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… of Publications 5 5. Societal relevance 6 6. Strengths and Weaknesses, Future Plans 7 7. Summarised assessment and Rating of the Main Criteria 8 1 Summary An International Review Committee (IRC), appointed by the Board of Maastricht University, visited the local research institute Experimental PsychoPathology (EPP) in March 2004 to evaluate EPP’s scientific quality and future prospects. Based on the Self Evaluation Report 1999 – 2004 of the institute, and meetings with research leaders, … to psychological problems, as EPP dominantly does, is fully accountable for that. The shared vision of EPP’s researchers on how to unravel the mysteries of psychopathology enables them to be productive in a wide range of problems. Given the number of papers and PhD thesis published, and the fact that most articles appear in the highest quality of peer reviewed journals in this field and in numerous (inter)national handbooks, the quality of EPP’s work is rated as excellent. The number of … validated and extended a theory based cognitive-behavioural treatment, and this therapy is now being compared to a psychodynamic treatment. Arntz has written a treatment manual for the cognitive-behavioural therapy and has provided many training workshops for clinicians in recent years. The same pattern has occurred in pain research in dr. Vlaeyen’ group: based on a series of laboratory experiments, a new and effective approach to chronic benign pain disorders has 6 been developed, tested and …

… other dimensions of sustainability (Hudson, 2014). While always present, illegal activity has expanded and become an integral part of the current phase of capitalist development. Illegal practices are present in routine production in factories and workshops, in the widespread theft of intellectual property, in the growth of counterfeit products, in a variety of exchange and trading activities and, crucially, in flows of money and money laundering activities in centres of global finance that convert … But these have grown to become the sites of a majority of many of the financial transactions of the global economy: over 50% of international bank lending, approximately 33% of foreign direct investment, and 50% of global trade is routed on paper via OTHs which account for only 3% of world GDP (Christensen, 2011). Part III The socio-economic dimension 138 From one point of view the competitive success of particular companies and states and their economic sustainability is crucially … being made possible because of technological advances that are reducing the marginal costs of production of some goods and services effectively to almost zero and that are enabling production to be decentralised and exchange of services to be arranged online. In combination with internet communication and social networking, these developments have already transformed some economic sectors, such as the information, recording and publishing industries, where there is no longer need for information to …