De ontwerp-NOVI ligt er, er mag op gereageerd worden – en dat gebeurt volop. Een van de vervolgvragen is nu: hoe werkt de nieuwe visie op de ruimtelijke ordening van Nederland straks door? Bij gemeenten en waterschappen bijvoorbeeld, en in de wereld van de gebiedsontwikkeling. ROm vroeg het aan drie …

It goes without saying that with literally fading boundaries between social communities (this comes together with advanced technology), it is much more complicated for individuals to find their place in a social community. In other words, it 's hard for us to make our address known to the abstract (virtual) …

We have ended up in a digital "copy and paste" culture. It 's for good reason that we are talking about "apps" in the app store, about raps, beats and sounds in contemporary pop (house) music culture. Everyone can do something, and the rest we get from a box, or better, app, or plug-in. Maggi (makes …

All experience/knowledge comes from three sources: (1) perception, (2) the past (consolidated perception in memory, or mediated by "technology": stories, writing, photo, etc.), or (3) judgment/argument based on perception and past (analogy). There is something special going on with our 'judgments '. …

Vanuit de opdrachtgever: ‘de Boval Groep’ bestond de behoefte om te onderzoeken hoe arbeidsvoorwaarden eenzijdig gewijzigd kunnen worden. De Boval Groep wil in de toekomst namelijk het personeelshandboek wijzigen. In het personeelshandboek staan naast regels en richtlijnen ook arbeidsvoorwaarden. De …

Op 1 januari 2015 is de Participatiewet ( PW) in werking getreden. Sindsdien zijn het dan ook de gemeenten die de verantwoordelijkheid dragen voor de uitvoering van deze wet. In de PW zijn de Wet Werk en Bijstand, Wet Sociale Werkvoorzieningen en Wet werk en arbeidsongeschikt Jonggehandicapten opgenomen. …

Iatrogenesis is the doctrine that deals with the harmful effects of medical treatment. A substance that, for example, tackles the pathogen may also weaken the body. If it weakens the body and does not address the pathogen sufficiently, it may well be that the resistance of the body itself becomes insufficient …

Machine learning algorithms can help to find patterns (coherence) in the "ingredients" (data). As long as the conditions aren 't changed, taking these patterns as it 's starting point, it can extrapolate the ingredients to the (near) future, showing some future developmental possibilities (again, as …

Education and the so-called Matthew effect (the rich get richer, the poor get poorer) are inextricably linked. Over forty years ago, the psychologist Stanovisch was the first who demonstrated that children who achieve the intended results of education early (reading, writing and math skills) have a lifelong …

Sometimes people say that economics and (other) social sciences are not real sciences. It is argued that this vision is wrong. The scientific method is critical as to how problems should be organized in order to let it make sense. But the real (economic, social and educational) world does not always …