Balancing Terror and Freedom

Balancing Freedom and Supervision in a Real-life Educational Project

The practicum course Information System Development, offered by the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit, has two main goals: (1) to give students hands-on experience with different aspects of working on a ‘real-life’ IT project, and (2) to let them apply previously learned techniques and methodology in a rationalized and integrated way. These goals imply a proj...

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Assembly line balancing to minimize balancing loss and system loss

Assembly Line production is one of the widely used basic principles in production system. The problem of Assembly Line Balancing deals with the distribution of activities among the workstations so that there will be maximum utilization of human resources and facilities without disturbing the work sequence. Research works reported in the literature mainly deals with minimization of idle time i.e...

Veto players and terror

Democratic regimes have been linked to terrorism for contending reasons, with some scholars claiming democracy increases terrorism and others claiming it decreases terror. Corroborating evidence has been used for both relationships leading to the following puzzle: why do some democratic regimes seem to foster terrorism while others do not? We offer an explanation based on Tsbelis’s veto players...

Liberty and Terror