Over the last few years, the term “smart cities” has gained traction in academic, industry, and policy debates about the deployment of new media technologies in urban settings. It is mostly used to describe and market technologies that make city infrastructures more efficient, and personalize the experience …

Analyses and international comparisons of university organisational cultures are rare or even non-existing in management studies. Our paper fills this gap, presenting the results of a pilot study conducted in two units representing a Polish and a Dutch university. The survey has been carried out on a …

Met de in 2009 aan de HBO-raad overhandigde competentiebox heeft de brancheorganisatie voor instellingen in de gehandicaptenzorg, de Vereniging Gehandicaptenzorg Nederland (VGN), duidelijk gemaakt welke aanvullende competenties nodig zijn voor HBO-functies in het primair proces van de gehandicaptenzorg. …

This report outlines the origin of aberrations in a Low Energy Electron Microscope (LEEM) and how to measure and automatically correct them. The aberrations in a LEEM are mainly caused by the cathode objective lens and are a limiting factor for the achievable resolution. To optimise the resolution of …

Dit afstudeerverslag beschrijft de werkzaamheden van Robin Landweer die zijn uitgevoerd in '(online) Project Lens' in opdracht van Lens Utrecht BV. De afstudeeropdracht is de afsluiting van de studie Communicatie en Multimedia Design. In deze opdracht is een high fidelity prototype voor de nieuwe website …

This article reflects on implications of presenting nature as a social construction, and of commodification of nature. The social construction of nature tends to limit significance of nature to human perception of it. Commodification presents nature in strict instrumental terms as ‘natural resources’, …

This article explores the intersection between institutional hierarchies and learning at a UK conservatoire. Conceptualizing learning as a social practice situated in a hierarchical social space, the article draws on the theorization of Bourdieu to understand how students are positioned in the conservatoire …

Voor u ligt het praktijkgerichte onderzoek naar autonomiebevordering op CBS “de Wildemaet”. De aanleiding voor dit onderzoek is dat de leerkrachten handelingsverlegen zijn op het gebied van autonomiebevordering. De leerkrachten dragen op dit moment de verantwoordelijkheid over de leerproces van de leerlingen. …

This article extends the corporate social performance (CSP) model by studying the role of governance structures and governance systems in shaping corporate social responsibility. The authors argue that a governance perspective offers a fruitful research strategy both to study empirically how firms balance …

From artist to art teacher. The paper is based on a pilot study connected to my PhD research which is a case study focusing on how Artist becomes Artist/Teacher. The participants are students in a two years teacher-training program for Artists held by the Icelandic Academy of The Arts. The research …