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Trapped by Poverty: Unraveling the Career Consequences of the Working Poor
There is abundant evidence showing that poverty can have a profound influence on individual perceptions, behaviors, and relationships. Yet in organizational studies, there is little attention focused on poverty, particularly the working poor.
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Turning precise measurements at particle colliders into searches for new physics
Top quark, Higgs and heavy flavor physics with the CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN
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Understanding Foreign Policy Public Opinion. Examining the determinants, structure and robustness of individual attitudes
The relationship between citizens, the press and politics has dramatically changed over the past decades, from a CNN effect in the 1990s to a Youtube effect in the 2000s and, more recently, the diffusion of fake news.
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Unifying Frameworks for Non-Monotonic Reasoning
I am interested in research on unifying frameworks in the domain of knowledge representation and reasoning. Of particular interest are: approximation fixpoint theory and justification theory (and especially: investigating the relation between these two).
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University governance and leadership
Abstract: University governance and leadership has become an important issue and a core research topic in recent years.
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Urban Criminology
Researchers interested in the area of urban criminology, and more specifically, in the domains of protests, public order, policing of urban conflicts, securitization of public spaces, fear of crime, and surveillance are welcome to contact us for potential projects.
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Using dynamic systems theory to gain a better understanding of workplace processes
In recent years, scholars have called for more attention to the role of time when studying workplace phenomena (Vantilborgh, Hofmans, & Judge, 2018).
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Using intratumoral myeloid dendritic cells to reinvigorate the cancer immunity cycle
Cancer immunotherapy aims to restore the response of our immune system to eradicate tumors. The development of immune checkpoint inhibitors has boosted the field, but it is clear that these drugs only work in a proportion of patients.
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Writing Totalitarian Experience: Reflections on National Socialist Language and World View in the Literary Writings of the Rote Kapelle
Literature has always posed a problem to totalitarian regimes. The inherent polysemic character of literature is difficult to align with the manichaeic world view of National Socialism or Stalinism.
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