This is a report of the research done during the Summer School 2022 at the Digital Methods Initiative (UvA). The work and the report were developed in collaboration with the participants in the datasprint: Gabrielle Aguilar // Federica Bardelli // Laura Bruschi // Miranda García // Giulia Giorgi // Matthew …

Social robots have been introduced in different fields such as retail, health care and education. Primary education in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) recently faced new challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines including students falling behind and teachers burdened with …

What is the agorà? Reading the Oxford English Dictionary definition, we find written «in ancient Greece, an open space used for markets and public gatherings». This definition is arguably precise. Contemporaries might think it is a simple marketplace, but this is an insufficient definition that does …

In het project Talent in de Regio werken gemeenten, kennisinstellingen, werkgevers- en werknemersorganisatie samen aan een betere regionale arbeidsmarkt voor nu en voor een toekomst waarin leven lang ontwikkelen voor alle Noorderlingen centraal staat. In dat kader verschijnt er een reeks columns, waarvan …

The goal of this study was to develop an automated monitoring system for the detection of pigs’ bodies, heads and tails. The aim in the first part of the study was to recognize individual pigs (in lying and standing positions) in groups and their body parts (head/ears, and tail) by using machine learning …

As part of an 8-week intervention study in Dutch nursing homes, we used video-analysis to observe the interaction of psychogeriatric participants with either the handler, the stimulus (dog or robot) or other clients during weekly dog, robot (RAI, robot assisted interventions) and control (human facilitator …

Inhibition of the sodium−glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) by canagliflozin in type 2 diabetes mellitus results in large between-patient variability in clinical response. To better understand this variability, the positron emission tomography (PET) tracer [18F]canagliflozin was developed via a Cu-mediated …

Inhibition of the sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) by canagliflozin in type 2 diabetes mellitus results in large between-patient variability in clinical response. To better understand this variability, the positron emission tomography (PET) tracer [18F]canagliflozin was developed via a Cu-mediated …

De vraag naar begeleiding vanuit studenten blijft toenemen, voor de dienstverlening van decanen en psychologen. Dit komt door het groeiende aantal studenten op het hbo en de effecten van de maatregelen rondom Covid-19. Door het opzetten van een online zelfserviceportaal, wil het Saxion tegemoet kunnen …

In dit onderzoek is de aandacht gevestigd op het studiesucces van Caribische studenten die na de middelbare school naar Nederland zijn gekomen voor hun HBO of universitaire studie. De vereniging Levende Talen Papiaments heeft het project Studiamigu|o ontworpen om deze doelgroep te kunnen ondersteunen. …