Talent development programmes for professional soccer clubs aim to guide players towards professional level performance. We identify whether the intermittent endurance capacity of these players may have changed over time. Since the 2000/2001 competition season, the intermittent endurance capacity of …

The present study examined whether performance characteristics discriminated between selected and deselected players in talent development programmes. This examination was carried out in talented soccer players, aged 16-18 years using objective measurement instruments. Four domains of multidimensional …

In soccer, critical match events like goal attempts can be preceded by periods of instability in the balance between the two teams' behaviours. Therefore, we determined periods of high variability in the distance between the teams' centroid positions longitudinally and laterally in an international-standard …

The aim of this study was to prospectively monitor sport-specific performance and assess the stress-recovery balance in overreached (OR) soccer players and controls. During two competitive seasons, 94 players participated in the study. The stress-recovery balance (RESTQ-Sport) and sport-specific performance …

Het braak liggen van gronden in steden en dorpen is een verschijnsel van alle tijden, maar wordt versterkt onder druk van de huidige economische crisis. Door een inzakkende markt en financiële onmogelijkheden bij gemeenten en ontwikkelaars zijn vele bouwprojecten tijdelijk stopgezet of van tafel geveegd. …

The internet is becoming a tightly interwoven part of our everyday lives. There is a growing market for web services which augment the daily life of users trough products with an internet connection. We call these real world extensions of the web embedded media. In the last couple of years we explored …

To optimize performance, coaches and athletes are always looking for the right balance between training load and recovery. Therefore, closely monitoring of athletes is important. Heart rate recovery (HRR) after standardized sub maximal exercise has been proposed as a useful variable to monitor (Lamberts …

Wat kun je doen om de participatie van burgers in de Nederlandse samenleving te bevorderen? En welke rol spelen sociale professionals daarbij? Het lectoraat Participatie en Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling doet onderzoeknaar deze vragen. ‘Het kan gaan om de participatie van kwetsbare en niet kwetsbare mensen’, …

In this paper, we will argue that developments in social media in the past few years open up an opportunity space for developing "integration software". Such software supports company specific use cases, while the software expands on existing social media infrastructure through web API's. We have explored …

De meeste gemeenten hebben hun handen vol aan het werken aan veiligheid, maar ook de veiligheidsbeleving vraagt steeds meer de aandacht. Daaraan werken blijkt lastiger dan gedacht. De Toolkit Veiligheidsbeleving biedt handvatten, met concrete aanwijzingen voor professionals in de veiligheidspraktijk …