For a long time jackals have been known to most Europeans only through documentaries on African wildlife. But one species – the golden jackal (canis aureus) – is now advancing northward and westward across Europe from ...
Ecology
Jul 20, 2015
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How languages differentiate between the present and the future affects companies' engagement in sustainable business practices. The more limited the differentiation between the present and the future, the more attention that ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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Many entrepreneurs work hard, day in, day out. Entrepreneurship causes a lot of stress. How does this impact entrepreneurs? Can training and coaching programs reduce that stress? In her PhD thesis, Josette Dijkhuizen concludes ...
Economics & Business
Jun 22, 2015
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"Less bureaucracy and a greater emphasis upon the individual officer's own personality and freedom of action have made the Dutch police highly prone to discrimination against ethnic minorities and to arbitrary behavior." ...
Social Sciences
Jun 5, 2015
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Excessive bonuses and risk taking in the financial sector are inherent in the competition on the labor market for bankers. This is argued by Anton van Boxtel in his PhD thesis, which he will defend at Tilburg University on ...
Economics & Business
Mar 11, 2015
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Tilburg professors Stefan Bogaerts (Clinical Forensic Psychology) and Bert-Jaap Koops (Regulation & Technology) are involved, in cooperation with children's rights organization Terre des Hommes, in upgrading Sweetie 1.0, ...
Software
Mar 11, 2015
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In a context of collective mass violence, such as a war, women can be just as cruel as men, commit crimes against humanity, and act with the same motives. Still many more men are involved in mass violence than women, but ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2015
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A fund manager by the name of Mustafa gets 10% less investments than a fund manager by the name of John. Investors tend to buy less stocks from funds managed by people with foreign-sounding names, even though their performance ...
Business
Feb 23, 2015
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Statelessness increases risk factors that influence the likelihood to fall victim to trafficking, such as lack of education and the ability to deal with a sudden crisis. A combination of risk factors may push stateless people ...
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2015
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Teaching texting skills and stimulating cell phone use can improve the literacy of a very vulnerable group of people who have had very limited access to education or none at all. Researcher Fie Velghe of Tilburg University ...
Social Sciences
Dec 3, 2014
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