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Pioneers of Capitalism and the Low Countries’ Paradox
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
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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
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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
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Clubs within clubs: The Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the Benelux as Macro-regions within the EU [PDF]
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
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Coin Production in the Low Countries: Fourteenth Century to the Present.
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
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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
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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
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The Unresolved Tension Between Trademark Protection and Free Movement of Goods in the European Community [PDF]
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.
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The Absent Made Present: Portraying Nuns in the Early Modern Low Countries
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
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WHO air quality database: relevance, history and future developments
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
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