Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Ephraim Emerton

Economics & Informatics Erasmus School of Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam

Ideas that persist for centuries - by Erasmus of Rotterdam, the prince of humanists.

The paper highlights the personality of the founder of European student exchange program ERASMUS (EuRopean Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) Erasmus of Rotterdam. He was one of the leading European humanists and has left a literary legacy of large dimensions. His thoughts, ideas, opinions, and mainly the works have a great benefit for society even today. From 16th...

Ephraim NISSAN's

On Emerton ’ S

The purpose of the current paper is to introduce some new methods for studying the p-adic Banach spaces introduced by Emerton [9]. We first relate these spaces to more familiar sheaf cohomology groups. As an application, we obtain a more general version of Emerton’s spectral sequence. We also calculate the spaces in some easy cases. As a consequence, we obtain a number of vanishing theorems.

Student diversity at Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam: does it make any difference?

In an ethnically diverse society cultural competence is indispensable for medical doctors. At present 10% of the Dutch population are first- or second-generation non-Western immigrants. With 8% Western and 18% non-Western immigrants, originating from 30 different countries, the 2001 Rotterdam first-year students highly out-rated the national average of immigrant medical students. Diverse studen...