The concept of the Daily Urban System (DUS) has gained relevance over the past decades as the entity to examine and explain the functionality of the urban landscape. Daily Urban Systems are usually defined and measured by the strength of commuter or shopper flows between the nodes of the system. It is …

Onderzoek naar waterkwaliteit kent vaak moeilijk bereikbare plaatsen. Onderwaterdrones bieden daarvoor mogelijk een oplossing. De technologische ontwikkeling op dit gebied gaat razendsnel. Door in de praktijk te meten met wat beschikbaar is en dit voortdurend aan te passen, krijgen we een indruk van …

De waterrijke natuurgebieden Haringvliet en Biesbosch zijn habitats voor de zeearend. Ook hoopt men op de terugkeer van de Atlantische steur. Echter, in deze gebieden bevindt zich ook plastic afval, en dat is een probleem. Vooral kleine deeltjes, genaamd microplastics, vormen een bedreiging. Er is momenteel …

In 2004 the physicist Chris Anderson postulated a theory - the long tail - in which he stated that with the emergence of the internet many writers and artists get a chance of success. As a result, greatest hits and bestsellers would have an increasingly relatively smaller share in the totals of artist …

Did you ever wonder why, for example, despite investing of millions of research funding, there is still no clarity regarding the definitions of many (psychological or psychiatric) images such as Autistiform Spectrum Disorder, or ADHD? Could it be that, at least partly, the images consist of psychological …

The role and ethics of professionals in business and economics have been questioned, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Some suggest a reorientation using concepts such as craftsmanship. In this article, I will explore professional practices within the context of behavioural theory and business …

Veel groeiende midden- en kleinbedrijven professionaliseren gedurende hun ontwikkeling verder op het gebied van control. Dit kan spanning opleveren, vooral wanneer deze gepaard gaat met het invoeren van targets, protocollen, regels en procedures, de zogenoemde hard controls. Juist dan zijn aanvullend …

Just like music and art education, technical education is very closely linked to practice in an ever changing world. Techniques come and go, sometimes at lightning speed. Especially at the level of secondary vocational education (level 2, 3 and 4) there are shortages in well trained craftsmen. Technical …

A colomn about Roger Waters, Rock Academies, technology and art education.

At the individual level we know that it can be very difficult to unlearn bad habits. For example, a once learned but non-optimal fingering on the piano is almost impossible to unlearn. The problem, as Dickens describes so beautifully in his famous Christmas Carol, is that we indeed make the chain we …