Inleiding: Overgewicht en obesitas zijn een groeiend probleem in Nederland. Zo’n 6,5 miljoen mensen van de Nederlandse bevolking heeft overgewicht. Dit brengt vele gezondheidsrisico’s met zich mee. Overgewicht en obesitas kunnen mede door training aangepakt worden. Echter is het niet duidelijk welke …

De onderhandelingen tussen de EU en de VS (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP) begonnen in 2013. Ze hebben als doel het slechten van handelsbarrières en het harmoniseren en standaardiseren van voorschriften. In de thesis wordt onderzocht, in hoeverre de regelgeving in de EU op het …

Small retail entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are confronted with declining turnover and ROI. A decrease and even disappearance of small retail in town centres, suburbs and villages is not just a loss of income for the people involved. It constitutes also a loss of attractiveness and economic viability …

The purpose of this study is to explore why and how Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS) enact and are enacted upon in the Dutch branch of nursing homes, homes for the elderly and home care. In search for answers, this study chooses an actor-network theory (ANT) perspective combined with …

The availability of real-life data sets is of crucial importance for algorithm and application development, as these often require insight into the specific properties of the data. Often, however, such data are not released because of their proprietary and confidential nature. We propose to solve this …

Based around the central research question 'Can social media be used as a marketing tool for a restaurant?' this dissertation sets out to discover how a starting restaurant in Canada can use social media as a marketing tool. Over the past decade a large number of companies have embraced social media …

A lot of research into the use of recorded lectures has been done by using surveys or interviews. We will show that triangulation of multiple data sources is needed. We will discuss how students use recorded lectures according to their self-report and what actual usage of the recorded lectures can be …

From the article: Abstract. This exploratory and conceptual article sets out to research what arguments and possibilities for experimentation in construction exists and if experimentation can contribute towards more innovative construction as a whole. Traditional, -western- construction is very conservative …

This publication forms part of the European Community Support research project, which aims to create better conditions for the social inclusion of persons with impairments in four cities (Amersfoort, Maastricht, Budapest and Tallinn). The aim of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, …

In summary, state aid exists of government measures that provide a financial benefit to one or more undertakings or a certain industry, with the potential to distort competition or affect trade between MSs within the EU. The rules for state aid are laid down in Art. 107, 108 and 109 TFEU and the different …