During our lives we go through many of these cycles. It is no coincidence that, now that our world is so constantly available, on average we start with jobs, friends and loved ones over and over again. Now that we derive our stability from a continuously available environment, our cyclical nature is …

For many decades social sciences have been captivated by the statistical method. In itself there is nothing wrong with this method, but a serious side effect of a large fixation on surveys, likert-scales and normal distributions is that the argument is still seen mainly as opinion and therefore hardly …

The aim of the study was to investigate if and how body image, taken from a contextual perspective, contributes to the eating disorder history. This qualitative study investigated the process of eating disorder development in eight elite women athletes in at-risk sports. The results showed that the relationship …

Resilience is held as a promising concept to produce a paradigm shift from traditional flood control to an integration of flood risk management and spatial planning. Central ideas to the resilience narrative are that nothing is certain except uncertainty itself' and adaptability' is key to governing …

Tirana is the capital of Albania. A country that was completely isolated from Europe after the Second World War, as a result of the communist regime. When the communist government was dissolved in 1991, this resulted in large-scale migration. Albanians moved abroad, but also to the capital Tirana in …

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The Palace hotel Zandvoort is a 4-star hotel situated at the boulevard of Zandvoort which is one of the most popular beaches in the Netherlands. The main problem for the Palace hotel are the bad online reviews. The purpose is to investigate what people are expecting from the Palace hotel. The main …

Omtrent technologiebedrijven konden we in december 2016 veel lezen over wat artificial intelligence, virtual reality, machine-to-machine automation, machine-to-machine learning en chatbots ons de komende jaren gaan brengen. Als inkoper zou je kunnen wachten tot duidelijk wordt wat de blijvertjes zijn, …

The Future of Conservation survey, launched in March 2017, has proposed a framework to help with interpreting the array of ethical stances underpinning the motivations for biological conservation. In this article we highlight what is missing in this debate to date. Our overall aim is to explore what …

We studied 12 smart city projects in Amsterdam, and –among other things- analysed their upscaling potential and dynamics. Here are some of our findings: First, upscaling comes in various forms: rollout, expansion and replication. In roll-out, a technology or solution that was successfully tested and …