Regional sustainability networks in the Netherlands are rooted in regionalculture and have an emphasis on social learning and effective collaboration between multiple actors. The national ‘Duurzaam Door’ (Moving Forward Sustainably) Policy Programme regards these networks as generative governance arrangements …

De één vindt een enkele huisvlieg al een plaag, de ander vindt het pas irritant als er meer dan tien in de woonkamer vliegen. De tolerantie voor insecten in huis speelt een belangrijke rol bij de bestrijding ervan. Het bepaalt of de aanwezigheid van insecten wordt getolereerd of niet. Als dat niet het …

Column over het (niet) eten van insecten, dit in tegenstelling tot het eten van dieren uit de zee.

Carnitine/choline acyltransferases play diverse roles in energy metabolism and neuronal signalling. Our knowledge of their evolutionary relationships, important for functional understanding, is incomplete. Therefore, we aimed to determine the evolutionary relationships of these eukaryotic transferases. …

In our society, sustainability has emerged as a major concept in our daily lives and activities, e.g. from reducing the environmental impact of our foods to corporate social responsibility in doing business, and social impact of our activities. The original idea of sustainability was to address human …

Integrated river basin management (IRBM) calls for participatory practices involving stakeholders along transnational river landscapes. Understanding the complex and diverse views regarding participation is a prerequisite for meaningful involvement of civil actors, especially in a transnational context. …

Electrohydrodynamic atomization (EHDA) is a technique which uses the influence of strong electric fields to manipulate the break-up of a liquid, pumped through a capillary nozzle, into droplets. In this work, an extended description of a specific high flow EHDA mode, known as the simple-jet mode, is …

The objective of this study was to determine if a 3-dimensional computer vision automatic locomotion scoring (3D-ALS) method was able to outperform human observers for classifying cows as lame or nonlame and for detecting cows affected and nonaffected by specific type(s) of hoof lesion. Data collection …

Drie Van Hall Larenstein-studenten, locatie Velp, ontwikkelden onlangs in opdracht van de gemeente Rheden een methode om verstening van privétuinen in kaart te brengen. Het doel hiervan is het in kaart brengen welke buurten het meest zijn versteend. Aan de hand van die informatie gaat de gemeente aan …

The first observations of juvenile lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) around the island of Sint Eustatius are described. Observations were made in the summer of 2015 and spring of 2016 and only consisted of individuals estimated to be smaller than 65 cm in total length (TL). These observations represent …