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Organization for Methodological Research in the Social Sciences (NOSMO) started in the early 1980s as Stichting Nederlandse Organisatie voor Sociaal-Wetenschappelijk Methodologisch Onderzoek (NOSMO). Their initial focus was on qualitative research. Over the years working groups were created
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Van Dijkum believed that "with the idea of ‘complex social systems’ one comprehend that those differential equations are non linear, reflecting systems that are difficult to follow and predict, just as many phenomena in the world. It is the start of a promising program of research in the social
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one recognizes that events are interrelated, interact with each other and make up systems. With dynamic systems theory one understand that social systems evolve in time, moved by cause-effect relations between events that can be described mathematically in differential
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with the thesis entitled "Paradoxen : een methodologische studie naar vicieuze cirkels in denken en handelen" (Paradoxes: a methodological study to vicious circles of thought and action).
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Landsheer, Johannes A., and Cor van Dijkum. "Male and female delinquency trajectories from pre through middle adolescence and their continuation in late adolescence."
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Van Dijkum's research interests are in the field of "nonlinear modeling, computer simulation, methodology, epistemology of science, and action research health care."
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Hoksbergen, R., ter Laak, J., Rijk, K., van Dijkum, C., & Stoutjesdijk, F. (2005). "Post-institutional autistic syndrome in
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Proceedings of the EURO Mini-Conference on
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Schroots, Johannes JF, Cor Van Dijkum, and Marian HJ Assink. "Autobiographical memory from a life span perspective."
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