Het monogram van Cornelis vander Voort

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The Phosphorus [1, 2] project focuses on delivering advanced net-work services to Grid users and applications interconnected by heterogeneousinfrastructures. The project is addressing some of the key technical challengesto enable on-demand end-to-end network services across multiple domains. ThePhosphorus network concept makes applications aware of their complete Gridresourc...

De zwaargewonden eerst? Het Nederlandsche Roode Kruis en het vraagstuk van oorlog in vrede 1867–1945

emotional and intellectual rationales for the movement. At the same time he explores in meticulous detail the complicated practical politics involved. The heart of the story lies in the irony of the movement's survival, the success of the philanthropic effort to "civilize war" being met only through accommodation to, and then generous assistance of, the militaristic interests of individual nati...

Bell's palsy before Bell: Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel's observation of Bell's palsy in 1683.

Bell's palsy is named after Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), who has long been considered to be the first to describe idiopathic facial paralysis in the early 19th century. However, it was discovered that Nicolaus Anton Friedreich (1761-1836) and James Douglas (1675-1742) preceded him in the 18th century. Recently, an even earlier account of Bell's palsy was found, as observed by Cornelis Stalpart...

Mental illness in Culture, Culture in Mental illness An anthropological view from South Africa

De auteur bespreekt de relatie tussen cultuur en geestesziekte. Hij vraagt aandacht voor het probleem van universalisme versus particularisme waar antropologenmee geconfronteerd worden bij interdisciplinaire studies van psychiatrie. Het thema is misschien niet nieuw, maar de beschouwing komt voort uit de reacties van Zuid-Afrikaanse postgraduate studenten in de medische antropologie die deelnam...

Anna Vander Wall