Voor u ligt een onderzoek naar de verschillen en overeenkomsten in de werkwijze en regelgeving bij uithuisplaatsingen in de jeugdzorg in Nederland en Denemarken. Vaak kan er hulp geboden worden aan gezinnen met problemen en hoeft een kind of jongere niet uit huis te worden gehaald. Echter zijn er situaties …

Expectations are high with regards to smart home technology. In particular, smart home technology is expected to support or enable independent living by older adults. This raises the question: can smart home technology contribute to independent living, according to older adults themselves? This chapter …

Alteya is a small, private, Bulgarian company which was founded in 1999. Its high quality products are certified by many different international organizations. It manufactures products based on lavender and rose oils such as pure essential oils, cosmetics, perfumes etc. Alteya sells them via e-commerce …

Introduction: To reduce continuously increasing costs in drug development, adverse effects of drugs need to be detected as early as possible in the process. In recent years, compound-induced gene expression profiling methodologies have been developed to assess compound toxicity, including Gene Ontology …

This paper concerns the use of a digital work style among urban employees, a way of working in which people are enabled to work independently, wherever and whenever, and to cooperate virtually, using digital tools in their work processes. The findings of this study are discussed in light of the company's …

The exploitation of the metagenome for novel biocatalysts by functional screening is determined by the ability to express the respective genes in a surrogate host. The probability of recovering a certain gene thereby depends on its abundance in the environmental DNA used for library construction, the …

In this article, information-processing type and gender differences in the interplay between motivational aspects (i.e., interest, persistence, test anxiety, and performance anxiety) and information processing were investigated. We argue that the two common information-processing modes, surface- and …