This marketing communication plan will provide a research in order to reposition the Travel & Languages program as a part of the company Travel Active. Travel Active's program requires a repositioning because there exists a severe competition in the market of studying languages abroad. Due to the fact …

Horses are non-ruminant animals and their digestive tract is designed to digest fibrous roughage. In the wild they mostly eat grasses supplemented with herbs and parts of shrubs and trees. Generally, they eat mostly young, nutritious grasses which are short. Topics which will be discussed are obesities, …

Invasieve exoten vormen nog wel eens problemen. Een aantal van de uitheemse planten die in Nederland zijn gevestigd zijn moeilijk te bestrijden en kunnen de inheemse vegetatie verdringen. In het kader van een afstudeeropdracht voor de studie bos en natuurbeheer is een pilot onderzoek opgezet naar de …

Schematherapie is een integratieve cognitieve gedragstherapie. Deze therapie is ontwikkeld door Jeffrey Young en het doel is bij patiënten met een persoonlijkheidsstoornis oude disfunctionele schema's te herkennen en te doorbreken. Schematherapie is de laatste jaren sterk in opkomst, voornamelijk bij …

The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of the four subspecies of gorillas, but the only one which is breeding successfully in captivity. Details of the breeding results have been published in the International Studbook for the Western Lowland Gorilla. These results show a birth …

Nowadays almost half of the world’s population of freshwater turtles and tortoises are threatened with extinction in the wild. Particularly in Asia the population decline is severe and referred to as the “Asian Turtle Crisis”. Turtles are thought to be keystone species and therefore their disappearance …

In this pilot study, it was investigated whether there is a difference in the speed of learning a discrimination task when comparing domesticated horses with a wild type horse species. Further it was explored whether inbreeding has an influence on the cognitive abilities of the tested horses as suggested …

The last few years, the airline industry has been struggling due to the terrorism attacks in 2001 and the recession. Nevertheless, the low cost carriers (LCC) continued to be profitable and successful with its own particular business model. It is an upcoming trend in the aviation industry. Ryanair is …

BACKGROUND: Glucocorticoids (GCs) control expression of a large number of genes via binding to the GC receptor (GR). Transcription may be regulated either by binding of the GR dimer to DNA regulatory elements or by protein-protein interactions of GR monomers with other transcription factors. Although …