To foreignize or to domesticate?:How media vary cross-nationally in their degrees of incorporating foreign events

While the domestication literature indicates how national media link foreign events to a country’s domestic affairs, it has thus far only examined modes of domestication - the ways through which these links are created. In this article, we introduce a different dimension of the phenomenon: degrees of domestication. This includes the extents to which a foreign event gets connected with the domestic. By making a topic-modeling analysis of French and Dutch newspaper articles about 9/11, the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, the Arab Spring and Donald Trump’s political rise, we provide an explorative case study of this dimension. We inductively arrive at a scale ranging from no to extreme domestication of the event, classified according to four degrees of domestication: (1) an entirely foreign affair; (2) a foreign political affair involving domestic actors; (3) a domestic political affair; (4) or a personal disruption. French newspapers score higher on the second degree, the Dutch ones on the third and fourth. A deepening of this pattern shows how these differences stem from two distinctive cultural repertoires that journalists and other media participants employ when relating to foreign events: a French one, which sees them as an opportunity to dominate the international political stage, and a Dutch one, which considers them a reason for reflecting on domestic or personal matters. These clear differences indicate the concept’s importance for the literature and for investigating it within other national media contexts

Klantgericht werken in zorgconcerns

The last couple of years, a lot of mergers took place in healthcare, which led to many large health care organisations. The policy plans of these institutions show that the organisation puts the client’s interest first, and that a customer-centred approach is chosen. But what do organisations mean with customer-orientation? And what is actually done, to create this customer-orientation? The objective of this research is to provide insight into customer-orientation with which managers of large merged health care organisations can make assessments in creating a customer oriented organisation. This study centres on the question: How can customer-orientation be formed in large merged health care organisations? To answer this question, a qualitative design was used in this study. Multiple forms of data were collected; literature, documents and interviews. With the review of literature the concepts ‘customer’ and ‘customer-orientation’ were explored. According to the theory a customer should be approached within three different roles: consumer, participant and partner. The literature review was also used to find out which needs a customer has and from which perspectives customer-orientation can be formed. Documents provided by three large, recently merged, health care organisations were analysed and interviews were held. The purpose was to examine how the organisations see and approache their customer, how they try to satisfy the needs of the customer and how the organisations form customerorientation. The most important outcome of this study is the large difference between theory and practice. Where customer-orientation is clearly described in theory, that is not the case in practice. There are thoughts and ideas according to customer focus, however a real strategy is missing. The organisations have many means, products and activities to form customer-orientation, yet these are not always used (consciously) for that purpose. The question also rises if customers are willing and able to act in the three roles. Customers seem to position themselves as patients rather than consumers, partners or participants. With these results several types of relationships between patients and organisations have been presented in a model. The results do not show the influence of mergers in health care on customer-orientation.Zorgorganisaties gaan de laatste jaren vele fusies aan, waardoor in toenemende mate grote zorgconcerns ontstaan. In de beleidsplannen van deze concerns is te lezen dat men de klant centraal stelt en klantgericht werkt. Maar wat bedoelt men met klantgerichtheid? En hoe geeft men dit vervolgens vorm? De doelstelling van dit onderzoek is inzicht verschaffen in klantgerichtheid zodat bestuurders en managers van concerns een bewuste afweging kunnen maken met betrekking tot de concrete invulling van het klantgericht werken in hun concern. Hiertoe is de volgende vraag gesteld: Hoe kan klantgerichtheid worden vormgegeven binnen zorgconcerns? Door middel van een kwalitatief onderzoek, met exploratief karakter, is gezocht naar antwoorden. Hiertoe zijn verschillende onderzoeksmethoden naast elkaar gehanteerd, en wel literatuuronderzoek, documentenanalyse en interviews. Het literatuuronderzoek richtte zich op het operationaliseren van de begrippen klant en klantgerichtheid. Hieruit kwam naar voren dat de klant benaderd dient te worden in drie rollen: consument, participant en partner. Ook is vanuit theoretisch oogpunt gekeken welke behoeften een klant heeft en vanuit welke perspectieven klantgerichtheid vormgegeven kan worden. Vervolgens is bij drie ketenconcerns middels documentanalyse en interviews onderzocht op welke manier zij hun klant zien en benaderen, op welke manier men probeert te voldoen aan de behoeften van de klant en hoe men klantgerichtheid vorm geeft. De belangrijkste uitkomst is het grote verschil tussen theorie en praktijk. Waar klantgerichtheid in de theorie duidelijk beschreven wordt, heeft het in de praktijk nog weinig handen en voeten gekregen. Men heeft er in de concerns wel gedachten over en men is er mee bezig, maar een echte strategie ontbreekt. Zo hebben de concerns veel middelen in huis om klantgerichtheid vorm te geven, maar deze worden niet altijd (doel)bewust ingezet. Daarnaast rijst de vraag of de zorgvrager in de praktijk in staat en bereid is de drie rollen die de theorie veronderstelt, op zich te nemen. Zorgvragers positioneren zichzelf vooralsnog met name als patiënt en niet als consument, partner of participant. Aan de hand van deze resultaten zijn verschillende typen relaties tussen zorgvragers en zorgconcerns in een model gepresenteerd. Tenslotte kan geconcludeerd worden dat niet helder uit de resultaten naar voren is gekomen wat de invloed van concernvorming is op het vormgeven van klantgerichtheid

The ambiguous utility of psychometrics for the interpretative foundation of socially relevant avatars

Accepted for publication in Theory & PsychologyInternational audienceThe persisting debates that measurement in psychology elicits can be explained by the conflict between two aspiration types. One, the epistemologic aspiration, resting on the search for scientific truth, and two, the social aspiration, resting on the demonstration of a capacity to contribute to psychological assessment problems in particular. Psychometrics answer essentially to psychology's demand for social utility, leading to the quasi-exclusive attribution of importance to quantitative interpretation. For psychology to be considered an empirical science, it has to establish its capacity for the measurement of psychological phenomena, even if this means that it recognizes that these phenomena are essentially qualitative

Toelating neo's en bijensterfte zijn twee vraagstukken

In de media worden 'bijensterfte'en 'toelating en gebruik van neonicotinoïde gewasbeschermingsmiddelen' als één vraagstuk gepresenteerd. De auteur maakt duidelijk dat het er twee zijn

Physiology of thermal phenotypic plasticity: Springtails, lipids and temperature tolerance

Ellers, J. [Promotor

Developmental temperature affects the expression of ejaculatory traits and the outcome of sperm competition in Callosobruchus maculatus

The outcome of post-copulatory sexual selection is determined by a complex set of interactions between the primary reproductive traits of two or more males and their interactions with the reproductive traits of the female. Recently, a number of studies have shown the primary reproductive traits of both males and females express phenotypic plasticity in response to the thermal environment experienced during ontogeny. However, how plasticity in these traits affects the dynamics of sperm competition remains largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate plasticity in testes size, sperm size and sperm number in response to developmental temperature in the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. Males reared at the highest temperature eclosed at the smallest body size and had the smallest absolute and relative testes size. Males reared at both the high- and low-temperature extremes produced both fewer and smaller sperm than males reared at intermediate temperatures. In the absence of sperm competition, developmental temperature had no effect on male fertility. However, under conditions of sperm competition, males reared at either temperature extreme were less competitive in terms of sperm offence (P2), whereas those reared at the lowest temperature were less competitive in terms of sperm defence (P1). This suggests the developmental pathways that regulate the phenotypic expression of these ejaculatory traits are subject to both natural and sexual selection: natural selection in the pre-ejaculatory environment and sexual selection in the post-ejaculatory environment. In nature, thermal heterogeneity during development is commonplace. Therefore, we suggest the interplay between ecology and development represents an important, yet hitherto underestimated component of male fitness via post-copulatory sexual selection

Bijen en maisstuifmeel

In Nederland wordt heel wat (voeder)mais geteeld, evenals in grote delen van de rest van Europa, vooral in landen die ook veel bijenvolken hebben. Hoewel deze plant een windbestuiver is, wordt het stuifmeel wel door honingbijen verzameld. Hoe goed of slecht is dat eigenlijk? Wat is hierover uit onderzoek bekend