English: In the Netherlands female entrepreneurs and women in tech have structurally less opportunities than men. The latest numbers from October 2020 show that only 1 percent of all venture capital went to female entrepreneurs. The percentage of non-white entrepreneurs that received financing is even …

De Nederlandse samenleving staat voor de uitdaging om zorg en sociale ondersteuning toegankelijk en betaalbaar te houden. Het aantal zorgvragers, hulp,- en ondersteuningsbehoeftigen neemt toe. Daarbij geldt ook dat de complexiteit van deze hulpvragen verder toeneemt, terwijl het potentieel aan professionals, …

Our age is, according to Hubert Dreyfus, characterized by technological nihilism, just as the pre-Enlightenment era was characterized by Christianity - saints and sinners - and, for example, the Greek era by heroes and slaves. Nihilism, because technology encourages a fixation on trying to get the best …

We describe the incidence and practice of prone positioning and determined the association of use of prone positioning with outcomes in invasively ventilated patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a national, multicenter observational study, …

Purpose: This study examined how the catering business quickly responded and recovered from the threats caused by COVID-19 with the use of social media in Beijing, China. It evidences how various catering businesses in Beijing continued to pursue their businesses after restrictive social distancing measures …

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic mental health problems among seafarers became more visible to the world. Seafarers seem to have some unhappy moments while working on board for several months. Especially during this pandemic life on board has been tougher than usual, shore leave is nearly impossible, …

The development of legal frameworks for social enterprises in the Netherlands is described and analysed in this paper, focusing on 2015-2021. The Netherlands are the largest EU member state in population size without a specific legal form or status for social enterprises. A form of legal recognition …

As a student of industrial product design I have gotten used to making and fixing everything myself. If I run into a problem or a product breaks, I try to solve and repair it. If I couldn’t do it yet, I'd just learn how to. This led me to build my own house on wheels at the start of 2020. The complete …

Purpose In order to better understand how heuristics are used in practice, the authors explore what type of heuristics is used in the managerial domain of financial advisors to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and what influences the shaping of these heuristics. In doing so, the authors detect …

This research is about the consequences for the employees, cargo and passengers of the Pride of Rotterdam as a result of the Brexit. First, a theoretical framework was drawn up. Then a main question was drawn up: What are the consequences for the employees, cargo and passengers of the Pride of Rotterdam …