Titel Deelnemers "Guidance on date marking and related food information : part 2 (food information)" "[missing] EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ), Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Ana Allende, Avelino AlvarezU+2010Ordóñez, Declan Bolton, Sara BoverU+2010Cid, Marianne Chemaly, Robert Davies, Alessandra De Cesare, Lieve Herman, Friederike Hilbert, Maarten Nauta, Luisa Peixe, Giuseppe Ru, Marion Simmons, Panagiotis Skandamis, Elisabetta Suffredini, Liesbeth Jacxsens, Taran Skjerdal, Maria Teresa Da Silva Felício, Michaela Hempen, Winy Messens, Roland Lindqvist" "Moral Rights in the 21st Century - The changing role of the moral rights in an era of information overload/Le Droit Moral au 21ème Siècle - Le rôle changeant du droit moral à l'ère de l'information surabondante / Los Derechos Morales en el Siglo 2" "Moral Rights in the 21st Century - The changing role of the moral rights in an era of information overload/Le Droit Moral au 21ème Siècle - Le rôle changeant du droit moral à l’ère de l’information surabondante / Los Derechos Morales en el Siglo 21 - La e" "Integrated Information Systems, Alliance Formation, and the Risk of Information Exchange between Partners" "Alexandra Van den Abbeele" "© 2016, American Accounting Association. All rights reserved. Christ and Nicolaou (2016) develop a model predicting that when firms are engaged in alliances with multiple objectives, they are more likely to use Integrated Information Systems (IIS) and more extensive formal controls to manage alliance risk. In addition, they hypothesize that higher levels of IIS are associated with lower information exchange risk and subsequently lower overall alliance risk. Finally, they argue that the relationship between IIS and information exchange risk is mediated by alliance formalization (i.e., the use of formal controls). They test the model using a survey of 116 chief financial officers from U.S. public companies with strategic alliance activity. In this discussion paper, I highlight the main contributions of Christ and Nicolaou (2016), discuss some concerns, and provide some suggestions for future studies." "Discussion of Integrated information systems, alliance formation, and the risk of information exchange between partners" "Alexandra Van den Abbeele" "Christ and Nicolaou (2016) develop a model predicting that when firms are engaged in alliances with multiple objectives, they are more likely to use Integrated Information Systems (IIS) and more extensive formal controls to manage alliance risk. In addition, they hypothesize that higher levels of IIS are associated with lower information exchange risk and subsequently lower overall alliance risk. Finally, they argue that the relationship between IIS and information exchange risk is mediated by alliance formalization (i.e., the use of formal controls). They test the model using a survey of 116 chief financial officers from U.S. public companies with strategic alliance activity. In this discussion paper, I highlight the main contributions of Christ and Nicolaou (2016), discuss some concerns, and provide some suggestions for future studies" "Action-related information trumps system information: Influencing consumers’ intention to reduce food waste" "Liesbet Vranken" "In order to substantially reduce food waste at the household level, it is essential to change consumer behavior. Informing consumers about the food waste issue is a promising means of bringing about behavior change: research confirms that information can increase food waste reduction behavior. However, it has yet to be determined what kind of information is most effective and exactly how that information affects consumer food waste behavior. This study compares the effects of system vs. action-related information (i.e., knowing what impacts specific actions entail vs. knowing how specific actions can help to accomplish a goal) on behavioral intention towards food waste. That is, the study focuses on the effect of information on the role of food waste in the food system versus information on actions that can be taken to avoid it. Moreover, an adapted model of the Theory of Planned Behavior is used to assess how these information effects are mediated by consumers’ attitude, norms, and perceived behavioral control. Results from an online experiment with a between-subjects design (N = 2248) show that action-related information significantly increases respondents’ intention to reduce food waste while system information has no significant effect. The change in behavioral intention in the action-related information group is ascribed to greater personal norm activation, more favorable attitudes towards food waste reduction, and higher perceived behavioral control of food waste behaviors. Even though system information does not significantly increase intention to reduce food waste, it results in more favorable attitudes towards food waste reduction. The findings provide insights for policy makers and NGOs on what type of information to consider when designing effective food waste reduction campaigns targeted at consumers, with action-related information supporting the opportunity for consumer behavior change." "Financial versus non-financial information: The impact of information organization and presentation in a Balanced Scorecard" "Eddy Cardinaels" "This paper investigates how the organization and presentation of performance measures affect how evaluators weight financial and non-financial measures when evaluating performance. We conduct two experiments, in which participants act as senior executives charged with evaluating two business-unit managers. Performance differences between business units are contained in either a financial or one of the three non-financial categories. Specifically, the first experiment studies how organizing measures in a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) format affects performance evaluations. Our results show that when the performance differences are contained in the financial category, evaluators that use a BSC-format place more weight on financial category measures than evaluators using an unformatted scorecard. Conversely, when performance differences are contained in the non-financial categories, whether measures are organized into a BSC-format or into an unformatted scorecard has no impact on the evaluation. The second experiment shows that when performance markers are added to the scorecards (i.e., +, -, and = signs for above-target, below-target, and on-target performance), evaluators that use a BSC-format weight measures in any category containing a performance difference more heavily than evaluators using an unformatted scorecard. Our findings suggest that firms should carefully consider how to present and organize measures to get the intended effect on performance evaluations. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd." "Equal access to health information : evaluating the use of a multilingual website in face-to-face consultations = Igualdad de acceso a la información sanitaria : evaluación del uso de un sitio web multilingüe en las consultas presenciales" "July De Wilde, Ellen Van Praet, Kaat Van Bosstraeten, Pascal Rillof" "In a 21st century superdiverse world, public service providers increasingly resort to technologies facilitating face-to-face consultations. In this paper, we evaluate the use and efficiency of a multilingual website in 11 video-recorded consultations of HIV/STI counselling. We address three central research questions: (i) How is the multilingual website embedded (or not) in the consultations? (ii) For what particular communicative purposes? (iii) How are the interactional routines shaped by the use of the multilingual website? The results show that the website is most efficient in consultations characterized by high levels of institution-specific arrangements of talk enabling varying tasks, e.g. announcing the taking of a HIV test, asking the patient’s consent for taking a HIV test, exploring sexual risk behaviours and infections, empowering the patient in the search for reliable information on sexual health related topics." "Information society policies 2.0: a critical analysis of the potential and pitfalls of social computing & informatics in the light of e-inclusion" "Pieter Verdegem" "In this paper we reflect on how research and policies can and/or should help in the development of a sustainable information society for all. More specifically, we critically investigate how social computing & informatics can entail both potential and pitfalls, especially with regard to the difficult relationship between digital and social inclusion. First of all, traditional information society policies are scrutinized. Furthermore, we point at the existence of digital inequalities and we reflect briefly on policy intervention on this (e-inclusion). In addition, we also evaluate the raise of social computing & informatics. Finally, attention is given to the challenge of how research can contribute to the participation of all in the information society." "Algorithms for Temporal Information Processing of Text and their Applications (Algoritmen voor het verwerken van temporele informatie in tekst en hun toepassingen)" "Oleksandr Kolomiyets" "Temporal information processing of text is a complex information extractiontask in which temporally relevant information in text has to be extracted andproperly represented in order to be used by a machine. In general the temporalinformation processing task regards the major concepts of temporal cognitionsuch as time, events, and relations between events and times when they areencoded in language.This thesis explores the algorithms for temporal information processing of textand focuses on the automated extraction of temporal information. Three majortemporal concepts in language are identified: time expressions - expressionsin text that denote time, temporal events - events that happen or last intime, and temporal relations between events and times. With respect tothis distinction temporal information processing of text can be divided into anumber of corresponding sub-tasks, such as recognition and normalization oftime expressions, recognition of events, and recognition of temporal relationsbetween events and times. In this thesis we describe approaches for automatedrecognition and representation of times, events, and recognition of temporalrelations performed by means of computer algorithms. The proposed algorithmsare based on supervised statistical machine learning methods that sometimesare accompanied by symbolic rule-based approaches.In detail, the thesis contributes (i) the supervised learning algorithms fortemporal expression recognition in text with sparse training data and abootstrapping approach that addresses the sparsity problem, (ii) the novelparadigm for modularized normalization of temporal expressions based on a deepsemantic analysis of temporal expression constituents, (iii) the novel annotationparadigm of temporal information that aims at a full and coherent set ofannotated temporal relations, but does not require annotating an exhaustive setof temporal relations, and (iv) the novel algorithms for the temporal documentstructure recognition composed of temporal events and temporal relations whichis an important step towards automated story understanding."