In very old and/or frail older people living in long-term care facilities, physical inactivity negatively affects activities of daily living. The main reason to assess older adults' perceived fitness is to establish the relation with their beliefs about their ability to perform physical activity adjusted …

Aandeel van buitenlandse bedrijven in de economie van Oost-Nederland. Short paper voor het congres Vitale Regio’s. Deze short paper geeft de resultaten weer van een eerste meting naar het effect van buitenlandse ondernemingen op de economie van Oost-Nederland. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd op basis van …

A refugee is a person who, for reasons of persecution (or fear hereto), is forced to leave his home and is outside of his home country. Although the great majority of the world's refugees find themselves in third world countries, also wealthier countries are dealing with considerable numbers of migrants …

The wedding planner company "Tropical Weddings" will be a new company on the market and will be a one-woman business. The wedding planner company will arrange weddings of Dutch couples who would like to marry in Curacao. The wedding planner will provide a full service wedding. The wedding planner's mission …

This thesis aims to test the credibility of the Responsibility to Protect principle ("R2P") by looking at how the principle was applied in Libya and addressing the question of why R2P was not applied in Syria. The first part of the thesis is about the origins and definition of R2P. The second part compares …

Freedom of speech, plurality and self-regulation characterize the Dutch media system. With fading political parallelism, strong public service broadcasting and a fair level of professionalization the Dutch media system fits the model of Democratic Corporatist media system. Continuous debates on journalistic …

This paper describes a study into consumers' reasons for buying socially responsible (SR) products, such as Fair Trade products and organic meat. As opposed to other studies, we use a qualitative approach based on 25 in-depth interviews and include several different products in the research. This leads …

Samen voetballen is een van de mogelijkheden om incidenten te voorkomen en de verhoudingen tussen groepen te verbeteren. Voetbal leidt echter niet automatisch tot verbeteringen. Escalaties op het veld, ouders langs de lijn die hun kinderen wat al te luidruchtig aanmoedigen en "autochtone" en "allochtone" …

Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties …

After 2001, nine years after the fall of the Taliban, women's socio-economic position in Afghanistan has hardly improved. To this day, women are subjected to many cruelties such as torture and rape. After the Taliban had been defeated in 2001, the total amount of development assistance by the international …