TU Delft has started working on its third satellite mission called DelFFi, which is planned for a launch in 2015. In this graduation project spanning 17 weeks, a faulttolerant storage system consisting of three SD cards was designed, implemented and tested for DelFFi that utilizes triple-modular redundancy …

This study is an attempt to determine how CityFilm can introduce their concept to the international market of Hong Kong. The choice for Hong Kong was made since CityFilm’s life long dream is to enter the Asian market. Since Hong Kong is located strategically and acts as a gateway for the rest of Asia, …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the effects of career development and guidance among students (age 17-23) enrolled in higher education in The Netherlands. First the paper explores whether the development of career competencies contribute to career identity, learning motivation, certainty …

Nowadays travelling and exploring new destinations has become vital part of the study abroad experience for many students. There are plenty of choices from different travel companies offering trips and events in preferred destinations for study abroad such as Spain. Consequently, the manner in which …

This paper investigates whether students change their entrepreneurial entry preference if they are presented with different options. We propose that students’ entry preferences are mediated by concepts proposed by threshold theory: choice options, opportunity costs and psychic income. This study is exploratory …

Aanleiding: in de fysiotherapie praktijk komt het regelmatig voor dat patiënten boven de 40 jaar met een voorste kruisband ruptuur een keuze voorgelegd krijgen aan welk behandelbeleid zij de voorkeur geven: opereren of niet opereren. Er blijkt geen duidelijke richtlijn beschikbaar te zijn voor deze behandelbeleidskeuze. Vraagstelling: …

This research focuses on exit choices within SMEs. In this study, “exit choice” refers to the decision to opt for either liquidation or sale of the firm. The predictions focus on human-capital and firm-resource variables. The hypotheses are tested on a set of 158 owners of small firms, the majority of …

Purpose: This paper aims to define the influence of the physical and social dimensions of the work environment on knowledge productivity of academics in Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences.Design/methodology/approach: Literature review; a multiple case study based on literature review (6 cases); a …

BACKGROUND: The employment of physician assistants (PAs) is a strategy to improve access to care. Since the new millennium, a handful of countries have turned to PAs as a means to bridge the growing gap between the supply and demand of medical services. However, little is known about this new workforce …

AIM: This article describes the results of a study into the psychometric properties of a questionnaire about student nurses' perceptions of mental health care. The questionnaire was constructed in 2008, but has not yet been tested in terms of construct validity and reliability. A validated questionnaire …