An outsider looking in : Jeremy Boissevain

Brief biography of anthropologist Jeremy Boissevain, highlighting his early years as an anthropologist working with CARE and his fieldwork in Malta, Sicily and Canada.peer-reviewe

Role Profiles of HRD Practitioners in the Netherlands

This study of HRD practitioners and experts in the Netherlands was executed in 1993 and based on an earlier US role profile study. Two types of profiles were identified for eleven different roles that an HRD practitioner might perform within her or his job. Both profiles consist of core outputs of the different roles and the core competencies required for achievement of the outputs. Comparisons were drawn between current and future profiles and between the results of the expert study and the outcomes of the US study. The American role profiles appeared to be largely valid for the Dutch context

Reframing the Dilemma of Contractually Expanded Judicial Review: \u3cem\u3eArbitral Appeal vs. Vacatur\u3cem\u3e

The Federal Arbitration Act ( FAA ) of 1925 was created to ensure enforceability of agreements to arbitrate. The FAA is the centerpiece of the federal arbitration policy as construed by the Supreme Court. Section 10(a) FAA enumerates grounds on which an arbitral award can be set aside. The central issue discussed herein is whether parties can agree by contract to allow one of the parties to initiate review of the arbitral award by a court that would otherwise have jurisdiction over those parties, or whether the court\u27s powers are somehow limited to the grounds for vacatur enumerated in Section 10(a) FAA. Put more succinctly, this article analyzes the legitimacy of judicial review of an arbitral award on the basis of a pre-dispute agreement providing that the arbitrator\u27s findings of fact and/or conclusions of law (as set forth in such award) may be subjected to judicial review, and how such judicial review interacts with §10(a) of the Federal Arbitration Act. The principal focus of this article is on domestic and international commercial arbitration, although I briefly address certain implications for consumer arbitration

Braving troubled waters: sea change in a Dutch fishing community

Dwindling fish stocks, changing markets and often ill-advised government intervention have affected the lives of Dutch fishermen for decades. The author of this study has spent years among the fishermen of the Dutch island of Texel, and this book records the changes in their working lives, tracking the influence of national and international factors on the social and cultural structures of the community

Expanded Judicial Review Revisited: Kyocera Overturns LaPine

Just when you thought you could validly add a clause to your client\u27s arbitration agreement providing that the losing party may take an appeal from the award to the district court having jurisdiction over the parties, think again. What was the law of the Ninth Circuit since December 1997, when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided LaPine Technology Corporation v. Kyocera Corporation ( LaPine I ), has just been reversed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc. In its decision, on a rehearing of what the court refers to as LaPine II , the court overruled LaPine I, affirming the district court\u27s 1995 conclusion and holding that a federal court may only review an arbitral decision on the grounds set forth in the Federal Arbitration Act. In analyzing Kyocera, this article discusses (i) why the rehearing en banc was improvidently granted with respect to the issue of whether parties can include an appeal clause in their pre-dispute arbitration agreement; (ii) why the en banc court in rehearing that issue asked the wrong question; and (iii) having found the appeal provision to be illegal, on what principal ground the court should have severed the appeal provision from the rest of the arbitration clause

Eutrophication: Present reality and future challenges for South Africa

During the past 40 years, eutrophication has become an increasing threat to the usability of South African freshwater resources. Despite legislation moderating the discharge of phosphorus from some wastewater treatment works since the 1980s, eutrophication of freshwater resources is now widespread. Two important consequences are blooms of cyanobacteria, carrying the threat of cyanotoxin contamination, and excessive growth of macrophytes, which clog water-supply structures and reduce the recreational value of aquatic resources. Eutrophication-management options include reduction of phosphorus in detergents, biomanipulation of the food web, accurate prediction of cyanobacterial growth cycles, and mechanical disturbance of the epilimnion. The implementation of adaptive management to deal with eutrophication would ensure the testing and application of the most appropriate methodology to each eutrophic water body. Continued monitoring and reporting of trophic status are essential to establish whether interventions are having any effect.Keywords: biomanipulation, cyanobacteria, eutrophication, forward prediction, management, low-p detergents, phosphorus, zero-phosphat

Seismic site response in the Netherlands:impact of the shallow subsurface composition on earthquake ground motion amplification

Local subsurface compositions can strongly influence the level of amplification of ground motion at the surface during an earthquake. Especially near surface low-velocity sediments overlying stiffer seismic bedrock modify earthquake ground motions in terms of amplitudes and frequency content, the so-called site-response. In the densely populated Netherlands, earthquake site-response is of great concern because it can lead to amplified surface shaking, resulting in significant damage on structures despite the small magnitude earthquakes. This thesis defines relationships between the subsurface lithological composition and the amplitude of ground shaking. For the Groningen region, we show that the earthquake amplification factors match the vibrations of the background noise, which can therefore be used as a first proxy for site response. This approach is further expanded by using seismic records throughout the Netherlands. Due to the presence of a detailed shallow geological model, an approach is presented to predict earthquake amplification at any location in the Netherlands with sufficient lithologic information. With this resulting site-response zonation map, we can obtain constraints on the seismic hazard and site-response in areas that have limited data availability but have potential risk of seismicity, for example at sites with mining, storage or geothermal activities

Presenting in Front of a Virtual Audience: A Synthesis of Research in Higher Education

While previous studies in educational sciences emphasized the essence of feedback on developing students’ oral presentation competence, it remains questionable how innovative technologies can successfully deliver high-quality feedback on such a competence. Recent experimental studies in this field revealed the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) for increasing oral presentation competence and diminishing presentation anxiety. Due to both technological and educational developments, VR systems facilitate the translation of quantitative data into qualitative feedback messages, relating to presentation delivery aspects. This challenges current presentation curricula if the learner is able to individually interpret automatized and personalized feedback messages after rehearsing in front of virtual audiences. As a consequence, it questions to what extent teachers’ roles might change over time. This chapter synthesizes recent studies into a set of educational design principles for effective use of VR, discusses practical implications, and provides a future research agenda on this topic for the higher education context