If we look back to society and want to restore it as it was just before the Corona outbreak, we need exactly everyone who participated then. So also shareholders, storytellers, healthcare workers and even criminals. There was a balance. With fewer criminals, there would be less police force, and consequently …

This booklet shows the urban metabolism of five different cities around the globe. From small, Venice, to extra large, New York. We took the city as the human body; integral, dependent on multiple organs and based on comprehensive flows. Mobility, typology, nature and history go hand in hand in the total …

This report presents a case study assessing the coping strategies of small-scale farmers to fall army worm (FAW) outbreak. The fall army worm spodoptera frugiperda is a migratory pest from America with over 100 years prevalence, the pest is relatively new to the African continent whose presence was first …

The outbreak of the Eurozone economic crisis in 2008 caused one of the most difficult challenges in the history of the European Union. Output and employed decreased and faith in the European project diminished. Leading European policy makers identified fiscal irresponsibility by some member states as …

DNA-based techniques are frequently used to confirm the relatedness of putative outbreak isolates. These techniques often lack the discriminatory power when analyzing closely related microbes such as E. coli. Here the value of Raman spectroscopy as a typing tool for E. coli in a clinical setting was …

Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisme (AFLP) is een techniek die gebruikt wordt om DNA fingerprints te maken voor genetisch onderzoek. Op het VUmc word de AFLP gebruikt door de Moleculaire Epidemiologie om te bepalen of patiënten zijn geïnfecteerd met het zelfde genotype pathogeen. Zo kan geconcludeerd …

This paper provides an overview of the United States policy and its potential results in Iraq. The objective of this research is to establish to what extent has the ambitious US plan for the introduction of democracy in Iraq been accomplished. At the heart of the study lies the question of the effectiveness …

In order to prevent conflicts and escalation, the United Nations works with a so called Conflict Management system. With this system, the UN aims to prevent the outbreak of conflicts. Besides, Conflict Management makes is possible to bring permanent peace to a conflict area by addressing root causes …