The role of infant attention and parental sensitivity in infant cognitive development in the Netherlands and China

How can a supreme audit institution (SAI) use design thinking in auditing? SAIs audit the way taxpayers’ money is collected and spent. Adding design thinking to their activities is not to be taken lightly. SAIs independently check whether public organizations have done the right things in the right way, but the organizations might not be willing to act upon a SAI’s recommendations. Can you imagine the role of design in audits? In this paper we share our experiences of some design approaches in the work of one SAI: the Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA). Design thinking needs to be adapted (Dorst, 2015a) before it can be used by SAIs such as the NCA in order to reflect their independent, autonomous status. To dive deeper into design thinking, Buchanan’s design framework (2015) and different ways of reasoning (Dorst, 2015b) are used to explore how design thinking can be adapted for audits.

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Prawne aspekty eutanazji w Holandii

Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne ◽

10.25167/osap.1486 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 243-253

Author(s):

Grzegorz Stefanowicz

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Assisted Suicide ◽

Public Authority ◽

Dutch Society ◽

On Demand ◽

Limited Length ◽

The Law ◽

Death On Demand ◽

The Way

This article undertakes to show the way that has led to the statutory decriminalization of euthanasia-related murder and assisted suicide in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It presents the evolution of the views held by Dutch society on the euthanasia related practice, in the consequence of which death on demand has become legal after less than thirty years. Due attention is paid to the role of organs of public authority in these changes, with a particular emphasis put on the role of the Dutch Parliament – the States General. Because of scarcity of space and limited length of the article, the change in the attitudes toward euthanasia, which has taken place in the Netherlands, is presented in a synthetic way – from the first discussions on admissibility of a euthanasia-related murder carried out in the 1970s, through the practice of killing patients at their request, which was against the law at that time, but with years began more and more acceptable, up to the statutory decriminalization of euthanasia by the Dutch Parliament, made with the support of the majority of society.

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The Role of Chess in the Intellectual Development of Childrens from Primary School

SPORT AND SOCIETY ◽

10.36836/uaic/fefs/10.56 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 58-62

Author(s):

Vlad Stegariu ◽

Simona Andreea Popușoi ◽

Beatrice Abălașei ◽

Nicolae Lucian Voinea ◽

Ioan Stelescu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cognitive Development ◽

Primary School ◽

Intellectual Development ◽

Resources Allocation ◽

Control Group ◽

Cognitive Resources ◽

One Year ◽

Better Than ◽

Chess Playing

Chess playing has a significant role in participants’ resources allocation, both at a psychological level, but mostly concerning the cognitive resources. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of chess playing on the intellectual development of primary-class students. 67 children were tested using the Raven Standard Progressive Matrices and were distributed in three different groups according to their experience with chess, namely: the control group (formed by students with no experience with chess playing), the beginners group (students with less than one year in chess playing training) and the advanced group (children with more than two years experience with chess). Results indicated that chess playing had a significant effect on the SPM performance, indicating that those in the advanced group performed significantly better than those in the control or in the beginners group. Conclusions of this study tap into the benefits of playing chess with a focus on the children’s’ cognitive development.

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