easy to read and timely overview of the state-of-the-art of many important areas in occupational health psychology. It focuses on the health and well-being of workers, the work related causes and consequences of (lack of) worker health and well-being, and strategies for improvement. It also marks the retirement of Wilmar Schaufeli, one of the most eminent scholars active in occupational health psychology since the 1990s.

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The first-line supervisor and safe work behaviour is an English translation of Daalmans` book De eerstelijns leidinggevende en veilig werkgedrag. The English translation was done to meet the demand from Dutch companies (for their foreign employees) and also because of international interest. The fact is, the concept of Brain Based Safety which the author has developed is enjoying increasing interest abroad. This method translates recent knowledge of the brain into the encouragement of safe be...

What do we mean by theory in the arts, and what role does it play in that sense? Theory appears as an active, transformative, fluid, and communicative element of art practices, and research in the arts in particular. Theory is the fluid that perfuses and connects the territory of fine art and design, as well as other art forms such as music, architecture, writing, moving images, dance, and theatre. At the heart of this publication is the new field of research in theory and the way the ArtEZ T...

For introductory courses in managerial finance. Help students apply financial concepts to solve real world problems with a proven teaching and learning framework The Teaching and Learning System -- a hallmark feature of Principles of Managerial Finance, Brief -- weaves pedagogy into concepts and practice, giving students a roadmap to follow through the text and supplementary tools. The 8th Edition, Global Edition, concentrates on the material students need to know in order to make effective f...