Cross-border crime is a phenomenon that goes hand-in-hand with the abolishment of border controls in the Schengen zone and requires an international action plan. Warmerdam states that organized crime groups operate in networks and maintain close relations with each other to distribute their goods worldwide …

In recent years there has been a noticeable change in how people book their holiday. In the past traditional travel agencies were the places go, with offline stores and direct face-to-face contact with experienced travel agents. Nowadays, however, the internet plays an important role for companies to …

Dit document bevat een presentatie voor de 'Facility Management Research Network Netherlands' bijeenkomst, gehouden op 31 oktober 2014. De twee belangrijkste thema's in deze presentatie zijn: 'Work Space Design' en 'Health Space Design'. Daarnaast worden verschillende 'good practices' binnen de hierboven …

Consumers expect product availability as well as product quality and safety in retail outlets. When designing or re-designing fruit and vegetables supply chain networks one has to take these demands into consideration next to traditional efficiency and responsiveness requirements. In food science literature, …

Information and communications technologies (ICT) can be very important to provide access to urban cultural heritage collections. Urban archives contain a lot of (historical) information about people, places, events, objects, trade and artefacts. Its worthwhile to make this information accessible for …

Uit het onderzoek is gebleken dat de ganzenpopulaties in Nederland de laatste jaren sterk zijn toegenomen. Dit wordt vooral veroorzaakt door het feit dat er voldoende voedsel (op landbouwgronden) en broedhabitat (op natte natuurterreinen) binnen Nederland aanwezig zijn. De populatie grauwe ganzen in …

Fans constitute a very special kind of audience. They have been marginalized, ridiculed and stigmatized, yet at the same time they seem to represent the vanguard of new relationships with and within the media. ‘Participatory culture’ has become the new normative standard. Concepts derived from early …

There are changes in society and labour market demands made to TVET and in the TVET system itself. To deal with both types of challenges, the aim for TVET planning and development is to anticipate how employment will evolve and to determine how to give individuals a knowledge base that will enable them …

Nowadays travelling and exploring new destinations has become vital part of the study abroad experience for many students. There are plenty of choices from different travel companies offering trips and events in preferred destinations for study abroad such as Spain. Consequently, the manner in which …