Names of group members: Tran Khanh Linh Nguyen (461345) – HBO ICT TI Samad Shaikh (444629) – HBO ICT SE Jeroen Stol (453483) – HBO ICT ITSM Jelle van der Weijden (440265) – International Business Dylan Severs (468038) – International Business Jarno van Leeuwen (463788) – Business Administration Milan Kok (469346) – Business Administration Due to the increasing digitalization in the 21st century, the phenomenon to only publish scientific articles online is becoming more common. The debate on the consolidating publishing industry has been arising in the last years due to the high-profit margins that the big publishing companies are earning (Larivière, Haustein, & Mongeon, 2015). After analysing roughly 45 million papers over the period 1973 –2013, research proofs that the academic publishing industry is shifting to an oligopoly with a few publishers who publish over 50% of all published papers (Larivière, Haustein, & Mongeon, 2015). Not only do these big publishers earn revenues from the backs of writers, sometimes they also possess the copyrights of the published articles. Since the introduction of the open-access movement, it is becoming more common for publishers to request the execution of the authors ' copyright, which will be claimed by the publisher after the publication of the article (RUG, 2021). As this movement is influencing the market, more writers are considering other options. Although some writers can accept that the only important factor of publishing papers is the increasing h-index, others prefer lucrative writing and maintaining the copyrights of their publications. To stimulate that the copyrights and earnings stay with the author of the publication, our client asked us to develop BlockPub.
MULTIFILE
Field of study decisions are important for children’s future life chances, as significant differences exist in terms of financial and status benefits across fields of study. We examine whether the economic or the cultural status of the parents is more influential in shaping their children’s expectations about their future field of study. We also test whether children’s expectations about field of study choices are mediated by the child-rearing values that parents hold. Results show that parental economic status increased the likelihood of adolescents expecting to opt for extrinsic rewarding fields of study. Adolescent girls, not boys, with high cultural status parents were more likely to expect to opt for intrinsically rewarding fields of study. An upbringing that is characterized by conformity increased the expectations of boys to choose an extrinsically rewarding study, while self-direction increased the expectations of girls to opt for an extrinsic field of study
One of the factors that differentiate honors from regular teaching at the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, is the freedom that honors students enjoy, a freedom that evokes excellence because it is focused and targeted. This targeted freedom takes three different shapes in our honors program and comes with specific challenges for both students and teachers. While the attractions and advantages of such freedom are both theoretically and practically significant, our experience has also demonstrated drawbacks that need to be addressed and resolved in creating effective honors education.The challenges and struggles as well as the rewards that we have experienced might be familiar to honors educators around the world, but they are also shaped by the particular contexts of our program within the Faculty of Geosciences, within Utrecht University, and within the Netherlands, contexts that we will now introduce.
