Verschillende overheidsinstanties werken samen om de Waal, in de toekomst, hoogwaterveilig te maken. Om dit te realiseren is de Waal opgedeeld in verschillende trajecten. Provincie Gelderland heeft de noodzaak om het gebied Varik-Heesselt en Tiel-Waardenburg hoogwaterveilig te gaan maken. Belangrijke …

Een belangrijk museum voor Groningen dat zelf deels historie wordt. Het Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum (NSM) werkt sinds 2014 aan een nieuwe visie voor de toekomst van het museum. De gemeente Groningen had namelijk aangegeven te willen streven naar een ‘Huis van Groningse Geschiedenis’ in een ‘Historisch …

This research investigates if the DCFTA between the EU and Ukraine has any significant impact on European energy security. From previous gas crisis experiences in 2006, 2009 and 2014 between Ukraine and Russia, left the EU in an uncertain situation in the area of energy security. In this regard, the …

Introduction: Subfertility is a growing problem in The Netherlands. Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) are applied to aid subfertile couples conceiving. The EmbryoScope is a novel incubator, used in ART, to cultivate embryos under optimal conditions. The EmbryoScope provides time lapse images, which …

As one of the most attractive Western European countries for refugees, Germany has experienced a large influx of migrants since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. It has the highest influx number of migrants in 2014 since 1992. Since Germany is not prepared to deal with this unexpected …

The collapse of the Corporate Commercial Bank in 2014 is the biggest financial fraud case that occurred in Bulgaria since it joined the European Union. The prosecutors’ indictment defines it as a pyramid scheme case. It had a great impact on Bulgarian economy and politics, as its measurable impairment …

De lezers van deze column weten dat ik niet onder de indruk ben van de wijze waarop overheidsorganen omgaan met informatie. Digitale archieven zijn bij een groot deel van de overheidsorganen niet op orde. In 2014 toonde ICTU dat al aan.

Martijn de Waal is a senior researcher at the lectorate of Play and Civic Media and a member of the Citizen Data Lab at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Het is the author of The City as Interface. How Digital Media Are Changing the City (2014), and the project leader of The Hackable City …

Preoperative functional status is a risk factor for developing postoperative complications (POC) in major abdominal and thoracic surgery, but this has hardly been evaluated in esophageal cancer patients undergoing esophagectomy. The aim of this prospective cohort study was to determine if preoperative …