Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia affecting over 46 million worldwide, yet contemporary medication is unable to prevent or slow its neurodegeneration. Recently, fucosterol and saringosterol, two phytosterols from brown macroalgae, have emerged as possible mediators of the disease. …

The year 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Turkish migrants settling in the Netherlands. A significant number of Turks, approximately 400,000, currently live in the Netherlands; many are born there, and know Turkey only from visiting it on holiday. Integration has been successful for the majority …

Dit liber amicorum is geschreven voor Anneke Menger, ter ere van haar afscheid als lector Werken in Justitieel Kader. De bijdragen zijn geschreven door mensen uit het werkveld, het onderwijs en door onderzoekers waarmee Anneke heeft samengewerkt. In de tien jaren dat Anneke Menger leiding heeft gegeven …

Veel professionals in dit forensisch sociale domein, het domein tussen hulp en recht, hebben een sociaal-agogische opleiding op hbo-niveau. De kennis en vaardigheden die zij nodig hebben om hun vak goed te kunnen uitvoeren, maakten tot een aantal jaren geleden nauwelijks expliciet onderdeel uit van de …

This Springtide 2017 edition marks the Academy kick-off

Citysoundz is an event agency located in Northeim, Germany, which is led by Tomas Sniadowski, the owner of the company. He further runs the companies Pianissimo, Symphonicus and Tomas Marks Music Publishing. Since leading four individual companies causes high costs and an unclear overview, the research …

This plan will give insight in how to increase the amount of leads coming from the KHZ website. Nowadays online is growing bigger each day. That’s why it is important to have a proper online strategy. To answer this question desk- and fieldresearch was conducted. The research focused on multiple online …

This thesis is written for Kwekerij De Vesting to determine to what extent a brand of zucchinis can be successful within the Dutch market. Kwekerij De Vesting started to grow zucchinis without any knowledge of the Dutch market in February 2015. This research assesses the needs and desires of the potential …

Could Cittaslow be an instrument to ease the consequences of (unbalanced) population decline? This presentation marks the beginning of a researchproject into the characteristics and possibilities of Cittaslow in the regio of Westerwolde (communities of Bellingwedde and Vlagtwedde).

As web technology and (big) data continue to transform how we organize ourselves, scholarly research increasingly zooms in on the socio-material conditions of citizen participation and public engagement, the objects and devices that organize publics. Where social issues may often be the driver of such …