This PhD research project is about how Dutch development NGOs use social media for their development projects. For this, the following research question has been investigated: how do Dutch development NGOs use social media to further the development activities of their organisations? The purpose of this …

Despite the positive consumer attitudes towards animal welfare, and an increasing supply of animal welfare enhanced meat, consumers still mainly opt for conventional meat instead of meat produced with higher animal welfare standards. This thesis argues that consumers may do so because they must trade …

Irene Maldini’s PhD research discusses the quantity of clothing produced and consumed, its growth, and the environmental challenges associated with it. Moreover, Maldini examines how the field of design has reacted to this issue, reflecting critically on the gap between the expected and the actual effects …

As the first order of business in the RIGHT project, each region produced and published its own regional report, using an underlying format developed in work package 3 in this project (Manickam & van Lieshout, 2018). The format and the regional work consisted of three parts. Part 1 is the Regional Innovation …

Abstract geschreven door R.J. Dijkink (Saxion), J.C. Lötters (Universiteit van Twente & Bronkhorst High-Tech BV), B.I. van den Berg (Medical Spectrum Twente) en C.A.J. Damen (Saxion). Initial investigations into the use of a MEMS based multi-parameter sensor for the characterization of medicine mixtures …

1. Diets that maximise life span often differ from diets that maximise reproduction. Animals have therefore evolved advanced foraging strategies to acquire optimal nutrition and maximise their fitness. The free-living adult females of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) need to balance their search for hosts …

Herein, Zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) is considered as an easy and cheap to prepare alternative catalyst for the isomerization of glucose and production of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF). For the synthesis of the ZIF-8 catalysts two preparation methods were evaluated, being room temperature …

The 5th International CSR Communication Conference was hosted in Stockholm, by the Stockholm School of Economics in September 2019. Scholars and practitioners from all five continents were present at this great event. Alongside with around 60 academic presentations included in the proceedings, the program …

Afghanistan with a favourable climate conditions for the olive production grows commercial olives in Nangarhar Valley Agricultural Corporation (NVAC) in around 1,800 hectares. The produced fruits in NVAC farms has been processed to obtain oil and pickle in the NVAC olive processing factory which was …

Small scale farmers in Kenya face low milk yields from dairy cows. One of the causes is the low quality and quantity of roughage on small-scale farms. Overall in all Kenyan farming systems the dairy production is influenced by seasonal fluctuation of roughage production. Next to this it is known that …