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… a three-weekly scientific colloquium which is open to all our academic staff (which includes our PhD candidates), as well as to interested students, mainly from our two Research Masters. Our research programmes also organise joint conferences and workshops, while there is common management of the faculty’s graduate school and joint selection of candidates for the school. Two key elements in our identity stand out: intellectual exchange across the borders of our research programmes and shared … Expertise panel: Each applicant has to discuss her or his application with the research institute’s expertise panel which is composed of four senior and experienced51 researchers from the various parts of the faculty. The panel gives feedback, checks on comprehensibility of the proposal from a non-disciplinary perspective, and may advise against the submission of proposals which are considered too weak to stand a chance for funding. If a proposal makes it to the interview round of … 2011 in Boston) was attended by 15 PCE members, making Maastricht one of the largest European delegations to this conference. 57 Five key articles H. Dijkstra (2010) Explaining variation in the role of the EU Council Secretariat in first and second pillar policy-making. Journal of European Public Policy, 17(4), 527-544. E. Versluis, M.B.A. van Asselt, T. Fox & A. Hommels (2010) The EU Seveso regime in practice: From uncertainty blindness to uncertainty tolerance. Journal of Hazardous Materials, …

… and Business Sciences • Admission criteria, • Restructuring of SOM, • Regular assessments, • An active policy to recruit high-quality staff. Admission criteria provide staff of the FEB with incentives and guidance. They also serve as an annual quality check for staff with SOM status. By making the admission criteria stricter over time and by giving a higher reward for publications in high-quality journals, SOM aims to improve the quality of research. An applicant for SOM status must hold a PhD … Short description This research programme addresses four interrelated themes from an economic perspective: spatial dynamics, land use, transport and the environment. Spatial dynamics research focuses on the role of knowledge creation and knowledge spillovers in the development of regions. Also, institutional and cultural differences between regions and their contribution to variation in regional and national growth and trade are analysed. Land use is studied in urban and rural areas. Issues such … in 2006, at the initia- tive of the Finance, Accounting and International Markets programme. This centre has a team of five specialists. It provides access to financial and (since 2007) social science databases and gives individual support and workshops for students and staff of the Erasmus University Rot- terdam. Another recent facility is the Erasmus Behavioural Lab. This is a joint facility of ERIM, the ESE, the Rotterdam School of Management, and the Institute of Psychology. It includes an …

… The following advanced topics will then be covered: unbalanced factorial designs, contrast analysis, interaction in multiple regression, simple slope analysis, dummy coding, centering covariates, different coding schemes, collinearity and residuals checks and data transformation. The second half of the core course consists of four units, two on repeated measures ANOVA and two on mixed linear regression for repeated measures. The first two units cover classical repeated … with random effects and autocorrelation, and so-called marginal models; Specifically, students are able to choose the correct method of analysis, and specify a statistical model to compare different models and choose the best model (based on checking assumptions, model fit and parsimony on top of plausibility), and to interpret effect estimates and significance tests obtained with that model. Prerequisites Good understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics at the elementary and … will be the main focus of this course. The course starts with an introductory session during which a modern approach of bodily distress disorders is presented and the example of low back pain is used to demonstrate this approach. Two sessions are workshops: in the first workshop session, students design an experimental/intervention study in smaller groups and in the second they present their design to the rest of the group and discussion, Q&A and critical reflection and feedback is stimulated. In …

… with debt financing, and accordingly are more 5http://evca.eu/what-is-private-equity/. Last visited on 28 August 2013; 6Article 50 of the UCITS IV Directive; 7IBFD International Tax Glossary, 6th Edition, Julie Rogers-Glabush, August 2009; http://online.ibfd.org/linkresolver/static/itg_share_capital?WT.z_nav=crosslinks http://online.ibfd.org/linkresolver/static/itg_share_capital?WT.z_nav=crosslinks http://evca.eu/what-is-private-equity/ 9 concerned with the ability of a company to generate … double tax convention purposes. 3.2 Private equity fund as a “resident” After having agreed that an investment fund may be considered as a “person” for treaty purposes, the second step toward the entitlement of investment funds to tax treaties is to check whether such fund may be considered a “resident” in the meaning of article 4(1) of the OECD MTC. Article 4(1) of the OECD MTC defines a resident of a Contracting State as “any person who, under the laws of that state, is liable to tax therein by … there is no exact meaning of this term nowadays. Initially the concept of beneficial owner was found in some tax treaties concluded by the United Kingdom. The concept was introduced in the 1977 version of the OECD MTC with a view to combat tax treaty shopping, i.e. practice to obtain tax treaty benefits which are not available directly by the use of intermediaries. 87 There are different views on the term “beneficial owner” in respect of the investment fund vehicles. On the one hand there is a view …

… and so on. In this way, the team began building a relationship with the university as a whole, which is es- sential when a case arises and parties need to be able find one another quickly, enter into a dialogue or send a signal. Presentations and workshops In 2022, the SV team began giving presentations to vari- ous groups, both on the initiative of the team itself and by invitation. Often these presentations are followed by a group discussion. A start was also made with interactive meetings and workshops. These experiences have al- ready shown that sharing knowledge and increasing awareness lowers the threshold for reporting and prompts discussions about social safety. The meetings al- ways result in follow-up discussions with individuals and/or … (5%) reporting (9%) pending (4%) 9 departments in which they take place. The SV team never conducts an investigation merely at the individual re- quest of a reporting party; it is not his/her prerogative to ‘demand’ an investigation. The team always checks first whether less impactful interventions, such as mediation or psychological support, would suffice. In the case of mediation, it is important that both parties are open to the intervention and participate on a voluntary basis. The SV team was …

… and parental history of atopy were available from the baseline questionnaire. Breastfeeding duration, day care attendance, and environmental tobacco smoke were reported in the follow-up questionnaires at age 7 months, 14 months, and 3 years. We cross-checked variables that were also avail- able from the registry: sex, gestational age at birth, and smok- ing during pregnancy. The variables breastfeeding duration, day care attendance, and environmental tobacco smoke were defined for each time period … growth [cm] between wheezers and nonwheezers: B, �1.23; 95% CI, �2.15 to �0.31), attenuated by age 14 months (B,�0.51; 95% CI,�0.92 to�0.10), and had dis- appeared by age 3 years (B, 0.22; 95% CI, �0.26 to 0.70) (Figure 2). 346 Sensitivity Analyses To check for a nonlinear association between birth weight and the outcome variables wheeze and overweight, we added a centralized quadratic term for birth weight to the univari- able models. The quadratic term was not statistically signifi- cant in any model, and thus …

… of students for communications relating to education and exams. 2. The Faculty Board, the Board of Examiners, and the examiners may use the Student Portal and the UM email accounts of students to announce decisions. 3. The student must regularly check his/her university e-mail address, the Faculty website, and the Student Portal. Information disseminated via e-mail, the Student Portal/ CANVAS, or the website will be assumed to be known. Article 3.5 Study load The programme has a study load of …

… accounts of students for communications relating to education and exams. 2. The Faculty Board, the Board of Examiners, and the examiners use the Student Portal and/or the UM email accounts of students to announce decisions. 3. Students must regularly check their university e-mail address, the Faculty website, and the Student Portal. Information disseminated via e-mail, the Student Portal, or the website will be assumed to be known. Article 3.5 Study load The Bachelor RMT has a total study load of … knowledge and develop practical skills in biology, chemistry, physics, technology & engineering, mathematics (including scripting and statistics), and medicine. The first year courses safeguard the gaining of basic knowledge and skills that form the pillars of biomedical sciences and technology before being integrated with other disciplines and applied to more complex cases in year 2. In the first half of the third year, students follow a minor offered by the RMT programme, by another UM programme …