During my first visit to Japan in 1990 I got acquainted with the Toshiba DynaBook. Unlike earlier laptops, this one was small, elegant and easily fitted into a backpack. A year later I was able to purchase one. This wonder of compact technology accompanied me during my travels to Berlin and Eastern Europe …

Het hbo kampt met gering studiesucces van studenten in termen van studievoortgang, uitval en gepercipieerde competentie. Welke maatregelen kan het hbo nemen? Deze bijdrage, gebaseerd op het proefschrift ‘One size fits all?’, gaat over leerpsychologische factoren en interactionalistische factoren waaruit …

Metformin prevents weight gain in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the mechanisms involved are still unknown. In this post hoc analysis of the HOME trial, we aimed to determine whether metformin affects energy intake. Patients with T2D were treated with 850 mg metformin or received placebo …

Background: Despite increasing shortages of highly educated community nurses, far too few nursing students choose community care. This means that a strong societal problem is emerging that desperately needs resolution. Objectives: To acquire a solid understanding of the causes for the low popularity …

Following tragic events in the Mediterranean Sea, several actions described in the European Agenda on Migration were put into operation. One of these key actions was the establishment of the EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling in 2015. The main goal of the EU Action Plan is to prevent and counter …

Climate change is an ongoing worldwide event with visible effects in all levels and divisions of society. Large scaled projects to counter climate change are mostly investing in industrial programmes or outsourced projects to foreign (mostly third-world) countries. The world is undergoing an urbanisation …

The theme of the research is “Moving dairy farmers from informal to formal milk supply chain” A case study of Tanga Dairy Cooperative Union in Tanga district, Tanzania”. The study was carried out in two wards of Tanga district namely Pingon and Pongwe, between the end of June and the fist half of August …

The palm oil sector is selected by the government of Ghana as one of the pillars for economic development in the country. The sector is dominated by small-scale producers who cultivate about eighty percent (80%) of the estimated total land area of 330,000 hectares under oil palm cultivation. Despite …

As part of my PhD research, I investigate the factors of student success and the influence of the use of social media by first year students in higher education. For this I use the insights provided by the highly influential and leading integration theory of Tinto and diminished the amount of variables …