Over the last decade, many (European) countries have created special committees or conducted special investigations into the occurrence of sexual abuse in residential and/or foster care. Many of these studies concluded that children and young people in care are at a greater risk of being sexually abused, …

Urbanisation and climate change have an effect on the water balance in our cities resulting in challenges as flooding, droughts and heatstress. Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) can help to restore the water balance in cities by storing and infiltrating stormwater into the subsurface …

Purpose of review To help guide metabolic support in critical care, an understanding of patients’ nutritional status and risk is important. Several methods to monitor lean body mass are increasingly used in the ICU and knowledge about their advantages and limitations is essential. Recent findings Computed …

Grammar-based procedural level generation raises the productivity of level designers for games such as dungeon crawl and platform games. However, the improved productivity comes at cost of level quality assurance. Authoring, improving and maintaining grammars is difficult because it is hard to predict …

This final research is conducted as a bachelor thesis of the programme Delta Management at the HZ University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen, Netherlands and is executed at the Coastal Conservation Institute (ICC) in the coastal municipality of São Sebastião in Brazil. The municipality is located on …

Bryophytes are small, haploid, non-vascular plants, which can be divided in three distinct phyla; the mosses (Musci), the liverworts (Hepaticae) and the hornworts (Anthocerotae) (Gradstein & Melick, 1996), (Touw, Kruijer, & Stech, 2016). They are valuable indicators of environmental chance, due to the …

ABSTRACT: Local homebuyers in the Groningen earthquake region Ir. Hieke T. van der Kloet Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen Research Centre for Built Environment NoorderRuimte h.t.van.der.kloet@pl.hanze.nl 0031-50-595-2015 The earthquakes after the natural gas extraction in the Groningen …

Bad Nieuweschans is one of the ageing villages in Oldambt, about a quarter or the population is older than 65. In communities such as Bad Nieuweschans there exists a risk of isolation and exclusion of the elderly. These risks could be kept to a minimum by focusing on active ageing however this concept …

The research question of this research is ‘Which interventions can the manager of Talent Advisory Benelux apply in order to help the team achieve 100% Usage and Adoption of HireVue?’ Ms. Terpstra, manager of Talent Advisory Benelux, expressed the need for changes to be made to the team which results …

The first reason for this study is that a gap appears to exist in the available theories on corruption; very little research is available on corruption by a network, nor does the network theory thoroughly discuss the risks or pitfalls of networks. The second reason for this study is the observation that …