Zeger van der Wal: The 21st Century Public Manager Challenges, People and Strategies

Two Major 21st Century Public Health Challenges

The Challenges of Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century

Van Der Wal: Connective Tissue Architecture and Proprioception

The architecture of the connective tissue, including structures such as fasciae, sheaths, and membranes, is more important for understanding functional meaning than is more traditional anatomy, whose anatomical dissection method neglects and denies the continuity of the connective tissue as integrating matrix of the body. The connective tissue anatomy and architecture exhibits two functional te...

Three skills every 21st-century manager needs.

Over the past decade companies have become more global and employee groups more diverse than ever before. Organizations are less hierarchical and more collaborative. And today's offices are full of once unimaginable technological distractions. We asked experts in cross-cultural communication, information networks, and the science of attention what skills executives should cultivate to tackle th...

Ecotoxicology: The Challenges for the 21st Century

The usual procedures for ecological risk assessment (ERA) have been based for decades on simplified approaches in order to provide basic information on the huge amount of chemicals introduced into the environment. These approaches allowed the development of international regulatory tools capable of substantially reducing the adverse effects on ecosystems in developed countries. Nevertheless, th...