Concept The goal of the worksop/tutorial is to introduce participants to the fundamentals of Procedural Content Generation (PCG) based on generative grammars, have them experience an example of such a system first-hand, and discuss the potential of this approach for various areas of procedural content …

We present a novel hierarchical model for human activity recognition. In contrast with approaches that successively recognize actions and activities, our approach jointly models actions and activities in a unified framework, and their labels are simultaneously predicted. The model is embedded with a …

Paper presented in the workshop 'SMEs, CSR and employment relations in a global economy' at the USE 2015 Conference, Groningen, Oct 21-23 2015 European labour market integration has, unfortunately, also led to attempts at unfair competition on employment conditions s. Competitive pressures to lower labour …

Teaching students with behavioural problems is a challenge for many teachers but other teachers are able to bring out the best in these students. Much research has been done to find out what differentiates expert teachers from their less skilled colleagues. Recent evidence points to personality as an …

Paper presented at the 31st European Seminar in Ethnomusicology ESEM, Limerick (Ireland), 18/9/2015. This paper presents a case study of ‘Belinda’, a Dutch woman in her early sixties who considers herself at the same time as ‘un-musical’ and musically hyper-sensitive. She is neither an ‘outstanding performer’ …

The Dutch equestrian sports market has gone through many changes over the past years. The equestrian sports market increased by 16% between 2001 and 2006, a time where the brand HV POLO had a strong growth in business. Between 2006 and 2011,the company noticed change as the equestrian sports market …

The cost price of premium beers for organizers of Dutch dance festivals is increasing every year. The people at Anyday Events / RAAK! Events actually think that visitors are not interested in the brand of beer due to the fact that they are at a dance festival. This led to the believe that, with the introduction …

The purpose of this study was to assess predictive value of a new submaximal rowing test (SmRT) on 2,000-m ergometer rowing time-trial performance in competitive rowers. In addition, the reliability of the SmRT was investigated. Twenty-four competitive male rowers participated in this study. After determining …

In dit afstudeerrapport is gepoogd antwoord te krijgen op de vraag hoe innovaties om bodemdaling in het Groene Hart te reduceren in gang kunnen worden gezet. In het onderzoek is gekeken naar de mogelijkheden die er zijn om innovaties die als doel hebben de bodemdaling in het veenweidegebied te reduceren, …

The purpose of this study was to identify differences in traumatic and overuse injury incidence between talented soccer players who differ in the timing of their adolescent growth spurt. 26 soccer players (mean age 11.9 ± 0.84 years) were followed longitudinally for 3 years around Peak Height Velocity, …