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Pioneers of Capitalism and the Low Countries’ Paradox

open access: yesTSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
In 2013, Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten Van Zanden published an all-encompassing synthesis on the economic history of the Netherlands following the “Polder-model-theory”, in itself a variant of the “Rhineland model”.
Bruno Blondé, Ive Marx
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The black legend on the Spanish presence in the low countries: Verifying shared beliefs on genetic ancestry.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2018
OBJECTIVES War atrocities committed by the Spanish army in the Low Countries during the 16th century are so ingrained in the collective memory of Belgian and Dutch societies that they generally assume a signature of this history to be present in their ...
M. Larmuseau   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ESG Rating Disagreement and Sustainability Reporting: The Role of Reporting Standards and Assurance Practices

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 5446-5468, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Though environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings have the common ambition of measuring companies' sustainability‐related risks, their usefulness is undermined by the issue of disagreement among diverse ESG ratings. Among the determinants of ESG disagreement, this paper focuses on the input information used by rating agencies, with ...
M. Arena   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clubs within clubs: The Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the Benelux as Macro-regions within the EU [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper deals with two examples of macro-regions in the EU: the Benelux and the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). Building on the distinction between “old” and “new” regionalism, it discusses some characteristics of regions in general, and of ...
Groenendijk, Nico
core   +1 more source

Coin Production in the Low Countries: Fourteenth Century to the Present.

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/ The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 2018
The new dataset and web application ‘Coin Production in the Low Countries: fourteenth century to the present’ provides scholars with user-friendly access to mintmasters’ accounts going back to the Middle Ages.
J. Zuijderduijn, R. Stapel, J. Lucassen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ESCMID‐EFISG Survey on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Capacity for Invasive Fungal Infections in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg: A Focus on High Azole Resistance

open access: yesMycoses, Volume 68, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Introduction Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are a major clinical challenge, particularly in immunocompromised patients, and are associated with high morbidity and mortality. With the increasing prevalence of immunosuppressive conditions and ageing populations, the incidence of IFI is rising globally.
Robina Aerts   +53 more
wiley   +1 more source

Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 608-617, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This historical paper examines pre‐screening procedures for asylum‐seekers at Western European international airports during the period from the 1980s to the 2000s, with a particular focus on France and Germany as case studies. It highlights the tension between attempts to standardise the application of the ‘manifest unfoundedness’ criterion ...
Fabrice Langrognet
wiley   +1 more source

The Unresolved Tension Between Trademark Protection and Free Movement of Goods in the European Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Developments in computer-aided engineering and the rapid growth of computational power have made simulation-driven process and product development efficient and useful since it enables detailed evaluation of product designs and their manufacturing ...
Smith, Robert S.
core   +2 more sources

The Absent Made Present: Portraying Nuns in the Early Modern Low Countries

open access: yesWomen and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750, 2019
Over the recent decades scholarly work on early modern nuns has truly taken off, a happy consequence of the general growth of interest in gender history.
M. Thøfner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

WHO air quality database: relevance, history and future developments

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2023
Air pollution is the second most important risk factor for noncommunicable diseases, but air quality monitoring is lacking in many low- and middle-income countries.
Kerolyn K. Shairsingh   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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