The stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) plays a crucial role in explosive sports movements. Neuromuscular fatigue, measured via the Reactive Strength Index (RSI), affects this performance. In the context of football, monitoring external load is essential for understanding fatigue. Although previous studies …

In the field of climate change adaptation, the future matters. River futures influence the way adaptation projects are implemented in rivers. In this paper, we challenge the ways in which dominant paradigms and expert claims monopolise the truth concerning policies and designs of river futures, thereby …

Our society faces many challenges, necessitating collaborative efforts among multiple stakeholders. Our students learn this in living labs. This paper explores preliminary research on introducing co-design to novices. We introduce a case study exploring how design educators can support students in developing …

This research is conducted within the company context of Grosso Moda to investigate how the accuracy of digital garment simulation of suiting styles can be improved so that the product development process can replace physical samples with digital ones to improve efficiency while reducing time and costs. Suiting …

Kubernetes adoption has grown drastically since its release in 2014. Today, Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard to deploy and orchestrate containerized applications. Avisi Managed Environments (AME) is a cloud-agnostic platform that provides fully managed Kubernetes clusters that host mission-critical …

In this epilogue, I take a teaching practice and teacher education perspective on complexity in Instructed Second Language Acquisition. I take the stance that it is essential to understand if and how linguistic complexity relates to learning challenges, what the implications are for language pedagogy, …

This qualitative research, carried out between 2012 and 2016 at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) in the Netherlands, explores the experiences of newly-started Turkish-Dutch and Moroccan-Dutch female professionals in social work. The key research question was how these professionals perceive …

Beachvolleybal Team Nederland (BTN), onderdeel van de Nederlandse Volleybalbond, is steeds op zoek naar vernieuwende elementen in trainingsmethoden die de prestaties van zijn (top)sporters kunnen verbeteren. Binnen dit kader bleek er behoefte te zijn aan een algoritme om de Reactive Strength Index (RSI), …

The international Wadden Sea is an estuarine tidal area along the North Sea coasts of The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. It is characteristic for regions with sandy coasts and a medium tidal range. Fifty barrier islands separate the Wadden Sea from the North Sea, and an offshore transition zone to …

Within the Philippines Forest Conversion (Kaingin) and charcoal production are still two majors problems which threaten the last remaining patches of rainforest that have survived the destructive patterns of the last 50 years of intensive large-scale forestry management. In particular the island of Palawan …