The online environment, where the boundaries between the domains of home, school, work, and leisure are blurred, poses new challenges for youth work practice. Due to limited research on this subject matter, the theoretical underpinnings of the online youth work practice are constrained. The fulfilment …

Background: The use of patient-reported outcomes to improve burn care increases. Little is known on burn patients’ views on what outcomes are most important, and about preferences regarding online Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). Therefore, this study assessed what outcomes matter most to patients, …

This dissertation concerns the adaptive ability by which workers meet new expertise needs throughout their careers. We aimed to increase our understanding of this adaptive ability through a series of four studies building upon the concept of flexpertise (Van der Heijden, 1998, …

Students in all types of education often have difficulty acquiring topic knowledge and insight into subject matter of various disciplines. They do not understand or cannot remember theory from their textbook. Usually, students learn theory by studying textbooks, by listening closely to their teacher's …

Problems of energy security, diversification of energy sources, and improvement of technologies (including alternatives) for obtaining motor fuels have become a priority of science and practice today. Many scientists devote their scientific research to the problems of obtaining effective brands of alternative …

Electric vehicles have penetrated the Dutch market, which increases the potential for decreased local emissions, the use and storage of sustainable energy, and the roll-out and use of electric car-sharing business models. This development also raises new potential issues such as increased electricity …

Scientific research on the quality of face detection systems keeps finding the same result: no matter how, when, and with which system testing is done, every time it is found that faces of people with a darker skin tone are not detected as well as the faces of people with a lighter skin tone.

In the present study, effects of Genre Writing instruction added with planning and revising activities (GWPR) are investigated in teacher education. This type of instruction was considered promising because it appeared to lead to positive effects on topic knowledge and insight in previous studies conducted …

The following paper refers to the final thesis for the curriculum at HZ University of Applied Science and was carried out at the request of the Italian firm Aig Associati and Partner. The structural team of the architecture and engineering firm requested a study on the most effective and least time-consuming …

The Port of Duqm serves as the primary entry point to the largest Special Economic Zone in the entire Middle East region (SEZD). This graduation thesis focuses on the Port of Duqm company in Oman. A key performance indicator (KPI) for the company in 2023 is the adoption of digitalization and the utilization …