The aeronautical industry is still under expansion in spite of the problems it is facing due to the increase in oil prices, limited capacity, and novel regulations. The expansion trends translate into problems at different locations within an airport system and are more evident when the resources to …

Community forestry is a way to combine forest conservation with economic development of forest depending communities. In the Pacific zone of northern Peru, the rural population heavily relies on the endemic dry forest ecosystem as a source of firewood, timber and as grazing area. Bad management, overuse …

The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the reasons for a low political participation in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the Velvet Revolution, which started on 17 November 1989, by a literature review. The Czechoslovak citizens reacted on several developments in their surrounding countries, …

With the construction of a hydroelectric dam, especially in a fragile region like the Amazon rainforest, many aspects of the environment are affected. (Santos, Barbosa, & Hernandez, 2009) People living in the Amazon, in the vicinity of these construction site, are often very dependent on natural resources, …

Het project is uitgevoerd op de afdeling Project Management & Support (PMS) van Tata Steel Packaging (TSP) IJmuiden. Op de afdeling TSP wordt blik geproduceerd, tijdens het produceren van blik wordt staal gewalst tot de gewenste dikte. De walsen die hierbij gebruikt worden zijn verchroomd zodat deze …

Graft vs. Host Disease is een complicatie die kan ontstaan na een allogene stamceltransplantatie. Deze aandoening kan zich ook uiten op de huid van de patiënten. Het uit zich in een vlekkerige roodheid die kan jeuken, branden en een pijnlijk gevoel kan veroorzaken. Het UMC St. Radboud wil graag weten …

For a few years now, Holland Casino has struggled for financial survival of the ongoing economic crisis. The financial situation is bad and there are no signs of improvement in the near future. The flow of foreign visitors is declining, and to achieve a reversal of this process a new marketing strategy …

The authors compared three methods of reading and learning by using paper, as well as a variety of interactive study forms. Thier work is part of the large Amsterdam E-Boekenstad (E-Book city) research project (www.e-boekenstad.nl and http://e-boekenstad.wikispaces.com/). They investigate to what extent …

The essence of a democratic process is the guarantee that citizens have free and easy access to public information. How can that be made possible and how can people learn to use that information critically? In earlier papers (Boef, et.al. 2008 and 2009), we discussed the relationship between public library, …

In this report the outcomes of the research, that was fulfilled by order of UNOY Peacebuilders, are presented. UNOY Peacebuilders is a network that consists of youth organizations active in the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Due to many obstacles, such as distance problems, a lack …