A.J. van Dijk, Groen van Prinsterer's lectures on unbelief and revolution

Hylke van Dijk Democratic processing

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Several concepts are available to indicate the type of society that evolves under the influence of the use of information and communication technology. The most popular concept is the information society. In this book that concept is used in combination with the concept network society to typify contemporary developed and modern societies marked by a high level of information exchange and use o...

Defending commercial surrogate motherhood against Van Niekerk and Van Zyl.

The arguments of Van Niekerk and Van Zyl that, on the grounds that it involves an inappropriate commodification and alienation of women's labour, commercial surrogate motherhood (CSM) is morally suspect are discussed and considered to be defective. In addition, doubt is cast on the notion that CSM should be illegal.

Variations on Van Kampen’s Method

We give a detailed account of the classical Van Kampen method for computing presentations of fundamental groups of complements of complex algebraic curves, and of a variant of this method, working with arbitrary projections (even with vertical asymptotes). Introduction In the 1930’s, Van Kampen described a general technique for computing presentations of fundamental groups of complements of com...

Van Overwalle

————— The author is affiliated with the Department of Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I wish to thank Christel Symens for conducting some of the experiments. Correspondence concerning this article should be adressed to: Frank Van Overwalle, Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel. E-mail: [email protected] DISCOUNTING AND AUGMENTA...